This week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded on the campus of West Virginia University at the Canady Creative Arts Center. On this episode, we hear live performances from Duke Robillard Band, Cedric Burnside, Sam Weber, Las Cafeteras, and The Black Feathers.
Listen for new open and closing theme music on West Virginia Morning this week.
Local composer Matthew Jackfert, a part time board announcer at West Virginia Public Radio, was commissioned to write a new theme for the weekday news program.
Click to listen to the old theme music here.
Listen to the new theme here.
WVMOpen.mp3
New theme music for West Virginia Morning will debut Tuesday, November 12, 2013
WVMClose.mp3
Here is the one minute closing theme
Many thanks to the talented musicians who performed this stunning new work.
Joseph Cevallos — Violin, Pennywhistle
Alasha Al-Qudwah — Viola
Jim Lange (W.Va. Public Radio classical music host) — Guitar
John Query — Djembe (hand drum), triangle, suspended cymbal, shakers
This week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded on the campus of West Virginia University at the Canady Creative Arts Center. On this episode, we hear live performances from Duke Robillard Band, Cedric Burnside, Sam Weber, Las Cafeteras, and The Black Feathers.
Elliott Stewart has been making zines since he was 13 years old. His ongoing zine “Porch Beers” is an incisive look at Appalachian culture, through the eyes of a queer trans man.
On this West Virginia Morning, digital devices and social media command more and more of our attention these days. Balancing this and creating healthy boundaries for increasingly younger children is becoming a bigger part of being a parent. Chris Schulz takes a look at this issue in the latest installment of, “Now What? A Series On Parenting.”
School boards have become the latest front in America’s culture wars — especially when it comes to books in school libraries that some people think are inappropriate for students. That situation has been playing out in Rockingham County, Virginia, which sits midway down the Shenandoah Valley.