Adam Harris
Executive Producer - Mountain StageAdam is a native of Greenbrier County and graduated from Radford University in 2005 with a degree in Music Business and minor in Media Studies. After completing an internship with Mountain Stage, he was hired as Assistant Producer in October 2005. He became Executive Producer when his predecessor and the show's co-founder Andy Ridenour retired in August 2011.
Adam leads the team of producers, engineers, band and crew that produce each live Mountain Stage event and he welcomes the audience before each taping begins. He also helps write copy for the show's program page at NPR Music, and has contributed to that site's Heavy Rotation and Station Breaks features.
Adam and his wife have helped foster more than 70 kittens for New Hope Animal Rescue and he performs ring-announcer duties for All Star Wrestling in Madison, WV. Check out the pro-wrestling episode of Inside Appalachia, or listen to some of Adam's favorite Inside Appalachia stories on this episode.
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This week we are looking back to 2010 when we recorded a special episode at The Clay Center with Dierks Bentley & The Travelin' McCourys, swing-style guitarist John Jorgenson and his Quintet, Canadian songwriter Fred Eaglesmith, Harmonica player and session legend Charlie McCoy, and guitar-icon Bill Kirchen. -
We listen back to 2009 for this week's special encore episode, recorded at The Clay Center in Charleston, W.Va. in 2009 during FestivALL Charleston.
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Mountain Stage will resume its 38th season of live performance radio on Sunday, June 13, with guest host Kathy Mattea, artists Paul Thorn, Amythyst Kiah and John Ellison at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. For the first time since February of 2020, a limited in-person audience will be allowed.
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You can hear Rosanne Cash’s entire set with more songs from The List on this week’s archive edition of Mountain Stage from 2008, on a special episode recorded at historic Town Hall in New York City. We’ll also be treated to performances from Rodney Crowell, Bruce Cockburn, Billy Bragg, and Ferron. Listen on these public radio stations starting Friday April 16.
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Mountain Stage will record a two-hour radio show at the Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington as part of the city's 150 Celebration. Tickets are available for this socially distant and masked outdoor event.
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This week Larry Groce recognizes some of the musicians we lost in 2020 and celebrates their legacy by revisiting some past performances on Mountain Stage. We'll hear from John Prine, Billy Joe Shaver, Adam Schlessinger of Fountains of Wayne, Tony Rice, and others.
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This week's broadcast was recorded last year without an audience. We'll hear performances by Ranky Tanky, Rene Marie and Experiment in Truth, The Sea The Sea, and Susan Werner. Tune in starting March 12th on your favorite public radio station.
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Our first episode recorded during the pandemic, without an audience, in November of 2020. Listen this weekend for performances from Chuck Prophet, Kim Richey, Sierra Ferrell and S. G. Goodman.
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This week's broadcast of Mountain Stage looks back to 2011 for a show featuring Mavis Staples, Dougie MacLean, Joy Kills Sorrow, Mollie O'Brien & Rich Moore, with special guest Tim O'Brien. Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland in 2011.
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Songwriter Joe Pug has made six appearances on Mountain Stage since 2008. His ability to paint a scene is among his greatest gifts,
