Events
Month • Week • Day • TableMusic from Appalshop's Seedtime on the Cumberland 1997, featuring Kentucky banjo player Blance Coldiron, old-time country duet Ann and Phil Case, Piedmont bluesman John Jackson, West Virginia stringband the Bing Brothers.
Take Note of Appalachian Attitude's NEW TIME - 4 -5:30 PM
Jim's guest on Appalachian Attitude this week will be Country singer Tommy Shortt from Duffield VA. We’ll be playing tunes from his new CD and visiting with him.
Don't miss the newest Bluegrass show on WMMT, First Generation Blue Grass with your hostess - Mrs. Bluegrass. You'll hear all the best of that great First Generation of Blue Grass music from the earliest recordings right up to 1970! Read more about Mrs. Bluegrass...
Well, I was born way back in the hills of Concord, Massachusetts, in 1955
Another great two hours of music recorded around the region! This week. Bluegrass Express Live featuring Blue Highway, recorded live at Appalshop in November 2005. Produced by Maestro Rich Kirby.
Roberta Webb. author of Dark and Bloody Ground, will be the guest on Appalachian Attitude, Monday, Feb. 4, at the new time of 4 p.m. The book is a saga spanning several generations of a family living on Pine Mountain, straddling the Kentucky-Virginia line, from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Murder, moonshining and mining predominate, but in a context of strength, intelligence and love -- no stereotypes here. Webb, who was born Roberta Hayes, grew up in Jenkins and now lives in Texas.
On the next Mountain Talk, “Voices of Recovery” from the Letcher county jail. February 4th at 7 PM, call in and join the discussion - toll free - 1 (888)396-1208.
Dave Evans, one of Bluegrass music’s most popular performers, will be in concert at 88.7 WMMT’s Bluegrass Express Live, Thursday Feb 7th at the Appalshop Theater in downtown Whitesburg and live on Appalshop radio, WMMT.
Dave Evans, with his band River Bend, is one of the all time favorites in bluegrass music and is among the most requested performers on WMMT. He has been performing since 1968 and has been a part of such fine bands as Red Allen & the Kentuckians, The Boys from Indiana, the Goins Brothers and Larry Sparks & the Lonesome Ramblers. In 1978 he formed Dave Evans & River Bend and, as they say, the rest is Bluegrass Music History. Call 606 633-0108 for your reservation!
The master of accordion goodness, the one and only Wiley Quixote spins an hour of glorious accordion music for your listening pleasure on this weeks Patchwork!
This weeks concert series will be a great two hours of live music recorded at the 2007 Dock Boggs Festival. Dale Jett and Friends and the Whitetop Mountain Band from the Dock Boggs Festival, Norton VA, September 8, 2007
A new show on WMMT tune in and see what you think, or listen to the podcasts of the first two shows!
Brought to you by the Country Gentleman a fabulous hour of music by the great Gary Stewart!
Music from Mountain Empire Community College's October, 2000 Home Craft Days Festival.Featured artists are the Brickey Brothers and Uncut Grass, Jim and Albert Stanley, Lee Sexton, and the Home Folks.
Phyllis Eagle Tree of Louisville will be the guest on Appalachian Attitude on Monday, Feb. 18, at 4 p.m. She recently published a book titled Roll The Wheel, an examination in photos and stories of the life of the late Mae Phillips of Harlan County. Eagle Tree shadowed Mrs. Phillips, a classic Mountain Mama, for more than a year and came up with this loving tribute.
Guest hosts Mikie Burke, T.J. Caudill, Tommy Anderson and Eli Gover discuss a new youth community development effort. The Reckon Ball is a youth-based organization consisting of Letcher County youth. The Reckon Ball was formed out of love and dedication for the community and it's youth, their mission statement is as follows: We, the outspoken youth of Eastern Kentucky, have envisioned a brighter future for ourselves and have come together to create a youth organization that we call "The Reckon Ball." The Reckon Ball seeks to assist local youth in the development of skills and bring unity to our community.
A new Patchwork by Little Debbie - featuring Allison Krause
This weeks Radio-Gram has an update on the status of plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia, a report on economic conversion in the coalfields as we move away from a coal based economy, and some talk of a changing environment. Plus the Regional Roundup and the Coal Report.
