David Bromberg Quintet, Sarah Harmer, and more on Mountain Stage

1900 Kanawha Blvd E,Charleston , WV WV 25301

01 May, 2022

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David Bromberg Quintet, Sarah Harmer, and more on Mountain Stage Hosted by Kathy Mattea ALL AGES David Bromberg, Sarah Harmer Be a part of the live audience as Mountain Stage records a fresh episode for NPR Music! Mountain Stage is capping capacity for live tapings at 50% until further notice. If and when we choose to increase capacity we will notify ticketholders. Those who are unvaccinated are at the greatest risk of serious illness if they contract the virus. If you are not yet vaccinated, we strongly encourage you to assess the potential health risks of attending an indoor live Mountain Stage. We invite you to come back when the time is right or catch the livestream. We recommend KN95 masks.Layering of masks and surgical masks is also better than a single cloth mask.If you have questions or concerns, please reach out to [email protected]. Ticket Information All tickets to this show are e-tickets, and will be emailed to you upon purchase. Open up the pdf and the QR code on your ticket will be scanned at the door. This event will also be offered as a live stream. Watch the livestream! Mountain Stage livestreams are free, however there are some incredible folks out there who’d like to show their support through a donation-based, pay what you want ”ticket” for the livestream. This is a donation-based “ticket” to show some love for the program and is not a ticket to the live event. You’ll be able to catch the show from the comfort of your home (or wherever you wish) Sunday, May 1, at 7 PM ET at mountainstage.org. Click the ‘Buy Tickets’ button below to join us from anywhere! David Bromberg Quintet With his 1971 self-titled Columbia Records release, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter David Bromberg emerged as a wunderkind of American music. The blend of traditional and original material, virtuosic musicianship and iconic cover art trumpeted the arrival of a new and audacious artist. With seven more albums and associations with Bob Dylan, Jerry Jeff Walker, George Harrison, the Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt, Bromberg’s reputation and following grew exponentially until the incessant demands of touring finally brought the recordings and shows to an end in the early 1980s. The twenty-two-year drought ended in 2006 with the release of the Grammy-nominated Try Me One More Time. David followed up with Use Me, a typically unorthodox Brombergian effort, partnering him with Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill, Los Lobos, Dr. John, Keb’ Mo, John Hiatt, Levon Helm and others as David asked them to either write or choose songs and then produce him performing them. Two more albums emerged from 2013 to 2017, Only Slightly Mad and The Blues the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues, both produced by 3 x Grammy winner Larry Campbell. Recorded at Levon Helm’s Barn, Only Slightly Mad brought the band back to David’s eclectic ‘kitchen sink’ musical philosophy, while The Whole Blues proved Texas fiddler Johnny Gimbel’s theory that: “There are only two songs—‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ and the blues.” With David’s band settling into its current lineup, Mark Cosgrove (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Nate Grower (fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals), Josh Kanusky (drums, vocals) and newest member, Suavek Zaniesienko (bass, vocals), in 2019 they recorded Big Road, giving Bromberg fans the most intimate portrait of David and his band to date. With twelve new recordings, five hi-def performance videos and a mini-documentary detailing the album’s creation, the content rich album was released on Compass/Red House Records in April 2020. COVID put an end to all live shows until fall 2021, which is where David is poised to write his next chapter. Sarah Harmer Are You Gone? – the first new album in a decade from Sarah Harmer – is a deeply personal and momentous collection of songs motivated by the beauty of life, the urgency of climate crisis, and the question of loss. The first song “New Low” is more than a return to music for the internationally celebrated singer-songwriter and activist: it is a definition of form, a call-for-uprising in the face of global disaster, at the most critical moment for Harmer to raise her voice – one of the most distinctive in Canadian music. The vitality of “New Low,” its heedless pace, sharp guitars and exclamatory horns, bely the passage of time since Harmer’s last record, Oh Little Fire (2010). Nearly twenty years from the release of her debut, You Were Here (2000), Are You Gone brings a close to Harmer’s period of musical quietude with a rousing artistic statement, rich in detail and emotion, from the heart and for the spirit. The multi-award-winning platinum-selling musician’s long-anticipated sixth album will be released February 2020 on Arts & Crafts. David Bromberg, Sarah Harmer For more than 30 years, Mountain Stage has been the home of live music on public radio. Produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music, each two hour episode of Mountain Stage can be heard every week on more than 240 stations across America, and around the world via NPR Music and www.mountainstage.org. Recorded in front of a live audience, Mountain Stage features performances from seasoned legends and emerging stars from genres across the board.