Tour de Coal and Yak Fest return to St. Albans this weekend, and Fletcher’s Grove bassist John Inghram has a small confession to make.

Charleston Light Opera Guild opens “Bright Star” Friday night at the Guild Theatre on Tennessee Avenue in Charleston. Written by actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin and Grammy award-winning songwriter Edie Brickell, “Bright Star” features bluegrass music and a story about a woman trying to …

Monday night, FestivALL and the West Virginia Power baseball team join forces for the FestivALL-STAR concert at Haddad Riverfront Park. The free show with the Davisson Brothers Band celebrates FestivALL’s 15th anniversary and WV Power Baseball’s 15th season, while also welcoming the the Sout…

With the official start of summer only a week away, it’s time again to share some music picks chosen by the staff of The Charleston Gazette-Mail for our annual “Sounds of Summer.”

Jack Kelly is a prolific journalist, novelist and historian. In his latest book, “The Edge of Anarchy” (St. Martin’s Press, $28.99), he details the greatest uprising of working people in American history. Today, it’s an historic event that’s been all but forgotten.

For the 15th time, Charleston becomes a work of art. FestivALL returns this week, bringing with it over two weeks of music, art, dance and theater.

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It wouldn’t be a music festival in West Virginia if didn’t start with a flash flood warning buzzing on everyone’s iPhone.

“Storming Heaven,” the musical based on the award-winning book by West Virginia author Denise Giardina, premiers this weekend at the Gladys G. Davis Theatre at West Virginia University in Morgantown. Set during the mine wars in West Virginia in the early quarter of the 20th century, the show…

Charleston’s annual motorcycle meetup and celebration of motorcycle culture, the Capitol City Biker Bash, roars into town this week. Through the weekend, check out a full schedule that features a showing of vintage and collectors’ motorcycles, bike games and free nightly entertainment at Had…

There are different kinds of success in music.

One of Charleston’s most popular and most enduring party bands, Stratus, headlines Live on the Levee Friday night and kicks off a busy season of shows for the 45-year-old band.

The Brewgrass Reunion returns for year two Saturday at Adventures on the Gorge near Fayetteville. The bluegrass and craft beer festival will include performances by the Black Mountain Bluegrass Boys, The Wild Rumpus, the Bing Brothers Band and Long Point String Band. The music and biergarten…

Guitarist Dave Depper wasn’t really recruited to join indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie in 2014 — he just happened to be someone who could keep up with them.