The 2019 Fly In Festival returns to the Robert Newlon Airport in Huntington today and opens three days of country, bluegrass and traditional mountain music. This year’s list of performers includes The Grascals, Don Rigsby, Robin Kessinger and the Bing Brothers with Jake Krack. Gates open tod…
Saturday night at The Barge, The Company Stores headlines “Rockin’ The River.” The show also includes fusion/funk band Groundhog Gravy and songwriter Walter DeBarr. The show kicks off at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door. Advance tickets available through Eventbrite.
“Mountains Piled Upon Mountains” features nearly 50 writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the…
West Virginia’s The Davisson Brothers have had a good — albeit busy — couple of years. Members of the Appalachia-flavored country band have been consummate road warriors, almost endlessly touring, sharing the stage with big name country acts and playing numerous music festivals.
This history of professional wrestling runs as deep as the Kanawha River in Charleston.
There is a certain mindless pleasure in the “Fallen” movies. Watching Gerard Butler muscle his way through increasingly preposterous obstacles as a Secret Service agent can be amusing and oddly transfixing at the same time. It’s mass entertainment that makes a courtesy stop in theaters befor…
For the first time in almost two decades, Charleston will host a live cable-network professional wrestling broadcast.
Gate admission: $11 for ages 13 and up; children 12 and under free.
Murals are literally the oldest form of art. They have been around since the beginning of time, serving as a narrative to our lives.
‘Three Things’ next week
This week’s Live on the Levee features up-and-coming Kentucky country singer Dillon Carmichael and West Virginia singer/songwriter Charles Wesley Godwin. Carmichael is nephew of country stars John Michael Montgomery and Eddie Montgomery (one half of Montgomery Gentry). His debut record, “Hel…
Some entertainers, like the Rolling Stones, go on tour from time to time. They’ll have a North American tour that will last a couple of months, maybe they’ll follow it up with a European tour, and then it’s over.
An opening slot on a big show can be a plum gig for a debuting artist. It could be an opportunity to get music out to people who’ve never heard it, make a few new fans.
The lineup for the 2019-2020 Woody Hawley Series has been announced.
August’s ArtWalk is Thursday. The almost-monthly free, self-guided walking tour of Charleston studios and businesses celebrating local and regional artists begins at 5 p.m. Some of the highlights include live music from the Friends of Old-Time Music at the Lee Street Triangle, a get-together…
The 12-year-old protagonists of “Good Boys” have mastered the use of lingo like “lit” and “burn,” but they are foggier on just exactly what a tampon is and swear that a nymphomaniac is someone who has sex on land and on sea. They are tantalizingly close to young adulthood and yet tragically …
Gate admission: $11 for ages 13 and up; children 12 and under free.
Charleston community members are invited to enjoy an evening of dancing, music and cocktails at this year’s annual Light the Night: Dance Against Domestic Violence fundraising event.
Gate admission: $11 for ages 13 and up; children 12 and under free.
Two stories in the air, the lift moved closer toward its brightly colored target, then headed skyward with its cargo — in this case, Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin — on board.
