Kathy Mattea News

Kathy Mattea said she and her band try to guarantee two things to people who come to their shows: "At least one belly laugh and maybe a tear in their eye." Tonight, the Grammy Award-winning country and bluegrass musician will be working for that kind of reaction during her show in the Lexington Music Theatre Co.

Kathy Mattea, whose music and comments are featured in "Coal Country," visits a mountaintop removal site.

Ripley, which proclaims its annual July 4 festivities as the "The USA's Largest Small Town Independence Day Celebration," cancelled its fireworks display for the second year in a row because of rain.

The Ripley festivities in Jackson County are dubbed America's biggest small town Fourth of July celebration.

Grammy Award-winning country singer Shelby Lynne opens the 2009-10 Hoover Library Theatre season on Sept.

What does the cyclist have to do to be legally on the road? * If you are born in this country you should be able to understand English when you grow up, but if you migrate to the United States then you should learn the language.

"A concert to end mountaintop removal and create a clean energy future." With Kathy Mattea and more.

Tim O'Brien is a Grammy Award-winning American country and bluegrass musician. In addition to being a fine singer, he plays guitar, fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki and mandocello.

Kathy Mattea never planned for coal to become the focus of her life. But over the past couple of years she realized that all of her paths were leading her to holes in the ground or to the scarred peaks of mountains.

June 18, 2009 'Still Moving Mountains' CD Celebrates Coalfield Resistance to Mountaintop Removal Special to Huntingtonnews.net The non-profit organization Aurora Lights will release its long-awaited compilation CD, , with its multimedia website, JourneyUpCoalRiver.org , at the Mountain Aid concert Saturday, June 20.

Spending a summer weekend listening to music will help to ensure a safe school for hundreds of children? How? The Mountain Aid concert June 19-20, 2009 at Shakori Hills Farm in Chatham County, North Carolina, will benefit Pennies of Promise, a grassroots campaign to construct a new building for Marsh Fork Elementary School in West Virginia.

Especially after night falls, it feels as if you're never going to reach your destination in this sleepy little town.

This year's inductees in the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame is a class of 7. Four are living and three are deceased.

"Something's Rising" by Silas House and Jason Howard; University Press of Kentucky There's nothing wishy-washy about the point of view of "Something's Rising," a new book about mountaintop-removal coal mining written by two Eastern Kentuckians, novelist Silas House and journalist Jason Howard.

For one night, at least, you don't have to go to Nashville, Tenn., to hear some of that town's best songwriters.

The Minnesota Orchestra's just-announced 2009-10 pops season includes two major Broadway divas, the jazzy Manhattan Transfer and Judy Garland "in concert." The late Garland appears via digital technology, singing her greatest hits with the orchestra .

David Gonzalez is trying to help the environment, and he would like you to join in.

What do Sheryl Crow , Emmylou Harris , Kathy Mattea and "Big" Kenny Alphin have in common? Sure, they're all popular country music artists.

Sheryl Crow , Big Kenny of Big & Rich , Emmylou Harris and Kathy Mattea have launched a new campaign, Music Saves Mountains, to end mountaintop removal coal mining in Tennessee and across Appalachia.

Rob Perks at the Natural Resources Defense Council has just unveiled a wonderful website tribute to Grammy Award-winning country and rock musicians banding together to stop mountaintop removal in Appalachia.