Mountain Stage to arrive in Fairbanks for two shows

August 15, 2012

Marmian Grimes

Alida van Almelo
907-474-7588
8/15/12

West Virginia Public Radio’s live performance radio program Mountain Stage is making its first trip to ÐÓ°Épro Aug. 17-18.

Host Larry Groce will highlight musicians from near and far at two live shows at the Davis Concert Hall on the ÐÓ°Épro campus. The concerts will later be broadcast on NPR.

The Friday, Aug. 17 concert will feature Austin-based band, Hot Club of Cowtown, Joshua Tree’s Tim Easton, Portland’s Horse Feathers, and ÐÓ°Épro’s Melissa Mitchell and The Whipsaws.

The Saturday, Aug. 18 concert will feature singer/songwriter Tift Merritt, Nashville-based Bearfoot, David Lindley, and ÐÓ°Éprons Pat Fitzgerald and Robin Dale Ford, Steve Brown and the Bailers, and Susan Grace.

Tickets are $32 and can be purchased online at or in-person at the UAF Summer Sessions & Lifelong Learning offices, Room 216 of the Eielson Building and at If Only- A Fine Store at 215 Cushman Street. The box office will open at 6 p.m. both days, doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the shows will each start at 7 p.m.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Summer Sessions at summer@alaska.edu or 907-474-7021.

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