WestVirginiaVille

FestivALL Charleston has added “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera” as an official event to this year’s citywide cultural event in late June. So what is a ‘space opera’ anyway?

Gabriel Redding of the Redding Brothers knows how to bring a crowd. Like the cops who came when he filmed a music video on an abandoned West Virginia bridge.

“29″ is a song by the band 600LBS OF SIN! that marks a most auspicious one-year anniversary in West Virginia which approaches on April 5.

How a bunch of teenagers came to craft a music video at Berkeley Springs’ Ice House for the Weber Brothers band.

Just in time for David Bowie’s 64th birthday Jan. 8, 2011, a world-debut video of Ann Magnuson’s Bowie homage in Charleston, W.Va., with a Q-and-A about Bowie love.

WestVirginiaVille passes along this official musical wish for you in 2011 – Enjoy Yourself, responsibly. Also: Be kind, no exceptions. Don’t take off the tops of any mountains and …

Courtesy of the Weber Brothers Band, WestVirginiaVille wishes one and all a merry musical Christmas via the band’s original song “Christmas Time in West Virginia.”

What weighs 198,000 pounds, is 64-feet tall, looks like a wrecked rocket ship and will surely get a reaction from you? Albert Paley’s monumental Charleston sculpture seen from several vantage points.

“Light Show,” a ruminative music video by The Silent Gondoliers, samples some of the music featured at the Solstice Ball coming up Sunday, Dec. 19 in Charleston, West Virginia.

In honor of today’s first snowflakes over the International Headquarters of WestVirginiaVille here’s a music video featuring Heidi Muller’s gorgeous song “Snowdance.”

This week’s music video, “There’s a Light” by The Ions is filled with mostly all-West Virginia scenery, from strolling monks to the Red Party. Recorded at The Room Upstairs in Princeton, W.Va.

Mix one West Virginia city, a fish-eye lens attached to the end of your guitar, two members of the band Option 22 and what do you get? This West Virginia Music Video of the Week.

We are experiencing, here in the Village of West Virginia, one of the loveliest Indian Summers in memory. But until someone gets one done for 2010, this Autumnal audio slideshow from 2009 will have to do you.

What do “Sweet George Brown,” “Lean on Me” and avante-garde classical music in the round all have to do with West Virginia? Hear and see the answer in a visit with the founder of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.

Former “Mountain Stage” bassist John Kessler co-produces one of the funnest, drollest and entertaining short radio shows you’re likely to uncover in a week’s worth of Googling