WestVirginiaVille

In a new episode of WVTV, the web channel of WestVirginiaVille, see what happens when a musical saw meets a gypsy-fired guitar. Plus, animals we have met on the backroads of West Virginia.

Today’s Song of the Day, “Love,” comes from Nicci Canada’s debut CD, “”Twenty Twelve,” whose title I imagine speaks to her hopes for busting out this year.

In honor of their CD release concert at the Empty Glass, take a listen to the Carpenter Ants version of “He Saved My Soul,” by Claude Jeter of the Swan Silvertones.

The Berkely Springs-based band The Weber Brothers are back with a new Christmas tune, “I’ll Be Your Santa Baby.” The vampy piano tune sits squarely in that small but breathy genre of Christmas come-on tunes.

OK, the headline is a bald-faced lie. Dean Martin, Glen Campbell and I have never ever hung out together, at least in person. But actually, we did spend a lot of time together, which is when I fell in love with singing.

TheWebTheater of WestVirginiaVille.com, presents “Saint Stephen’s Dream: a Space Opera.” Coming Soon To A Computer Near You. Spring, say. Or maybe Summer.

My favorite sculpture in all of West Virginia sits outside the Huntington Museum of Art. The slightest breath of wind sends this exquisitely balanced sculpture into motion as seen in a music video for a friend who has moved on unexpectedly.

This Friday, Huntington hosts the Save Our Sign Benefit Concert benefit to restore the Keith-Albee theater’s sign — knocked down earlier this year in a windstorm — to its dashing glory.

This ‘Jam of the Day’ video from the recently concluded High Land Jam in Elkins, W.Va., is convincing evidence to head that way next summer when the 10th annual jam takes place the last weekend of August 2012.

“The Only Song” is a tune about lost love without reprieve or favor. Albert Perrone invokes Alanis Morissette, Ani DiFranco and others in singing about what happens “when love knocks the brake pads off of you.”

Take a listen to the sublime harmonies of Bare Bones as they sing the Charlie Rich song “Who Will the Next Fool Be” at the After Hours Cabaret at the recent FestivALL Charleston.

Here’s a sampler of three songs by Casandra at the After Hours Cabaret that followed a June 24, 2011 performance of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera.”

Here’s the official trailer for the debut of “Saint Stephen’s Dream: A Space Opera,” the rock opera/musical/eco-fable and (we hope) ripping good yarn that makes its debut this week at FestivALL Charleston.

From Malaysian line dancers to breathy chipmunks, “Take Me Home, Country Roads” has been sung around the world in multifarious, strange and wonderful ways. Part 1 in an ongoing Country Roads Compendium

‘One might be tempted to say that we’re poorer today because of Hazel’s Dickens passing, but a trip to YouTube will show that her spirit enriches the repertoire of musicians all over the world.’

Today’s Song of the Day is not quite new – actually, it’s more than a quarter-century old. In honor of Larry Groce’s turn as a headliner Saturday in Charleston, a taste of “Junk Food Junkie” and how it got to be a smash hit.

As Option 22 winds up a set one recent night at Boulevard Tavern in Charleston, W.Va., Washboard Dave gets up and joins them on a chest-rattling jam.

A homage in word and song to legendary folksinger Hazel Dickens, who passed away this Friday at age 75 at a Washington, D.C.. hospice and will be buried today in Mercer County, West Virginia.

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?