Miko Marks and more on Mountain Stage
About this Event
We are excited to return to the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, WV as part of the .
GUEST ARTISTS: Miko Marks, and more to be announced (click each artist to learn more)
Since 1983, Mountain Stage has been one of the most beloved programs in public radio history. Eclectic, authentic and unpredictable, the show’s varied guests have included iconic artists from John Prine and Townes Van Zandt to Wilco and Phish. Under the leadership of Grammy Award-winning country and bluegrass star Kathy Mattea since 2021, Mountain Stage continues to bring surefire energy and music discovery to parts known and unknown.
Produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music, each two-hour episode is recorded in front of a live audience and can be heard every week on nearly 300 stations across America, and around the world via NPR Music and mountainstage.org
Tickets: $27 – $40
Miko Marks
Rolling Stone has called Miko Marks’ voice a “marvelous instrument that imbues each song with a kind of hard-won authority.” Across a career defined by resilience, reinvention, and a refusal to let the music industry dictate where she belongs, Marks has built a singular musical identity rooted in country, gospel, blues, and soul. Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, she is a granddaughter of the Great Migration whose Southern family roots and musical upbringing continue to inform her work. “Blues is a part of who I am,” Marks says. “It’s woven into my upbringing, my experiences, and my musical journey.”
On October 30, Marks will release Hell Or High Water, her first blues album, via Redtone Records. Produced by longtime collaborator Justin Phipps and written by Marks and Phipps, the album emerged from a period of profound personal change, including the end of Marks’ 29-year marriage and the beginning of her journey with sobriety. Through songs confronting loss, grief, injustice, and uncertainty, Marks holds fiercely to hope, healing, and the joy she has found on the other side. “These songs acknowledge the darkness without surrendering to it,” she says.
After a 14-year break from recording, Marks returned with Our Country in 2021, followed by 2022’s Feel Like Going Home, which reached the Top 10 on the Americana charts. She has since performed multiple times at the Grand Ole Opry, appeared at Stagecoach, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, MerleFest, and Ottawa Bluesfest, and shared stages with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Little Feat, The War and Treaty, and more.
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