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Earls of Leicester, Lera Lynn & More Return to Mountain Stage July 24th

Jerry Douglas and his Earls of Leicester will return to the Culture Center Theaterin Charleston on Sunday, July 24, 2016, for West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s live-performance radio program Mountain Stage with LarryGroce.  Also appearing areLeraLynn, and the duo of RobIckesand Trey Hensley.  

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 day of show, available now, on mountainstage.org, by phone at 877-987-6487, locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston and also at Mountain Stage's upcoming live shows. Day of show, doors open at 6:30pm, with a 7:00pmshowtime.  

Rattle & Roar, the latest album from the Earls of Leicester continues what they started with their self-titled debut album, which is putting a modern spin on the classicFlatt& Scruggs/Foggy Mountain Boys songbook. In 2014 the band won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.  

Lera Lynn returns to Mountain Stage this July.
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Lera Lynn returns to Mountain Stage this July.

Perhaps being known best as the dive bar singer in the second season of True Detective,LeraLynnreturns to Mountain Stagewith her new albumResistor. The music video for the lead single, “Shape Shifter,” recently debuted on the Wall Street Journal’s blog Speakeasy.

Riding off of a 2016 Grammy Best Bluegrass Album nomination, veteran musicians RobIckesand Trey Hensley make their Mountain Stage debut with their forthcoming sophomore album The Country Blues.

This episode of Mountain Stage is scheduled for national distribution via NPR Music later this fall.

Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley make their Mountain Stage debut this July.
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley make their Mountain Stage debut this July.

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Nathan Thomas