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Philapdelphia PBS television station WHYY featured Mountain Heart in a recent episode of their On Canvas program. The show features lengthy bits of live video from the band's February 1 performance at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, interspersed with interview clips with Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve. Jim's narration offers a nice history of the band, from [...]
We had posted previously about Mountain Heart fiddler and Nashville producer/session player Jim VanCleve, and his recent battle with dengue hemorrhagic fever. Friends and colleagues in Music City have set up a fund to assist Jim and his family with medical bills and living expenses. Jim contracted the disease from mosquito bites while working in [...]
Jim VanCleve, Mountain Heart fiddler and busy Nashville session player/producer, is set to return home today from his weekend stay at the Vanderbilt Medical Center. He had been hospitalized on Friday after his white blood count plunged to a dangerous level following his contracting Dengue Fever while working in St. Croix earlier this month. A [...]
Jim VanCleve, Mountain Heart fiddler and one of the busiest session players and producers in Nashville, is hospitalized today for a blood transfusion after contracting Dengue Fever during a visit St. Croix last week. The disease is spread by mosquito bites, and fortunately for Jim, he happened to overhear a conversation at the hotel in the Virgin [...]
Josh Shilling, Mountain Heart's bluesy lead singer, has released a Christmas single. It's his pared-down version of the perennial Mel Torme classic, The Christmas Song. With just Josh's voice and his piano, this track recalls how Shilling plied his trade prior to coming aboard with Mountain Heart. Though now primarily playing guitar on stage, Josh [...]
With this mega-gallery, we conclude Frank Baker's superb photo journalism at the August 2012 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Thanks Frank!
We've written before about Letting Go, the debut solo project from Mountain Heart vocalist Josh Shilling. And as Josh has mentioned in previous posts, this isn't a bluegrass record, though it does feature contributions from notable grassers like Shilling's bandmate Aaron Ramsey, Cia and Molly Cherryholmes, and Randy Kohrs. To mark the short-form album's official release [...]
This post is a contribution from Mountain Heart lead vocalist Josh Shilling. He describes how the band went from what was expected to be an uneventful bus ride to Grey Fox this week, to events that turned them and their bus into a hazard to navigation in New York City. Five years ago this weekend, [...]
Mountain Heart is taking a step up towards the big time. Their rowdy, hybrid show, which mixes elements of bluegrass, blues and rock music, will be represented by New Frontier Touring. They will continue to be managed by Brian Smith of Leadership Artists. New Frontier is a large, national agency based in Nashville, under the primary [...]
Here are Frank Baker's photos from Thursday night at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. He is busily uploading more images from the rest of the weekend, and we will post them over the next day or so.
