Mountain Stage

The three Joubran brothers of Palestine come from a long line of luthiers. Now, they've taken to playing their ouds as a trio. Here, the group performs its improvisational, virtuosic take on traditional Arabic music.

The singer-songwriter has written a new memoir about his journey from New York to San Francisco, where he began his musical career. Here, he performs songs from his latest album, Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John.

The a cappella trio based out of Charleston, W.Va., is led by the husband-and-wife team of Bill and Becky Kimmons. They sing a gospel-leaning set for their appearance on Mountain Stage.

Kane Welch Kaplin is a collective of three individually successful Nashville songwriters, but their joint efforts are much more than a side project. Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch and Fats Kaplin have already recorded three albums of original material together.

The veteran bluegrass singer and accomplished songwriter first appeared on Mountain Stage in 1995. She returns to the program with a crack team of bluegrass' most highly decorated players.

The award-winning bluegrass family band is led by bassist Jere Cherryholmes, and features his wife and four children. Now nominated for the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy Award, the group plays a set on Mountain Stage.

Steeped in the Piedmont blues of the North Carolina hill country, the trio breathes new life into the African-American string-band tradition. The group brings a claw-hammer banjo, fiddles, snare drum, bone percussion and even a kazoo to Mountain Stage.

The 19-year-old singer traverses both pop and jazz, and seems comfortable singing in multiple languages. She performs selections from her debut album, We Are One, with the Mountain Stage house band.

With a hybrid style fusing bluegrass and jazz, saxophonist Bill Evans compiled an exceptional team of well-known players from different backgrounds to create a supergroup known as Bill Evans' Soulgrass. The band appears here in a live performance, taped in January 2008 in Charleston, W.V.

With a timid yet powerful voice, Amy Correia took the stage armed with a songbook inspired by authors, poets and songwriters. Correia performs a series of new, yet-to-be-recorded songs in this Mountain Stage appearance from January 2008.

Ontario's Jeremy Fisher celebrated the release of his first release, Let It Shine, by taking a bicycle trip from Seattle to Vancouver, gaining followers with every stop. Fisher and his band kick off the 25th season of Mountain Stage with performances from his latest album, Goodbye Blue Monday.

The singer-songwriter best known for his 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis" suffered a carjacking and a bullet wound to the head on a 2002 tour. But he lived to tell the tale, record a new album and appear on Mountain Stage.

Made up of two siblings, their cousin and a childhood friend, the Clarksburg, W.Va., group plays a high-energy hillbilly style of country music. They play a set from their forthcoming debut album, due out in 2009.

The bluegrass musician from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains has been a musician at Tokyo Disneyland and has won flatpicking competitions in Colorado. With his band Natural Bridge, Keel played a set of fiery, authentic music on Mountain Stage.