Music for the Mountains 2 is a whole-house benefit concert (and compilation CD release show) to raise money and awareness to help fight mountaintop removal coal mining. The concert takes place on SATURDAY, OCT. 12, 2013 at 8:00pm at the Southgate House Revival (111 E 6th St) in Newport, KY, Buy Tickets.
To date more than 500 Appalachian mountains have been dynamited and nearly 2,000 miles of rivers and streams have been choked by mountaintop removal coal mining. The Appalachians are the only mountain range in the country where this practice is allowed.
All proceeds from both the album and the concert will be split 50/50 between Ohio Citizen Action and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, our two most local non-profit organizations fighting against MTR.
The first Music for the Mountains concert and CD (in 2011) raised over $15,000 for this cause. Come out on October 12th and help us try to surpass this amount this time around.
TEDO STONE (from Atlanta)
MAGNOLIA MOUNTAIN
THE KENTUCKY STRUTS
THE HIDERS
10 STRING SYMPHONY (from Nashville)
MA CROW & THE LADY SLIPPERS
KENTUCKY TIMBRE
JANET PRESSLEY
JAKE SPEED & THE FREDDIES
RED CEDARS
WONKY TONK
MARGARET DARLING
TEX SCHRAMM & THE RADIO KING COWBOYS
TERMINAL UNION
HICKORY ROBOT
THE MITCHELLS
RABBIT HASH STRING BAND
BILLY TWO SHOES
BLUE CABOOSE
A companion compilation CD will also be released the night of the show. The CD features 23 songs specially written, recorded, or donated for the project. NONE OF THE SONGS ON THE CD ARE AVAILABLE ANYWHERE ELSE.
Featured artists on the album include:
UNCLE MIKE CARR
THE TILLERS
THE BEAR
MAGNOLIA MOUNTAIN
RABBIT HASH STRING BAND
RED CEDARS
THE KENTUCKY STRUTS
JAKE SPEED & THE FREDDIES
10 STRING SYMPHONY
TEX SCHRAMM & THE RADIO KING COWBOYS
MA CROW & THE LADY SLIPPERS
WONKY TONK
JEFF SCOTT ROBERSON
JANET PRESSLEY
THE MITCHELLS
BILLY TWO SHOES
SUSAN PEPPER
MARGARET DARLING
JEAN DOWELL WITH MIKE OBERST
KENTUCKY TIMBRE
TERMINAL UNION