Monday, June 02, 2014

Appalachian miniature opera on radio, web tonight

"Dust in the Bottomland," an original musical about modern Appalachia, in the form of a miniature opera, will be heard tonight on WMMT-FM in Whitesburg, Ky., and its website, which will have a podcast for later listening. The show "paints a complex and moving portrait . . . about one young man's return to southern West Virginia to be with his family as his sister is in a coma from a drug overdose, and the choices he faces once home," reports Mimi Pickering of Appalshop, which owns the station. What Pickering calls "a stunningly beautiful and powerful performance" will be followed by an interview with composer Nate May and singer Andrew Munn.

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