One of the best rocking voices in the Tri-State is going to be on radio weekly in the new year.

Angie Fletcher, of The Angie Fletcher Band, has worked behind the scenes at Kindred Communications for a while. Starting in the new year, she will fire up a Sunday night local music show highlighting many of her talented brothers and sisters of the musical wheel.

Fletcher is now looking for local artists to send their CDs to her at Kindred Communications, l401 11th St., Suite 200, Huntington, WV 25713. Put Attention: Angie Fletcher.

A right turn at Left Bank

The Dave Trippin' crew was over at Barb Delligatti's Upstairs Gallery last Friday for First Friday Art Walk where Barb had booked the excellent acoustic four-some, Four Grain (Michael and Erica Berry and Matt and Terra Davis).

Erica has an amazing voice, and the Ashland-based group is ready to drop its new CD.

In the meantime, go online at www.myspace.com/ fourgrain for a sampler.

My wife, Toril, was over at the Pendleton Art Center where everyone at First Friday was still talking about a Thursday night show by the band.

You can showcase your talent at Pendleton's Left Bank Cafe as its owner Gary Preston is opening up the cafe for an open mic night every Thursday. It's open to singers, storytellers, poets, comedians and others.

Call 606-325-3185.

Girls got to rock

Seems like all the rocking CDs I've gotten lately have some ladies rip, roaring and rocking.

Three CDs of note stuck in heavy rotation with me. One is Lucinda Williams' "Honey." Another is LUNA, whom I call Lucinda Williams' twisted little sister, whose "Blaine Girl," CD is striped with that infectious, raucous guitar of her husband, Dave Prince (Super Chimp and Rob McNurlin's Beatnik Cowboys).

Another keeper is the double CD by Rachael Yamagata called "Elephants and Teeth Sinking Into Heart."

I prefer the rowdier latter that has room in its musical heart for the Nebraska String Quartet birds and Mike Mogis breaking down on the "handclaps and Jim Beam bottles."

Yee to the haw.

'Mountain Stage's' Silver Anniversary

Good news here, Yamagata joins two regional native singers, Kathy Mattea and Joan Osborne (from Louisville), in helping "Mountain Stage" celebrate with a special 25th anniversary show on Dec. 7.

For the record, after Tim O'Brien, Mattea has logged the most appearances on "Mountain Stage" (12) since 1986.

Tickets are $15.50 in advance and $20 at the door.

Go online at www. mountainstage.com.

Help us help 'Mountain Stage' celebrate

To help "Mountain Stage" celebrate its silver anniversary, we'll be taking a look back at some of the great moments along the way.

We'd love for you to join us.

E-mail in memories of your favorite "Mountain Stage" shows (250 words or less) to lavender@herald-dispatch.com, and we'll print a collection of those memories to pay tribute to our area's great musical resource that's heard and seen weekly 'round the world on PBS and National Public Radio.

Tracing a kitchen re-do

Country singer Trace Adkins baptizes the Tri-State in that "Muddy Water" come Dec. 12 when he brings that big hit and a saddlebag of others into the Big Sandy Superstore Arena.

Jason Michael Carroll and Craig Morgan open that show, which is selling briskly.

In the meantime, Adkins is DIY, really.

He's featured at 10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, on the premiere of DIY Network's "Indoors Out," as hosts Dean Marsico and Derek Stearns pay a visit to Adkins' family farmstead (located just outside Nashville, Tenn.) to create a rustic outdoor kitchen.

In addition to creating that perfect no-frills getaway, he also drops his 10th album, "X" on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

For more info about his upcoming Huntington show, go online at www.big sandyarena.com.

Dave Lavender writes about music for The Herald-Dispatch. Contact him at 304-526-6686 or by e-mail at lavender@herald-dispatch.com.