The Pitzers Keep Playing
Joan and Keith Pitzer are a husband and wife singer-songwriting team living in Preston County. Folk radio stations across the U.S. and Europe play their recordings. They can be heard on the video, “A Vision for a Wild Mon,” produced by the West Virginia Wilderness Coalition and narrated by Larry Groce, artistic director and host of Mountain Stage. Their song “Underneath a Blackened Moon” is included in the audio drama, “When Miners March,” the definitive history of the coal miners of West Virginia in the early 1950s, and was included on the compilation CD “Moving Mountains: Voices Rise Up Against Mountaintop Removal.”
Graffiti: What are your latest projects?
Joan: Our third CD, “Gathering Stones,” was just released late 2007. This was the first recording project that has included an addition from our family with our son, Jake, on mandolin. Since t
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Artist Spotlight Poll
Are you going to XFest 2008?
All Good Festival
Bod ? Mike Adkins
Rain ? Morgantown
La Roca
Bonnaroo
His & Hers ? 5.21.08
What's On Your Pod, June 16
Yama's