HEARING & SEEING the TREES
UPCOMING GIGS & LIVE APPEARANCES for THROUGH the TREES
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Big Ugly Community Center, Harts, WV
The Big Ugly Community Center will mark its 30th anniversary with a wide-ranging celebration on Saturday, Aug. 9, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the center at 15 Rosewood Road in Harts, West Virginia. Among the events will be a live taping of the Wallace Horn Friendly Neighbor Show and among the musical acts to be recored live that day is THROUGH the TREES. The radio show has been continuously broadcast on West Virginia airwaves since 1967. As the show’s Facebook page notes, its mission is to present: ‘West Virginia music by folks coming together lifting up West Virginia, featuring West Virginia artists.’ The program has a cool backstory, as noted in the excerpt below from a Goldenseal magazine profile of Wallace Horn while he was still alive.
MORE INFO: Here’s the invite page for the event. And if you’re amused by and wonder how Big Ugly got its name—which has inspired a decades-long skein of jokes and puns—click this link.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 7 to 10 p.m.: PUMZI’S in Charleston, WV
THROUGH the TREES is delighted to be opening for The Ron Sowell Band on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, at Pumzi’s, 813 Hunt Avenue, on the West Side of Charleston, West Virginia. This is another wonderful listening room space—keep them coming, Universe—launched by singer-songwriter Sean Richardson and crew, which they describe as “a sober-curious, all-ages space.”
MORE INFO: Pumzi’s Facebook page. | Pumzi’s Instagram.
FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2025: Huntington Art Walk
DETAILS: THROUGH the TREES brings its electrified folk-chamber sound to the ArtWalk in Huntington, West Virginia, from 5 to 8 p.m., FRIDAY, JUNE 20. We will perform in the gazebo at Heritage Station at 210 Eleventh St., right across from the floodwall and Ohio River and within sight of the great black parked locomotive that recalls Huntington’s olden days as an end-of-the-line railroad burg. Come on out an take a listen and then a stroll to other spots of arts, culture and music along the Art Walk.
SATURDAY, MAY 3, 2025: Coal River Songwriters Festival
DETAILS: THROUGH the TREES will perform two original songs as part of a packed lineup at the closing concert of the 3rd Annual Coal River Songwriters’ Festival, which starts 7 p.m., Saturday May 3, 2025, , on the Alban Theater stage at the Alban Arts Center at 65 Olde Main Plaza, Saint Albans, WV.