The Oct. 8 show in the Myles Center for the Arts Harper-McNeeley Auditorium on the campus of Davis & Elkins College features Dan Tyminski and Ronnie Bowman, Sara Watkins, Mountain Heart, Eric Johnson and Elise Davis.

Tickets are available online at www.forestfestival.com and range from $20 to $30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and the show starts at 7:30 p.m. Local sponsors for the 80th Mountain State Forest Festival show are Tygart Valley Distributor, Miller Lite, West Virginia Lottery, First Energy and The Inter-Mountain. Heard weekly on NPR stations across the country, Mountain Stage is produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and is celebrating its 33rd year on the air. The concert will be recorded live and broadcast at a later date on the internationally syndicated radio program.

Bluegrass heavyweights and former Lonesome River bandmates Tyminski and Bowman team up again to perform both old and new tunes. The band’s recording of “Carrying the Tradition” was named the International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) Album of the Year in 1991. Since then, both have made their mark on the music industry – Tyminski as a vocalist and musician with Alison Krauss and Union Station and as a solo artist, and Bowman as a singer and hit songwriter.

Today, Tyminski is a 14-time Grammy winner and one of the most recognizable and popular male vocalists on today’s bluegrass and country music scenes. Perhaps best known as the singing voice of George Clooney in “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” Tyminski’s powerful rendition of the Stanley Brothers’ version of “Man of Constant Sorrow” became a surprise hit single.

Dan Tyminski

In 2000, the song was given the CMA Single of the Year award, an IBMA award for Song of the Year (the album was also named the Album of the Year) and a Grammy award for Country Collaboration with Vocals.

That same year also marked the release of Tyminski’s first solo album, the confident and soul-stirring “Carry Me Across the Mountain” and some of the first dates performed by the Dan Tyminski Band.

Bowman has achieved remarkable heights in his musical career as an award-winning bluegrass songwriter and vocalist and a respected, successful writer in country music. As a solo artist, he was awarded IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year three times and is a two-time winner of the IBMA Song of the Year for “Three Rusty Nails” and “Cold Virginia Night.” He also co-wrote two No. 1 hits, “It’s Getting Better All the Time” recorded by Brooks & Dunn and Kenny Chesney’s “Never Wanted Nothin’ More.” Most recently, he’s teamed up with Chris Stapleton and Barry Bales to pen “Nobody to Blame” and Stapleton and Jerry Salley for “Outlaw State of Mind.”

Sara Watkins

Sara Watkins just made history. At the 15th annual Americana Music Honors & Awards in September, the fiddler took home the Instrumentalist of the Year honor – the first woman to win the category since the Americana Music Association began bestowing awards in 2002.

Sara Watkins

With roots deep in bluegrass, Watkins is forging new territory with her 2016 release “Young in All the Wrong Ways.” She wrote or co-wrote every track on the album, exploring themes of moving on. She hit the road in support of the record in June playing throughout the United States before heading to Europe.

The singer-songwriter from California debuted in 1989 as fiddler and founding member of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek along with her brother, Sean, and mandolinist Chris Thile.

After touring on her own in support of her solo albums, “Sara Watkins” and “Sun Midnight Sun” on Nonesuch Records, she just completed the spring “Use Your Voice Tour” with Patty Griffin and Anais Mitchell in conjunction with The League of Women Voters, and a Nickel Creek reunion tour in celebration of the first release in seven years, “A Dotted Line.” Sara and Sean Watkins also produce the Watkins Family Hour, a monthly residency and podcast at the Los Angeles venue Largo, featuring an eclectic group of guest musicians, comedy and more.

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Mountain Heart

Widely known throughout the music industry for continually redefining the boundaries of acoustic music, Mountain Heart has gained legions of loyal fans both as a result of their musicianship and their live performances. The Americana, folk and progressive bluegrass band released “Blue Skies” earlier this year and gained recognition from Rolling Stone magazine for the title track.

The band is comprised of top call studio professionals Josh Shilling on guitar, piano and lead vocals; Molly Cherryholmes on fiddle and vocals; Seth Taylor on lead guitar and banjo; Aaron Ramsey on mandolin and vocals; and Jeff Partin on bass and vocals. They have performed on the Grand Ole Opry stage more than 130 times and won multiple IBMAs.

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Eric Johnson

Thirty years after his breakthrough solo release “Tones” brought him national recognition, Texas guitar legend Eric Johnson is releasing his first all-acoustic album. Showcasing nine original compositions and four covers, “EJ” is easily Johnson’s most intimate album to date and the focus of his current tour.

Johnson’s stature as one of the premier guitar players in contemporary music is his artistic trump card, backed by a Grammy Award and five nominations, a platinum album and Top 10 hits such as “Cliffs Of Dover,” which is featured in the video game “Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock” as the final winning challenge. But the full hand of his talents marks him as well as a gifted songwriter, dynamic live performer, singer, pianist, song interpreter and creator of a rich and diverse musical legacy.

His many achievements include being enshrined in Guitar Player’s Gallery of Greats and named one of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century by Musician magazine alongside numerous other awards. He was tapped by Eric Clapton to appear at the 2004 Crossroads Guitar Festival and played his second stint of the Experience Hendrix tour in fall 2010.

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Elise Davis

Country rocker Elise Davis also is drawing some attention. With the release of her major label debut “The Token” in September, she was named to TIDAL Rising’s Top 5 Artists to Watch and placed at the top of Apple Music’s “Breaking Singer-Songwriter” playlist.

A compelling, thematically unified work, “The Token” takes place in unremarkable corners, in kitchens and diners, on porches. Bacon, bourbon and (ex-) boyfriend T-shirts are set-dressing for interwoven narratives outlining lust, loss, need, and envy in a distinct and unique fashion.

To promote the release, Davis is currently on tour throughout the South and Midwest.