MountainStageScape: The Man Behind the Curtain
Francis Fisher, chief engineer for “Mountain Stage.” Click to enlarge. Photo by Walker DeVille
If you have ever been in the audience at a “Mountain Stage” show at the Cultural Center Theater in the state Capitol Complex, you have never seen this man. But you have heard him. For at some point in the pre-show warm-up, Larry Groce or Andy Ridenour ask the show’s chief engineer, Francis Fisher (above), to say hello as they gauge the loudness of audience response on the recording Fisher is masterminding for eventual radio broadcast of that day’s show. Where is this disembodied voice coming from? From a downstairs cubby-hole — this cubbyhole and command center — down the hallway from the Green Room, where ‘Mountain Stage’ acts await their call to the stage.
