Uncle Phil -

Since Art's asleep or just tryin' to 'member how long it's been:

It's almost impossible to get to using any rational method of browsing the WVA website, but a Google "search only at" finds:

Art Thieme

If you can get to that point, there are links to the lists of performers who appeared on the same bill (with smaller names on the ad posters of course - the way I remember it, at least) in the years that Art was there. Most of the names in those lists are linked back to a list of what years each of them appeared, making it possible that someone might stumble onto lots of lists of names but not too much else.

The "WVA Archives" show Art performing there 11 years; in every year 1978 thru 1986, and then again in 1990 and 1994. There's been a friendly ghost that walks around impersonating him in other years, according to some of us who will swear to hearing his jokes late at night, but those years are the "official" history, I guess.

[The WVA website is really tough to navigate in, since it's all one page with bookmarks rather than pages with distinct URLs; and the bookmarks (local links) are tough to dig out.]

John