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On the night that he won a coveted award, Ben Eldridge had a bit of a secret to share. “I’m cutting back,” the last original member of the Seldom Scene said between signing CDs after the band’s set Friday night at the DC Bluegrass Union festival in Tysons Corner, VA. Eldridge had just won DCBU’s [...]
Forty-four years after he invited some friends over to play music in his Bethesda, MD, basement, Ben Eldridge is on a roll. Last fall, he and other original members of the Seldom Scene were inducted into IBMA’s bluegrass hall of fame. This Friday, he’ll receive the Washington Monument Award from the DC Bluegrass Union at [...]
One of the best parts of this job is finding new music in my mailbox on a regular basis. But the fun turns into work at the end of the year, when I wade back through all of that music and try to come up with my top picks of the year. That requires many [...]
Happy Halloween! The day where we not only tell kids it's OK, we actually encourage them to accept candy from strangers. Once again, no child is getting any candy from me this year until I find one wearing a Larry Sparks powder blue suit, a pair of Doyle Lawson’s fancy boots, or Del McCoury's hair. [...]
The opening night of the 2014 Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, TN/VA was a huge success. The weather, which is always a bit unpredictable this time of year, was the best I can remember, with temperatures in the mid-60’s and a nice breeze. This year marks the opening of the new Birthplace of [...]
And here's the final gallery of Frank Baker's photos from the August 2014 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
Like many fans of the Seldom Scene, Bengt Adielsson’s memories of the band span the decades. But few take their adoration of the long-running act as far as Adielsson has, and even fewer have been rewarded with a stint on stage. Adielsson was a surprise star of the Scene’s Sunday afternoon show in Gaithersburg, MD, [...]
Here is another set of Gettysburg images from Frank Baker.
In just over 24 hours over the weekend, the Seldom Scene played two shows that encapsulate everything that is good about bluegrass. The first, Friday afternoon, was in the tiny Black Box Theater at WAMU Radio in Washington, DC. The theater, named because the walls are dark and the room is, well, a box, is [...]
Smithsonian Folkways has released a new music video from the recent Seldom Scene album, Long Time. It's set in the studio as they cover their own version of With Body and Soul, a song contained on the very first Seldom Scene release, Act I, in 1972. Their original recording had John Starling singing lead, a [...]
