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Until the rich history of the Seldom Scene is laid down in book form, the band's newest CD, Long Time…Seldom Scene, will serve as a terrific Cliff’s Notes version of the story and music. Long Time, released today by Smithsonian Folkways, is the band's first project since 2007's Scenechronized, which was nominated for a Grammy [...]
Today is St. Patrick's Day, and whether you prefer a green beer or a Shamrock Shake (like myself), you have to appreciate some good drinking songs on one of the year's biggest days for alcohol consumption. Because the number of bluegrass drinking songs is higher than the number of bluegrass songs about vertically-challenged magicians who [...]
The Stevens Family opened day 2 of the 2014 Palatka Bluegrass Festival. They were followed by the Goldwing Express and the Primitive Quartet. The show rounded out with the Gibson Brothers, the Seldom Scene, and the Dry Branch Fire Squad. Saturday will feature Cody Schuler and Pine Mountain Railroad, The Dry Branch Fire Squad, The [...]
...back Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen This band just keeps getting better. The unit’s debut release for Compass Records, On The Edge, is still getting plenty of airplay, and a pair of IBMA awards (banjo player of the year for Mike Munford and a Momentum Award for guitarist Chris Luquette) have helped raise its profile [...]
Jamie Dailey once told me that every time he steps on stage, he feels he owes it to the fans to give the best performance he can. It doesn’t matter how he’s feeling, how many hours he just spent on the bus or how many fans are in the seats. The real reason, he said, [...]
Novelist Thomas Wolfe was wrong. You can go home again. The Seldom Scene proved it Sunday night, returning to the venue that provided the seminal band’s first home more than 40 years ago for a show that included current members and the surviving founders, along with tributes to those who are gone. Sure, the Red [...]
On October 20, 2013, 100 lucky music fans will have a unique opportunity to return to the Red Fox Inn — DC's hottest bluegrass nightclub of the 1970s — to listen to the current configuration of the Seldom Scene, along with former members Tom Gray and John Starling. The famous Bethesda restaurant, now known as [...]
Regular readers will recall our earlier coverage of mandolin icon Herschel Sizemore and his recent bout with cancer. Both he and his wife Joyce received cancer diagnoses the same day in October 2011, his in the tonsil and hers in the breast. Fortunately, medical treatment in both cases was successful, and the Sizemores are both [...]
Here is the final gallery of Frank Baker's images from the August 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Just in time, as Frank is now sending in his photos from the Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival.
Bill Warren sent these photos from yesterday's stage show at Red, White & Bluegrass. You can see how it poured during Larry Cordle's set, but Bill says he carried on without missing a beat - and came out to the tent to shake and howdy afterwards.
