We first saw the fabled Seldom Scene at a concert at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts, one cold winter day in 2010 and immediately fell in love with them. Later that year, during their appearance at Strawberry Park, […]
Memory is a strange and wonderful artifact. When I was a teacher, students who were seniors referred to school habits as traditions, though much of what they referred to this way had just been initiated when they were in middle school. Family […]
Recently I was chatting with an up-and-coming bluegrass performer about her band. We began to talk about “traditional” bluegrass, and she noted that one of her biggest thrills was to be on the same stage with the Seldom Scene. When […]
Seldom Scene issues its first Smithsonian Folkways album next week with guests including Emmylou Harris. Mike Auldridge passed away in 2012, but the group includes founding member Ben Eldridge as well as Lou Reid, Dudley Connell, Ronnie Simpkins, and Fred […]
Toward the end of the Passover Seder, grateful Jews sing “Dayenu”, meaning, “It would have been enough.” If God had just brought them out of Egypt, it would have been enough. But he kept adding miracles onto miracles. Listening to […]
This is overdue, and maybe he’ll never see it, but I owe a lot to a long-retired Seattle DJ and (I think, still) Pioneer Square bouncer named Tiny Freeman. He had a Sunday night bluegrass show on KRAB-FM, a community […]
