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In the mood for some bluegrass music this summer? Tickets are on sale now for the inaugural Mike Steed Celebration Concert at the University of West Georgia’s Townsend Center for

The Seldom Scene is an American progressive bluegrass band that formed in Maryland in 1971.

The Seldom Scene to play Church-McKee

Baltimore-based singer-songwriter Miles Gannett will release his debut album, Meridian, on April 16. JamBase is pleased to premiere the record’s latest single, the nine-minute closing track “Maria Sabina.” Gannett co-produced Fred Travers and multi-instrumentalist Ron Stewart, of veteran Baltimore bluegrass outfit The Seldom Scene, appear across the 12 tracks making up Meridian. Advertisement Gannett wrote “Maria Sabina” about the true-life story of the Mexican woman who played a ...

  Article Contributed by IVPR | Published on Friday, March 5, 2021 Sometimes a song idea lands softly or inconspicuously, and sometimes it strikes a writer like a bolt of lightning, or in Miles Gannett’s case a string of mid-travel tornadic storms. That’s how Gannett ended up in Meridian, Mississippi, one night on a trip back from visiting his hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. “When the weather got bad enough, we decided to pull off to the nearest city to find food and wait out the ...

Music fans around our area are very familiar with The Seldom Scene, as the popular American bluegrass band has been performing around Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., since it first formed in Bethesda, Md., back in 1971. The group has been instrumental in starting the progressive bluegrass movement as their shows often include bluegrass versions of country music, rock and even pop. On New Year’s Eve, The Seldom Scene will be playing at The Birchmere, in a show that starts at 7:30 p....