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Live at the Lyric: The Seldom Scene
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Seldom Scene
Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Bronze Tickets: $20.00 Silver Tickets: $24.00 Gold Tickets: $27.00 Platinum Tickets: $30.00

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Description:
The Lyric Theatre concludes their Live at the Lyric series for the Spring of 2024 featuring The Seldom Scene on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

Fifty-three years into a legendary career, much has changed about The Seldom Scene, starting with the venerable progressive bluegrass quintet’s various lineup iterations over time. But even as band members have stepped in and out of various roles, what’s most important is what hasn’t changed: an undeniable knack for blending both old and new music and traditions without sacrificing what makes either potent and durable.

The Seldom Scene has dexterously performed original and traditional songs while presenting fiery and soulful reinterpretations of material by Merle Haggard, James Taylor, and more. Even if their playing style feels more at home in intimate clubs, where the audience can feel their exuberance radiating from the stage, the Scene’s elastic relationship to genre established an important precedent that encouraged their contemporaries and allowed bluegrass bands to expand their repertoire in ways that laid the groundwork for today’s bluegrass boom.

The band began playing together at weekly jam sessions in 1971 in founder Ben Eldridge’s Bethesda, Maryland basement, The Seldom Scene have become one of the single greatest contributors to the progression of bluegrass while setting a new standard and attracting new audiences to the genre.

Their legendary weekly DC-area residencies included bluegrass versions of country music, rock, and even classical pop. The band's popularity soon forced them to play more than once a week, but they continued to maintain their image as being seldom seen, and on several of their early album covers were photographed with the stage lights on only their feet, or with their backs to the camera. The Seldom Scene have performed at the White House many times, and continue to tour year-round and members of the original Seldom Scene lineup have been inducted in International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Fame.

Links:

• http://www.seldomscene.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/seldomscene
• https://www.twitter.com/_SeldomScene

Tickets range from $20.00-$30.00 depending on your seat placement. Tickets can be purchased online, by phone or in person at The Lyric Box Office.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=311422~4ab27fc5-7b1f-40ac-9bdb-32c61284f6ac&epguid=538611ae-7d38-4bdf-a9f5-0886a741dee4.

Live At The Lyric is a semi-annual series of live entertainment events at the Lyric Theatre, including music, family events, comedy, theatre and much more! These events are programmed in-house by The Lyric staff to provide the community with a diverse selection of arts entertainment.

The Lyric Theatre is located at 135 College Avenue in Blacksburg, VA.

For more information, visit: https://www.thelyric.com/event/the-seldom-scene-live-at-the-lyric/ or https://www.facebook.com/lyric.blacksburg or https://www.instagram.com/thelyrictheatre/ or call 540-951-4771.