Mike Seeger headlined the Song of the Mountains concert at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, VA on Saturday, May 3rd. Also on the show, which was taped for national distribution on PBS will be New Found Road, Audie Blaylock and Redline , The Wilders and Shadow Ridge. Mike Seeger has devoted his life to singing and playing southern traditional music and producing documentaries and concert presentations of traditional musicians, singers, and dancers. He sings and plays in a variety of traditional styles on banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin, jew’s harp, harmonica, quills, lap dulcimer, autoharp and a few other supporting instruments. He has toured North America and abroad since 1960 as a soloist or with the vanguard old-time music group, the New Lost City Ramblers. He has produced more than 30 documentary recordings and 45 recordings of his own music for Smithsonian Folkways, Rounder, Vanguard, Arhoolie, County, Homespun, Bear Family and others. He has received six Grammy nominations as well as grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rex Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He makes his home in Rockbridge County, Virginia. New Found Road, Audie Blaylock and Redline along with the Wilders provided the world class bluegrass music which rounded out this fine concert on May 3rd. All of these groups entertain with high energy, tight harmony and fabulous picking!
Audie Blaylock & Redline
New Found Road
The Wilders
Shadow Ridge