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Biography:
The Hot Seats play stringband music with simple intentions: to keep the role of traditional musician as entertainer and commentator alive and kicking. Their original music is simultaneously hard to classify and instantly identifiable, combining the virtuosic soloing and tightness of bluegrass, the band-driven rhythm of old time, the jerky bounce of ragtime, and the swagger of good old rock and roll. Add a few modernist ideals and an uncanny feel for comic timing, and you begin to approach this sound. The Hot Seats are dedicated to treating stringband music as a modern form, open to current themes and sensibilities, as well as a tradition that is deserving of preservation, and to the Hot Seats' ability to play both on the outskirts and in the center of the Appalachian tradition.
Performing:
Saturday, May 19
Stage:
Virginia Lottery Stage
Time:
5:30 - 6:30 p.m.