Ricky Skaggs

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Seeing Judy Collins, Fountains of Wayne, Carl Palmer, Ricky Skaggs, Rich Little or Blind Boys of Alabama at Sellersville Theater 1894 this spring will be pretty cool. Judy Collins Seeing each of them , or any other of the 85......

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Sellersville Theater 1894 will have a newly chosen Entertainer of the Year and Musician of the Year playing there on Saturday. Bluegrass icon Ricky Skaggs, who with his band Kentucky Thunder will play shows at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.......

Ricky Skaggs plays wonderful traditional bluegrass music – blindingly fast mandolin enveloped in other instrumentation that captures the very air of Appalachia and accounts for six of the eight Grammy Awards he’s won since 2000. Skaggs and his...

In its first months, the musical lineup at Musikfest Café at the ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in Bethlehem has borrowed a lot from Sellersville Theater 1894 – and now it’s payback time. But seeing acts at Sellersville that recently played.....