The start of the 2023 Brevard Music Center Summer Festival – running June 3 through Aug. 19 – is far approaching. In addition to inspiring symphony, opera and chamber performances,
Banjo player, singer and songwriter Gina Furtado’s distinctive original songs are an aspect of her music that has won her a boatload of bluegrass airplay. Still, she’s an equally distinctive interpreter, as her previous single, a tip of the hat to African-American gospel favorites, the Golden Gate Quartet, showed and now she’s following up with another tribute, this time to a couple of bluegrass giants: Bill Monroe and Hazel Dickens.
To everything there is a season, the saying goes, and for Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson, the time has come not to abandon the successful musical ventures they’ve been involved in for years, but to add a new one: their first truly collaborative effort under their own name.
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Conversations with artists who knew the banjo legend Earl Scruggs along with commentary and music from Flatt and Scruggs, The Earl Scruggs Revue and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band