Thursday, September 4, 2025
7:00 PM | McCandless Hall | Athens State University

2024-2025 Fiddlers Concert Series
The Seldom Scene

Please join us for a special performance by The Seldom Scene on Thursday, September 4, 2025, at 7:00 PM in historic McCandless Hall at Athens State University. 

The Seldom Scene was established in 1971 in a basement in Bethesda, Maryland. The original line-up, our Founding Scene Fathers, was John Starling on guitar, Mike Auldridge on Dobro, Ben Eldridge on banjo, Tom Gray on double bass, and John Duffey on mandolin. Charlie Waller, a member of the Country Gentlemen, can be credited for the band’s name... Expressing his doubt that this new band could succeed, Waller reportedly asked Duffey, “What are you going to call yourselves, the seldom seen?” The band performed weekly at the Red Fox Inn before getting a residency at the Birchmere Music Hall in Alexandria, Virginia. The rest is history.

With an inventive take on bluegrass, the Seldom Scene has displayed both their original material and their interpretations of songs from limitless genres. 

Long live the Seldom Scene.