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Exhibitions || Lectures || Special Events || Annual Gala || The A List
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The Athenaeum presents various series of art and music lectures, including topics in classical music and jazz, visual art, art history, and architecture, with speakers from San Diego and beyond.
Virtual Strangers Bluegrass Lecture
Tuesdays, May 21, 28, and June 4
All lectures begin at 7:30 PM
Joan & Irwin Jacobs Music Room, 1008 Wall St., La Jolla
Series tickets: $36 member/$51 nonmember
Individual lecture: $14 member/$19 nonmember
Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 28, 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4, 7:30 p.m.
Come on out and hear San Diego's own homegrown Virtual Strangers in a three-part lecture-concert series. Band members Mike and Yvonne Tatar, Kit Birkett, and Jon Cherry bring a series of informative and engaging presentations on everything you wanted to know about bluegrass but weren't sure if you should ask! The Virtual Strangers will put into easy and entertaining language bluegrass music basics, the history of bluegrass, and current bluegrass music. Plan to attend these presentations to learn about bluegrass instruments, bluegrass harmony singing, how bluegrass music came to be, and what bluegrass is today. Listen and learn from the down-home style of the Virtual Strangers as they tell the story about this unique American musical art form called bluegrass!
Each 35-minute lecture will be followed by a 45-minute bluegrass music concert.
May 21, 2013
Bluegrass 101: Learn the basics of bluegrass music and what makes this music unique.
May 28, 2013
The History of Bluegrass: The roots and growth of bluegrass music is explored. As America grew, so grew its music and bluegrass.
June 4, 2013
Bluegrass Music Today: The expansion of bluegrass and where it is today will be discussed, and we will even a glimpse into its future.
About Virtual Strangers
The Virtual Strangers, 2007 Arizona Bluegrass Band contest winners, bring a great mixture of traditional and progressive songs to their repertoire. Their sound is a mixture of the traditional, with Stanley, Monroe, and Flatt & Scruggs material, along with more progressive material from Blue Highway, Lonesome River Band, and Del McCoury. They have shared the stage with Rhonda Vincent, Bluegrass Etc., California, the Dillards, Lonesome River Band, Nashville Bluegrass Band, and others. Virtual Strangers perform in numerous events and festivals in San Diego and throughout California, Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado, among other states. In addition, Virtual Strangers lead the annual Cruise2Jam Carnival Line Catalina/Ensenada cruise each February, where they teach passengers about jamming etiquette and hold onboard jam sessions.
Virtual Strangers also has an alter ego— the Tatar Patch Bluegrass Buddies. Several times each year, the Strangers morph into this kid-friendly persona and go into classrooms to educate school-age children about bluegrass music and how to start playing it. They have performed in schools and kids camps at many festivals.