A Few Honest Words

Every so often you come across something so staggeringly new and exciting that you feel compelled to run into the streets and spread the news. Fortunately, a blog also will work.

There we were, enjoying a perfectly nice pajama day, watching PBS as we are wont to do, when On Canvas comes on and this young fellow appears, in Philadelphia’s First Unitarian Church, and he’s singing in the clearest of voices and not playing so much as exercising his cello in the most unconventional and pleasing manner. His music is a refreshing hodge podge of bluegrass, folk, and jazz. His name is Ben Sollee and he will be well known one day.