(noticia) Concert Previews

Marty Stuart

He put out not one, but two excellent albums in 2005, and Marty Stuart is not slowing down in this new year.

On Feb. 7, the thoroughly rejuvenated country Renaissance man will follow the Delta gospel collection Souls' Chapel and Badlands: Ballads of the Lakota Sioux, a concept album about American Indian issues, with Live at the Ryman. On it, Stuart and his band, the Fabulous Superlatives, unplug and go bluegrass, taking the 47-year-old Mississippi native back to his roots (he began his career at age 13 as mandolinist in Lester Flatt's band). It's a lively program of originals and evergreens, and, as with all of his best work, it shows Stuart less concerned with stylistic purity than with honesty and feeling.

- Nick Cristiano
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives, with Abigail Washburn, the Travis Wetzel Trio, at 8 p.m. Saturday at Sellersville Theater 1894, Main and Temple Streets, Sellersville. Sold out. Phone: 215-257-5808.

Julia Sarr

& Patrice Larose

A queerly detuned drum and an elegant, intriguingly foreign voice introduce you to the first fascinating CD of 2006: Set Luna.

Courtesy of Senegalese singer Julia Sarr and French flamenco guitarist Patrice Larose, Set ("So I've Observed" in the Wolof dialect) mixes its subtly shaded genres with the ease and zest of a great chef. When it's blended, you get a music that's light yet hardy.

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