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The 76th season of the Wellsboro Community Concert Association will continue with a performance by The Gibson Brothers at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 16 in the Coolidge Theatre at the Deane Center for the Performing Arts, 104 Main St., Wellsboro.
On stage will be the Gibson brothers – Eric on banjo and Leigh on guitar. Both are singers and songwriters. Performing with them will be Eric Barber on bass.
"Barber is sometimes called 'the third Gibson brother.'" a news release said. "He joined the Gibson Brothers band, one of the premier bands in bluegrass, in 1993."
Kelley Gibson, Eric's son who plays guitar and mandolin and writes music, will also perform.
"There's a reason why Ricky Skaggs pulled Eric and Leigh Gibson off the stage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville two decades ago and offered to produce their debut record," the news release said. "The same thing that led David Ferguson and Grammy Award-winning producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach to co-write and produce the Gibson's 14th album "Mockingbird" in 2018 and release it on Auerbach's own label Easy Eye Sound alongside cultural icons such as Hank Williams Jr. and Dr. John: The Gibson brothers are the real deal. They can pick. They can sing. And they can write a dang good country song."
They've won about every bluegrass award you can name and released albums on almost every premier Americana label you can think of including Sugar Hill and Rounder, and, if that's not enough, their songs have been recorded by bluegrass legends, such as Del McCoury.
Douglas--who has won 14 Grammy awards and backed up everyone from Ray Charles to Paul Simon and George Jones--wanted to make a record the Gibson brothers could actually play on the road. So he picked the best songs (out of dozens) and squirreled them away in Sound Emporium's Studio B.
"Then. the pandemic hit," the news release said. "'We did our last shows in March of 2020,' said Eric. 'We were in Nashville the week everything was shutting down. It was surreal,'"
The band went on to record its latest album during that hiatus.
Season and individual tickets to see any of the remaining four upcoming regular season WCCA concerts on Saturdays can be purchased using a credit card online only at wellsborocca.org or call 570-404-0411.