Ricky Skaggs and the Boston Pops: "Uncle Pen"

Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs with the Kentucky Thunder performs with the Boston Pops Orchestra. I wrote the orchestrations for them. You don't often hear a bluegrass group with an orchestra, but I think it turned out pretty well!

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• Boston
• Pops
• orchestra
• bluegrass
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• quantumdave

[dottiekirby]

Thank you Keith Lockhart!!!

[quantumdave]

What about me??????

[quantumdave]

Hahahaha Thank you, Dottie! I am soooooo needy!! :-)

[quantumdave]

Wow! Thank you for the kind compliment bopbopbobert because I, quantumdave (alias David Powell) did all the orchestrations for Ricky that I have posted here. Check out the 4 other cuts with the Pops if you haven't already! Do you need any arrangements done??? ;-)

[bk2nchr]

This music is of the highest quality. Skaggs is talented to the extreme and a great spirit as well.

[jbdmed]

What a great colaboration of Americana. Boston Pops and Bluegrass!!

[DogsInAPile83]

Ricky's response at 2:36-2:45 is worth a million dollars!!

[Jazzyjess49]

This is why I love the Pops...they can play behind opera...and behind everything else too! Great stuff

[Midgetmedic]

The Boston Pops are so great. They have all different types of music.

[bsdml]

Cool video. Dave, I really enjoyed the cuts I heard here (incl. the other ones you posted from this concert); really tasteful orchestrations too, fit in extremely well with the band. I say this as a fellow orchestrator (I was commissioned recently to do a similar gig: orchestrating behind a band of banjo, fiddle, mandolin players for a concert with the Topeka Symphony Orchestra). I love the possibilities between Bluegrass players and symphony; just way cool.

[md65000]

@quantumdave Arranging a bluegrass tune for a symphony orchestra and making it sound even close to decent is a serious feat!! Nice job!! I wonder how all those violinists liked being fiddelers for a night?

[MrJimjimboaz]

My son took me to see Ricky for my birthday. It was a packed house in Chandler, Az and every foot was tapping. Bluegrass rules!!!

[betterntv]

Fine music-making, indeed.

[rainharper62]

@quantumdave -dave if you wrote the orchestrations for them, you did a good job! this is one of my favorite bluegrass songs! yee-ha from tennessee!

[stepsafer]

I just listen to this for the first time and I'm sure not the last. Terrific but what else is new..interesting tidbit about this song "Uncle Pen"..it is the only song representing bluegrass (Bill Monroe's version) on the gold disc attached to the Voyager Space craft flying through the great void. They couldn't have picked a better one.

[bk2nchr]

Thank you, but I am a girl. : )