Carnegie Hall
Venues
Carnegie Hall is a historic venue located in midtown Manhattan. Designed by William Burnet Tuthill and opened in 1891 by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, it is considered one of the world's most prestigious stages for both classical and popular music. On April 3, 1959, Earl Taylor and the Stoney Mountain Boys became the very first bluegrass band to perform on the venue’s stage as part of Alan Lomax’s "Folksong '59" festival, shocking critics and exciting the crowd. Building on this milestone, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and the Foggy Mountain Boys returned on December 8, 1962, to deliver the first full-length, headlining bluegrass concert in the hall's history. The resulting Columbia Records release, Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall!, captured the shift during the height of the 1960s American folk revival that granted bluegrass unprecedented cultural legitimacy.
In the newsletter
- No. 17 Fall 1998