The Clifton Center will host a concert by The Earls of Leicester, Grammy winner of the 2015 Bluegrass Album of the Year and a group of musicians banding together to recreate the music of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys, on Thursday, March 12 at 8:00pm. Led by thirteen-time Grammy winner Jerry Douglas, the band features some of Nashville's most talented musicians. Tickets are $35-$42 and are available at Carmichael's Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Avenue, or online atcliftoncenter.org.

Band members include Douglas, plus acclaimed writer, producer, and solo artist Shawn Camp on lead vocals and guitar, renowned Nashville banjoist Charlie Cushman on banjo and guitars, second- generation fiddle phenom Johnny Warren, and Barry Bales, Douglas' longtime bandmate in Alison Krauss and Union Station, on vocals and bass.

The new group is the product of Douglas's lifelong passion for the music of bluegrass pioneers Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and their band the Foggy Mountain Boys, whose seminal work in the '50s and '60s created the template for what we know as contemporary bluegrass, and transcended traditional genre barriers to popularize the music with an unprecedented mass audience.

Their Rounder Records debut, titled The Earls of Leicester, revisits 14 timeless favorites from the Flatt and Scruggs songbook, infusing such rousing numbers as "Big Black Train," "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down," "Shuckin' the Corn," "Dig A Hole in the Meadow" and "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke" with fresh energy, while maintaining the same emotional authenticity, instrumental expertise and vibrant creative spirit that made the original versions such enduring classics.

This concert by the Earls of Leicester is part of the Tilford Dobbins & Schmidt American Masters Series.

The Clifton Center's programming is made possible by the help of generous supporters, such as: MINI of Louisville, Louisville Metro Government, West Sixth Brewing Company, DD Williamson, Carmichael's Bookstore, Republic Bank, Joe Hayden Real Estate Team, 91.9 WFPK and the Friends of the Clifton Center. The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, also provides operating support to the Clifton Center with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.