The Foreign Landers
Sun, Mar 19
|Lambertville
Transatlantic folk Music


Time & Location
Mar 19, 2023, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Lambertville, 7 N Main St, Lambertville, NJ 08530, USA
About the event
The Foreign Landers
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Doors: 7pm, Show: 7:30pm
Admission: $20
“I see the shining stars. I wonder if you see them too wherever you are.” ~ from “Foreign Lander”
This line of the traditional song from which The Foreign Landers take their name captures something of what makes this Transatlantic folk duo’s story so compelling. Mandolinist David Benedict grew up in South Carolina while Tabitha Agnew Benedict started playing 5-string banjo at a young age in her homeland of Northern Ireland. They spent their early years playing the same music, gazing at the same stars, yet still so far away from each other. But today Tabitha and David are carving their own path in the acoustic music world together, drawing on their unique international heritage to create something new. With the 2022 release of their album Travelers Rest, they share their own story in a way that is beautifully honest and…