The tightly knit bluegrass community can be slow to warm up to those deemed outsiders, and not even marriage into a royal family — in this case, the Stanleys — is sufficient to really shortcut the process. That may explain why, though she’s put out two fine bluegrass albums in recent years, this is Ulisse’s first Station Inn appearance. Following a brief Music Row stint in the early ’90s, Ulisse has emerged as a thoughtful songwriter whose ’grass has some pretty strong country strains and a frequent inspirational bent that are finding a place fully in, if not right at the center of, the bluegrass world. Her recordings have leaned on A-listers like Keith Sewell, Scott Vestal and Andy Leftwich, but her road band has some players who deserve to be better known — and who, given her increasingly busy schedule, probably will be before long. Ulisse’s Station Inn debut may have been a long time in the making, but it’s a well-deserved one.
Fri., Jan. 22, 9 p.m., 2010
Fri., Jan. 22, 9 p.m., 2010
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