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March 21, 2014 Unity Group

Strathmore and fifteen seconds of fame

The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda, Maryland

Three weeks to the day after San Francisco, Sean was back in the front row for the Kin (←→) tour, this time with six seats.

“When I joined the band hand-claps during this passage, I immediately drew the attention of Maestro Metheny himself who looked at me and shouted in my direction ‘YEAH!’ … For those 15-seconds, my heart raced — I was part of the Pat Metheny Unity Group.”

A packed concert hall seen from near the stage, looking back over the orchestra seats to three curved balcony tiers under a ceiling of small lights
Looking back at the house from the front, 8:00 PM, just before the show.AI-restored from Sean’s original photo
The concert hall at the Music Center at Strathmore, seen from the audience, with tiers of balconies around the stage
The hall, photographed in 2023. Not from Sean’s archive: Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).