Photo provided to the Times Observer The Del McCoury Band will be the best to perform in the Struthers Library Theatre’

A bluegrass legend will take the stage at the Struthers Library Theatre.

The next installment of the Celebrity Series, the Del McCoury Band will perform at 8 pm. Saturday night.

“I’m just doing what’s natural,” McCoury said. “When young musicians ask me what they should do I always tell them, ‘You do whatever’s inside of you. Do what you do best.'”

McCoury, a York County, Pa., native, is still performing at the age of 85.

He was drawn into the bluegrass space by the banjo playing of Earl Scruggs and caught his first break in 1963, joining Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1963.

“Considered the Father of Bluegrass, Monroe transformed McCoury, moving him from the banjo to guitar,” according to a statement from the Theatre, “anointing him lead singer, and providing him with a priceless trove of bluegrass tutelage direct from the source.”

He’s continued to tour and record throughout the decades and now performs with his sons, Ronnie and Rob.

The Band is considered “a larger, growing musical community” and “a peerless torchbearer for the entire sweep and scope of bluegrass history.

“Those many years, not to mention a good-natured willingness to stay alert to the latest sounds and opportunities around him, earned McCoury a whole new generation of fans, including some in unlikely places.”

“What I like in a record is variety of moods, of tempos,” McCoury said. “I consider myself traditional at heart, but I don’t have any boundaries.

“I’m just a guy that likes to sing and play music. Whatever strikes me to do I’ll do it. Without wrecking things.”

The concert on Saturday is presented by Kwik Fill Red Apple and Country Fair.

Tickets are available at strutherslibrarytheatre.org.