RFD Boys concert Saturday will celebrate the life of late founder Dick Dieterle

• It will celebrate Dieterle's career with the RFD Boys who started playing together in 1969.

• It will mark the release of a new CD Dieterle recorded of his own bluegrass compositions, finished shortly before his death.

• It will be a benefit for The Ark, where the RFD Boys are sometimes called the "house band" due to their years of regular appearances.

Charles Roehrig, the band's guitarist, elaborated in an email: "It will be a unique show. Dick's son will speak and we will be playing clips of his MCing over the years (including from LUMS, 1971), and will close the show with a video of Dick playing the 'Orange Blossom Special' (our traditional closing number)."

A press release from The Ark adds, "A stellar community champion in several roles (music patron, bluegrass ambassador, community volunteer, township trustee, to name a few), Dick was most widely recognized standing tall as the fiddle player and emcee for Michigan’s renowned bluegrass band, the RFD Boys. Dick was known for his on-stage comedic humor and his extraordinary sense of timing as the RFD Boys’ emcee."

Reserved seats for the show, at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 30, are sold out, but general-admission tickets are still available for $15 from The Ark box office (with no service charge); Michigan Union Ticket Office, 530 S. State St.; Herb David Guitar Studio, 302 E. Liberty St.; or online from the Michigan Union Ticket Office. The Ark is located at 316 S. Main St. For more information, see The Ark website.