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Documentary Follows Chris Thile's Project, Punch Brothers Follow CT Lifestyle & Entertainment News On The Courant's Features Buzz Facebook Page In 2008, Chris Thile of the superstar bluegrass band Nickel Creek decided to branch out into a new direction. He set off with his new band, The Punch Brothers, on a tour with his new string quintet for bluegrass instruments. This is the journey ...

Bluegrass can be a rather persnickety genre, adverse to change and content to stick with the same ol’ sounds that have been passed down generations. But traditionalists and progressives both got behind Nickel Creek in a big way in the early aughts. The trio earned a Grammy and notable fans in Alison Krauss and Lyle Lovett before suddenly splitting up in 2007 so that the individual members could ...

As accessible and comfortably sweet-voiced as Watkins' music is, the former Nickel Creek member is smart enough to spike it with surprises — the swooping strings in "The Ward Accord" or the churning, slow-burning electric-guitar grind in "When It Pleases You."

Hear the subtle pleasures, strange musical structures and opaque lyrics of the popular string band, led by Nickel Creek's Chris Thile, in this studio session with WFUV.

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California-based singer-songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins first rose to fame as a member of the popular and prolific progressive bluegrass trio Nickel Creek in the '90s and early 2000s. Watkins is set to release her second solo album, "Sun Midnight Sun," on May 8th on Nonesuch Records.

It's framed as a story of musical genius overcoming the odds: After the dissolution of his marriage and the "indefinite hiatus" of his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, mandolinist Chris Thile recruited several musician friends and then set out to fuse "formal music and folk music" by composin...

Singer, songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins will release her second solo album, Sun Midnight Sun , on May 8 via Nonesuch Records.The album was produced by Blake Mills, co-founder of the band Simon Dawes, and features guest appearances by Jackson Browne, Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes), Fiona Apple, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench and Nickel Creek’s Sean Watkins.

Redwood National and State Parks are requiring permits starting March 16 for overnight stays in all back country sites, including Little Bald Hills, Nickel Creek, DeMartin, Flint Ridge, Ossagon, Redwood Creek, Elam Camp and 44 Camp.

York, PA - Indie rockers Dawes will take the stage 8 p.m. May 31 at the Capitol Theatre, 50 N. George St., York. Sara Watkins of the Grammy Award--winning trio Nickel Creek will open the CapLive concert.

Call me a geek but my favorite category in Sunday's Grammy Awards is one that most people think of as afterthought: Best Folk Album. Among the nominees? Gillian Welch. Steve Earle. Chris Thile, formerly of Nickel Creek.?? And a guy from a band that's had a little success playing rock: Eddie Vedder. Playing the ukulele. ...