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Last night Nickel Creek played here in Roanoke, Virginia, as one of the stops on their Farewell (For Now) Tour. It was a late addition to the tour and tickets sold out quickly. The concert took place in a nice theater environment at the Jefferson Center, where Chris, Sara and Sean, joined by Mark Schatz [...]
We had posted back in August when Chris Thile and his merry band of super pickers announced a three day string of shows at Nashville's fabled Station Inn. They were, at the time of that posting, billed as The Tensions Mountain Boys, but within a few weeks their rebirth as The Punch Brothers had been [...]
The first new set of post-Nickel Creek dates for Punch Brothers, the latest nom de guerre for Chris Thile's merry band of super-pickers, have been posted online. They show one date in New York City next weekend, a New Years Eve show in Chicago and a smattering of festival and concert stops in early 2008. [...]
Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will have noted our unrestrained enthusiasm for mandolin prodigy Chris Thile's return to a more bluegrass-like vehicle for his creative energies. We not only cheered his re-embrace of the Bill Monroe bluegrass band format, we welcomed the opportunity to watch and hear him interact musically with artists that are his [...]
Chris Thile and The Tensions Mountain Boys have announced a string of three dates at the fabled Station Inn in Nashville next month. They will be there September 21-23, starting at 9:00 p.m. (CT) each night, with an admission charge of $20. Tickets will go on sale August 28, and can be purchased online from [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters, fresh off their whirlwind 6 week US tour, will have a new face when they hit the stage on September 1 at the Four Corners Folk Festival in Pagosa Springs, CO. That's the first show date for their newest member, Andy Falco, who will join the band when original guitarist Chris Eldridge [...]
The newest set of live performance and interview videos added at CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions features Chris Thile. He performs alone, minus his crack band, The Tensions Mountain Boys. The songs included are all from his latest release, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground: Stay Away, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Wayside [...]
The video is now up of the recent appearance by Special Consensus on Michael Jonathan's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. Special C shared the bill with folk/country singer Elizabeth Cook, and performed songs from their upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Trail Of Aching Hearts, due for a May 15th release. You can see the video from [...]
When Brance reminded us last week about the debut of The Tensions Mountain Boys at Carnegie Hall (Zankel Hall), I was hoping to see at least one review in the New York press over the weekend. But no... I've been on the lookout for reviews, and have found but a few - surprisingly, given the [...]
During the course or our interview back in September of 2006, Chris Thile indicated that the How To Grow A Band would eventually become The Tensions Mountain Boys. That metamorphasis is about to occur. Tomorrow, March 17, 2007 The Tensions Mountain Boys will perform live at Carnegie Hall. This won't be your ordinary band performance [...]
