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And speaking of Punch Brothers... They are scheduled to appear on Wednesday's edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and will perform Movement and Location, the first single from their just-released Who's Feeling Young Now? project. The show airs February 15 on NBC at 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT). Musical guests generally come on for the show's [...]
Punch Brothers have released another brief video snippet from their new album, Who's Feeling Young Now?, available today from Nonesuch Records. This time it's the song New York City, with Chris Thile and the gang pictured in the studio. Perhaps all these videos will be made available in their entirety at some point, now that [...]
Goat Rodeo Sessions, a stunning joint project from Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan and Edgar Meyer, will be coming to a theater near you - via Fathom Events and the magic of simultaneous broadcast. A live show on Tuesday, January 31, at Boston's House of Blues will be streamed in real time to participating [...]
Last night's (11/1) edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central included a web-only performance from the Men of the Goat Rodeo: Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan. This quartet has recently released a new album of regional music, with the unlikely title, The Goat Rodeo Sessions, on Sony Masterworks. Here's video [...]
Another important release this week is Goat Rodeo Sessions, a superstar project from Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma which dropped yesterday (10/25) on Sony Masterworks. The group was featured on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, joined by Aoifé O'Donovan who sang a duet with Thile on their original song, Here [...]
A third sneak peek video is out in advance of the October 24 release of The Goat Rodeo Sessions. This superstar project features four renowned instrumentalists, each widely-acknowledged as among the finest to ever play their instruments. Chris Thile is on mandolin, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Edgar Meyer on bass and Yo-Yo Ma on cello. The [...]
Punch Brothers' banjo monster Noam Pikelny is set to releases his second solo project, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, on Compass October 25. Fellow Punch Brothers Chris Thile and Chris Eldridge provide mandolin and guitar respectively, while Punchy fiddler Gabe Witcher makes his production debut. Though primarily featuring instrumental music, guest vocalists Tim [...]
Anytime you learn that Chris Thile is involved with a new project, you can expect it to be fun-filled and unbounded. Seeing Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan in the lineup suggests an interesting push/pull between the bluegrass, classical and new acoustic genres. And finding the peerless Yo-Yo Ma on the bill takes the virtuosity quotient [...]
Anytime you learn that Chris Thile is involved with a new project, you can expect it to be fun-filled and unbounded. Seeing Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan in the lineup suggests an interesting push/pull between the bluegrass, classical and new acoustic genres. And finding the peerless Yo-Yo Ma on the bill takes the virtuosity quotient [...]
Here is another video from Grey Fox, again with a Kenny Baker tribute theme. This time, we have Tim O'Brien and Chris Thile offering up a twin mandolin version of Bill Monroe's Jerusalem Ridge, long associated with Baker for his definitive recording of it on his Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe album in 1976. Not [...]
