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Chris Thile has been touring in the UK this week with his band, Punch Brothers, in tow. They did several shows during Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival, which runs for two and a half weeks in January of each year. Shows, workshops, dances and talks are held at 14 venues in Glasgow, with more than 300 [...]
We've posted repeatedly about Punch Brothers, the most recent permutation of Chris Thile's supremely talented band of acoustic superpickers. Their debut release on Nonesuch Records is due on 2/28/08 built around Thile's composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind - a magnum opus by the standards of the acoustic string world from which he sprang. The [...]
A new batch of tour dates has been posted for Punch Brothers, Chris Thile's recently renamed band of musical brothers. They'll do a UK tour in January '08, after which they will be doing concert and club shows all over the US, with new stops being added regularly. The band consists of Thile on mandolin [...]
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 [...]
