The Punch Brothers Featuring Chris Thile

The Punch Brothers
featuring Chris Thile
Thursday, February 25, 2010
7:30 PM
Ticket Price: $25.00 Floor/ $20 Balcony
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The line-up of Punch Brothers-whose name is taken from the Mark Twain short story, Punch, Brothers, Punch!-is formidable. Thile released the first of five solo albums when he was just thirteen and, by the time he was 20, he was attracting a following among pop, country, and alternative-rock audiences as a member of the Grammy Award-winning Nickel Creek. A Washington Post critic recently said Thile "may well be the most virtuosic American ever to play the mandolin."His equally youthful, prodigiously gifted band-mates are among the most in-demand performers in the worlds of bluegrass, folk, and traditional music. Guitarist Chris Eldridge was a founding member of the Infamous Stringdusters and occasionally sits in with his dad Ben's band, The Seldom Scene; bassist Paul Kowert, who joined the group this fall, is from Madison, Wisconsin and studied at The Curtis Institute of Music with Edgar Meyer; and banjo player Noam Pikelny who has performed and recorded as a solo artist and has collaborated with acoustic music heavyweights John Cowan and Tony Trischka. Violinist Gabe Witcher, a life-long friend of Thile's, is a sought-after session man whose fiddle playing has been featured on the soundtrack of films ranging from Toy Story to Brokeback Mountain. Witcher also has recorded with a range of artists from Willie Nelson to Beck to Randy Newman and played in dobro master Jerry Douglas' band for six years.
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