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WXPN Welcomes Chris Thile And The How To Grow A Band featuring Bryan Sutton
Saturday, February 17, 2007 Doors 6PM / Show 7:30PM Tickets $20 + $4 processing fee Save money! Processing fee is only $1 when you purchase with CASH at the box office BEFORE day of show!
General Admission: Some chairs and tables will be available but seating is first-come, first-served.
A new description of Chris Thile would be hard to come by, especially since all the good superlatives have already been used. They called him a child prodigy when he was 12 years old and making his first solo album, Leading Off, and a virtuoso when he was 20 and putting out his third solo effort, Not All Who Wander Are Lost. On the heels of those descriptions came effusive adjectives for his talent with a mandolin, words like "brilliant," "bold," "utterly fantastic," and "staggering." Heady stuff for someone who was barely out of his teens. In addition to his work as a solo artist, Thile has been part of Nickel Creek, with siblings Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, for more than ten years. He helped Nickel Creek earn a pair of Grammy nominations for a self-titled debut album, which was released by Sugar Hill in 2000 and claimed a niche in Billboard's country Top 20. He is now touring behind his fifth solo release, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground. - AMG