SMF Presents – Acoustic Music Seminar
Acoustic Music Seminar • The Acoustic Music Seminar (AMS) is a groundbreaking mentorship program for young American string players, involving six days of hands-on instruction for some of the most promising and talented young string players in America. Led by acclaimed mandolin player Mike Marshall, this year’s students will learn from world-class musicians and artists such as Julian Lage, David Grisman, Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, and Rushad Eggleston. After a week of... Read More
Grant Gordy
Grant Gordy • To call what Denver-based guitarist Grant Gordy does with the music he loves, the music his dad turned him on to, the music by the artists who would become his heroes and colleagues – to call it listening would be inaccurate. He hasn’t been just listening to it; he absorbs it, digests and dissects it, explores it to the very edge, feels it, knows it. From the gift of an A&L acoustic guitar from his blues/R&B guitar-playing flat-picking and... Read More
Punch Brothers “Ahoy!”
Punch Brothers • “Chris Thile, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge, Gabe Witcher and Paul Kowert are back it again, releasing a new EP on November 13 consisting of 5 previously unreleased songs from the Who’s Feeling Young Now? sessions, produced by Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse).” The EP includes songs by Josh Ritter (“Another New World”), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (“Down Along the Dixie Line”), Punch Brothers (“Squirrel of Possibility”),... Read More
Aaron Malone "On The Road" with "Sleep With One Eye Open"
Aaron Malone of Fitzmaurice "On The Road" with "Sleep With One Eye Open" by Chris Thile & Michael Daves • I’m in my car, having just hit the road on my way from my home in Southern Maryland up to Annapolis to meet up with the band to make our journey up to New Jersey for the weekend. Got my iPod hooked up and I’m opening the new album from Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Sleep With One Eye Open. This is probably the 5th time I’ve listened to... Read More
Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek • The three members of Nickel Creek — Chris Thile and siblings Sean Watkins and Sara Watkins — have been playing together for more than a decade after performing as children in a San Diego pizza parlor. They continued to play as a unit throughout the decade with Thile also releasing two solo albums in his early teens. As they formed Nickel Creek, the three musicians were already starting to win bushels full of championship trophies. Most notably,... Read More
The Steam Powered Hour
The Steam Powered Hour • www.facebook.com/SteamPoweredHour • New York’s hippest hootenanny, The Steam Powered Hour is a smart and cozy night of bluegrass music, standup comedy, short films, and cartoons hosted by the New Yorker cartoonist Matthew Diffee. Past performers include folks like Chris Thile, Gillian Welch, and Demetri Martin, and surprise guests like Steve Martin. Affectionately known as “The Brooklyn Home Companion” or “Hee Haw for People... Read More
Chris Thile & Michael Daves
Chris Thile & Michael Daves • “Bury Me Beneath The Weeping Willow” Chris Thile has engendered minor controversy in the bluegrass community since he began to veer off the main road with Nickel Creek in 2002. Rightly celebrated as an enfant terrible in the ’90s, Thile’s unpredictable musical adventures often left his early fans scratching their heads, even as he captured new ones with each new venture. Punch Brothers, his primary current performance vehicle,... Read More
