Mandolinist Chris Thile performs in the West Coast premiere of his "Attention!" with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Teddy Abrams at the Hollywood Bowl Thursday night (Genaro Molina/Los ...

Footpaths and a man-made stream bisect Anderson Park, an open grassy area in the middle of the Aspen Ideas Festival campus. An 800-pole bamboo sculpture was under construction nearby where Nickel ...

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Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations.

Chris Thile – mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist – transcends the borders of conventionally defined musical genres.Equally at home with progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile ...

On his new solo album, Chris Thile contemplates being alone. The theme is God, as Thile — armed only with his mighty mandolin and his experience as a lapsed fundamentalist — takes on the topics of ...

Chris Thile of Nickel Creek performs onstage for the 22nd Annual Americana Honors & Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 20, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Chris Thile says he fell in love with ...

The virtuoso mandolin player now finds himself balancing a busy recording-and-touring career with his new role with the popular public radio show. The baroque composer J.S. Bach never wrote for the ...

A day after publicizing a list of its rescheduled shows, Rocky Mount’s Harvester Performance Center has announced a newly scheduled one. Chris Thile, mandolinist and singer of Nickel Creek and Punch ...

When it comes to provocatively suggestive titles, composers’ intentions are seldom as successfully realized as with, say, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy” or P.D.Q. Bach’s affectionate Philip Glass parody ...