Tuesday April 1, 2008
		Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
		Show starts at 8 pm Doors open at 7:30 pm
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		Seating Chart
		Contemporary Songwriters & Groups, Bluegrass/Newgrass

"Progressive acoustic music on a large canvas"

Mandolin phenomenon Chris Thile (rhymes with "freely") has been a member of the acclaimed new-acoustic trio Nickel Creek and a highly adventurous solo artist. Now he has formed the Punch Brothers--Gabe Witcher on fiddle, Chris Eldridge (son of bluegrass great Ben Eldridge) on guitar, Noam Pikelny on banjo, and Greg Garrison on bass. It's the same group heard on Chris's solo album "How to Grow a Woman from the Ground." Last spring at The Ark, the band performed a small excerpt from a 40-minute Thile-composed suite called "The Blind Leaving the Blind"-- in which Thile exorcised the ghosts of his failing marriage and in so doing created the most ambitious single composition the world of new acoustic music had ever seen. Now they've recorded the whole thing for the Nonesuch label, laying down an awe-inspiring mixture of jazz, bluegrass, and classical styles. To see tonight's concert will be to step out onto the farthest edge of new acoustic music!

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