Live from Here with Chris Thile

Saturday, March 9, 2019 5:45 PM Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

Chris Thile by Devin Pedde, Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer by Jim McGuire, Julie Fowlis by Fowlis Photography, Aoife O’Donovan by Joanna Chattman

Opening Carnegie Hall’s Migrations: The Making of America festival, Chris Thile leads an evening that explores the ways in which Scots and Irish traditions helped shape and continue to influence American folk music today.

Live from Here is distributed nationwide by American Public Media, heard by 2.6 million listeners on nearly 600 public radio stations, online, and overseas.

Part of: Migrations: The Making of America

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Chris Thile is also performing October 23, November 28 (6:30 PM and 9:30 PM), and May 8.

Performers

Chris Thile, Host, Mandolin, and Vocals
Béla Fleck, Guest Artist
Edgar Meyer, Guest Artist
Julie Fowlis, Guest Artist
Aoife O’Donovan, Guest Artist

Event Duration

The concert will last approximately two and one-half hours with no intermission.

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Bios

Chris Thile

Multiple Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile—a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, and now the host of the radio program Live from Here—is a mandolin ...

Multiple Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile—a member of Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, and now the host of the radio program Live from Here—is a mandolin virtuoso, composer, and vocalist. With his broad outlook, Thile transcends the borders of conventionally circumscribed genres, creating a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike.

A child prodigy, Thile first rose to fame as a member of Grammy Award–winning trio Nickel Creek, with whom he released four albums and sold more than two million records. In 2014, along with a national tour, the trio released a new album, A Dotted Line—its first since 2005.

As a soloist, Thile has released several albums, including his most recent, Thanks for Listening, a collection of recordings produced by Thomas Bartlett that were originally written as “Songs of the Week” for Live from Here. In February 2013, Thile won a Grammy for his work on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, collaborating with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, and Stuart Duncan. In September 2014, Thile and Meyer released their latest album collaboration, Bass & Mandolin, which won the Grammy for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album. Punch Brothers released its latest album, All Ashore, in July 2018,

Béla Fleck

Béla Fleck is arguably the world’s premier banjo player. Through a truly remarkable career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a wide range of solo projects and ...

Béla Fleck is arguably the world’s premier banjo player. Through a truly remarkable career that has taken him all over the musical map and on a wide range of solo projects and collaborations, he has virtually reinvented the image and the sound of the instrument. The 16-time Grammy winner and American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame inductee can be heard on dozens of recordings, including 2017’s Echo in the Valley with his wife, clawhammer ace Abigail Washburn.

Edgar Meyer

In demand as both performer and composer, bassist Edgar Meyer has created a unique role in the music world. He has been hailed by The New Yorker as “… the most remarkable ...

In demand as both performer and composer, bassist Edgar Meyer has created a unique role in the music world. He has been hailed by The New Yorker as “… the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument.” His unparalleled technique and musicianship, in combination with his gift for composition, have brought him to the fore and earned him the appreciation of a vast, varied audience. His recordings include Bach Trios (Nonesuch), with Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Thile.

Julie Fowlis

Julie Fowlis spent her early years on the Outer Hebrides island of North Uist, and that Gaelic-speaking community had a profound effect. As she told a reporter from The Guardian, ...

Julie Fowlis spent her early years on the Outer Hebrides island of North Uist, and that Gaelic-speaking community had a profound effect. As she told a reporter from The Guardian, “I’m fascinated that I can sing a song from the 12th century that has survived intact.” But this award-winner’s talent and style have also brought her into the mainstream and garnered broad new audiences, including millions of kids—and their parents—who loved her singing of the theme song to the Disney Pixar film Brave. Among her studio albums is alterum (2017).

Aoife O’Donovan

With her ethereal voice and substantive songwriting, Aoife O’Donovan captivates fans and critics alike. She was a featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, the Grammy-winning ...

With her ethereal voice and substantive songwriting, Aoife O’Donovan captivates fans and critics alike. She was a featured vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, the Grammy-winning album by Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile. Her own recordings include Man in a Neon Coat: Live from Cambridge. See You Around is the first full-length recording from I’m With Her, her trio with Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins.