TUE, OCT 16 at 7:30PM
Punch Brothers
featuring Chris Thile Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. As the five members, ranging in age from their mid-20s to mid-30s, have matured together on the road and in the studio, their approach to writing and performing has, conversely, become looser, simpler, and, in a sense, more unaffectedly youthful. Their music features rumbling bass, skittering violin, and wailing multi-tracked vocals that sounds like hard-charging string-band punk rock. The group, as virtuosic as it is freewheeling, evolved out of a 2007 collaboration on Thile’s string-band suite, The Blind Leading the Blind, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in a series curated by composer John Adams. Punch Brothers are currently featured on the soundtrack to The Hunger Games and the Chieftains’ 50th anniversary disc, Voice Of Ages. ❉ HIGH ENERGY
“...the Punch Brothers are the tightest, most impressive live band I have ever seen.” - The Boston Globe
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carolina performing arts 2012/13
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