WXPN Welcomes Nickel Creek with special guest Hawktail - SOLD OUT

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Nickel Creek is the platinum-selling, internationally renowned roots trio of mandolinist Chris Thile, violinist Sara Watkins and guitarist Sean Watkins. The Grammy-winning band has revolutionized folk and roots music since first performing together as children at a San Diego pizza parlor in 1989, signing to acclaimed roots label Sugar Hill Records after wowing the bluegrass circuit for a decade.

Nickel Creek quickly broke through in 2000 with their Grammy-nominated, Alison Krauss-produced self-titled LP, quickly followed by the Krauss-produced This Side and the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. 2005’s Grammy-nominated Why Should the Fire Die? found the trio pushing genre boundaries even further, incorporating elements of alt-rock and indie pop into their singular brand of acoustic music. Don’t miss Nickel Creek when they arrive in York bringing their hits and fan favorites, plus new songs from their new recording Celebrant, releasing this March!

Opening the show is Hawktail, an instrumental acoustic quartet of fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, guitarist Jordan Tice, and mandolinist Dominick Leslie. Though at first glance it looks like an acoustic superpicker side-project, their all-original music is cohesive and unique, distinguishing them as an ensemble with a sound built from the ground up. Flush with orchestral sweeps and sparse vigils, with strains of the American South and the North Atlantic, this cosmopolitan sound is not what you'd expect from a string band.

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