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Harvest Music Fest 2011: Day 4 Recap & Photos

The last day of a music festival is always a little bit sad. The music starts to fade as the sun sets, and it’s time to pack up the tents and go back to the real world. With a camping festival like Harvest, it’s easy to feel like part of a community or a family, especially after spending four days bonding over music together without showering.  read more

A Prairie Home Companion Returns to the Big Screen

A Prairie Home Companion, Garrison Keillor’s long-running live radio variety show, is pretty much synonymous with the word Americana....  read more

Catching Up With... Sara Watkins

After nearly two decades of being one-third of Nickel Creek...  read more

Sara Watkins: Sara Watkins

Sara Watkins is a fine fiddler and guitar player...  read more

Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins preps solo album

After a Grammy, rave reviews and platinum sales, alt.grass (blueternative?) trio Nickel Creek abruptly went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2007, and have yet to make good on the "for now" part of their "Goodbye (For Now)" tour. Still, the musical impulse burns deep in the scrappy acoustinauts with Chris Thile's 2008 solo album, the Watkins siblings' supergroup, W.P.A., and Thile's currently touring project, Punch Brothers. Fiddler Sara Watkins recently announced the upcoming release of her self-titled debut: an album of long-marinating songs penned during her time spent in L.A....  read more

Sean Watkins and Jon Foreman form Fiction Family

When Nickel Creek said farewell (for now) to fans and disbanded in 2007, each member said they wanted to pursue solo projects. Vocalist and mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile went off to work with his group the Punch Brothers, where he recently composed a four-part, 40-minute suite entitled "The Blind Leaving the Blind" that features mandolin, violin, banjo, guitar and bass. Singer/violinist Sara Watkins is prepping her long-in-the-making solo album (due in early 2009), produced by Led Zeppelin member John Paul Jones and featuring guests Jon Brion and Gillian Welch....  read more