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HIGHER GROUND PRESENTS NICKEL CREEK

Nickel Creek is mandolinist Chris Thile, violinist Sara Watkins and guitarist Sean Watkins. The trio revolutionized bluegrass and folk in the early 2000’s and ushered in a new era of what we now recognize as Americana music. After a 9-year absence, the Platinum-selling, Grammy Award-winning trio returned in 2023 with the highly-anticipated album, “Celebrants”—a bounty of 18 disparate but loosely connected songs written collectively during a creative retreat in Santa Barbara in early 2021. The entire enterprise is, naturally, shot through with the trio’s virtuosic-picking and shiver-inducing harmonies. The lyrics—addressing love, friendship, time, and the universal travails of travel—combine the poetic and plain-spoken, hitting a sweet spot of ethereal and relatable as bridges are built, crossed, burned, and rebuilt.