Mandolin master Chris Thile (winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant) is coming to Gainesville Nov. 1 to do a solo performance, and tickets go on sale Monday June 24.
Thile is known for his work with the Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek, and the Goat Rodeo Sessions (with Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer -- they won the 2013 Best Folk Album Grammy -- even thought it isn't really a folk album.)
Thile will play the University of Florida's University Auditorium.
Tickets go on sale here on Monday, June 24.
Thile is absolutely amazing to see live, and this should be a good one -- he'll be fresh off the release of a new CD of his Bach performances, which comes out August 6. Of that project, he says:
“This record to me is not about this iconic violin music played on the mandolin—like, ‘Oh boy, what fun, he’s playing a weird instrument!’ It's about Bach being one of the greatest musicians of all time, the solo violin music being some of his best work, and the mandolin having the potential to cast it in a new and hopefully interesting light."
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