CEDAR FALLS --- Chris Thile, mandolin virtuoso and frontman for Punch Brothers, likes to feel a little resistance in his music. "I don't want music to cuddle me and tell me I'm a good person. I like ...

Chris Thile – mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist – transcends the borders of conventionally defined musical genres.Equally at home with progressive bluegrass, classical, rock, and jazz, Thile ...

The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College presents a solo performance by multi-Grammy Award-winner and MacArthur Fellow Chris Thile, a mandolin virtuoso, composer and vocalist. The ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Grammy Arard-winning Mandolin solist Chris Thile will be performing at the Walton Arts Center on Sunday, April 12. The one-night-only show will start at 7 p.m. Thile ...

"It was not important to me that our second album be different from the first," says Edgar Meyer. "The musical conversation that Chris and I started six years ago is one I'd be happy to continue for a ...

Mandolin player, singer, songwriter Chris Thile is best-known as a founding member of the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek and for the quintet, Punch Brothers, where he gets to amply demonstrate ...

On his new solo album, Chris Thile contemplates being alone. The theme is God, as Thile — armed only with his mighty mandolin and his experience as a lapsed fundamentalist — takes on the topics of ...

Thile, a Grammy Award winner and MacArthur Fellow, is known for his work with Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek, as well as collaborations with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Fiona Apple, and Brad Mehldau.

Following Nickel Creek’s remarkable national breakthrough, Chris Thile has released Not All Who Wander Are Lost, the third solo outing for the 20-year-old phenom. The new record, an all-instrumental ...