Watch: Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer Perform "Big Top" from Their New Album, "Bass & Mandolin"

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Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer have released a video of their performing "Big Top" from their new album, Bass & Mandolin. You can watch it here. The duo kicked off a North American tour this week in Vancouver. These "two giants of contemporary acoustic music ... managed to showcase exceptional chops while never falling into any of the tedious flash virtuosi so often are taken by," raves the Vancouver Sun. "It's a rare opportunity to be captivated by two such unusual instruments in a pairing. These two are truly special."

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Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer, who kicked off a North American tour behind the release of their new duo album, Bass & Mandolin, earlier this week, have released a video of their performing "Big Top" from the album. The video was shot by director Alex Chaloff in the Skywalker Sound studio during the recording of the new album. The A.V. Club, which gave the video its world premiere, says Thile and Meyer "get virtuosic" on the track. You can watch the video below. To pick up copy of Bass & Mandolin, head to iTunes or the Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include a free MP3 download of the complete album.

The Vancouver Sun's Stuart Derdeyn, reviewing Tuesday's tour-launching concert at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, says "the room hosted two giants of contemporary acoustic music" who create "immensely enjoyable and altogether unclassifiable" sound.

Thile and Meyer "managed to showcase exceptional chops while never falling into any of the tedious flash virtuosi so often are taken by," says Derdeyn. "Every lightning run or mad time signature matched an equally gorgeous melodic turn ... It's a rare opportunity to be captivated by two such unusual instruments in a pairing. These two are truly special."

Read the complete review at vancouversun.com.

See below for all of the upcoming tour dates; for additional details, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

EDGAR MEYER AND CHRIS THILE TOUR

Sep 19 Weill Hall, Green Music Center Rohnert Park, CA
Sep 20 Royce Hall Los Angeles, CA
Sep 21 Bing Concert Hall Stanford, CA
Sep 23 Newman Center Denver, CO
Sep 24 Stiefel Theatre Salinas, KS
Sep 25 Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City, MO
Sep 26 Bass Performance Hall Fort Worth, TX
Sep 27 Bass Concert Hall Austin, TX  
Sep 30 Ingram Hall, Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN
Oct 1 Newlin Hall, Centre College's Norton Center Danville, KY
Oct 2 Swasey Chapel, Denison University Granville, OH
Oct 4 Modlin Center for the Arts Richmond, VA
Oct 5 Knight Theater, Levine Center for the Arts Charlotte, NC
Oct 6 Phillips Center for Performing Arts Gainesville, FL
Oct 8 Carolina Theatre Durham, NC
Oct 9 Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University Princeton, NJ
Oct 10 Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Troy, NY
Oct 11 The Town Hall New York, NY
Oct 12 Sanders Theatre Boston, MA
Oct 15 Wisconsin Union Theater Madison, WI
Oct 16 Michigan Theater Ann Arbor, MI
Oct 17 Symphony Center Chicago, IL
     

 

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Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer: "Big Top" [video]

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