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Newport Folk Festival 2011
The 2011 Newport Folk Festival, held July 30-31, offered sold-out crowds two beautiful summer days of music from performers including the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emmylou Harris, Wanda Jackson, and Chris Thile & Michael Daves. You can now listen to all of those sets online at NPR.org, from the ever "vital and contemporary" Harris to the "blazingly intense music" of Thile & Daves. The Boston Globe says that all the music proved "compelling and indebted to what preceded it."
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Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2011
The 38th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival took place June 16-19, 2011, set 8,750 feet up in bucolic Telluride, Colorado. Making music in various combinations were Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Emmylou Harris, Punch Brothers, and Sara Watkins. Just some of the impromptu pairings pictured here include Thile and fellow Punch Brother Noam Pikelny with Béla Fleck; Nickel Creek band mates Thile and Watkins; Watkins and Punch Brothers' Chris Eldridge; Pikelny in a pick-off with Watkins and The Decemberists; and Harris with Old Crow Medicine Show.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "20/20 Vision"
Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform the tune "20/20 Vision" off their 2011 debut duo album, Sleep with One Eye Open. The video was directed by Steve Lippman, aka Flip, and shot at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "Rabbit in the Log"
Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform the traditional tune "Rabbit in a Log" off their 2011 debut duo album, Sleep with One Eye Open. The video was directed by Steve Lippman, aka Flip, and shot at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "You're Running Wild"
Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform "You're Running Wild" (made famous by the Louvin brothers), off their 2011 debut duo album, Sleep with One Eye Open. The video was directed by Steve Lippman, aka Flip, and shot at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "My Little Girl in Tennessee"
Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform Lester Flatt's "My Little Girl in Tennessee," off their 2011 debut duo album. The video was directed by Steve Lippman, aka Flip, and shot at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves on Their Debut Duo Album
Chris Thile and Michael Daves discuss their 2011 debut duo album, Sleep with One Eye Open. The album, recorded live to tape over four days at Jack White’s Third Man studio in Nashville, is a collection of 16 traditional tunes by bluegrass legends like The Monroe Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Jimmy Martin, and Flatt & Scruggs. Video directed by Steve Lippman aka Flip.
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Chris Thile & Michael Daves: "Sleep with One Eye Open"
Chris Thile & Michael Daves perform Lester Flatt's "Sleep with One Eye Open," the title track to their 2011 debut duo album. The video was directed by Steve Lippman, aka Flip, and shot at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.
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Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile: "Farmer and the Duck"
Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile perform "Farmer and the Duck" from their new duo album.
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Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile: "This Is the Pig" Live
Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer perform "This Is the Pig" from their new duo album.