Chris Thile and his fellow Punch Brothers have announced tapings for the second season of their musical variety show The Energy Curfew Music Hour at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City, January 11 and 16 and February 13, 18, and 24; special guests to be announced. They have also announced the third annual Chris Thile Acousticamp, returning to last year's venue, Asilomar Hotel in Pacific Grove, California, June 27–July 1. For tickets on all of the above, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

The Energy Curfew Music Hour, created by Thile and Claire Coffee, invites audiences to join them in a near future when diminishing resources and extreme weather have ushered in a worldwide effort to ration electricity. America has instituted a weekly “energy curfew” where the power grid goes down completely and we all live electricity-free for 24 hours. The Energy Curfew Music Hour hits the airwaves an hour before the lights go out while the nation tunes in and turns off together before the Dark Day. The first season—features musical guests like Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Jon Batiste, Norah Jones, James Taylor, Lake Street Dive, Gaby Moreno, yMusic, and others—is out now via Audible and is available on multiple podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube.

For the four-day Acousticamp, Punch Brothers and their fellow instructor/collaborators, including friends Julian Lage, Michael Daves, Maddie Witler, and first time faculty member Josh Ritter, invite players and music lovers of all ages, levels, interests, and tastes to immerse themselves in the world of acoustic music-making—performance, composition, lyric-writing, improvisation, collaboration, recording, and more—buoyed by coffee and cocktails, all bookended by intimate concerts from Thile and friends.