Punch Brothers celebrated the release of their new album, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, with a set at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island on Saturday. En route aboard the Newport Harbor Shuttle, the band gave fellow ferry passengers a sneak peek of its set with a performance of the album's closing track, "New Book," and a bit of John Williams' thematically appropriate Jaws theme. You can watch it here:

The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is the seventh album from the Grammy-winning band—and its first comprising all instrumental tunes, as well as its first with fiddle player Brittany Haas, who joined the quintet in 2023. The album features eight new original compositions by Punch Brothers plus three traditional songs they arranged. The album’s title is more than a play on words: without lyrics to guide the listener, these are stories, impressions, and emotions communicated entirely with strings through melody, harmony, rhythm, and a literary sense of musical structure. For a band known for pushing acoustic music into unexpected places, going fully instrumental may be the most adventurous move they have made yet. The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers is produced by the band and engineered by Joseph Lorge. You can get the album and hear it here.