The Punch Brothers Hit Boston

February 15, 2013

The Punch Brothers perform during the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., June 9, 2012. (Dave Martin/AP)

The uber-talented Punch Brothers may look like a traditional bluegrass quintet but they’ve taken the genre and mashed it up in ways unimaginable.

Guests:

Chris Eldridge, guitar

Paul Kowert, bass

Noam Pikelny, banjo

Chris Thile, mandolin

Gabe Witcher, violin

More:

The Punch Brothers perform Feb. 16 at the House of Blues in Boston.

Punch Brothers perform “Rye Whiskey” at WNRN in Charlottesville, Va., on Feb. 16, 2010, before their show at Jefferson Theater:

“Wayside (Back in Time)” from Aug. 6, 2010, at Pickathon’s Woods Stage:

Other stories from this show:

Feli

Love Punch Brothers. We’ve seen them in Maine & Austin. And in Boston, Chris Thile with Yo Yo Ma in the Goat Rodeo Sessions took us to new places entirely. What they bring is a new way of learning and loving music and the ways it communicates across boundaries of all sorts. It’s fun and thrilling– and they’re incredible musicians.

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