The songs were born at a time when life and the world as we know it had irrevocably changed. The tone of the lyrics on the album conveys a sense of hope, caution and concern, a desire for renewal and clarity in the midst of an intensely stressful time that created a dizzying ball of confusion for many. Now, 20 years and three albums later, the group sounds more confident, daring and eager than ever to chart new artistic ground.Įxpertly honed and calibrated to create a lasting emotional and musical arc, “Celebrants” makes as big an impact in its most hushed and subtle moments as in its more animated ones. Nickel Creek won its first Grammy Award - for Best Contemporary Folk Album - in 2003. The prodigious youngsters released their first album, “Little Cowpoke,” in 1993. It wasn’t: ‘Let’s be a band!’ Because we already were a band, by accident.” “We were offered (the opportunity) to be a ‘kids band’ at a bluegrass festival, and then we kept doing it. “Nickel Creek was this thing that just happened and started by accident,” Thile recalled in Nickel Creek’s 2020 Union-Tribune interview. She and brother Sean had met and befriended Thile there at a weekly bluegrass jam session their parents took them to each Sunday. Like Thile, Sara Watkins was just 8 when Nickel Creek made its onstage debut in 1989 at Carlsbad’s That Pizza Place. You have to re-engage with your fundamental self.” Prodigious musical youngsters “It’s about reconnecting with yourself and anyone you grew up with. “This album is about reconnection,” said Sara Watkins. They did so in the Santa Barbara home of their famous longtime friend and periodic musical collaborator, Steve Martin, and his wife, Anne Stringfield. Having not toured since 2014 - all three members have successful solo careers and play in other bands - Nickel Creek reconvened in early 2021. It benefits greatly from the superb contrabass playing of Mike Elizondo, whose impeccably sculpted lines enhance each song on which he performs. The lovingly crafted album features two instrumental pieces and 16 songs that were born two years ago, during the foreboding days of the pandemic shutdown. “Celebrants” was released Friday by the Nashville-based record label Thirty Tigers, whose roster includes everyone from Steve Winwood and Alanis Morissette to Lupe Fiasco and Asleep at the Wheel. The result is a dazzling work that falls somewhere between a song-cycle and a suite, a concept album and a free-flowing aural adventure. They succeeded - possibly even beyond the group’s own expectations - with a major nod to a long-buried album by former head Beach Boys member Brian Wilson. Rutter, President of the Kennedy Center.What Nickel Creek did set out to do with “Celebrants” is make the most ambitious, expansive and adventurous album of the group’s career. Maria Rosario Jackson, the current NEA Chair, and Deborah F. Sue Mingus' son, Roberto Ungaro, will speak on her behalf at the concert, joining each of the inductees as well as Dr. Sue Mingus kept his music and legacy alive through several acclaimed tribute bands, as well as a Mingus High School Festival and Competition and the creation of the Charles Mingus Collection at the Library of Congress. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship for Jazz Advocacy, for her tireless work in memory of her husband, bassist and composer Charles Mingus. One bittersweet note will be the recognition of Sue Mingus, who died last September at 92. Along with the honorees, the program will feature saxophonists Camille Thurman, Abraham Burton and Sarah Hanahan pianists David Hazeltine, Keith Brown and Helen Sung and drummers Alvester Garnett, Ronald Bruner and Adam Cruz, among others. The concert, hosted by Mark Ruffin of SiriusXM's Real Jazz channel, will be available as a live webcast and radio broadcast on more than a dozen stations. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Each will perform at a tribute concert this Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at the John F. That's because the three exceptional musicians honored as 2023 NEA Jazz Masters - drummer Louis Hayes, saxophonist Kenny Garrett and violinist Regina Carter - are all proud products of the Motor City. But this year, its focus falls on a single area code - 313, which encompasses all of Metro Detroit. The NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship, established in 1982 by the National Endowment for the Arts, has always recognized jazz artists of sterling achievement from coast to coast.
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