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Pikelny was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in nearby Skokie, Illinois. He started playing banjo when he was 8 years old. [4] He took lessons at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. In high school, he began studying with Greg Cahill of the Chicago bluegrass band The Special Consensus.
Punch Brothers is an American band consisting of Chris Thile (mandolin), Brittany Haas (fiddle/violin), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar), and Paul Kowert (bass). ). Their style has been described as "bluegrass instrumentation and spontaneity in the strictures of modern classical" [1] as well as "American country-classical chamber mu
Motel Bouquet, released in 2018, was produced by Noam Pikelny (Punch Brothers) and was recorded live over three days in Nashville, TN. The band features Aoife O’Donovan (vocals), Paul Kowert (bass), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Russ Pahl (pedal steel), and Pikelny on electric guitar and banjo. [19]
After cancelling their 2020 tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic the band met in Nashville, Tennessee in November 2020 to record their interpretation of Church Street Blues in its entirety, at suggestion of banjoist Noam Pikelny. Prior to the recording the band did not listen to the original versions of the songs that Rice had played, to focus on ...
At the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, Thile met banjoist Noam Pikelny and later commented that “every note he played was something I wish I’d played”. It was then that Thile realized that he wanted to “put [his] stamp on the traditional bluegrass ensemble”. [ 4 ]
The Phosphorescent Blues is the fourth studio album by the American group Punch Brothers, released on January 27, 2015.The band announced the release of the album's first single, "I Blew It Off", on November 17, 2014.
How To Grow A Band is a 2011 music documentary film about the early days of American progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers.The film stars Chris Thile, Gabe Witcher, Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert and Greg Garrison and features interviews with a number of notable musicians including Yo-Yo Ma, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, Jerry Douglas, bassist Edgar Meyer and Sara Watkins of ...
The Paducah Sun reported, on February 25, 2010, that the album contains ten songs: “'The new music is a real honest collaboration,' Thile said. It is the first album to feature bass player Paul Kowert, who joined the band in late 2008 after the departure of Greg Garrison.