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Live At The Lyric: Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek
Venue: Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012
Time: 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Music
Cost:
Gold Level: $20.00 Silver Level: $15.00

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Live At the Lyric presents: Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek on Friday, October 12th. The concert begins at 8 pm.

Sara Watkins concluded her gently self-assured 2009 Nonesuch debut with a wistful, self-penned ballad, “Where Will You Be?,” about the slow fade of a romance. With Watkins standing on the brink of a solo career, the question in the song title took on significance well beyond its lyrics, though: it marked the end of an album and the jumping-off point for a whole new life.

Watkins had spent most of her younger years, nearly two decades, as singer and fiddle player for the Grammy Award–winning, bluegrass-folk hybrid Nickel Creek, a trio she’d started performing in when she was a mere eight years old, alongside her guitarist brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. Now, for the first time, she was stepping away from that marquee name, alone. Watkins may have felt trepidatious, but, as old fans and new listeners could attest, the transition felt effortless, natural.

As the BBC put it, “Watkins’ time in the spotlight is a triumph with her agile playing and the kind of voice that gives your goose bumps the shivers.”

Watkins has never been a stranger to hard work. In addition to her own gigs and her ongoing Largo residency, she has been one of the most frequent guest artists on American Public Media’s "A Prairie Home Companion". Not only that, but Garrison Keillor offered Watkins the unprecedented opportunity to host an entire show, the first time he’d entrusted another artist with his job.

As Keillor put it, “For once in my life, I want to stand in the back of the hall and watch for a few minutes. And Sara is a smart and funny and hugely gifted young woman.” She and brother Sean also found time to schedule some dates with the Blind Boys of Alabama and join Lyle Lovett in an interpretation, with music, of Much Ado About Nothing at L.A.’s Shakespeare Center.

For more information on Sara, visit: http://sarawatkins.com/

Tickets are $20 for Gold Level seats and $15 for Silver level seats. To purchase tickets online, visit: http://public.ticketbiscuit.com/Lyric/Ticketing/138045

For more information on The Lyric, visit: http://www.thelyric.com/live/ or call: 540-951-4771.