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DJ Ralph McLean In Conversation with Nickel Creek.


Hackney Picture House

Thursday 26th January 2023

14:10 - 15:00


This year's AMA UK Grassroots Award recipient Ralph McLean is in conversation with the winners of this year's International Trailblazer award Nickel Creek. This platinum-selling, internationally renowned trio revolutionised bluegrass music for a new generation in the early 2000s, and have just recorded music together for the first time in nearly two decades. Nickel Creek are mandolinist Chris Thile, violinist Sara Watkins and guitarist Sean Watkins, a trio who have been playing together since they were children, and produced their self-titled debut in 2000, and their follow-up This Side in 2002, which won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album. They join us at the start of a three night UK tour at London's Union Chapel and Glasgow's Celtic Connections festival.

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