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Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile Visit

Dominican University will present a rare collaborative concert with virtuoso bass player Edgar Meyer and versatile mandolin player Chris Thile on Saturday, January 29 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lund Auditorium, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. For tickets ($25/$35) and information, call (708) 524-6942.

Fingers will fly as these masterful instrumentalists present an evening of reels, waltzes and joyful roots music. Edgar Meyer is the Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger and performer who shines in both classical and bluegrass repertoire, a scope that earned him a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation. He has performed with artists ranging from the Emerson Quartet, Béla Fleck, Yo-Yo Ma and Wynton Marsalis to Garth Brooks, Emmylou Harris, the Indigo Girls and James Taylor.

A champion of mixing musical genres, Meyer’s collaboration with violinists Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O’C onnor resulted in the widely acclaimed album Appalachia Waltz, and the subsequent Appalachia Journey which won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2000. He has also been part of a quartet including violinist Joshua Bell and legendary bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall that produced in 1999 the Grammy-nominated crossover album Short Trip Home.

Chris Thile is a multi-instrumentalist with three solo albums to his credit—the first recorded as a 13-year-old prodigy—as well as two albums created as part of Nickel Creek, the most recent of which won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album and rallied to Billboard magazine’s Top 20. He has worked with the Chieftains, Dixie Chicks, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton and Hank Williams, Jr.

Thile was introduced to the mandolin at the age of two and began playing at the age of five. By the time he was eight, he had joined forces with two other Southern California bluegrass performers, Sean and Sara Watkins, to create Nickel Creek. Thile won the national mandolin championship at the age of 12 and today, at the age of only 23, he has forever changed the image of mandolin as a simple bluegrass instrument.

Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the interplay between two of music’s most sought-after, boundary-shattering performers.