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Nickel Creek

Southern California trio Nickel Creek has come a long way since their days as a bluegrass kids band over a decade ago.

Sara Watkins (violinist), her brother Sean (guitarist), and Chris Thile (mandolin player) met when their parents took them to see southern Cali band, Bluegrass Etc., at a weekly pizza parlor show. At the time, Chris and Sean were already taking mandolin lessons from the band's guitarist/mandolin player John Moore while Sara was learning the fiddle from Moore's longtime partner Dennis Caplinger (Bluegrass Etc.'s vocals, fiddle, and banjo). The three received their education through home schooling while preparing to start a kids band in 1990 with Chris's father, bassist Scott Thile, upon the suggestion of a bluegrass promoter. The father-son and...
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