Noam Pikelny News

 
Boston Globe
Crooked Still's Aoife O'Donovan comes into her own
Boston Globe
As a guest vocalist, she contributed to records by Noam Pikelny, the acclaimed banjo player who's part of Punch Brothers, with whom she also toured for a bit. She turned up on “The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” an album by the cross-genre supergroup featuring ...


 
The Punch Brothers rock out on bluegrass
Jerusalem Post
“We haven't set out to keep any traditions alive or preserve anything historically for the sake of any kind of musical style or pastime,” explained the band's 31-year-old banjo player Noam Pikelny during a phone conversation from Philadelphia, ...


 
Relix
Punch Brothers: The Undiscovered Country
Relix
“Whatever you just did killed most of the beef in the sound,” says banjoist Noam Pikelny to Witcher. “It's too bright, isn't it?” says Thile again of the latest version. “That kills it—you're losing most of the body of the instrument,” responds ...


 
Nonesuch Records
Punch Brothers to Perform on "Later ... with Jools Holland"; Watch Wall Street ...
Nonesuch Records
"terrific," sat down with Punch Brothers' Chris Thile and Noam Pikelny to discuss their new album, their innovative and ever-evolving music, and its relationship to the legacy of Bill Monroe and Earl Scruggs. Watch the piece below.

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Nonesuch Records
Watch: Punch Brothers Perform "Patchwork Girlfriend," "Movement and Location ...
Nonesuch Records
Before then, the group's banjoist Noam Pikelny has a few solo dates on tap and will be joining guitarist Michael Daves at Brooklyn Folk Fest tonight. Daves will join Chris Thile, with whom he released the duo album Sleep with One Eye Open on Nonesuch ...


 
Chris Thile is Human...Probably: An Interview with the Punch Brother's Frontman
Austinist
Now located in New York City, each member of the band is well-regarded in his own right for being unnervingly brilliant with their respective musical instruments (see banjo-player Noam Pikelny school Steve Martin here for proof) and they're everywhere ...

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Boulder Weekly
Different recipe, same great taste
Boulder Weekly
When Vann died of melanoma in 2002, the band soldiered on and produced a self-titled disc in 2004 with banjo player Noam Pikelny, but things weren't the same. The band decided it needed a break. Bassist Greg Garrison told Billboard at the time that ...

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