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Produced by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, the album features colleagues and old friends, including alt-country duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas, Tim O’Brien, Punch Brothers’ Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury, and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates Chris Thile and Sean Watkins. Sara wrote or co-wrote eight of the 14 songs on the record, which also includes renditions of tracks by Jimmie Rodgers, Jon Brion, Norman Blake, and Tom Waits.

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The beginnings of Summer Love
24 August 2010
article thumbnaiTwo weeks into the Summer Love tour and today I feel, for the first time that I can sit back and think on the whirl-wind that tour has brought me so far.  Before the first show, we gathered in a music room at the Keillor...

Upcoming Shows

09-01-2010  Moorhead  MN
09-08-2010  Knoxville  TN
09-09-2010  Salem  VA
09-10-2010  Baltimore  MD
09-11-2010  Cary  NC
09-12-2010  Charlottesville  VA
10-01-2010  Madison  WI
10-02-2010  Chicago  IL
10-03-2010  Ames  IA
10-05-2010  Grand Rapids  MI
10-06-2010  Cleveland  OH
10-07-2010  Ann Arbor  MI
10-08-2010  Indianapolis  IN
10-09-2010  Pittsburgh  PA
10-10-2010  Atlanta  GA

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Sara says: @tonyzaccardi well, we're actually PLAYING on Friday. Wanna come?
Sara says: Garrison Keillor has to be one of the most gracious performers alive. Tonight, in the pouring rain, he walks among the audience- &it's cold!
Sara says: Saturday will be a PHC broadcast from the MN state fair. I just worked up 2 New songs for the show! 1 by Harry Nilsson &1 by Randy Newman.
Sara says: Good morning Fargo, ND. Let's get some eggs and coffee shall we? How have you been?
Sara says: @DrewCoxSa you know I just happened upon in while looking fo r new songs to sing on this tour. Really enjoying singing it.
Sara says: Backstage at the Portland Zoo. Me and my new pal Bakari. I think we had a connection. http://fb.me/BidrGT6B
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Latest News

  • 08-05-2010
    Pretty Good Goods

    Sara is featured on A Prairie Home Companion's website for their Pretty Good Goods article.  Read it here
  • 07-03-2010
    Video Blog June 17-24
  • 06-02-2010
    John Prine albums

    Sara is featured on TWO John Prine albums!  The first one, released in May, is a live album called In Person & On Stage.  This album is a culmination of John Prine's last frew years touring and contains 14 songs.  Sara accompanies John on the song "The Late John Garfield Blues".  

    You can purchase the album here


    The second album is called Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows.  This album features twelve newly-recorded and re-imagined versions of classic John Prine songs, by an enviable roll call of some of today's greatest musicians and songwriters.

    You can pre-order the album here
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Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour

summer of love
This August, Sara will be joining A Prairie Home Companion's Garrison Keillor for a coast to coast concert called the Summer Love Tour. Below is more information but keep checking back for more special announcements regarding this tour.
Join host Garrison Keillor, Nickel Creek’s Sara Watkins, the Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band, and sound-effects man Fred Newman for tender duets and ballads, poetry (Poe, Shakespeare, Anonymous), stories of passion and marriage, and Mr. Keillor’s intermission walk through the audience for the sing-along of “Unchained Melody” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love with You.” All this and favorite elements of A Prairie Home Companion — Guy Noir, Dusty and Lefty, the News from Lake Wobegon — during an entertaining date night for all ages.

Management: Q Prime South
Booking:  The Agency Group, Seth Rappaport
Publicity: Melissa Cusick, Nonesuch Records 212.707.2912
Label: Nonesuch
Frontpage Photo of Sara: Jeff Fasano

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