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Listen Now: Sara Watkins In Concert
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Sara Watkins' main instrument is the fiddle, though she also plays ukulele and guitar.
July 21, 2009 - Fiddle player and vocalist Sara Watkins, formerly of the Grammy Award-winning group Nickel Creek with her brother Sean Watkins and mandolin player Chris Thile, has released her first solo album, with producer John Paul Jones at the helm.
Watkins has appeared on Mountain Stage as a member of several groups, including two times with Nickel Creek, once as a member of Darol Anger's Republic of Strings, and once accompanying her brother Sean in his post-Nickel Creek outfit Fiction Family.
She performs here on the fiddle with Sean playing guitar and singing harmony, as well as with drummer Zeke Hutchins and bass player Sebastian Steinberg. She performs songs by artists influential to her, such as Norman Blake ("Lord Won't You Help Me"), David Garza ("Too Much"), John Hartford ("Long Hot Summer Day") and Lindsey Buckingham ("Steal Your Heart Away"); and two of her own — "All This Time" and "Where Will You Be."
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