The Milk Carton Kids and Sarah Jarosz Play the Capitol Center Tonight

Grammy-nominated folk artists The Milk Carton Kids & Sarah Jarosz, along with Samson Grisman, Alex Hargreaves and Nathaniel Smith offer a very special evening of collaborative performance in front of one microphone tonight, October 17, 2014 at the Capitol Center for the Arts.

This special tour, limited to sixteen shows in October and early November, brings together the artistry of two of acoustic music's most dynamic acts, both of whom again garnered Americana Music Awards nominations this year. The Milk Carton Kids are nominated for Duo/Group of the Year and Sarah Jarosz is nominated for Album of the Year for Build Me Up From Bones. The Americana Music Association's 2014 Awards and Honors are September 17, just a month before the tour begins; both artists will perform at the awards show. The Milk Carton Kids and Jarosz have each been nominated for multiple Grammy Awards as well.

Following their meeting at the renowned Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2013, Sarah Jarosz and The Milk Carton Kids have pursued a collaboration with a depth and identity all its own. Their initial performances (on Austin City Limits and at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series) have been widely heralded for the seamless harmony of the three singers, the unassailable virtuosity of the players, and the obvious if uncommon chemistry the young artists have found with one another. The fall tour dates give them to opportunity to assemble a full show together. In addition to the notable guitar work of the Milk Carton Kids and Jarosz's proficiency on mandolin, octave mandolin, banjo and guitar, they will be joined by acclaimed musicians Samson Grisman (bass), Alex Hargreaves (fiddle) and Nathaniel Smith (cello).

Tickets for this very special performance by Sarah Jarosz and the Milk Carton Kids on October 17 are available now by calling 603-225-1111, online at www.ccanh.com, and at the box office, located at 44 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301, on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (Saturday hours after Labor Day) Tickets: $35 Orchestra/Mezzanine and $30 Balcony. Performance generously sponsored by Grappone Automotive Group.

SARAH JAROSZ: Sarah Jarosz is a multi-Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who hails from just outside of Austin, TX and makes her home in New York City. Now 23-years-old, she graduated in 2013 from New England Conservatory with a degree in contemporary improvisation in the same month her third album, Build Me Up From Bones, was released. Jarosz, who fits comfortably where contemporary folk, Americana, and roots music intersect, has long been embraced for the depth and maturity of her songwriting, her pure and nuanced vocals, and her instrumental mastery-switching between octave mandolin, banjo, guitar, and mandolin as the songs dictate. Build Me Up From Bones received two Grammy nominations and appeared on NPR's Top Ten Folk and Americana albums for 2013. She has appeared on Conan, Austin City Limits twice, A Prairie Home Companion, and the BBC Series The Transatlantic Sessions. Mile on the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpNWetJQDwE

THE MILK CARTON KIDS: Grammy-nominated flat-picking harmony duo The Milk Carton Kids have emerged in the last three years as a powerful voice defining the continuing folk tradition. An understated virtuosity defines The Milk Carton Kids to the delight of traditionalists and newcomers to the folk movement alike. Garrison Keillor has called them "absolute geniuses in close-harmony." The Los Angeles Times lauds their latest Anti- Records release, The Ash & Clay, as displaying "absolute mastery of their craft" while Paste emphasizes the "intellectual sophistication of their songs, making The Milk Carton Kids an option for purists unsatisfied with some of the pop tendencies seeping in to the genre." The band has appeared on Conan, A Prairie Home Companion, Austin City Limits, and the Coen Brothers' & T Bone Burnett's "Another Day/Another Time" concert film. Years Gone By: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Dd_BJrDQmY

ALEX HARGREAVES: Violinist Alex Hargreaves of Corvallis, Oregon, has been mentored by some of the greats in acoustic roots music and jazz. He has toured with Jerry Douglas, David Grisman, Bela Fleck, Danilo Perez, Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, Noam Pikelny and has shared the stage with many others including Chris Thile, Mumford & Sons, Tim O'Brien and Sam Bush. Hargreaves performs regularly with Sarah Jarosz, appearing on her three acclaimed albums, as well as being featured on her Grammy-nominated instrumental, Mansinneedof. In February 2010, Hargreaves' debut album, Prelude, was released featuring master acoustic musicians Mike Marshall, Grant Gordy and Paul Kowert, and special guests Bela Fleck and Noam Pikelny.

SAMSON GRISMAN: Bassist Samson Grisman, the son of legendary mandolist David "Dawg" Grisman, was recently recognized with a Momentum Award by the International Bluegrass Music Association. A prodigy of the double bass, Grisman has performed with, among others, Sarah Jarosz, David Grisman, Sam Bush, The Deadly Gentlemen.

NATHANIEL SMITH: Cellist Nathaniel Smith, a native of Brandon, Mississippi, now residing in Nashville, began studying the cello at the age of five. Mr. Smith has an impressive list of artists he has toured and/or collaborated with, most recently Sarah Jarosz, renowned Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster, and Jeremy Kittel. Sought after as a teacher, he has taught at Christian Howes's Creative Strings Workshop in Columbus, Ohio; Leahy Music Camp in Ontario, Canada; and Mark O'Connor's String Camp at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

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