Sunday, September 23rd, 4:30pm
Magee Park, DIRECTIONS
Free General Admission
$20 Priority Seating: PURCHASE TICKETS
$85 Festival Pass: PURCHASE FESTIVAL PASS

• Festival Pass includes Priority Seating for Sara Watkins and general admission to all other ticketed events. A $100 value!

Sara Watkins, violin & vocals
Sean Watkins, guitar & vocals









Carlsbad resident, Sara Watkins, best known for her work in the Grammy Award winning band, Nickel Creek, recently released her solo album Sun Midnight Sun on Nonesuch Records. Sara is a frequent guest on the American Public Media program, A Prairie Home Companion and in the past few years, she has been on tour with John Prine, Donavan Frankenreiter, Robert Earl Kean, Dar Williams, Blind Boys of Alabama and the Decemberists. In between tours, Sara performs at Largo in Los Angeles, where she and her brother Sean perform as The Watkins Family Hour with frequent guests including Benmont Tench, Greg Leisz, and Fiona Apple. Sara and Sean will performing a free concert as part of the Festival on the Sunday afternoon in Magee Park.

 

MandoBasso

Bill Bradbury, mandolin
Gunnar Biggs, bass

MandoBasso is a duo featuring Gunnar Biggs on bass and Bill Bradbury on mandolin. Biggs and Bradbury first came together as colleagues working on projects at both Palomar College and Cal State San Marcos. Biggs comes from a strong background in jazz and classical performance, Bradbury from a composition and computer music background. Their mutual love of Irish and traditional American music brought them together in this unique pairing of mandolin and bass. MandoBasso performances include arrangements of traditional music, new compositions, classical music repertoire, jazz and ragtime.