Sara Watkins met the fiddle at the tender age of 6, and together they’ve wound across bluegrass and down some rather inspired byways. It’s a relationship so simpatico that when I ask her if, at 31, ...

Unlike Apple, though, Watkins had no history with the Decemberists before she went on tour with the band. That opportunity was a combination of the band's use of fiddle and female vocals on its last ...

Friction and dissonance aren’t exactly the words that come to mind when you think about Nickel Creek. The trio that includes siblings Sean Watkins on guitar and Sara Watkins on fiddle, as well as ...

NPR listeners first met fiddle player Sara Watkins in Nickel Creek — the trio of prodigies that brought a youthful spirit to a bluegrass world that reveres its elders. Once she started making solo ...

From the jump, a singer-songwriter whose instrumental pillar is a violin definitely makes for a more interesting prospect than the basic strumming crooner. But as it turns out, Watkins’ music is ...

The Watkins Family Hour has become an unlikely institution of the Los Angeles music scene over the past two decades. Now brother and sister bluegrass players Sean and Sara Watkins are bringing the ...

With Nickel Creek saying farewell (for now), vocalist and fiddle player Sara Watkins steps out with a self-titled solo album. During a session in Studio-A she spoke with 'FUV's Claudia Marshall about ...

Jackson Browne has written and performed some of the most literate and moving songs in popular music and has defined a genre of songwriting charged with honesty, emotion and personal politics. He was ...