Great gift for Americana fans -- I'm With Her! Discover new music and great beer at The Ridgefield Playhouse with shows in the Bandsintown Emerging Artist Series! Each show in this series will feature a craft beer tasting in the lobby before the show. I’m With Her is Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan (Crooked Still). Collectively, these multi-Grammy-Award-winners have released seven solo efforts, co-founded two seminal bands (Nickel Creek and Crooked Still), and contributed to critically acclaimed albums from a host of esteemed artists. Since joining forces four years ago, they have sold out shows across the US and Europe and have made appearances on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “CBS Saturday Morning” and NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts.” The trio was recently nominated for Duo/Group of the year by the Americana Music Association. I’m With Her will perform at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Wednesday, February 13th at 8pm, part of Mountain Dew Country & Bluegrass Series built by Ring’s End, Doyle Coffin Architecture Singer Songwriter Series and Bandsintown Emerging Artist Series. Opening Act is Billy Strings Solo. Join us in the lobby at 7:15pm for a complimentary craft beer tasting! Media sponsor for this event is 90.7 WFUV.
Four years after their formation at an impromptu show at the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, CO, I’m With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan) released their debut album, See You Around on Rounder Records. Co-produced by Ethan Johns and recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Bath, England, See You Around has garnered praise from NPR, who instantly hailed the collection as "willfully open-hearted” and The Guardian calling their sound both "ethereal and purposeful.”
I’m With Her have honed a special, family-like chemistry, garnering acclaim for their unique blend of instrumental interplay combined with their indelible harmonies. The New York Times describes a recent live performance, “...when the three women sang together, their voices became one instrument, sharing every breath.” Although I’m With Her spent most of their early days performing at festivals around the world, the band also holed up for their first-ever writing session in L.A. “By that point it had started to solidify that we travel well together, play well together, eat well together—it felt like we’d tested our compatibility in all these different zones,” says Watkins. And after just four days of writing, it was clear that their compatibility extended to the art of songcraft. “I loved the songs, we all loved the songs,” says Jarosz of that first batch of tracks penned in L.A. “I think that really sparked the flame for us to make a full record together.”
With each member playing guitar and handling various aspects of the instrumentation— including fiddle and ukulele for Watkins, mandolin and banjo for Jarosz, piano and synth for O’Donovan— the band cut most of the album live and under exceptionally close-knit conditions. “Ethan had the studio so that we played all in the same room and facing each other,” Jarosz says. “There was really no separation between us at all.”
For tickets ($59.50) call or visit the box office, 203-438-5795 or go online at ridgefieldplayhouse.org. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a non-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.