A virtuoso five-string banjo player, Noam Pikelny was born February 27, 1981 in Chicago, Illinois. His childhood, he has said lightheartedly, was split between the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley Field and the Old Town School of Folk Music. He was already playing in traditional bluegrass bands while he was in high school, and went on to study music at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, after which he moved to Boulder, Colorado. He joined the Colorado ensemble Leftover Salmon in 2002 (he remained with the band until 2004), and two years later he issued his first solo album, In the Maze, on Compass Records. Pikelny relocated to Nashville in 2006 and began playing with New Grass Revival bassist and singer John Cowan. He also started playing with mandolinist Chris Thile that same year in the progressive chamber bluegrass band Punch Brothers. His second solo album, Beat the Devil & Carry a Rail, appeared from Compass Records in 2011. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi
special thank you to the members of Punch Brothers." Pikelny's first solo album In the Maze was released on Compass Records in 2004 to critical acclai...
consisting of Earl Scruggs, Alison Brown, Pete Wernick, Tony Trischka, Anne Stringfield, Neil V. Rosenberg, Bela Fleck, and Steve Martin. Noam Pikelny...
Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny has announced the second leg of his solo tour. In support of his recent release, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail,...
Mumford & Sons, the Black Keys, fun., Luther Dickinson, Punch Brothers' Noam Pikelny, Alabama Shakes, The Avett Brothers, Dr John, Zac Brown Band and ...
Punch Brothers' Noam Pikelny has announced that a new bluegrass project featuring Bryan Sutton, Ronnie McCoury, Luke Bulla and Barry Bales will hit th...
