Yo-Yo Ma – Stuart Duncan
Edgar Meyer – Chris Thile

With guest Aoife O’Donovan

“Haunting, invigorating, often breathtaking clash of classical, bluegrass, folk, jazz and free-form music traditions.” —Los Angeles Times

Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile announce summer US tour

Long-awaited Not Our First Goat Rodeo tour features first concerts in nearly a decade

Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile have announced a summer tour of the U.S, bringing material from 2011’s The Goat Rodeo Sessions and 2020’s Not Our First Goat Rodeo on the road to Nashville, TN; Auburn, AL; Beaver Creek and Denver, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; Portland, OR; and Stanford, Berkeley, and San Diego, CA. The astounding group of virtuosos will be joined by singer-songwriter and Grammy Award-winner Aoife O’Donovan, for their first live concerts together in nearly a decade.

Seamlessly incorporating elements of bluegrass, Americana, classical, and international folk music, the music of both sets of Goat Rodeo sessions combines the talents of the individual artists, each a Grammy Award-winning talent, to create a singular sound that’s part composed, part improvised, and uniquely American. The music is so complex to pull off that the group likens it to a goat rodeo — an aviation term for a situation in which 100 things need to go right to avoid disaster.

But pull it off they do. Both The Goat Rodeo Sessions and Not Our First Goat Rodeo reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Classical, Classical Crossover, and Bluegrass charts; The Goat Rodeo Sessions also received Grammy awards for Best Folk Album and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. NPR’s World Cafe called The Goat Rodeo Sessions “organic yet composed in a way that only four deeply talented, in-tune musicians could make it,” with traces of, “Appalachia[n], Chinese, classical, Celtic, and jazz influences. If there was ever an album — or an unlikely band — that embodies the word ‘eclectic,’ this is it.” Writing of Not Our First Goat Rodeo, Gramophone said “The vast majority of crossover recordings sound contrived or half-baked (or both), and do scant justice to any of the genres involved, but Yo-Yo Ma and his collaborators got it right. There’s quite a lot of stylistic variety on both recordings, yet they each feel of a piece.”

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TOUR DATES AND TICKETS

August 11, 2021
Nashville, TN
Nashville Symphony Orchestra, Ascend Amphitheater
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August 13, 2021
Auburn, AL
Amphitheatre at the City of Auburn Lawn and Porch
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August 15, 2021
Beaver Creek, CO
Vilar Performing Arts Center
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August 16, 2021
Denver, CO
Colorado Symphony, Red Rocks Amphitheater
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August 17, 2021
Salt Lake City, UT
University of Utah Presents, Red Butte Garden
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August 18, 2021
Portland, OR
Oregon Symphony, Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn
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August 20, 2021
Stanford, CA
Stanford Live, Frost Amphitheater
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August 21, 2021
Berkeley, CA
Cal Performances, Greek Theatre
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August 22, 2021
San Diego, CA
San Diego Symphony, The Shell
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