After intermittent performances between 2014 and 2019, Nickel Creek began writing new material in early 2021. On January 24, 2023, Nickel Creek announced a new album titled Celebrants , slated for release on March 24, 2023. The lead single “Strangers” was released the day the album was announced. They then…
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On February 9, 2021, Nickel Creek announced a series of livestream concerts on Feb. 21 and 28 as the start of a new series known as Livecreek. They continued to release other streams throughout early 2021.
Nickel Creek has occasionally reunited to perform on the radio show Live from Here (hosted by Thile), including once in November 2017 and again in February 2019. A Dotted Line ‘ s “Destination” was selected as the theme song for the Netflix original series, ” Sweet Magnolias .” The series…
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The band announced on February 3, 2014, that they would release a new album in the spring of 2014. Titled A Dotted Line , the album was produced by previous collaborator Eric Valentine and marked the group’s first release on Nonesuch Records . Released on April 1, 2014, in the…
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In November 2006, Sugar Hill released Reasons Why: The Very Best , a compilation of selected studio tracks from Nickel Creek’s three latest albums, as well as two previously unreleased tracks and all of the music videos from the trio’s singles. Their seven-month Farewell (For Now) Tour started in April…
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In late summer 2006, via Billboard and their official website, Nickel Creek announced that at the end of the year they would no longer record as a group and their tour, scheduled through 2007, would be their last for an indefinite period so band members could expand their musical horizons.
In 2005, the band released their fifth album, Why Should the Fire Die? with more rock and pop influences. The album debuted and peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard 200 and topped the Billboard bluegrass chart. In the summer of 2006, Nickel Creek appeared at numerous music festivals including…
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This Side entered the Billboard 200 at No. 18 on the chart, and at No. 2 on the magazine’s Top Country Albums chart. The album was certified gold in 2003 by the RIAA . The success of This Side earned the group a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album…
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During their 2002 and 2003 tour, Nickel Creek opened five shows for John Mayer in November 2002, and toured with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings earlier in the year. In 2003, Nickel Creek appeared on the Béla Fleck and the Flecktones album Little Worlds .
In 2002, the band released their fourth album, This Side , produced by Alison Krauss. It was a departure from their previous, purely bluegrass releases. The core bluegrass influence remained, but with other genres including indie rock and folk rock and they included cover songs—” Spit on a Stranger ”…
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