This year's SHERIFF SESSIONS will be held on Friday and Saturday, October 5th and 6th, at the Baggot Inn. The headliner on Friday is mandolin player extraordinaire CHRIS THILE with his exciting new band, The Tension Mountain Boys, with Gabe Witcher, fiddle, Noam Pikelny, banjo, Chris Eldridge, guitar and Greg Garrison, bass. Chris Thile fronted the Grammy Award-winning band Nickel Creek, whose self-titled debut album was certified platinum, and follow-up album This Side certified gold. Thile has also recorded with artists such as Edgar Meyers, Mike Marshall and banjo innovator Bela Fleck. His recent album featuring this band, How To Grow a Woman From the Ground was released on Sugarhill Records in 2006.

Other bands joining the festivities on Friday are Cheatin' Hearts with their special brand of bluegrass and country, The Demolition String Band, fronted by singer/songwriter Elena Skye and Grammy Award winning guitarist Boo Reiners, whose 2004 release Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow: The Songs Of Ola Belle Reed made top ten lists all over the country and helped spawn the annual Ola Belle Reed Homecoming Festival in Lansing, N.C., and The Y'all Stars, featuring Diane Stockwell, Fran Leadon, Charles Puckette, Ben Fraker,and John Cleveland playing string band music with an emphasis on songs by the Delmore Bros., Blue Sky Boys, Louvin Bros and Carter Family, as well as their original music.

SATURDAY'S headliner is BRUCE MOLSKY, one of the most influential old-time fiddlers on the scene today, as well as a remarkable guitarist, banjoist, and singer.

Other bands joining the festivities for the Saturday lineup include guitar wizard Mike Dowling a Grammy Award-winning virtuoso in the country blues, slide and swing styles, whose songs have been recorded by such artists as the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Emmylou Harris, Tim O'Brien, Kathy Mattea and Del McCoury. The Second Fiddles, a NYC based trio who play Pre War Blues, Ragtime, Hokum, Country and Swing Music from the 1920-40's, The Wiyos who play and compose Old-Timey American music inspired by the early American musical idioms of the 1920s and '30s and Big Appalacha, a great traditional Bluegrass band.

Shows start at 8 p.m. and tickets will be available September 21st at www.instantseats.com and at the Baggot Inn, 82 W. 3rd St. in Greenwich Village.

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