Town Hall Theater Presents

Bluegrass with Flynn Cohen and Laura Orshaw with special guest Matt Flinner

Friday, October 10 at 7:30pm

Before they play Boston's Club Passim, Flynn Cohen and Laura Orshaw will appear at Town Hall Theater performing a range of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music with harmony singing, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. Their tour marks the 20th anniversary of Cohen’s 2005 solo record Mellow Yell, which will be reissued in hard copy and released to streaming services. The original recording featured performances from a large group of Cohen’s musical collaborators at the time–Aoife O’Donovan, Rushad Eggleston, Greg Liszt, John McGann, Jake Armerding, Nate Leath, Chris Pandolfi, Eric Merrill, and Mark Schatz–and was called “a masterpiece of contemporary bluegrass” by Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

A respected powerhouse on the Bluegrass scene, Orshaw was the first female to win SPBGMA Fiddle Player of the Year and prides herself on keeping the sounds of traditional bluegrass alive in the genre. Grammy-nominated banjo and mandolin player Matt Flinner, a Ripton resident, will play a set and join Cohen and Orshaw on several songs.