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Nickel Creek on World Cafe

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Sean Watkins, Chris Thile and Sara Watkins sequenced Nickel Creek's Celebrants as a way to write the album. "We wanted the songs to relate to each other," says Sara Watkins. Josh Goleman/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Weyes Blood on World Cafe

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Folk veteran Iris DeMent shows us the 'World' she's been workin' on

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Sunny War on World Cafe

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The Thistle & Shamrock: Celtic Fusion

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O'Connor won the National Junior Fiddle Championship four years in a row, 1974-77, in Weiser, Ida. Marty O'Connor/Mark O'Connor hide caption

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Prodigious fiddler Mark O'Connor celebrates 50 years of music with memoir

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Molly Tuttle is right at home at The Station Inn in Nashville, Tenn. Joseph Ross for NPR hide caption

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In bluegrass, as in life, Molly Tuttle would rather be a 'Crooked Tree'

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