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The video for Sara Watkins' "Young In All the Wrong Ways," the title track off of her most recent release. Watkins will perform at the Nelsonville Music Festival on Friday, June 3 at 3:30 p.m. on the main stage.

Talking Songwriting, Performance, and Southeast Ohio With Sara Watkins

By: Emily Votaw
Posted on: Friday, May 19, 2017

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While most pre-teens in the early ’90s were experimenting with baggy pants, synthetic clothing, and various shades of plaid; Sara Watkins was playing fiddle in one of the most lauded indie bluegrass acts, Nickel Creek, with her brother and childhood pal.

Fast-forward some two decades, and when Watkins isn’t playing with her old bandmates (or opening for Jackson Browne; or touring with The Decemberists,) she’s crafting thoughtful, introspective solo albums — the most recent of which, entitled Young In All the Wrong Ways (New West Records) ponders what it means to inhabit a transitionary phase of life and accept the constantly shifting tides of the future.

WOUB’s Emily Votaw spoke with Watson some two weeks before her performance at the 2017 Nelsonville Music Festival, which will take place on Friday, June 2 at 3:30 p.m. on the main stage.

2017 Nelsonville Music Festival