BE 2026

Watch: “Punch Brothers on bluegrass, collaboration and the band’s ‘instant mind meld'”

For more than a decade, the Punch Brothers have been upsetting notions of what modern bluegrass sounds like, as five of the genre’s sharpest players fold elements of pop and classical into the firmament. They explain their energy and attitude in this candid interview with Anthony Mason for CBS: Saturday Morning. We’re just glad he didn’t ask them to sit on hay bales.


BIG EARS
03.26_03.29.26
Knoxville, TN · USA

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