Sara Watkins @ The Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington

Sara Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1989 as fiddler and founding member of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek, along with her brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile. Watkins also plays the ukulele and guitar, and played percussion while touring with The Decemberists, an indie rock band based in Portland, Oregon.

Watkins released her third solo album, Young in All the Wrong Ways, in 2016. “This is a breakup album with myself…” says Watkins of writing and recording these ten soul-baring songs about the last couple of year, a time in her life which she considers transformative. “I looked around and realized that in many ways I wasn’t who or where I wanted to be. It’s been a process of letting go and leaving behind patterns and relationships and in some cases how I’ve considered myself.”