Watkins Family Hour

Watkins Family Hour is a collaborative performance and recording project led by Los Angeles-based siblings Sean and Sara Watkins, both of whom came to prominence in the 1990s as part of the progressive bluegrass group Nickel Creek. Beginning in 2002, they were offered a monthly residency at L.A.'s famous venue Largo, which they called the Watkins Family Hour. The gig took on the form of a variety show where the Watkins' could stretch out musically, working out new material and collaborating with other players. In 2015, Sean and Sara decided to turn their show into a recording project, enlisting several of their longtime collaborators to record an album of cover songs under the Watkins Family Hour banner. After focusing on the siblings on 2020's Brother Sister, the Watkins revived the collaborative spirit on 2022's Vol. II. ~ Timothy Monger