I’m With Her and Amos Lee Announced as Guests on Chris Thile and Punch Brothers’ ‘Energy Curfew Music Hour’
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Today, Chris Thile and Punch Brothers have announced that I’m With Her and Amos Lee will join as the guest stars for their next staging of The Energy Curfew Music Hour on Monday, Feb. 24. The storied Americana trio of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz and Aoife O’Donovan and chart-topping roots-rock singer-songwriter Lee are outstanding additions to the series, perfectly suited to further its innovative spin on traditional music
The Energy Curfew Music Hour is spearheaded by Thile and co-creator Claire Coffee and hosted by Thile and fellow Punch Brothers of Noam Pikelny, Chris Eldridge, Paul Kowert and Brittany Haas. The revue event is themed around an alluring fictional premise: in an imagined near-future, the government enacts a weekly curfew to conserve energy by shutting down the electrical grid completely for twenty-four hours. Listeners across the country tune into the national broadcast of acoustic music in the final hour of power to usher in the great unplugging.
“The forces of the show are geared towards transporting all of us–the listener, the participants, the guests and us,” Thile detailed in a feature for the December 2024 issue of Relix. “There’s such an emphasis on collaboration and an emphasis on playing acoustically, regardless of what you normally do. We wanted to run the gamut, in terms of musical approach–not just over the course of the season but across each episode. We selected guests not only based on their prowess but also because they are all very natural collaborators. Part of the plan was, ‘Let’s see if one and one can make three.’”
This fifth episode of The Energy Curfew Music Hour’s second season follows exceptional guest-spots from Billy Strings, Jesca Hoop, Shawn Mendes, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sullivan Fortner, Jacob Coller, Tune-Yards, Sara Bareilles and Meshell Ndegeocello in 2025 so far. Season one invited such tremendous talents as Lake Street Dive, Madison Cunningham, James Taylor, Jason Isbell, Sylvan Esso, Norah Jones, Kacey Musgraves, and Jon Batiste, all of whom embraced the show’s format and storytelling to deliver unforgettable stripped-back sets. All previous episodes of The Energy Curfew Music Hour are available on Audible and elsewhere as podcasts now.
A limited number of tickets for Monday’s performance are still available both online and in person at the Minetta Lane Theatre box office. At 9:00 a.m. on the day of the show, fans will be able to purchase standing room tickets via the TodayTix app.
Tune into The Energy Curfew Music Hour here. Read Thile’s recent Relix feature here.
