Roots Band Low Lily and Mandolinist Matt Flinner at the Kate

OLD SAYBROOK, CT - The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, “the Kate”, welcomes Award-winning American roots band Low Lily with Grammy nominated bluegrass mandolinist Matt Flinner for a Winter Solstice Mini-Fest on Friday, December 16, 2022 at 8 pm. This collaboration celebrates the Winter Solstice with energetic instrumentals alongside impeccably arranged songs. Between them, the musicians play mandolins, guitars, fiddle, banjo, double bass, and sing in three and four part vocal harmonies.

With a vocal blend that has been dubbed “outstanding” and “meticulous,” Low Lily's cohesive sound comes naturally for musicians whose lives have been entwined on the road and onstage for almost two decades. Setting down roots in Brattleboro, Vermont, the band has crafted a signature sound which they have shared with enthusiastic audiences throughout North America and the UK, garnering two number one songs on international folk radio and two Independent Music Award wins.

Grammy-nominated mandolinist Matt Flinner has made a career out of playing acoustic music in new ways and his style and compositional ability have established him as one of the most accomplished, musically diverse mandolinists in the world. Starting out as a banjo prodigy who was playing bluegrass festivals before he entered his teens, Flinner later took up the mandolin, won the National Banjo Competition in Winfield, KS in 1990, and won the mandolin award there the following year. Matt now tours regularly with the Matt Flinner Trio, which is known for its off-the-cuff compositional daring, writing music the same day it’s performed on most of their shows.

For information and tickets for all shows at the Kate, visit www.thekate.org or call 860-510-0453.