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Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile, Wigmore Hall, Sept 2011

03/04/2012 8:11 pm

Brad Mehldau’s gig with Chris Thile at Wigmore Hall in September 2011 will go down as one of my favourite nights at Wigmore Hall. My companion and I expected that a concert with a lute player would cover madrigals with a jazzy twist. Imagine our surprise when Chris Thile opened the gig with a rousing blue grass number, to whoops of delight from the back of the hall. “Hey” we thought, ” They don’t sound like Brad fans”. I think it was a night when Brad was slightly upstaged in a very good humoured way.