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Watkins Family Hour -- Thursdays at Largo |
Watkins Family Hour is the duo of my sister Sara Watkins and me, expanded by musical friends. We play at Largo at the Coronet on many a Thursday evening. Largo's an incredible venue for listening to music. Come on out sometime! |
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Watkins Family Hour Photos |
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The NEW YORKER feature on Largo |
Check out the New Yorker magazine article from May 19, 2008
LARGO NIGHTS
Dana Goodyear
A few days before the Super Bowl this past February, Benmont Tench, who has been playing keyboards with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for more than thirty years, took a break from rehearsing, in Tempe, Arizona, for the game's halftime performance to send a text message to a chum in Los Angeles. "This is not Largo, my friend," he wrote, as practice fireworks went off around him. "It's fun, but I wish Sara was standing next to me hitting me with her bow. And Ellen."
The chum was Mark Flanagan, or Flanny, as his friends call him, who has owned Largo, a small music-and-comedy club on Fairfax, across from Canter's deli, since 1996. Sara is Sara Watkins, the twenty-six-year-old fiddle player from Nickel Creek, who, with her brother Sean, hosts a regular evening at Largo called the Watkins Family Hour. Tench is their pianist. The photographer Ellen Tunney, a petite woman with an orb of gold curls, is Largo's bartender.
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