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! 
 
Watkins Family Hour Photos
 
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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