Saturday Morning Music Video: from the Goat Rodeo Sessions

National Public Radio (NPR)'s music folks offer what they call "Tiny Desk Concert" on a weekly basis.  It's called "tiny desk concert" because the performers are recorded while playing behind/around the desk of Bob Boilen in the NPR Music Offices.

Here's what the NPR Music YouTube Channel has to say about this video from November 2011:

"The genre-bending cellist Yo-Yo Ma heads a dream team of string players -- Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan -- who borrow from bluegrass. The quartet, plus singer Aoife O'Donovan perform three songs from their album The Goat Rodeo Sessions at the NPR Music offices.

Set List:

"Quarter Chicken Dark"
"Attaboy"
"Here And Heaven"

For more videos and to subscribe to the Tiny Desk Concerts podcast, visit NPR.org/tinydeskconcerts."

Everybody knows Yo-Yo Ma, of course. Edgar Meyer is the double bass player who often plays with Yo-Yo Ma and a host of others. Chris Thile plays mandolin with The Punch Brothers (who describe themselves as a progressive bluegrass band). Stuart Duncan fiddles with The Nashville Bluegrass Band and Aoife O'Donovan has an extensive resume (including studying at The New England Conservatory) as a singer-songwriter who sings with bluegrass band Crooked Still and the "folk noir" trio Sometymes Why, and has just released a solo album.

Enjoy!