THE ENERGY CURFEW MUSIC HOUR SEASON TWO AVAILABLE NOW ONLY
FROM AUDIBLE
October 23, 2025—Season 2 of The Energy Curfew Music Hour, hosted by Chris Thile and the Grammy Award-winning Punch Brothers, is out now only from Audible. Listen/share HERE. Watch the official video trailer HERE.
HOSTED BY CHRIS THILE AND PUNCH BROTHERS
FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS SHAWN MENDES, JACOB COLLIER, SARA BAREILLES,
BILLY STRINGS + MORE
Created by Thile and Claire Coffee, Season 2 of this one-of-a-kind musical variety show features exclusive, unexpected, one-night-only collaborations, with a wide range of guests from Shawn Mendes to Jacob Collier, Sara Bareilles to Billy Strings, Meshell Ndegeocello, Andrew Bird and more.
Recorded live at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, The Energy Curfew Music Hour takes place in the near future when diminishing resources have ushered in a worldwide effort to ration electricity. America has instituted a weekly “energy curfew” where the power grid goes down completely and we all live electricity-free for 24 hours. The Energy Curfew Music Hour hits the airwaves an hour before the lights go out while the nation tunes in and turns off together before the Dark Day.
Season 1 featured musical guests Kacey Musgraves, Jason Isbell, Jon Batiste, Norah Jones, James Taylor and more. Listen to Season 1 HERE. The season was nominated for a Webby Award in the Podcast – Features, Experimental & Innovation category, and more recently, the show was a finalist for the Listener’s Choice Award at the 2025 Signal Awards.
ABOUT CHRIS THILE
Acclaimed Grammy Award-winning mandolinist, singer, songwriter, composer, and MacArthur Fellow recipient of the prestigious “Genius Grant,” Chris Thile is a multifaceted musical talent, described by The Guardian as “that rare being: an all-round musician,” and hailed by NPR as a “genre-defying musical genius.” Thile is a founding member of the highly influential string bands Punch Brothers and Nickel Creek and has collaborated with countless luminaries from Yo-Yo Ma to Fiona Apple to Brad Mehldau. For four years, Thile hosted public radio favorite Live from Here with Chris Thile (formerly known as A Prairie Home Companion). With his broad outlook, Thile creates a distinctly American canon and a new musical aesthetic for performers and audiences alike, giving the listener “one joyous arc, with the linear melody and vertical harmony blurring into a single web of gossamer beauty” (New York Times).
Over the last couple of years, Thile toured with Nickel Creek in support of the critically acclaimed 2023 release Celebrants. Most recently, he has been captivating audiences with a playfully ambitious biographical composition entitled ATTENTION! (a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra).
ABOUT PUNCH BROTHERS
Punch Brothers, formed in 2006, are a virtuosic quintet featuring mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Brittany Haas. Known for pushing the boundaries of acoustic music, the band has garnered critical acclaim, including a Grammy for Best Folk Album for All Ashore (2018). The Washington Post applauded them for taking “bluegrass to its next evolutionary stage, drawing equal inspiration from the brain and the heart.” Over the years, they’ve become pioneers in modern string music, with albums like Antifogmatic (2010), Who’s Feeling Young Now (2012) and The Phosphorescent Blues (2015) showcasing their genre-defying sound. Rolling Stone praised their work as “wild virtuosity used for more than just virtuosity,” cementing their reputation as trailblazers in contemporary acoustic music.
ABOUT CLAIRE COFFEE
Claire Coffee is an actor, writer, director, and producer who logged her first professional theater credit at age 6 in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an actor, TV/Film highlights include starring roles on NBC’s long running show Grimm, The West Wing, S.W.A.T., Law and Order, and the short film Blocks (on which she also served as a producer), which premiered at Sundance and was optioned as a series for Showtime. As a director, Claire helmed the comedy and spoken word portion of APM’s radio show “Live From Here” for two seasons and produced and directed Chris Thile’s full length narrative orchestral piece “ATTENTION!”, which has been performed with The Knights, the LA Phil, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra. Most recently, she co-wrote and directed The Manhattan Variations, a musical which premiered at The Little Island in New York City. Claire graduated from Northwestern University’s theater program and lives in New York.
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