American music masters Edgar Meyer (bass) and Mike Marshall (mandolin) join together with George Meyer (violin) for a special collaboration usually only heard on the summer bluegrass festival circuit. CAPA hosts this trio in a 7:30 pm Tuesday, January 27, 2026, show in the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.).

Expect to hear works from Edgar’s 1999 genre-bending Short Trip Home album, featuring Marshall along with Joshua Bell and Sam Bush, as well as new music written specifically for this tour. Edgar’s son George is charting his own course in the musical world and represents the next generation of artists expressing their unique voices and perspective.

Tickets, which start at $27, go on sale at 10 am Friday, September 19, and may be purchased at the CAPA Ticket Center at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.), online at www.capa.com, and by phone at (614) 469-0939

Hailed by The New Yorker as “…the most remarkable virtuoso in the relatively un-chronicled history of his instrument,” Edgar Meyer is the only bassist to be awarded both the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize and MacArthur Grant, solidifying his unparalleled talent in his field. In 2024, he was honored with his sixth and seventh GRAMMY® Awards for As We Speak, the second acclaimed studio album released with long-time friend and collaborators, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Rakesh Chaurasia.

Last year also saw the release of But Who’s Gonna Play the Melody?, a duo album featuring fellow bassist Christian McBride, as well as a complete recording of Meyer’s three concertos for bass and orchestra with The Knights, conducted by Eric Jacobsen and produced by Chris Thile. The concerto project includes his Concertino for Bass and 14 Strings, recorded in 2023 with the Scottish Ensemble led by Jonathan Morton, who commissioned and toured the piece with Meyer in 2022.

Mike Marshall is one of the most accomplished and versatile string instrumentalists in the world today and a three-time Grammy Nominee. A master of mandolin, guitar, mandocello, and violin, Marshall is a living compendium of musical styles and has created some of the most adventurous instrumental music in America today, and has helped spawn the next generation of young string instrumentalists through his many recording projects and to his deep commitment to music education.

At age 19 he joined the David Grisman Quintet to tour and record with jazz violin legend Stephane Grappelli. Mike then went on to form the Montreux Band, Psychograss, and the Modern Mandolin Quartet, and produced over 40 of his own recordings on the Sony Classical, Rounder, Sugar Hill, Compass, Windham Hill, and his own Adventure Music label.

George Meyer is equally interested in “classical” music, in fiddle music, and in what they have in common; these interests inform his composing. His pieces for classical string-playing friends make use of lessons learned from the fiddle side, and vice versa.

He has been commissioned by Chamber Music Northwest, Bravo! Vail, Astral Artists and Katie Hyun, Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg, and the Versoi Ensemble, among many others. Festival appearances performing his own compositions include the Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail, Chamber Music Northwest, the Rome Chamber Music Festival, and the Telluride and RockyGrass Bluegrass Festivals.

He recently announced a new violin-piano duo project, Upstream, with composer-pianist Will Healy; they co-compose their repertoire.