D’Addario recently added solo artist and Nickel Creek fiddle player Sara Watkins to its artist roster. Watkins plays medium tension Helicore violin strings, and says: “I've tried fiddle strings made by other companies, but the reason I play D'Addario is the consistency of tone." Watkins spent nearly two decades as a singer and fiddle player for the Grammy Award–winning, bluegrass-folk hybrid Nickel Creek, a trio with which she’d started performing when she was eight years old, alongside her guitarist brother Sean and mandolinist Chris Thile.
After two formative years on the road fronting her own band, making stops at such events as the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, the Newport Folk Festival, and Glasgow’s Celtic Connection along the way, Watkins returned to Los Angeles to record her second Nonesuch disc.
"D'Addario is honored to have Sara join our roster of discriminating string players,” says Tom Spaulding, D’Addario’s Nashville Artist Relations Rep. “Our medium tension Helicore strings will be onstage and in the studio with Sara and Nickel Creek."
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