Bluegrass Duo Flynn Cohen & Laura Orshaw, With Grammy-Nominated Matt Flinner

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Before they play Boston’s Club Passim, Flynn Cohen and Laura Orshaw will appear at Town Hall Theater on Friday, October 10th, performing a range of traditional and contemporary bluegrass music with harmony singing, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin. Their tour marks the 20th anniversary of Flynn’s 2005 solo record Mellow Yell, which will be reissued in hard copy and released to streaming services. The original recording featured performances from a large group of Flynn’s musical collaborators at the time–Aoife O’Donovan, Rushad Eggleston, Greg Liszt, John McGann, Jake Armerding, Nate Leath, Chris Pandolfi, Eric Merrill, and Mark Schatz–and was called “a masterpiece of contemporary bluegrass” by Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

A respected powerhouse on the Bluegrass scene, Orshaw was the first female to win SPBGMA Fiddle Player of the Year and prides herself on keeping the sounds of traditional Bluegrass alive in the genre. With her sophomore solo project set to be released in early 2026, Orshaw is already a seasoned performer, having toured throughout the world opening and sharing the stage with artists such as Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, John Scofield, Jim Lauderdale, Old Crow Medicine Show, Sarah Jarosz, Becky Buller, and Darol Anger among others. Orshaw has celebrated a successful career as a member of the Grammy nominated Po’ Ramblin’ Boys and a two IBMA award winner (2020 Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year, 2020 Collaborative Recording of the Year).

Grammy-nominated Matt Flinner has been playing banjo and mandolin from the start and dedicated himself to Bluegrass from a young age. Living in Ripton, VT, Flinner has spent the last several decades of his life touring with the Matt Flinner Trio and the Modern Mandolin quartet. He also writes musical compositions, some of which have been performed by the Ying Quartet and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra.