: The Goat Rodeo Sessions - Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer

Yo-Yo Ma, one of the world’s most celebrated cellists, returns with a genre-defying recording featuring four great American musicians

Yo-Yo Ma once again embraces styles and traditions that go beyond Classical Music by bringing together four American string virtuosos and creating a new kind of chamber ensemble. Joining Yo-Yo Ma are bassist Edgar Meyer, mandolinist Chris Thile and fiddler Stuart Duncan.

With strong bluegrass influences in evidence, The Goat Rodeo Sessions is a landmark album project by four of the greatest instrumentalists in music today.

While each musician is a renowned superstar in his own sphere, they have come together now as a unified ensemble on a most remarkable and organic cross-genre project stemming from their friendship, and the title concept. The Goat Rodeo is summed up by Yo-Yo Ma: “In the end, what we’re trying to do is simply make music that transcends whatever roots or categories of backgrounds that it starts from – that just exists as something that we’re trying to express, through our community of values, as a moment in time creating very special music.”