Chris Thile and Yo-Yo Ma helped kick off the Atlantic Festival in Washington, DC, this week with an eclectic medley of music from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, "Rabbit in the Log" (which Thile recorded with guitarist Michael Daves for their album Sleep With One Eye Open), and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," the lyrics for which were first published in the February 1862 issue of The Atlantic magazine. You can watch the performance below. They also led an Atlantic Festival event of music and conversation last night that examined "how culture builds bridges, not walls."

On their 2017 Nonesuch album, Bach Trios, Thile, Ma and bassist Edgar Meyer perform works by Bach originally written for keyboard instruments plus a sonata for viola da gamba. The Times of London calls Bach Trios "effervescent" and "irresistible." They had previously recorded together, with Stuart Duncan, on the Grammy-winning album The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which the Los Angeles Times called "haunting, invigorating, often breathtaking."

The latest season of Chris Thile's public radio show Live From Here continues at its new home at The Town Hall in New York City this weekend with guests Dawes, Jamila Woods, John Cameron Mitchell, and Ann Patchett, and heads to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco next weekend. Lake Street Dive's Rachael Price and her duo with Vilray, Rachael & Vilray, perform on the October 26 show, as does guest Paul Simon. Thile leads his own solo tour across the United States throughout the fall and winter. See below for details and tickets, and visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

CHRIS THILE ON TOUR

* w/Rachael Price, Rachael & Vilray