Sean Watkins

Sean Watkins - Guitar

Sean, is the guitarist for the Grammy award winning band, Nickel Creek. For a limited time, Sean will be teaching weekly small group lessons at Westwood Music. He'll be teaching groups of up to 3 students, (mandolin and/or guitar) with a focus on bluegrass flat picking and rhythm techniques within the framework of getting to play with peers and the accelerated musical learning and understudying that only comes from that experience.

More about Sean;

Sean Watkins, is the guitarist for the Grammy award winning band, Nickel Creek which which in their tenure, acquired much critical acclaim and sold more than 2 million records. Sean has three solo albums on Sugar Hill records.

Recently and most notably, he teamed up with Switchfoot singer, Jon Foreman, to form the duo band Fiction Family. They released an album in January 2009 on ATO Records and are currently working on album #2. Sean is also one of the founding members of the band experimental super group WPA. 

Along side all of the aforementioned, for the last 9 years, Sean and his sister Sara have had a monthly residency at the Hollywood club, Largo. Their show, the Watkins Family Hour, has become a large part of the thriving music scene that revolves around Largo and often it features regular special guests Jackson Browne, Fiona Apple, Greg Leisz, and Benmont Tench, just to name a few.

Sean's session work resume includes playing guitar and singing on records by notable artist such as Dolly Parton, Lyle Lovett, the Chieftains, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Hank Williams Jr., and Ron Block.

Sean, who has much teaching experience including two stints at the Rockygrass  Academy, is spending the year at home in Los Angeles and will be teaching weekly, small group lessons at Westwood Music. We are very excited to have Sean as part of our program and hope you'll enjoy the many benefits of what he has to share.