Celebrated bluegrass/roots band Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway will grace the Weis Center for the Performing Arts stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 29.

“As one of the most compelling new voices in the roots music world, Molly Tuttle is a virtuosic multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter with a lifelong love of bluegrass, a genre the Northern California-bred artist first discovered thanks to her father (a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist) and grandfather (a banjo player whose Illinois farm she visited throughout her childhood),” reads a recent press release from the Weis Center.

Tuttle’s new album, City of Gold, was released in July 2023 to critical praise, the release said. City of Gold was inspired by Tuttle’s constant touring with Golden Highway these past few years and follows her 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won Best Bluegrass Album at the 65th annual GRAMMY Awards.

The new album arrives during “a triumphant year” for Tuttle, who is nominated for seven awards at the 2023 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards: Entertainer of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Guitar Player of the Year, Album of the Year (Crooked Tree), Song of the Year (“Crooked Tree”), Instrumental Group of the Year and Collaborative Recording of the Year (“From My Mountain [Calling You]” with Peter Rowan and Lindsay Lou), the release said. Golden Highway band member Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is also nominated for Fiddle Player of the Year.

In addition to Tuttle (vocals, acoustic guitar) and Keith-Hynes (fiddle, harmony vocals), Golden Highway includes Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Shelby Means (bass, harmony vocals) and Kyle Tuttle (banjo, harmony vocals).

Raised in Northern California, Tuttle moved to Nashville in 2015. In the years since, she’s been nominated for Best New Artist at the 65th annual GRAMMY Awards, won Album of the Year at the 2023 International Folk Music Awards, Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Awards, Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2018 Americana Music Awards and Guitar Player of the Year at the IBMAs in both 2017 and 2018, the first woman to receive the honor, according to the release.

Tuttle has performed around the world, including shows with Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Hiss Golden Messenger, Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show and Dwight Yoakam as well as at several major festivals including Newport Folk Festival and Pilgrimage.

Tickets are available online at bucknell.edu/boxoffice or by calling the box office at 570-577-1000. Tickets can also be purchased in person in the Weis Center lobby on weekdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The performance is sponsored, in part, by the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.