Awards and Nominations
- 1997 - Won Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
- 1997 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "Scotland" from True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
- 1997 - IBMA award for Album of the Year for True Life Blues: The Songs of Bill Monroe
- 2001 - IBMA award for Mandolinist of the Year
- 2002 - Won Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for "This Side" (with Nickel Creek)
- 2005 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Deceiver
- 2006 - Nominated for Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance for "The Eleventh Reel"
- 2007 - BBC's Folk Musician of the Year
- 2007 - Nominated for IBMA Mandolinist of the Year
- 2008 - Nominated for Americana Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year
- 2012 - MacArthur Fellowship ($500,000 'Genius Grant')
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