Westword: Are you from the East Coast originally?
Chris Pandolfi: I am. I grew up in New York just north of [New York City]. My whole family is kind of Northeast-centric. I went to college [in New Hampshire], and then I went to grad school in Boston. After that I moved down to Nashville, which is where the Infamous Stringdusters got their start, and after the band got established there, I made my way out to Colorado [in 2013], which has been great. It’s a place I’ve always loved, and it’s become such an epicenter for bluegrass and acoustic music in recent years, which has translated into a lot of cool opportunities for me. It checked a lot of the boxes.