
Luke Bulla Trio
March 7 @ 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM PST
The Del Mar Foundation’s Cultural Arts Committee
proudly presents
The Luke Bulla Trio
featuring Luke Bulla, Mike Witcher & Ethan Ballinger
in a special Bluegrass and Beyond Performance
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2025
TOWN HALL
Del Mar Civic Center
1050 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar, CA
(ample free parking is available at the Civic Center)
7:30 PM (DOORS OPEN AT 7:00 PM)
$20 General Admission
$45 Reserved Seats (Tier 1) – sold out!
$35 Reserved Seats (Tier 2) – almost sold out
Also performing Thursday, March 6 as part of the First Thursdays subscription series

TICKETS
Note that Tier 1 reserved seats are now sold out; a very limited number of Tier 2 reserved seats are available as of 4pm on Feb. 17. General Admission seats are still available.
Use the drop-down menu below to select and buy tickets. (If you want to buy more than two tickets, select one ticket to add to your shopping cart, then adjust the quantity in the shopping cart.)
Ticket confirmations: We will send you an email confirmation of your ticket purchase within 2 business days, to the email address associated with your ticket purchase (or PayPal account, if you have one). We do not send paper tickets; your name will be on the list at the door. If you have not received an email confirmation, check your spam folder; contact us at dmf@delmarfoundation.org if you need us to re-send your confirmation.
Reserved Seats are assigned in priority based on date/time of ticket purchase. If you specify your preferred seats (and alternates) when you buy tickets, we’ll assign seats accordingly, or if your preferred seats are unavailable, we’ll send you an updated seating chart so you can select seats. The seating chart is below. If you purchase reserved seats, we will have a seating chart for you at the check-in table.
Ticket sales are final. If you want to change the name for your tickets on our check-in list, please send an email with that information before noon on the day of show to: dmf@delmarfoundation.org.
If you want to buy more than two tickets: select one ticket to add to your shopping cart, then adjust the quantity in the shopping cart.

About The Luke Bulla Trio
LUKE BULLA – champion fiddler, singer and GRAMMY Award winner – has been singing and playing music most of his life. Touring with and singing in his family band from the age of four, he took up fiddle at seven. He won the National Fiddle Contest in Weiser, Idaho, six times in his respective age categories. His seventh win came in the Grand Champion division at age 16, making him the youngest to have earned the title at the time. Luke moved to Nashville in 1999 to establish himself as a full-time musician; during his early years in Tennessee, he played fiddle in Ricky Skaggs’ band, Kentucky Thunder, later becoming a member of the John Cowan Band. In 2009, Luke released a solo EP featuring Jerry Douglas, Sam Bush, Bela Fleck, Aoife O’Donovan; that same year he began touring full time with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band, until 2023. Luke has performed or recorded with many well-known artists including Brandi Carlile, Chris Thile, Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, Shawn Colvin, Tony Rice, Patty Griffin, Rodney Crowell and Earl Scruggs. After settling down in Texas in 2019, Luke is currently touring the country playing solo and trio performances.
MIKE WITCHER With his gorgeous tone, dead-on intonation, and musical ideas and solos that are jaw-droppingly creative and tasteful, Mike Witcher is one of the best dobro players in the world. The youngest of five siblings (including a twin brother) in a musical and artistic family in the suburbs of Los Angeles, Mike Witcher began playing the dobro at the age of 14. Influenced by the many styles of music he heard at home, he was soon playing with his father, Dennis, and brother Gabe (Punch Brothers) in the Southern California bluegrass band the Witcher Brothers. An in-demand session player in LA and Nashville, Michael has worked with Peter Rowan, Dwight Yoakam, Dolly Parton, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist), Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek), and many others.
ETHAN BALLINGER is one of roots Nashville’s most respected guitarists, known for his supple playing, harmonic sense and aural complexity. He was born to a pair of touring bluegrass playing parents in Tennessee: “My parents played in a bluegrass band called the Cluster Pluckers, so I never had a shot at being normal,” he says. His raising was assuredly atypical. Not many guitarists’ parents hosted picking parties attended by the likes of Chet Atkins, John Hartford and Roy Acuff. “There’s a picture of me at three years old with a little toy banjo, jamming with Chet,” he says. Ballinger picked up the fiddle at age 3, piano at 7, and then moved on to guitar at 10, “because my friend had drums, and we had a garage band.” Ethan is a studio and touring guitarist and producer who has recorded and performed with artists including Adam Chaffins, Amythyst Kiah, Miranda Lambert, Aubrie Sellers, and Lee Ann Womack. He was nominated for Instrumentalist of the Year at the 2022 Americana Music Association’s Americana Honors & Awards.