Watkins Family Hour is a bluegrass musical collaborative led by siblings Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, who also form two-thirds of the Americana music group Nickel Creek. The group began in 2002 as a monthly, informal musical variety show with the Watkins siblings and their friends in the Los Angeles nightclub Largo.^[1]

Their eponymous debut album, which consists entirely of covers,^[2] was released on July 24, 2015, on Family Hour Records via Thirty Tigers,^[3] and was produced by Sheldon Gomberg.^[4] In addition to Sara and Sean Watkins, musicians who performed on this album include Fiona Apple, Lone Justice's Don Heffington, Benmont Tench, Greg Leisz, and Soul Coughing’s Sebastian Steinberg.^[3] According to Metacritic, Watkins Family Hour received generally favorable reviews from critics; on the site, the album has a score of 76 out of 100, based on six reviews.^[4]

Their second album Brother Sister was released on January 17, 2020, by Family Hour Records and Thirty Tigers,^[5] and their third album Vol. II was released August 19, 2022, by Family Hour.^[6][7]