Emmylou Harris hosts Miracle on Music Row benefit in Nashville, then performs on Opry at the Ryman with Rodney Crowell ... Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis," airs on SHOWTIME; John Goodman hosts SNL ... Carolina Chocolate Drops close out tour, bid farewell to Dom Flemons ... London Philharmonic Orchestra performs Adams’s El Niño ... Shawn Colvin joins Heart in Vancouver ... The Thin Blue Line turns 25 ... The Sound of Music with Audra McDonald airs again ... Steve Reich celebrates Sol LeWitt in NYC; City Life is performed at Carnegie Hall ... and more ...
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have a full day ahead of them on Saturday, starting with the fourth annual Miracle on Music Row, a day-long event hosted by Harris at O.live Body Bar in Edgehill Village to benefit Harris’s dog rescue, Bonaparte’s Retreat, and Crossroads Campus, which gives disadvantaged youth and adults the opportunity to care for homeless cats and dogs. Miracle on Music Row, which runs from 10 AM to 3 PM, includes a holiday concert from Harris and Crowell, Buddy Miller, and others, as well as a pet parade with Harris and Santa, pet costume contest, silent auction, photos with Santa, and holiday shopping. The event is free with a $20 suggested donation.
In the evening, Harris and Crowell perform two sets for the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium, at 7 PM and 9:30 PM EST. The revered radio show, hosted by Mike Terry, is nationally syndicated and broadcast on 650 AM WSM, as well as streamed online at opry.com/wsm.
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell’s album Old Yellow Moon, released earlier this year on Nonesuch, has been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album of the Year. The album was also recently ranked among the best albums of 2013 by Mojo, American Songwriter, and Uncut, and has landed in the Top Ten of Amazon Customer Favorite Albums of 2013.
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Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of "Inside Llewyn Davis," a one-night-only concert, was held at New York City’s Town Hall in September to celebrate the music of the film Inside Llewyn Davis. The evening was filmed for a documentary that receives its broadcast premiere on SHOWTIME tonight at 10 PM. Nonesuch Records will release a live album from the concert in late winter/early spring 2014 (details to follow soon). The concert, documentary, and live album were produced by Inside Llewyn Davis writer/director/producers Joel and Ethan Coen and soundtrack producer T Bone Burnett.
Tonight’s documentary features performances from the film’s star, Oscar Isaac, as well as The Avett Brothers, Joan Baez, Rhiannon Giddens, Colin Meloy, The Milk Carton Kids, Marcus Mumford, Punch Brothers, Dave Rawlings Machine, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch, Willie Watson, Jack White, and more, plus behind-the-scenes material and interviews with the filmmakers and cast.
"Picture a parade of superb classic and contemporary folk, roots, and rock musicians playing in your living room and you’ll have some idea of the cozy feel of the concert film," raves the Boston Globe's Sarah Rodman. The documentary, says the Hollywood Reporter, “well captures the highlights of one of the year’s finest concerts.”
Another Inside Llewyn Davis star, John Goodman, who emceed the Town Hall concert, will put those skills to good use this weekend as he hosts Saturday Night Live on NBC, marking his lucky 13th time as host of the show.
Inside Llewyn Davis opened in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles last weekend and expands to more theaters across the United States next weekend.
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Just as Rhiannon Giddens’s Town Hall performance airs as part of the documentary tonight, she and her fellow Carolina Chocolate Drops conclude their two-night run at the Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, before rounding out their December tour back home in North Carolina, with a two-night run at The Neighborhood Theatre in Charlotte on Saturday and Sunday.
The tour celebrates and bids farewell to founding member Dom Flemons, who will go on to pursue his solo career. Led by co-founder Giddens, the band will tour throughout 2014 with Hubby Jenkins and two new musicians, cellist Malcolm Parson and multi-instrumentalist Rowan Corbett, who will join the group in the New Year.
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In celebration of the holiday season, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Vladimir Jurowski, performs John Adams’s Nativity oratorio El Niño at Royal Festival Hall in London on Saturday. The evening-length oratorio—recorded by Nonesuch Records in 2000—brings a new perspective to the ancient Nativity story, drawing from pre-Christian and modern texts in English, Latin, and Spanish compiled by Adams and longtime collaborator Peter Sellars.
El Niño will be restaged by British director John La Bouchardière for the 2014 Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, South Carolina, next May.
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Shawn Colvin, following last night’s performance with Heart at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, joins the rock band for a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia, tonight, as part of Heart & Friends: Home for the Holidays. Colvin kicks off the California leg of her solo tour in early January.
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The Thin Blue Line, the groundbreaking documentary from director Errol Morris, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The film tells the true story of a Dallas murder case in the mid-‘70s that was eventually overturned. The IFC Center in New York City marks the film’s anniversary with a week of screenings, staring tonight. The soundtrack, featuring a score by Philip Glass, was released on Nonesuch Records.
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The television broadcast of The Sound of Music, which featured Audra McDonald as the Mother Abbess and Carrie Underwood as Maria, and which aired live on NBC last week, receives an encore broadcast on NBC Saturday night at 8 PM ET. You can watch McDonald sing "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" here:
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Steve Reich joins Sō Percussion to celebrate the work and memory of the late artist Sol LeWitt with a special performance at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City on Sunday. Proceeds from the benefit concert, which coincides with the exhibition Sol LeWitt: The Music Collection at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, go to support the museum’s public programs and exhibitions. First on Sunday’s program is Clapping Music, with the composer joining in the performance, followed by the percussion quartet’s recital of Drumming, a piece LeWitt helped make possible back in 1971 by purchasing several copies of the score from Reich.
Sō Percussion will perform Drumming again at the 2014 Big Ears Festival in Knoxville in March, for which Reich is Artist-in-Residence.
Another work by Reich, City Life, is featured on Saturday’s program from Ensemble ACJW’s performance in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City. The ensemble, led by conductor David Robertson, comprises young professionals from The Academy, a collaborative project of Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, the Weill Music Institute, and NYC Department of Education. Soprano Dawn Upshaw kicks off the program with a performance of Berio’s Folk Songs, and the evening closes with another 20th century work, Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta.
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