Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins perform at the Pete Seeger-inspired Clearwater Festival in upstate NY ... Björk brings Biophilia to Fes Festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play Colorado's Palisade Fest ... Dr. John takes Treme to Oakland ... Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson duet in Brooklyn ... The Low Anthem do Dublin ... Emmylou Harris and others celebrate Kate McGarrigle at Luminato ... Joshua Redman launches four-show Paris residency, including duo set with Brad Mehldau ... and more ...
The Pete Seeger-inspired Clearwater Festival, a fixture along New York's Hudson River, takes place this weekend at Croton Point Park in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, and features performances by Punch Brothers and Sara Watkins. The festival directly benefits environmental research, education, and advocacy.
Punch Brothers play a 2:40 ET set on the Rainbow Stage on Saturday, a week after another stellar set from the band at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival; you can watch four songs from that set at punchbrothers.com.
Sara Watkins, who played at Bonnaroo as well, has an 11 ET set on the Clearwater Festival's Hudson Stage on Sunday. Prior to her Clearwater performance, she plays two additional shows this weekend: opening for Dawes for a Friday Cheers session on Brown's Island in Richmond, Virginia, tonight, and headlining at City Winery in New York City on Saturday, with an opening set from Bhi Bhiman. The latter is a Critic's Pick from Time Out New York, which describes her self-titled solo debut album on Nonesuch as "gorgeous" and her second album, Sun Midnight Sun, released just last month on Nonesuch, as "equally lovely, even more ambitious."
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Björk resumes her international tour featuring music from her latest album, Biophilia, with a performance at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Fes, Morocco, tonight.
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Carolina Chocolate Drops—following a solo performance from band member Rhiannon Giddens with the Amici New York Orchestra at the OK Mozart festival tonight—perform at River Bend Park in Palisade, Colorado, on Sunday as part of the Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Festival.
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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Dr. John is the guest on NPR's World Cafe today, the culmination of the program's week-long exploration of the music of his hometown, New Orleans. For a live celebration of the city and its music, Dr. John performs in Another Night in Treme, a tribute to the Crescent City neighborhood of Treme and the HBO series it inspired, at the Paramount Theater in Oakland, California, tonight as part of the SFJAZZ Spring Season. He is joined by his band the Lower 911 featuring Jon Cleary and fellow New Orleans natives Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Leo Nocentelli, and Ivan Neville. On Sunday, he performs at the Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, supporting Gov't Mule.
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Philip Glass wraps up his three-day residency at the ISSUE Project Room in New York City, titled Music with Friends, with a sold-out performance featuring Laurie Anderson, Tara Hugo, Ryan Sawyer and Ben Vida tonight. The night opens with a solo performance by Philip Glass and closes with a performance by Laurie Anderson and a special duo performance between Anderson and Glass.
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The Low Anthem continues its European tour with two shows in Dublin this weekend: at Whelans tonight and at Roisin Dubh on Saturday.
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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, the life and music of Kate McGarrigle will be celebrated in concert at Toronto's Luminato festival tonight featuring members of her family, including her sisters, Anna and Jane, and her children, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and friends like Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Ron Sexsmith, Jane Siberry, Peggy Seeger, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren, and more.
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The Fernando Otero Quartet performs at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City Saturday night.
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Joshua Redman is the focus of a four-night, multi-concert Domaine Privé at the venues of Cité de la Musique in Paris that will showcase some of the different combinations of musicians the saxophone player has explored, starting with a concert at the Salle des Concerts with Axis Saxophone Quartet, featuring Mark Turner, Chris Potter, and Chris Cheek, tonight. Redman is joined by label mate Brad Mehldau for a duo set at Salle Pleyel on Saturday and his double trio, featuring bassists Matt Penman and Reuben Rogers and drummers Brian Blade and Gregory Hutchinson at the Salle des Concerts on Sunday. The Domaine Privé concludes with the trio of Elastic Band Revisited, featuring Sam Yahel and Brian Blade, on Monday.
Brad Mehldau precedes Saturday's duo show in Paris with a solo set at the Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon tonight.
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