Lake Street Dive kicks off final week of US summer tour … Sam Amidon is in Switzerland … Devendra Banhart begins South American tour … Emmylou Harris performs in Virginia … Kronos Quartet is in Singapore … k.d. lang continues Ingénue Redux Tour in Québec … The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Bristol, Liverpool … Conor Oberst plays Pacific Northwest … and more …
Lake Street Dive kicks off the final week of its extensive US summer tour with a set at Snowmass Town Park in Colorado tonight, as part of JAS Aspen Snowmass. The band plays at KTAOS Solar Center in Taos, New Mexico, on Saturday, and Crossroads in Kansas City, Missouri, on Labor Day Monday. The tour continues with stops in Texas, Louisiana, and Florida in the week ahead, culminating at the Sing Out Loud Festival in Saint Augustine next Saturday. Band member Bridget Kearney spoke to the Kansas City Star ahead of Monday’s show; you can read the interview here.
Lake Street Dive made its Nonesuch debut last year, with the critically acclaimed Side Pony. The Boston Globe calls the album an "exuberant, harmony-rich blend of pop, soul, and jazz," and Paste writes that the band's "experimentation reaps triumphant results." Rolling Stone calls the album "irresistible."
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Sam Amidon performs a set at Jazz Festival Willisau in Willisau, Switzerland, tonight. Amidon, who released his newest album, The Following Mountain, earlier this year, heads out on a tour of North America later this month. The Evening Standard gives the album four stars, praising its “captivating arrangements and elegiac charm.”
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Devendra Banhart begins a tour of South America, featuring music from his latest album, Ape in Pink Marble, with a performance at CC Barranco in Lima, Peru, tonight, followed by a concert at Teatro La Cupula in Santiago, Chile, on Sunday.
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Emmylou Harris performs at the Orkney Springs Hotel in Orkney Springs, Virginia, Saturday, as part of the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival season of concerts. The New York Times has called Harris “the reigning queen of Americana.” The Wall Street Journal says: “Her voice remains an open channel for otherworldly beauty, earthy and ethereal in equal measure.”
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Kronos Quartet is at the Drama Centre Theatre in Singapore for two performances at the Singapore International Festival of Arts this weekend. The quartet gives the Asia-Pacific premiere of Jonathan Berger’s My Lai tonight, joined by Vân-Ánh Võ, who collaborated on the Vietnam War-informed piece with Kronos’ David Harrington, and with vocalist Rinde Eckert. On Saturday, the quartet performs one of its eclectic programs, with works by Laurie Anderson, Bryce Dessner, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and more, including pieces composed for the quartet’s Fifty for the Future commissioning project.
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k.d. lang continues the month-long Canadian leg of her Ingénue Redux Tour in Québec this weekend, performing at the Place des Arts‘ Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier in Montreal on Saturday and the Grand Théâtre de Québec on Sunday. The concerts follow the recent release of the Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition double album on Nonesuch. "Ingénue still dazzles, 25 years later,” exclaims Uncut. “A modern classic … Perfectly pitched, in pretty much every way.”
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The Magnetic Fields bring the 50 Song Memoir concert tour to Bristol and Liverpool this weekend. The group performed the first program (songs 1–25) at Colston Hall in Bristol yesterday, and completes the set with songs 26–50 there tonight. The stage extravaganza, directed by José Zayas, heads to Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool on Sunday and Monday. The Times of London gives recent performances in Edinburgh four stars, calling it “a life affirming portrait of a life in song”
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Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, begins the next leg of his Salutations tour in the Pacific Northwest this weekend. The band plays a sold-out show at The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham, Washington, tonight, followed by a set at the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle on Saturday and a concert at the Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre in Portland on Sunday.
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