The Nonesuch Journal is taking a bit of a break for a summer holiday, ready to return with all the latest Nonesuch news on Monday, July 27. Until then, the summer concert season remains in full swing, of course, and with plenty of great music being made around the world, here's a look at some of the many events featuring Nonesuch artists in the coming days, hopefully reaching wherever your summer travels may take you. For additional details and tickets links for these and other upcoming shows, head to nonesuch.com/on-tour.
The Nonesuch Journal is taking a bit of a break for a summer holiday, ready to return with all the latest Nonesuch news on Monday, July 27. Until then, the summer concert season remains in full swing, of course, and with plenty of great music being made around the world, here's a look at some of the many events featuring Nonesuch artists in the coming days, hopefully reaching wherever your summer travels may take you. For additional details and tickets links for these and other upcoming shows, head to nonesuch.com/on-tour.
Sam Amidon, The Staves Help Inaugurate Eaux Claires
Sam Amidon and The Staves take part in Justin Vernon’s inaugural Eaux Claires Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Friday and Saturday, 7/17&18. The festival is co-curated by Vernon, who produced The Staves’ Nonesuch Records debut album, If I Was, in Eau Claire, and The National’s Aaron Dessner. On their way to the festival, the Staves stopped by Minnesota Public Radio's The Current to perform a few songs from the new album; you can hear the session here.
The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Tour Europe
The Bad Plus Joshua Redman continues its tour of Europe, bookending the week with two Saturday stops in Spain: at Auditorio de la Diputación de Alicant in Alicante for FiJazz Alicante (7/18) and at Heineken Jazzaldia in San Sebastián (7/25). During the week, the quartet, which recently released its debut album on Nonesuch Records, performs in Italy, at Villa Arno in Albinea (7/20) and Anfiteatro Rastatt in Fano (7/24), and with a mid-week set at Kupferschmiede in Langnau, Switzerland, for Langnau Jazz Nights (7/22).
The Black Keys Headline Canadian Festivals
The Black Keys head north of the 49th parallel to headline two festival sets in British Columbia: closing out the main stage Friday night at the Pemberton Music Festival in Pemberton Valley (7/17) and closing out the main stage Saturday night at Rock the Shores in Colwood (7/18).
Tyondai Braxton Joins Four Tet at Manchester International Festival
Tyondai Braxton is in the UK to join Koreless, Eat Your Own Ears, and Now Wave DJs in supporting Four Tet in concert at the biennial Manchester International Festival tonight (7/17). The concert, titled 10x10 and held at the Mayfield Depot, marks ten years in the city for Manchester International Festival and The Warehouse Project.
Olivia Chaney Performs on SiriusXM
Olivia Chaney—who, having penned the tune “Holiday” for her debut album, The Longest River, is currently enjoying one herself—can be heard on The Village Folk Show on SiriusXM’s The Bridge, channel 32, Sunday morning (7/19) starting around 9 AM ET. The show will be rebroadcast on SiriusXM The Village, channel 741 online in the United States and on satellite in Canada all week. The show will also be available for two weeks on demand at siriusxm.com/ondemand under The Bridge.
Ry Cooder Tours Midwest with Sharon White and Ricky Skaggs
Guitarist Ry Cooder, singer Sharon White, and country/bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs kicked off the "Cooder-White-Skaggs" North American tour, their maiden voyage as a musical trio, last month, launched the next leg of the tour at the Minnesota Zoo last night. They’re making stops across the Midwest in the week ahead: Pabst Theater in Milwaukee (7/17), Thalia Hall in Chicago (7/18), The Sheldon in St. Louis (7/20), and Uptown Theater in Kansas City (7/21).
Jeremy Denk Plays Brahms at Benaroya Hall
Jeremy Denk joins the Seattle Chamber Music Society for its 2015 Summer Festival in Benaroya Hall’s Nordstrom Recital Hall tonight (7/17). As part of a larger program, Denk, Yura Lee, and Jeffrey Fair perform Brahms’s Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 40.
Rhiannon Giddens Tours US East Coast, Plays Canada Festivals
Rhiannon Giddens, just off a tour of Europe with music from her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, kicks off the next leg of her North American tour with a free Celebrate Brooklyn! set at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn on Saturday (7/18); opening the show is Joe Henry, who produced Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Grammy Award–winning Nonesuch Records debut album, Genuine Negro Jig. The tour then makes its way up the East Coast with shows at Provincetown Town Hall on Cape Cod (7/20), Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts (7/21), and Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Connecticut (7/22).
From there, Giddens and the band head to Canada for three festival sets next weekend: WayHome Music & Arts Festival in Oro-Medonte, Ontario (7/24), Interstellar Rodeo in Edmonton (7/25), and Calgary Folk Festival (7/26).
Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell Tour Both Sides of the Atlantic
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell close out the current leg of their European tour this weekend with festival sets at SummerTyne Americana Festival in Gateshead, England (7/17), and Peer Blues Festival in Peer, Belgium (7/18), and a sold-out show at National Concert Hall in Dublin (7/19).
Harris and Crowell, who released their second duets album, The Traveling Kind, earlier this year, travel back home to the States for two festival sets on the East Coast next weekend: a free set in Copley Square in Boston as part of the Boston Summer Arts Weekend (7/25) and a spot at FloydFest in Floyd, Virginia (7/26).
Kronos Quartet Perform at German Literature and Music Festival
Kronos Quartet takes part in a Literature and Music Festival in Bielefeld, Germany, this weekend (7/17&18). The program for both nights at the Dr. Oetker Welt Betriebskantine features a number of readings and multiple sets, including a selection from Terry Riley’s Salome Dances for Peace, as heard on the newly released Nonesuch Records box set One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley, and an arrangement of The Who’s own tribute to Riley, Baba O’Riley.
Audra McDonald Sings at Tanglewood
Audra McDonald performs at Tanglewood’s Seiji Ozawa Hall in Lenox, Massachusetts, this Sunday (7/19), joined by her music director and pianist Andy Einhorn and her band of Mark Vanderpoel on bass and Gene Lewin on drums. McDonald is spending much of the summer in the region, as she and her husband Will Swenson star in a Williamstown Theater Festival production of Eugene O’Neill’s A Moon for the Misbegotten August 5–23.
Randy Newman Plays Chicago Gala, Free Lincoln Center Out of Doors Set
Randy Newman helps support the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago as the headliner at the venue’s annual Blue Jean Gala on Thursday (7/23). Also on the program is special guest Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires. Newman then heads East for two shows in and around New York City: a free set in Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors series on Saturday (7/25) and An Evening with Randy Newman at Tarrytown Music Hall on Sunday (7/26).
Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters Tour Europe
Robert Plant and his band The Sensational Space Shifters continue their tour of Europe this week, covering considerable ground across the continent: Pori Jazz Festival in Finland (7/18), Positivus Festival in Latvia (7/19), Charlotta Valley Amphitheatre in Poland (7/21), Hala Rondo in Brno, Czech Republic (7/23), and Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland (7/25). The European tour continues into August, and Plant and the band head to the United States in September.
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