Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris join Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis for music from Ken Burns’s Country Music in NYC … Sam Amidon tours Midwest … Tyondai Braxton performs in Austria … David Byrne is on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on HBO ... Jeremy Denk begins tour with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis … Gabriel Kahane, Lake Street Dive conclude European tours … Gaby Moreno performs in San Diego … Joshua Redman Trio tours Europe … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from the Ryman in Nashville …
Rhiannon Giddens and Emmylou Harris join the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in showcasing music from Ken Burns’s forthcoming Country Music documentary series at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater in New York City tonight and Saturday. Country Music premieres on PBS in September.
Rhiannon Giddens's new album, there is no Other, out next week on Nonesuch, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen. Uncut says: “This is acoustic roots music at its most glorious, and Giddens is fast becoming the genre’s brightest star in the firmament.”
Emmylou Harris’s The Studio Albums, 1980–83, a new limited-edition vinyl collection of classic albums, first released on Record Store Day earlier this month, is now available in the Nonesuch Store. The Los Angeles Times has described Harris as “almost a genre unto herself ... she plumbs the deepest reaches of human experience."
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Sam Amidon, who began a six-date North American tour in Minneapolis last night, continues in the Midwest with concerts at Raccoon Motel in Davenport, Iowa, tonight, and The Empty Bottle in Chicago on Saturday afternoon, the latter as part of Maypole Folk Festival. He heads to Michigan on Monday and then to Canada for shows in Toronto and Hamilton.
Amidon recently stopped by Fretboard Journal to perform “Juma Mountain,” from his 2017 Nonesuch album, The Following Mountain, with saxophonist Sam Gendel. You can watch that performance and listen to Amidon’s conversation with the Fretboard Journal podcast here.
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Tyondai Braxton performs at City Hall in Krems, Austria, tonight, as part of the Donau Festival. Guitar magazine has just included Braxton on its list of “15 of the Most Iconic Offset Guitarists,” which also includes St. Vincent, Kurt Cobain, Patti Smith, and Elvis Costello, among others.
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David Byrne can be seen on HBO this Saturday night as the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony receives its broadcast premiere. At the ceremony, which took place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in March, Byrne inducted Radiohead. The band took its name from the Talking Heads track “Radio Head,” which can be heard on the complete soundtrack to Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories, released on Nonesuch and Todomundo Records in November.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk begins a ten-date tour with violinist Joshua Bell and cellist Steven Isserlis at Charleston Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday, and Symphony Hall in Boston on Sunday. The program includes works by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel.
“I do think people want concerts to be kind of a happening,” Denk tells the Post and Courier ahead of Saturday’s show. “How do you make it feel like it was written yesterday? I have a natural sense of this music being very fresh. It feels to me very alive.”
Denk’s new album, c. 1300–c. 2000, is out now on Nonesuch Records. “A thoughtfully curated, beautifully played, brilliantly annotated recital,” raves BBC Radio 3’s Record Review. The Sunday Times calls it “thrilling and deft.”
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Gabriel Kahane concludes his European Book of Travelers tour with a free performance at Les Ateliers de Bitche in Nantes, France, tonight, as part of Festival Variations. Kahane “is in possession of his own musical language,” writes the New Yorker. “He is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day.”
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Lake Street Dive concludes its European Free Yourself Up tour this weekend, playing Amager Bio in Copenhagen tonight, Markthalle in Hamburg on Saturday, and a sold-out show at Paradiso Noord in Amsterdam on Sunday.
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Gaby Moreno performs at the Normal Height United Methodist Church in San Diego on Saturday. Moreno joined Chris Thile and the band on Live From Here last weekend; you can watch her performances and listen to the show again at livefromhere.org.
Moreno is the guest on the latest episode of The Bluegrass Situation’s The Show on the Road podcast. “She has had a gift from a very young age, with a voice that is both light as a summer breeze and sharp as a knife in a lovers quarrel,” says host Z. Lupetin. You can hear the conversation here.
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Joshua Redman and his Trio—drummer Gregory Hutchinson and bassist Reuben Rogers—take their European tour to VMU Great Hall in Kaunas, Latvia, tonight, for Kaunas Jazz; Tapiola Hall in Espoo, Finland on Saturday, for April Jazz; and Auditorium Parco Della Musica in Rome on Sunday.
The Joshua Redman Quartet—Hutchinson, Rodgers, and pianist Aaron Goldberg—released its first album in nearly two decades, Come What May, on Nonesuch last month. The Times of London gives it four stars, noting that “nothing beats the cool confidence of a band who have spent years on the road. It also helps that the seven Redman tunes here are so good ... Four men playing as one.”
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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show, Live From Here, at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on Saturday, with special guests the Del McCoury Band, Sarah Jarosz, Julien Baker, and comedian Nate Bargatze. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans here and around the world can watch live online at livefromhere.org starting at 4:45 PM CT.
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