Hurray for the Riff Raff begins a UK duo acoustic tour with shows in London, Oxford, and Hebden Bridge. Laurie Anderson joins Joan Baez at HamptonsFilm SummerDocs. Julia Bullock joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Mozart's The Magic Flute at Edinburgh International Festival. Rhiannon Giddens talks about her new album, You're the One, at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Brad Mehldau joins drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Larry Grenadier at Smoke Jazz Club in NYC. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at Edmonton Folk Festival.
Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, begins a week-long duo acoustic tour of the UK, featuring music from their acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, and more with a sold-out show at Omeara in London tonight, and concerts at The Bullingdon in Oxford on Saturday and Trades Club in Hebden Bridge on Sunday. The tour continues in Manchester and Brighton next week. Hurray for the Riff Raff heads to Norway next weekend for sets at the Pstereo and Parken festivals.
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Laurie Anderson joins Joan Baez and filmmaker Karen O’Connor in conversation at the Regal UA Cinema in East Hampton, New York, on Sunday, following a screening of the documentary Joan Baez I Am a Noise. The special event closes the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series, presented by the Hamptons International Film Festival.
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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, led by conductor Maxim Emelyanychev and chorus director Gregory Batsleer, in a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Usher Hall on Saturday, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival. Bullock plays the role of Pamina in this production, which also features a newly commissioned narration by David Pountney, read by Thomas Quasthoff and Neil John Gibson. She gives another festival performance with pianist Bretton Brown at The Queen’s Hall on Wednesday, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on August 22.
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Rhiannon Giddens is at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s Ford Theatre in Nashville tomorrow, to discuss and perform music from her forthcoming album, You’re the One, out next week on Nonesuch. For the event, part of the American Currents: State of the Music exhibition, Giddens talks with the museum’s historian-editor Patrick Huber. “I needed to do something with these songs that I loved,” Giddens tells the New York Times’ Jon Pareles in a feature on the new album. “And I wanted to have fun and I wanted to explore different sounds.” You can read what else she had to say here.
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Pianist Brad Mehldau continues a four-night run as part of drummer Joe Farnsworth's trio with bassist Larry Grenadier at Smoke Jazz Club in New York City with three sets tonight and Saturday, and two on Sunday. Mehldau’s new live solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released on Nonesuch earlier this year. Mojo gives it four stars, calling it “an inspired set that reveals new ways of hearing pop classics.” The first-ever vinyl edition of his 2002 Jon Brion–produced album, Largo, was released in June. “Gorgeous and brilliant,” raved the Boston Globe. “Mehldau has crafted a new-jazz soundscape that bursts with pop smarts.”
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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway bring music from their critically acclaimed new album, City of Gold, to Canada, with a set on the Main Stage at Gallagher Park on Saturday, as part of the Edmonton Folk Festival. “With City of Gold, Molly Tuttle continues her ascent,” writes PopMatters, declaring it “one of the year's best albums.” American Songwriter, in its four-star review, calls the album an “astute blend of bluegrass and Americana ... this City of Gold shines bright indeed.” “A vibrant blend of bluegrass with flashes of Old West, anchored by Tuttle's earthy-yet-angelic vocal and the entire group's ace musicianship,” says Billboard. Glide calls it “bluegrass at its vibrant best.”
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