Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway close out the year's touring in her home state of California with three-sold out shows at The Guild Theatre, in Menlo Park. Rachael & Vilray are in California as well for two nights at Blue Note Napa. Sam Amidon opens for Beth Orton at Café de la Danse in Paris. Julia Bullock joins her fellow American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) members in John Adams's El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered at Yale. Yussef Dayes concludes his US tour in Dallas and Minneapolis. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the Library of Congress in DC and in Montclair, New Jersey.
Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway conclude the West Coast leg of their US tour, featuring music from their critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated new album, City of Gold, in California this weekend, with three-sold out shows at The Guild Theatre, in Menlo Park, close to her home, tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Tuttle and the band earned their second consecutive Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album, for City of Gold, following last year's win for their debut album, Crooked Tree. The album has landed on best of the year lists from PopMatters, AllMusic, and Holler, which declares: “City of Gold is Molly Tuttle's most captivating record yet … A heady 48 minutes of joy, Tuttle is single handedly making bluegrass her own.” Earlier this week, the band released a live performance video for the album track “Where Did All the Wild Things Go?,” filmed at Sound Emporium Studio A in Nashville, where the album was recorded. You can watch it here.
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About eighty miles north, Rachael & Vilray—the duo of Lake Street Dive singer/songwriter Rachael Price and composer, singer, and guitarist Vilray—bring music from their second studio album, I Love a Love Song!, released earlier this year, and their 2019 self-titled debut album to Blue Note Napa for early and late sets tonight and Saturday. They're at the historic Troubadour in West Hollywood on Monday, then return to the road in February. “I Love a Love Song! is a truly lovely album, front to back,” says No Depression. “More than anything, it’s two accomplished solo performers coming together with a mutual respect and love of musical standards with the goal of responding in kind.”
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Sam Amidon performs at Café de la Danse in Paris on Saturday, as special guest of his wife, Beth Orton. He performed live from West Kerry, Ireland, for Other Voices’ Anam: Songs for Hearts and Minds earlier this year; you can watch that performance of “Spanish Merchant’s Daughter,” a song from his 2020 self-titled album, here. Orton adds vocals on three songs on the album.
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Soprano Julia Bullock joins the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*), of which she is a founding member, fellow member singers Anthony Roth Costanzo and Davóne Tines, and conductor Christian Reif, her husband, in a performance of John Adams's El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, featuring a libretto by Peter Sellars, with musical selections by Bullock, at Yale University’s Schwarzman Center in New Haven, Connecticut, tonight. It's part of AMOC*'s four-city tour of the piece that concludes with a return to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City to perform next Thursday, as they did last December. Bullock, on her 2022 debut solo album, Walking in the Dark, which was recently nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album, Bullock and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Reif, perform from El Niño, and more. Bullock is “one of the singular artists of her generation,” says the New York Times, “a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history.”
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Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Yussef Dayes concludes his US tour, in support of his critically acclaimed new album, Black Classical Music, this weekend, with shows at Studio at the Factory in Dallas tonight and Fine Line in Minneapolis on Sunday. Black Classical Music has been named one of the Albums of the Year by Rough Trade, BBC 6 Music, PopMatters, AllMusic, and NPR Music, which declares it “an absolute feast.”
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her septet—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, guitarist Marvin Sewell, flutist Alexa Tarantino, and percussionist Keita Ogawa—bring music from her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song, to the Library of Congress’ Coolidge Auditorium in Washington, DC, tonight for a sold-out performance. Following that, Salvant takes a quintet—Fortner, Nakamura, Sewell, and Ogawa—to Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, New Jersey, on Saturday, for a performance of music from her new, Grammy-nominated album, Melusine, and more. Melusine, which DownBeat includes in its list of the Top 10 Jazz Albums of the Year and calls “a masterpiece of thoughtful, adventurous music,” was nominated for the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album; the track “Fenestra” is up for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals for Godwin Louis’ arrangement. Ghost Song, which won the Deutscher Jazzpreis for International Vocal Album earlier this year, was nominated in the same two Grammy categories last year.
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