Rhiannon Giddens begins a week of Bay Area performances … Sam Amidon concludes Netherlands run … Devendra Banhart, Gabriel Kahane tour Europe … Daughter of Swords kicks off tour in Virginia … Jeremy Denk performs Bach in upstate New York … Richard Goode gives solo recital in London … Randy Newman performs on Academy Awards … Mandy Patinkin plays Ohio … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC; plays solo in Wyoming … Yola tours Texas …
Rhiannon Giddens and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi bring music from their album, there is no Other, to Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, tonight. Giddens and Turrisi gave the 15th annual Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture at Stanford last night. The lecture/demonstration, titled there is no Other: Musical Routes to Racial Justice, was hosted by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and Stanford Live. The duo heads to San Francisco next week for a sold-out, four-night residency at SFJAZZ.
there is no Other, released last year on Nonesuch Records, is “acoustic roots music at its most glorious,” exclaims Uncut, “and Giddens is fast becoming the genre’s brightest star in the firmament.” American Songwriter calls Giddens “one of the most important musical minds currently walking the planet.”
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Sam Amidon concludes a five-night run in the Netherlands for a program pairing songs from his three Nonesuch albums—Bright Sunny South, Lily-O, and The Following Mountain—with works by Charles Ives at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam tonight. He joins violinist Diamanda Dramm, cellist Maya Fridmann, pianist Aaron Likness, and journalist Leo Blokhuis for the concert, which includes Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 5, “Holiday in New England,” and Piano Trio, op. 86.
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Devendra Banhart continues his European tour, featuring music from his new album, Ma, in Switzerland: at Alhambra in Geneva tonight, for Antigel Festival, followed by a concert at X-Tra in Zurich on Saturday. He heads to Italy for a sold-out show at Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on Sunday.
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Daughter of Swords (aka Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig) begins her US East Coast tour in Virginia this weekend with concerts at The Camel in Richmond on Saturday and The Southern in Charlottesville on Sunday. She released a new Jeff Tweedy–produced single, “Prairie Winter Wasteland,” this week; you can hear it and download it here.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, at Union College in Schenectady, New York, on Sunday afternoon. There is music by Bach and many other composers on Denk’s latest album, c. 1300–c. 2000, which BBC Radio 3 calls “a thoughtfully curated, beautifully played, brilliantly annotated recital.”
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Richard Goode gives a solo recital of works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy, and Chopin, at Wigmore Hall in London on Sunday. The Los Angeles Times calls Goode’s approach to Bach “a small miracle of sensitivity, expression and nuance,” while the San Francisco Examiner applauds the "exploratory, spontaneous charge" the pianist brings to Chopin’s music.
Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly selected Goode’s recordings of the complete Beethoven sonatas as his “Record I Couldn’t Live Without," for his “My Beethoven" feature in this month’s issue of Gramophone magazine.
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Gabriel Kahane begins a European tour with performances at Philharmonie Luxembourg on Saturday and Les Trois Baudets in Paris on Sunday. Kahane “is in possession of his own musical language,” says the New Yorker. “He is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day.”
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Randy Newman performs on the Academy Awards ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, broadcast live on ABC from 8pm ET. He is nominated for two Oscars: Best Original Score for Marriage Story and Best Original Song, “I Can’t Let You Throw Yourself Away,” from Toy Story 4.
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Mandy Patinkin continues to tour the United States with pianist Adam Ben-David, performing songs from his new album, Children and Art, at McCoy Center’s Schottenstein Theatre in New Albany, Ohio, on Saturday. Patinkin can be seen on the first episode of the final season of Homeland on Showtime this Sunday. He spoke with CBS Sunday Morning about Homeland, his work as an International Rescue Committee ambassador, and his “first love,” singing; you can watch that conversation here.
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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show, Live From Here, from The Town Hall in New York City on Saturday, with special guests Andrew Bird, Bedouine, Sarah Jarosz, writer Jia Tolentino, and comedian Tom Papa. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend and around the world via livefromhere.org, starting at 5:45 PM ET. Thile heads to Wyoming for a solo performance at The Center Theater in Jackson on Sunday.
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Yola begins the next leg of her North American Walk Through Fire tour in Texas this weekend, with shows at The Heights Theater in Houston tonight, Scoot Inn in Austin on Saturday, and The Kessler Theater in Dallas on Sunday. She taped her Austin City Limits debut this week to premiere on the next season of the series on PBS this fall.
The deluxe digital edition of Yola's debut album, Walk Through Fire, which includes her cover of Elton John’s classic "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and a new song, "I Don't Wanna Lie," is available to download and stream here.
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