Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell return to Europe; their Austin City Limits set re-airs on PBS ... The Bad Plus Joshua Redman plays jazz fests in Turkey and Netherlands ... Jeremy Denk plays Mozart in Quebec ... Rhiannon Giddens performs at festivals in Germany and Netherlands ... Tigran Hamasyan is in France ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays in Poland and Italy ... Robert Plant kicks off European tour in the UK ... Punch Brothers tour East Coast ... and more ...
Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell return to Europe for several shows in the week ahead, starting at Huercasa Country Festival in Riaza, Spain, on Saturday and at Colston Hall in Bristol, UK, on Sunday. “Having rekindled a decades old musical partnership,” writes Popmatters in a recent of their new album, they “return with the quietly triumphant and assured The Traveling Kind.” The duo returns to the States later this month to resume the US leg of the tour.
The pair’s previous rekindling of their partnership, on their 2013 debut duets album, Old Yellow Moon, earned them a Grammy Award. Their performance of songs from the album on Austin City Limits, also from 2013, will receive an encore broadcast on PBS stations across this United States this weekend.
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The Bad Plus Joshua Redman continues its European tour with performances at the Istanbul Jazz Festival in Turkey on Saturday and the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on Sunday. The Guardian praised a recent performance at the Love Supreme Festival in England for its “wit, patient wistfulness, and muscular free swing.” The quartet, whose eponymous debut album came out earlier this summer, continue touring Europe with festival sets in Italy and Switzerland next week.
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Jeremy Denk joins Les Violons Du Roy with conductor Matthieu Lussier and soprano Mireille Asselin for an all-Mozart program at Le Festival de Lanaudière in Joliette, Quebec, on Sunday.
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Rhiannon Giddens continues her European tour with two festival sets: on a multi-artist bill with French singer Zaz and the SWR Big Band at JazzOpen in Stuttgart on Saturday, and at North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam on Sunday.
SPIN includes the “inimitable” Rhiannon Giddens and her debut solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, in a recent rundown of some stand-outs of the first half of 2015. It’s “a haunting, often painfully beautiful example of how songs that may seem dead and buried can sublimely rise from the grave,” says the site. “This includes the best version of ‘Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair’ that you have heard since Joan Baez.”
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Tigran Hamasyan returns to the Jazz à Juan festival in Juan-les-Pins, France, for a performance at La Pinède Gould on Saturday. Hamasyan, who made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his album Mockroot earlier this year, earned the title of Jazz à Juan Revelation in 2003, at the age of sixteen.
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Brad Mehldau continues a European tour with his trio—bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard—with performances at Warsaw Summer Jazz Days in Poland tonight and Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy, on Saturday. The trio closes out its European tour in Spain next week.
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Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters kick off the next leg of their European tour with two performances in the United Kingdom for Forest Live: Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire tonight and Cannock Chase Forest in Saffordshire on Saturday. The nearby Swindon Advertiser praised Plant’s Nonesuch debut album, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, for its “contemporary song-writing and skilled musicianship,” and predicts “an exceptional live show” tonight.
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Punch Brothers follow up a free concert at Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park last night with three performances this weekend: at Chautauqua Amphitheater in Chautauqua, New York, with Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, tonight; Red Wing Roots Festival in Mt. Solon, Virginia, on Saturday; and Greenfield Community College for the Green River Festival in western Massachusetts on Sunday. The band closes out its North American tour next week, departing for a European tour at the end of July.
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