The Newport Folk Festival features performances from Rhiannon Giddens, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Natalie Merchant, Taj Mahal, and two-thirds of Mountain Man ... Laurie Anderson performs at the Hirschhorn in DC ... The Black Keys are in NY, NJ ... Kronos Quartet are at Rancho Nicasio in California ... Brad Mehldau, Ian Bostridge perform at Verbier Festival ... Rachael & Vilray are in upstate NY ... Cécile McLorin Salvant plays festivals in Switzerland and France ... Molly Tuttle is in Oregon ...
The Newport Folk Festival returns to Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, this weekend. This year’s sold-out festival includes performances from several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Rhiannon Giddens, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Natalie Merchant, Taj Mahal, and two-thirds of Mountain Man.
Rhiannon Giddens and the Silkroad Ensemble, of which she is Artistic Director, take their tour to Newport today, showcasing her collaborative compositions and arrangements with the ensemble, and to Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia on Sunday. Also in Newport today are sets from Taj Mahal, whose new album with Ry Cooder, GET ON BOARD, was released on Nonesuch earlier this year, and The A’s, a new duo from Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig. On Saturday, Hurray for the Riff Raff performs songs from their Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, and more, and Natalie Merchant joins fellow Folk Family artists for a special set called Clusterfolk. Amelia Meath performs with another of her bands, Sylvan Esso, on Sunday.
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Laurie Anderson presents Quartet for Sol at the Hirschhorn Museum Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, on Saturday. It’s the final live performance for The Weather, her exhibition at the Hirshhorn. Anderson introduces a performance of Quartet for Sol, her 1972–74 tribute to her mentor Sol LeWitt, by cellist Rubin Kodheli and others, following an opening duet from Anderon and Kodheli.
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The Black Keys continues their North American tour of their new album, Dropout Boogie, with two shows this weekend: at Northwell Health Theatre at Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York, tonight, and at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey, on Saturday.
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Kronos Quartet performs at Rancho Nicasio in Nicasio, California, for BBQ on the Lawn on Sunday. The concert features an eclectic program of works by Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Philip Glass, Mazz Swift, Peni Candra Rini, and Michael Gordon.
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Brad Mehldau joins English tenor Ian Bostridge for a program pairing Mehldau’s song cycle The Folly of Desire—setting poetry by Shakespeare, Yeats, Goethe, Blake, and others—with Schumann’s Dichterliebe at Église de Verbier for the Verbier Festival in Switzerland on Sunday. They bring the program to Paris for a performance at Scene Delta in Parc Floral on Monday.
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Rachael & Vilray—Lake Street Dive singer-songwriter Rachael Price and composer, singer, and guitarist Vilray—perform songs from their 2019 self-titled debut album and more in two shows in New York State this weekend: at Caramoor in Katonah on Saturday; and West Kortright Centre in East Meredith on Sunday.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant closes out her European summer tour with two festival sets of songs from her Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song, and more this weekend: at the Dracula Club in St. Moritz, Switzerland, for the Festival Da Jazz St. Moritz on Saturday, and at the Place de la Courtine in France for the Festival de Saint Paul de Vence on Sunday.
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Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway perform songs from their Nonesuch debut album, Crooked Tree, at Horning's Hideout in North Plains, Oregon, on Sunday for the Northwest String Summit bluegrass, acoustic, folk, and Americana music gathering.
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