Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, Mountain Man, Yola all play Newport Folk Fest … k.d. lang concludes UK Ingénue Redux tour …Natalie Merchant tours New England … Punch Brothers close out RockyGrass Festival in Colorado … Joshua Redman brings Still Dreaming to Spain …
Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, Mountain Man, and Yola all head to Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, this weekend for the sold-out Newport Folk Festival. You can tune in to hear the festivities broadcast live all weekend via TuneIn.
Yola, whom NPR's All Songs Considered included in its preview of the festival, brings music from her Dan Auerbach–produced debut album, Walk Through Fire, to the Harbor Stage this morning, then heads to a concert at The Freeman Stage at Bayside in Selbyville, Delaware, on Sunday, performing as special guest of St. Paul & The Broken Bones.
Mountain Man plays the Harbor Stage on Saturday evening, followed by an official after show at Newport Congregational Church later that night, to benefit Newport Festivals Foundation.
Rhiannon Giddens and her group Our Native Daughters (Allison Russell, Leyla McCalla, and Amythyst Kiah) perform on Newport’s Quad Stage on Sunday afternoon, following shows at The Egg in Albany on Friday and at the Great Waters Festival in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, on Saturday.
Lake Street Dive continues its US tour with a sold-out show at Beak and Skiff Apple Orchards in Lafayette, New York, tonight, before heading to Newport for a set on the Fort Stage on Sunday afternoon.
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k.d. lang continues the UK leg of her Ingénue Redux world tour, celebrating the 25th anniversary of her acclaimed album Ingénue, with shows at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday and Eventim Apollo in London on Sunday. She heads to Ireland next week to close out the tour with two performances at Dublin’s National Concert Hall.
“Ingénue revealed something much deeper within an already accomplished and well-known artist,” writes the Irish Times. “The trope that art made by gay women has a tendency to draw from a deeper emotional well is often hard to deny. Ingénue is still compelling, still yearning, still raw, still a perfect album.”
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Natalie Merchant began her two-week, fully sold-out A Summer Evening With… tour of intimate venues across the US Northeast last night and continues with concerts at The Historic Strand Theatre in Rockland, Maine, tonight, and The Colonial in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, on Saturday.
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Punch Brothers close out the 47th annual RockyGrass Festival in Lyons, Colorado, with the final set of the weekend, titled Punch Brothers Play & Sing Bluegrass, at 8:30 PM on Sunday. The band’s Grammy Award–winning new album, All Ashore, released on Nonesuch last year, is “a deeply meaningful and downright gorgeous record,” says the Boston Globe.
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Joshua Redman and the Still Dreaming quartet—drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and cornetist Ron Miles—bring music from their 2018 self-titled album to Trinity Square in San Sebastian, Spain, tonight, for Heineken Jazzaldia.
Redman and a different quartet —pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—released Come What May earlier this year on Nonesuch. The Times of London gives it four stars, writing that “nothing beats the cool confidence of a band who have spent years on the road. It also helps that the seven Redman tunes here are so good ... Four men playing as one.”
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