Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform at Newport Folk Festival and tour the Northeast. Makaya McCraven leads NYC Blue Note residency. Ambrose Akinmusire concludes Asia tour in Hong Kong and Seoul. Jeremy Denk and Joshua Bell perform Mozart and Beethoven in Rockport, MA. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Norah Jones on tour in Boise and Walla Walla. Lianne La Havas is in DC. Davóne Tines joins Minnesota Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth in Brainerd, MN. Yasmin Williams is in Ohio.
The Newport Folk Festival begins today at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, and continues through Sunday with three sold-out days of performances including appearances from Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway. Tuttle and the band—who have been nominated for eight IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards, including Album of the Year for their latest, City of Gold—hit the festival’s Fort Stage this morning at 11:30am before heading to the Ossipee Valley Fair Grounds in Hiram, Maine, tomorrow for the Ossipee Valley Music Festival, and the Upper Merion Township Building Park in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, for Concerts Under The Stars. Giddens—who won in the DownBeat Critics Poll for Beyond Artist and Beyond Album of the Year for her latest, You're the One—brings music from her new album, You’re the One to Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine, tonight, before heading south to Newport, performing on the Fort Stage Saturday afternoon.
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Makaya McCraven continues his four-night residency at Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City through Sunday with early and late shows each day. McCraven’s latest album, In These Times, released in 2022, made several year's best album lists, including those of Pitchfork (“a high-water mark”), NPR Music's Nate Chinen (“the culmination of a years-long experiment in groove ... just might be Makaya McCraven's manifesto”), and Treble (“McCraven's masterwork”).
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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his Quartet–pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and drummer Justin Brown–conclude their week-long Asia tour, performing at Xiqu Centre’s Grand Theatre in Hong Kong tonight and CTS Art Hall in Seoul on Saturday. "A quiet rush of gorgeous sound where space, tone and beauty come together in one of the most impactful albums of 2023," DownBeat says of Akinmusire's Nonesuch debut album, Owl Song. "This is one of the most interesting recordings to come along in a very long time by one of the most interesting artists of our time."
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Pianist Jeremy Denk is joined by violinist Joshua Bell for a performance at Rockport Music’s Summer Gala on the Atlantic at the Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Sunday. On the program are Mozart’s Violin Sonata No. 18 and Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 7.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff is touring North America with Norah Jones, bringing music from their new album, The Past Is Still Alive, to Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise, Idaho, tonight and Wine Country Amphitheater in Walla Walla, Washington, tomorrow. Segarra is up for the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards for Album of the Year for The Past Is Still Alive, which Pitchfork includes in its list of The Best Music of 2024 So Far, while the album track “Ogallala” is included in New York magazine’s Vulture’s list of The Best Songs of 2024 (So Far).
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Lianne La Havas performs a sold-out show at the Atlantis in Washington, DC, on Sunday. Her latest album, her 2020 self-titled album, won Best Album at the Ivors and Rolling Stone said “The album demands, and rewards, all the attention you can give it.”
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Singer Davóne Tines joins the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Christian Reif, at the Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts in Brainerd, Minnesota, on Sunday for a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth as part of the Lakes Area Music Festival. During “Ode to Joy,” Tines will also be joined on stage by singers from the Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota, Brainerd High School, and the Minneapolis-based choral ensemble VocalEssence. Davóne Tines and his band The Truth’s album ROBESON is due September 13 on Nonesuch. The track “THE HOUSE I LIVE IN" and a video for it directed by Tines were released last week; you can watch it here.
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Guitarist Yasmin Williams performs at Stuarts Opera House in Nelsonville, Ohio, tonight as part of the Nelsonville Music Festival. Last fall, Williams released her first song on Nonesuch, “Dawning.” The track—featuring Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, Kafari on rhythm bones, and Nic Gareiss’ percussive dancing—provides an early peek at her Nonesuch debut album, due later this year.
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