David Byrne, Fleet Foxes play Roskilde, Rock Werchter festivals … Sam Amidon performs in Belgium as well … Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, Rajasthan Express begin Junun tour with Radiohead in Chicago … Kronos Quartet is in Slovakia … Lake Street Dive returns to New England … Brad Mehldau Trio, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman tour Europe ... Gaby Moreno hosts benefit concert in Brooklyn; Chris Thile performs … Rokia Traoré performs in France, Copenhagen …
David Byrne and Fleet Foxes take their European tours to flagship festivals on the Continent this weekend: Roskilde in Denmark and Rock Werchter in Belgium.
Byrne brings his American Utopia world tour to the Arena stage at Roskilde tonight, performing at midnight local time, preceded by Fleet Foxes earlier in the night. Fleet Foxes head to The Barn at Werchter on Saturday night, with Byrne taking the stage on Sunday night.
NME declares that Byrne’s American Utopia concert is “making a strong case for [the album’s] near instant-classic status.” Uncut calls Fleet Foxes’ new album, Crack-Up, “astonishing … a recipe for total entertainment forever.”
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Sam Amidon plays a set at Provinciedomein Bergelen in Gullegem, Belgium, on Saturday, as part of Bos! Festival. The Evening Standard gives Amidon’s latest album, The Following Mountain, four stars, praising its “captivating arrangements and elegiac charm.”
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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express perform songs from their 2015 album, Junun, beginning a North American tour as special guests of Radiohead, with sold-out shows at United Center in Chicago tonight and Saturday. The Times of London called Junun “one of the most inspired releases of the year ... Intriguing, sinuous, and essential listening.”
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Kronos Quartet performs at Trenčin Airport in Trenčin, Slovakia, on Saturday, as part of Pohoda Festival. The program includes the world premiere of Miroslav Tóth’s Tentacles Reaching Out, a piece by Philip Glass, and several works written and composed for the quartet’s Fifty for the Future commissioning project.
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Lake Street Dive continues its North American Free Yourself Up tour with a concert at Thompson’s Point in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, and a set at Marshfield Fair Grounds in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on Sunday, as part of the sold-out Levitate Music & Arts Festival.
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Brad Mehldau and his trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—continue their European tour in support of their new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution!, with sets at DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen tonight, as part of Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and Stodola in Warsaw on Saturday, as part of Warsaw Summer Jazz Days.
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Pat Metheny continues his European tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh at Auditorio Parque Almansa in San Javier, Spain, tonight, followed by a set at Teatre Grec in Barcelona on Saturday, as part of Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona. From there, the quartet heads to France, playing at Domaine de Fontblanche in Vitrolles, for a set at Charlie Jazz Festival.
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Gaby Moreno has gathered a host of artists including Chris Thile, Davíd Garza, Jesse Harris, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, and The Grahams to perform a special benefit concert at National Sawdust in Brooklyn tonight, to help victims of the recent volcano eruption in Guatemala.
Moreno and Van Dyke Parks released a heartfelt interpretation of David Rudder's song “The Immigrants” earlier this week, with proceeds going to the Central American Resource Center of California (CARECEN), a community-based, nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower Central Americans and all immigrants by defending human and civil rights, working for social and economic justice, and promoting cultural diversity.
Thile and his fellow Punch Brothers release a new album, All Ashore, on July 20. “It's a meditation on committed relationships in the present day,” says Thile, “particularly in the present climate.”
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Joshua Redman begins a tour of Europe as special guest of the Billy Hart Quartet in Spain this weekend, with shows at Plaza Biotz Alai Plaza in Gexto tonight, for Gexto Jazz, and Real Jardín Botánico Alfonso XIII in Madrid on Saturday, as part of Noches del Botánico, sharing a bill with Charles Lloyd and Bill Frisell.
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Rokia Traoré performs music from her 2016 Nonesuch album, Né So, at Roman Theatre in Vienne, France, tonight, as part of Jazz à Vienne Festival. From there, she heads to Théâtre de l'Archevêché in Aix en Provence, France, on Saturday, playing the role of Woman from Cyprus in a staging of Henry Purcell’s Dido and Æneas, as part of Festival Aix en Provence. Traoré closes out the weekend with a set at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge on Sunday, as part of Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
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