Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are with Brooks & Dunn in Texas, where Yasmin Williams headlines Fort Worth African American Music Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Bright Eyes in Tennessee and Georgia. Brad Mehldau and Cécile McLorin Salvant both tour France. Mandy Patinkin is in New Jersey. Ringdown performs from its upcoming debut album in Milan. Chris Thile joins Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway—mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means—kicked off their monthlong tour with Brooks & Dunn in Lubbock, Texas, last night and continue with two more shows in the state this weekend: at the Moody Center in Austin tonight and at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi on Saturday. Tuttle and the band are featured in the latest installment of American Currents: State of the Music, the annual exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville showcasing country music and its place in American culture over the past year, which is open through January 2026.
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Also in Texas is composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams, who headlines the Fort Worth African American Music Festival at the city's Southside Preservation Association on Saturday. Williams’s Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, released to critical acclaim last fall, is her most sonically expansive work to date, with nine original instrumental tracks written and featuring her on various guitars, banjo, calabash drum, tap shoes, and kora. The Washington Post calls her new album “sumptuous” and describes her music style as “highly inventive, largely unorthodox, and totally alive.” You can watch her recent NPR Tiny Desk Concert here.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) and Bright Eyes continue their tour across the South this weekend, with shows at The Caverns in Pelham, Tennessee, tonight, and 40 Watt in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday. You can watch the music video for their latest single, "Pyramid Scheme," here.
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Pianist/composer Brad Mehldau performs two solo shows in France, at Le Carré Sévigné in Cesson-sévigné tonight and Théâtre de Beausobre on Saturday. You can watch his performance with his trio of bassist Felix Moseholm and drummer Jorge Rossy at last year’s Nancy Jazz Pulsations Festival in France on ARTE for a limited time here.
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Also touring France are Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole: at Carré Sainte-Maxime tonight, La Cité internationale de la langue française in Villers-Cotterêts on Saturday, and Les Quinconces in Le Mans on Sunday. You can hear her conversation with David Krauss on the Speaking Soundly podcast here.
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Mandy Patinkin continues his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—with pianist Adam-Ben David, at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown, New Jersey, tonight.
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Ringdown performs at the Teatro Filodrammatici di Milano for the Triennale Milano on Sunday. It was just announced this week that Lady on the Bike, the debut album from cinematic electro-pop featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw, will be released on Nonesuch on May 9. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. You can pre-order the album and hear the new track “Run” and several previously released songs from the album here.
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Chris Thile joins the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ryan Tani to perform his piece ATTENTION! (a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra) at Milwaukee’s Bradley Symphony Centre on Saturday.
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