Punch Brothers, Gabriel Kahane conclude US tour in Florida; Punch Brothers play Savannah Music Festival in Georgia ... David Byrne inducts Radiohead into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ... Olivia Chaney concludes tour in Belfast … Jeremy Denk joins Hungarian National Philharmonic in Budapest … Mountain Man plays Virginia … Joshua Redman Quartet begins two-week tour in Albany and Massachusetts …
Punch Brothers and Gabriel Kahane conclude their US tour with a concert at Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida, tonight. Punch Brothers then head up to Georgia on their own, for a performance at Trustees Theater in Savannah on Saturday, as part of Savannah Music Festival.
Punch Brothers released their Grammy Award–winning new album, All Ashore, last year on Nonesuch Records. The Boston Globe says it's “a deeply meaningful and downright gorgeous record.” The Independent gives All Ashore four stars, calling it “an album of rich instrumentation and understated beauty that reveals deeper nuances on each and every listen.”
Kahane released his Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers, last year as well, receiving widespread critical acclaim. The San Francisco Chronicle calls it “extraordinary … vivid and wholly original.” Kahane “is in possession of his own musical language,” writes the New Yorker. “He is one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day.”
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David Byrne is at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to help induct Radiohead into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tonight! The band's name was inspired by the Talking Heads song "Radio Head," from the soundtrack to Byrne's film True Stories.
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Olivia Chaney concludes her tour of the UK, featuring songs from her recent album, Shelter, at The Duncairn in Belfast tonight. Chaney spoke with RTÉ lyric fm’s Eileen Cranitch ahead of her Ireland debut in Dublin earlier this week; you can listen to their conversation here.
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Jeremy Denk joins the Hungarian National Philharmonic, led by Zsolt Hamar, in performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C major at Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest tonight. The program also includes works by Csajkovszkij.
Denk can be heard performing Mozart and many other composers on his new double album, c. 1300–c. 2000. “A thoughtfully curated, beautifully played, brilliantly annotated recital,” raves BBC Radio 3’s Record Review. The Sunday Times calls it “thrilling and deft.”
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Mountain Man concludes the current leg of its US Magic Ship tour with a show at The Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, tonight. The trio hits the road again in late May, beginning with a sold-out show in Baltimore, and making stops along the US Northeast.
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Joshua Redman and his Quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—begin a two-week tour in support of their newly released album, Come What May, at Swyer Theater at The Egg in Albany tonight. From there, the quartet heads to Massachusetts to play Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton on Saturday and Sanders Theatre in Cambridge on Sunday. The group begins a six-night, twelve-show residency at the Blue Note in New York City next week.
The Times of London gives Come What May 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.”
The Chicago Tribune, reviewing a concert of music from the new album from last month, called it “an ambitious set,” writing that Redman’s “translucent tone, tenderly expressive manner and delicacy of phrase [suggest] a musician who feels he doesn’t need to prove himself … Redman was more concerned with making substantive statements than vivid impressions.”
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