Olivia Chaney performs in Jimi Hendrix's bedroom in London … Timo Andres plays in Brooklyn … Devendra Banhart headlines LTDOMX in Mexico … David Byrne, Fleet Foxes, Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive continue US tours … Richard Goode plays solo in London … Emmylou Harris is in Austin … Tigran Hamasyan performs in Italy … Kronos Quartet performs in UK … Audra McDonald is in California … Brad Mehldau Trio concludes European tour … Joshua Redman joins Brooklyn Rider … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Atlanta … and more ...
Olivia Chaney gives a special acoustic performance in the bedroom in which Jimi Hendrix lived in 1969 at the Handel & Hendrix in her hometown of London tonight, as part of the historic space’s Museums at Night event in honor of the May Fayre.
Chaney will mark the June 15 release of her new album, Shelter, with celebratory album-release shows at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City on June 10 and at Hoxton Hall back in London on June 19.
You can watch a new video for the album track “Roman Holiday” and download the song, along with the previously released “IOU,” when you pre-order the album here.
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Timo Andres performs works by Schubert and Ann Southam at Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn tonight, a triple bill with Cassandra Jenkins and Aaron Roche.
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Devendra Banhart plays the headlining set at Parque Guanajuato Bicentenario in Silao, Mexico, on Saturday, as part of the LTDOMX festival. He heads out on a six-city tour of Asia next month.
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David Byrne continues the North American leg of his American Utopia world tour with concerts at Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis tonight and Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on Sunday. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette writes that “once again, [Byrne’s] reinventing the live experience.”
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Fleet Foxes bring their US Crack-Up tour to The Anthem in Washington, DC, tonight and Express Live in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday. The San Antonio Current exclaimed of one recent concert: “Fleet Foxes absolutely destroyed the audience in shimmering waves of majestic songwriting and musicianship.”
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Rhiannon Giddens’s spring North American tour continues with a concert at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor tonight and two in Ohio: at Southern Theatre in Columbus on Saturday and Memorial Hall in Cincinnati on Sunday.
Last week, Giddens won her first Songlines Music Award, in the Americas category, for her latest album, Freedom Highway, released last year on Nonesuch Records. Songlines gave the album four stars, calling the title track “the closing triumph to a wonderful set.”
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Pianist Richard Goode is at Wigmore Hall in London this weekend, giving a solo recital tonight, performing works by Byrd, Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy, and a master class on Sunday afternoon.
The Los Angeles Times calls Goode’s approach to Bach “a small miracle of sensitivity, expression and nuance,” while the New York Times describes his Beethoven performances as “remarkable” and “surprisingly intimate,” praising his playing both for its “organic naturalness” and “unerringly lyric sensibility.”
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Emmylou Harris performs at the Paramount Theatre in Austin on Saturday and Sunday. The New York Times has called Harris “the reigning queen of Americana.” The Wall Street Journal says: “Her voice remains an open channel for otherworldly beauty, earthy and ethereal in equal measure.”
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Tigran Hamasyan is in Italy for two festivals this weekend, bringing music from his recently released EP, For Gyumri, and 2017 album, An Ancient Observer, to Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza on Saturday, as part of Vicenza Jazz, and Teatro Asioli in Correggio on Sunday, as part of Correggio Jazz.
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Kronos Quartet brings a special program to the UK this weekend, at Barbican Hall in London tonight and the Brighton Dome Concert Hall in Brighton on Sunday, the latter as part of Brighton Festival. The program includes a live scoring of the new film A Thousand Thoughts: A Live Documentary. Directed by Sam Green, the multimedia experience blends live music and narration with archival footage and filmed interviews with some of the artists with whom Kronos has collaborated, like Philip Glass, Tanya Tagaq, Steve Reich, Wu Man, and Terry Riley. Following that, Kronos is joined by Malian ensemble Trio Da Kali for a performance. Tonight’s show at the Barbican is preceded by a Fifty for the Future concert, featuring works written for the quartet’s commissioning project.
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Lake Street Dive continues its North American tour, featuring music from its new album, Free Yourself Up, at Simon Estes Amphitheater in Des Moines, Iowa, tonight, and The Pageant in St. Louis on Saturday. The band was on NPR's World Cafe earlier this week; you can hear the conversation and performance here.
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Audra McDonald is in California this weekend, joining conductor Andy Einhorn for performances with the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall tonight and the LA Opera Orchestra at LA Opera on Sunday.
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Brad Mehldau and his trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—conclude their European tour in support of their new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution!, out today, performing at Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna tonight and Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens on Saturday. The Arts Desk, in its five-star review, calls the album a “sumptuous, collective improvisation of the highest order ... It's so good, it sounds effortless ... Gorgeous”
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Saxophonist Joshua Redman joins the Brooklyn Rider string quartet, bassist Scott Colley, and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi, at Matthews Theatre in Princeton tonight and Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Saturday. They all stopped by the New Sounds studio to perform a couple of songs from the set for Soundcheck; you can watch the set here.
Nonesuch releases Still Dreaming, an album by Redman, Colley, drummer Brian Blade, and trumpeter Ron Miles, next week. Boston’s WGBH, in previewing both the new album and Saturday’s show, says that Redman “continues to push past the boundaries and expectations that often impede even the most seasoned artists,” calling him “an uncompromising creative spirit who can enable even the most elusive musical dreams to become reality.” You can watch their performance of the album track “Unanimity” here, and hear the album in full now as an NPR First Listen at npr.org.
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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show Live From Here at The Fox Theatre in Atlanta on Saturday, with special guests Father John Misty, Neko Case, and comedian Rory Albanese. Madison Cunningham joins Thile as his duet partner. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans around the world can watch live online at livefromhere.org starting at 5:45 PM ET.
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