Cécile McLorin Salvant performs her new theatrical piece Ogresse at the Kennedy Center. Timo Andres celebrates Ingram Marshall at Yale. The Black Keys take part in VetsAid 2022 in Columbus. Rhiannon Giddens joins LA Phil for Julia Bullock–curated festival. Tigran Hamasyan plays in Bentonville and Los Angeles. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Bright Eyes in Providence and Brooklyn. Kronos Quartet leads online master class. Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade are in Zurich and Groningen. Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion perform in Oregon, broadcast live. Chris Thile, Sam Amidon tour London, Manchester, and Glasgow. Molly Tuttle is in Tennessee and North Carolina.
Cécile McLorin Salvant performs Ogresse, her new theatrical musical piece with a dark, romantic fairytale-like story, at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
“There’s this monstrous vile strength in her, a little bit of madness,” Salvant says of the title character. “The songs are these beautifully matched beads on a necklace that hang together so well, conjuring archetypes and exploring matters of race and sexuality, and our fears and prejudices. It’s one of my most thrilling moments as a singer.”
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Timo Andres performs Ingram Marshall's 2002 solo piano piece Authentic Presence in a tribute concert to the late composer in Morse Recital Hall at Andres's alma mater, the Yale School of Music in New Haven, on Sunday afternoon. Admission is free.
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The Black Keys perform at Nationwide Arena in Columbus in their home state of Ohio on Saturday as part of the VetsAid 2022 concert. All net proceeds from the event, which also features James Gang with special guest Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails, and The Breeders—go to support veterans services.
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Rhiannon Giddens and the Los Angeles Philharmonic perform together at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday as part of the Rock My Soul Festival curated by Julia Bullock. Joining them for the event are Jeri Lynne Johnson and Resistance Revival Chorus.
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Tigran Hamasyan, who kicked of a North American tour featuring music from his new album of American standards, StandArt, in Brooklyn earlier this week, takes the music across the country this weekend with shows at The Momentary in Bentonville, Arkansas, tonight, and Royce Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff concludes their tour as special guest of Bright Eyes at The Strand Theatre in Providence, RI tonight and Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Saturday.
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Kronos Quartet leads a free online master class focused on pieces from its Fifty for the Future commissioning project on Saturday afternoon in partnership with Associated Chamber Music Players (ACMP). Kronos coaches three string ensembles on pieces from Fifty for the Future repertoire.
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Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade continue their tour performing pieces from their three albums—their 1994 debut, MoodSwing, and its acclaimed recent follow-ups, 2020’s RoundAgain and LongGone, which was released this past July— at Volkshaus in Zurich tonight and De Oosterpoort in Groningen, Netherlands, on Saturday for the Rockit Festival. The tour concludes at the Barbican Centre on Monday for the London Jazz Festival.
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Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion perform music from their 2021 album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part at the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon, tonight. The concert will be broadcast live on 89.9 FM in Portland and worldwide on allclassical.org, marking the first-ever live broadcast from the venue.
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Chris Thile and Sam Amidon continue their tour of the UK and Ireland with three performances this weekend: a sold-out show at Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in London tonight, and shows at RNCM Theatre in Manchester on Saturday and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Sunday. The tour culminates at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Tuesday.
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Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway perform songs from their new album, Crooked Tree, at Athens City Middle School Auditorium in Athens, Tennessee, tonight, then head to North Carolina for two shows: joining Old Crow Medicine Show at the Highlands Food & Wine Festival on Saturday and in concert at the Appalachian Theatre in Boone on Sunday.
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