Rhiannon Giddens joins Our Native Daughters at Carnegie Hall, Charlotte Symphony in North Carolina, and Ojai Music Festival for a virtual talk. Sam Amidon, Sam Gendel perform at Frue Festival in Japan. Jeremy Denk plays Bach at Caramoor. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Bright Eyes in Illinois. Gabriel Kahane joins Oregon Symphony to premiere his new piece in Oregon. Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Brian Blade are in Vienna. Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion are in Wisconsin. Chris Thile tours Denmark, Netherlands, and Belgium. Molly Tuttle, Golden Highway are in Utah.
Rhiannon Giddens begins a weekend of collaborative events with a concert in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City tonight with Our Native Daughters, her group with Amythyst Kiah, Leyla McCalla, and Allison Russell. It’s the second of Giddens’ programs as Perspectives artist for Carnegie Hall’s 2022–23 season. On Saturday, Giddens, Francesco Turrisi, and bassist Jason Sypher join the Charlotte Symphony for a one-night-only performance at the Belk Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina. And on Sunday, she takes part in a free, virtual Ojai Talk to talk with Festival Artistic and Executive Director Ara Guzelimian about the programming and collaborations to come at next year’s Ojai Music Festival, of which she is Music Director.
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Sam Amidon and Sam Gendel perform at the Tsumagoi Resort Sainosato in Kakegawa, Japan, on Saturday as part of the Frue Festival. Amidon is backed by strings, and Gendel joins Pino Palladino and Blake Mills for their set.
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Jeremy Denk gives a sold-out performance of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, in Caramoor’s Music Room in Katonah, New York, on Sunday afternoon.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff begins a six-city US tour as special guest of Bright Eyes at The Castle Theatre in Bloomington, Illinois, on Sunday.
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Gabriel Kahane joins the Oregon Symphony for the world premiere performances of his new piece, The Right to Be Forgotten, a folk-opera in one act, in Oregon this weekend: at Willamette University’s Smith Auditorium in Salem tonight and at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Also on the program is Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony.
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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 Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna on Saturday. The tour continues with shows in France, Belgium, Monaco, and Switzerland, culminating at the Barbican Centre on November 14 for the London Jazz Festival.
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Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion begin a 13-city series of performances featuring the music of their 2021 album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part that will take them across the United States and to Barcelona and London into the spring. The current run of shows begins at Wisconsin Union Theater in Madison on Saturday.
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Chris Thile continues his European tour with music from his 2021 solo album, Laysongs, with shows at The Black Diamond in Copenhagen tonight; De Oosterpoort in Groningen, the Netherlands, on Saturday as part of the TakeRoot Music Festival; and De Roma in Antwerp, Belgium, on Sunday. After one last stop on the Continent in Oslo on Monday, he heads to the UK and Ireland where he’ll be joined on tour by Sam Amidon.
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Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway perform songs from their debut album, Crooked Tree, and more at Center Street Ballparks in Moab, Utah, on Sunday as part of the Moab Folk Festival.
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