Hardly Strictly Bluegrass returns to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, where both Emmylou Harris and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi perform Sunday. Also doubling up at festivals this weekend are The Black Keys and Wilco, both at Mempho Music Festival in Memphis, and Hurray for the Riff Raff and Conor Oberst at Felice Country Fair in upstate NY. Punch Brothers join others to pay tribute to Bob Dylan at The Town Hall in NYC. Devendra Banhart is in Kyoto, Japan. Jeremy Denk and Tigran Hamasyan each give solo piano recitals—in Carmel, CA, and Florence, Italy, respectively.
This weekend marks the return of the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and with it the return of two performers who have graced its stages in years past, both on the festival’s final day, Sunday: Rhiannon Giddens, joined by Francesco Turrisi for a set of songs from their Grammy-winning album They’re Calling Me Home and more on the Banjo Stage at 3:55pm PT, followed on the same stage by Emmylou Harris, who will have played each of the festival’s twenty-two years and closes out this year’s at 5:45pm PT.
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Also doubling up at a festival this weekend are The Black Keys and Wilco, who headline both ends of the Mempho Music Festival at Radians Amphitheater in Memphis, Tennessee: The Black Keys, on their Dropout Boogie tour, tonight and Wilco on Sunday. The Black Keys then head across the country to perform at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on Sunday.
Today marks the release of the Super Deluxe and Deluxe editions of Wilco’s landmark 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which Pitchfork gave a perfect 10 and named Best New Reissue.
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Offering still another festival two-fer are Hurray for the Riff Raff and Conor Oberst, who toured together earlier this year following the release of Hurray for the Riff Raff’s Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, and reunite to perform at the Felice Country Fair on Arrowwood Farms in Accord, New York, on Saturday.
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Punch Brothers take part in a multi-artists offering of a different sort when they perform at The Town Hall in New York City tonight as part of A Tribute to Bob Dylan, a benefit concert curated by T Bone Burnett to support the hall in its centennial. Among the evening’s other performers are Bill Frisell and Joe Henry. Punch Brothers resume their Hell on Church Street tour in two weeks.
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Collaborating on the other side of the globe is Devendra Banhart, who joins Noah Georgeson and Gyan Riley for a concert at Metro in Kyoto, Japan, on Sunday. They play again the next day at WWW X in Shibuya.
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On the solo front, Jeremy Denk gives a piano recital at the Sunset Center in Carmel, California, on Sunday for the Carmel Music Society. Denk’s latest album, Mozart Piano Concertos, recorded with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, followed his 2019 solo release, c. 1300–c. 2000, of which the Telegraph said: "A piano recital covering 700 years of music: by most accepted definitions, that ought to be not just an oxymoron but an impossibility. But the usual barriers fall whenever Jeremy Denk is at the keyboard ... Quite exhilarating."
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Tigran Hamasyan also plays a solo piano set, at Teatro Puccini in Florence, Italy tonight, presented by Musicus Concentus. Hamasyan’s new album, StandArt, is his first album of American standards, with songs from the 1920s through the 1950s by Richard Rodgers, Charlie Parker, Jerome Kern, and others.
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