While we can't go out to take in great live music, here are some events taking place online to enjoy while staying home this weekend: Lianne La Havas joins NPR Music's live listening party of her new album; Rhiannon Giddens, Francesco Turrisi perform in National Concert Hall Covid-19 memorial concert; Chris Thile's Caramoor concert is streamed; Sam Amidon performs on DeBarra's Folk Club Facebook live; Jeremy Denk's 2015 BBC Proms debut airs on BBC Radio 3; the virtual Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival features past sets by Nickel Creek, Michael Daves.
While we can't go out to take in great live music, here are some events taking place online to enjoy while staying home this weekend. To find out how you can support independent music venues and #SaveOurStages while we stay home, visit the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA).
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Lianne La Havas celebrates this week's release of her self-titled album by joining NPR Music for an online album listening party on Friday at 2pm ET. Hosted by World Cafe's Raina Douris, the event features a live conversation with NPR Music's Suraya Mohamed and Lianne La Havas. Join in the chat room to ask questions, and listen together then via NPR Music's YouTube.
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Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform "Wayfaring Stranger," from their 2019 album there is no Other, for Elegy, an evening of music presented by Dublin's National Concert Hall as a concert of reflection dedicated to those who have passed away during the Covid-19 crisis, on Friday at 8pm IST / 3pm EDT. Also on the program are Fauré’s Requiem, performed by Chamber Choir Ireland, as well as performances by Iarla Ó Lionáird (who can be heard on composer Donnacha Dennehy's Nonesuch albums) and Claire Duff. The free online event can be seen Friday at nch.ie.
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Chris Thile's performance at Caramoor, the cultural arts venue on an 80-plus-acre estate in Katonah, New York, this weekend streams online on Sunday at 7pm EDT. While the performance, taking place on Saturday night, was due to launch the venue's series of public, open-air concerts this summer, it will have to be closed to the public due to construction delays. So get your tickets to the Sunday evening broadcast at caramoor.org. Rachael & Vilray are due to give a concert on the Carmoor lawn next Saturday, July 25.
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Sam Amidon performs a concert live from home in London on the Facebook page of DeBarra's Folk Club in Clonakilty, Ireland, this Sunday at 8pm IST / 3pm EDT. Tune in for banjo songs and fiddle tunes here.
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Jeremy Denk's August 2015 debut BBC Proms concert gets an encore broadcast on BBC Radio 3 this Sunday at 1pm BST. At the core of the recital is Beethoven's final piano sonata, No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111, which Denk later recorded for his 2019 Nonesuch album, c. 1300–c. 2000. Also on the program are Bartók’s only piano sonata and Scriabin’s Black Mass Piano Sonata.
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The Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, typically held in upstate New York, is online this atypical year, with both new performances and archival sets, airing free this weekend. Among the classic shows are the 2014 Nickel Creek performance, which took place not long after the release that year of the group's Nonesuch debut album, A Dotted Line, airing in the 8:45pm ET block on Friday; and the 2015 set from Michael Daves & Friends (including Punch Brothers' Critter Eldridge and Noam Pikelny) with Tony Trischka, airing Sunday at 3:15pm ET, featuring songs from his album Orchids and Violence, which was released on Nonesuch the following year. The free virtual festival is raising funds for the IBMA Trust Fund for COVID-19 Relief (ibma.org). For details, visit greyfoxbluegrass.com.
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