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Journal Friday, May 25, 2012

  • A Prairie Home Companion: Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, May 2012
    Friday, May 25, 2012
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    Nonesuch Events for the Long Weekend of May 25–28

    On this long Memorial Day weekend in the US, Shawn Colvin and Sara Watkins join Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion for live shows ... Laurie Anderson brings Dirtday! to Portugal ... Billy Bragg brings Mermaid Avenue to Belgium and Germany ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour with Dave Matthews Band ... James Farm has three nights in Oakland ... Kronos Quartet joins Philip Glass for Dracula in the UK ... Richard Goode performs in Spain ... k.d. lang is in New Orleans and Orlando ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays Cancun ... and more ...

  • A Prairie Home Companion: Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, May 2012
    Friday, May 25, 2012
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    Nonesuch Events for the Long Weekend of May 25–28

    On this long Memorial Day weekend in the US, Shawn Colvin and Sara Watkins join Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion for live shows ... Laurie Anderson brings Dirtday! to Portugal ... Billy Bragg brings Mermaid Avenue to Belgium and Germany ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour with Dave Matthews Band ... James Farm has three nights in Oakland ... Kronos Quartet joins Philip Glass for Dracula in the UK ... Richard Goode performs in Spain ... k.d. lang is in New Orleans and Orlando ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays Cancun ... and more ...

  • Pat Metheny Unity Group
    Friday, May 25, 2012
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    Watch: Pat Metheny’s “Unity Band” Preview

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  • Sara Watkins 2012 h by Aaron Redfield
    Thursday, May 24, 2012
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    Sara Watkins to Perform from Her New Album, "Sun Midnight Sun," on "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson"

    Sara Watkins, whose new album, Sun Midnight Sun, was released earlier this month in North America and will be released worldwide on Monday, celebrates the occasion with a performance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Tune in to CBS tonight at 12:35 AM ET to see Watkins perform "When It Pleases You" off the new album. Also on tonight's show: Alfred Molina. Watkins performs on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend.

  • Lianna La Havas: "Is Your Love Big Enough?" [video]
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    Watch: Lianne La Havas Unveils Video for "Is Your Love Big Enough?," Debut Album's Title Track

    Lianne La Havas, whose debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, will be released in the US on August 7 via Nonesuch Records, has unveiled the video for the album's title track. "Lianne La Havas has pipes, and she’s taken her soulful show on the road," says MTV Iggy. "That’s the takeaway from her latest music video, for 'Is Your Love Big Enough,' which Lianne shot with her bandmates while they were on tour in Europe. Highlights: unbelievable footwear, reckless bowling moves, and beatific audiences. All to the sound of Lianne asking 'Is your love/Big enough for what’s to come?' If it’s more of this, then yes, totally." Watch it here.

  • Jeremy Denk: "Ligeti/Beethoven" [cover]
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    Jeremy Denk Talks to NPR's "Fresh Air" About His New Album, "Ligeti/Beethoven"

    Jeremy Denk is the guest on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross today. Denk discusses his new album, Ligeti/Beethoven, which pairs Ligeti’s Piano Études, Books One and Two, and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111. "Ligeti took the piano to places it had never been before, and makes demands of the pianist and the mind that had never been made before," Denk tells Gross. "But all of it is derived from ideas from earlier piano etudes and his love of the great piano repertoire." He goes on to say: "The last Beethoven sonata seems to me [to be] one of the most profound musical journeys to infinity ever made ... The whole piece seems to want to bring us from a present moment into this timeless space where everything is continuous and endless."

  • Sara Watkins: "Sun Midnight Sun" [cover]
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    Sara Watkins' "You and Me" Named Today's Top Tune at KCRW; Watkins to Perform on "A Prairie Home Companion"

    The Sara Watkins–penned tune "You and Me," off her new album, Sun Midnight Sun, has been chosen as Today's Top Tune by KCRW in LA. The song, which Watkins recently performed on The Tonight Show, features harmony vocals by Jackson Browne, with whom she tours later this summer. Watkins, one of the most frequent guest artists on A Prairie Home Companion, will join host Garrison Keillor and fellow guest Shawn Colvin for a live broadcast of the show from Wolf Trap's Filene Center outside DC this weekend.

  • James Farm by Jimmy Katz
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    James Farm Launches Tour of Bay Area, Then Heads to Tokyo

    James Farm—Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, and Eric Harland—launch a tour of the Bay Area at the Napa Valley Opera House tonight, followed by sets at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz and a weekend of shows at Yoshi's Oakland. The group heads next to Japan for four nights at the Blue Note Tokyo. "We complement each other very well and have a type of intuitiveness with the way we play with each other," Harland tells the San Francisco Chronicle. "That's something that takes years to develop, so it's amazing that we kind of have that already, even though we don't tour that often."

  • Amadou & Mariam 2012 by Benoit Peverelli sq
    Wednesday, May 23, 2012
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    Amadou & Mariam to Perform in "A Room for London" Atop London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Streaming Live

    Amadou & Mariam perform in A Room for London, a one-bedroom riverboat installation lodged atop the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, tonight, as part of the Sounds from a Room series. It will be projected live via large screen at Queen Elizabeth Hall and stream live online at aroomforlondon.co.uk. Earlier events at A Room for London include new sound works from Laurie Anderson and David Byrne. Other performers in the series include Andrew Bird, Imogen Heap, Baaba Mal, and tUnE-yArDs.

  • Shawn Colvin 2012 by Michael Wilson c v-h cr
    Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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    Shawn Colvin to Be Featured on HGTV's "Celebrities at Home"

    Shawn Colvin—whose new album, All Fall Down, and memoir, Diamond in the Rough, are both due out June 5—will be featured on HGTV's Celebrities at Home tonight at 8 PM ET. Colvin will take host Nancy O'Dell on a tour of her colorful Austin home designed with eclectic flea market finds. Nonesuch Store pre-orders of the All Fall Down and Diamond in the Rough bundle include an instant download of the album's title track, "All Fall Down."

  • Bjork: Webby Awards 2012
    Tuesday, May 22, 2012
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    Watch: Björk Awarded Artist of the Year Webby

    Congratulations to Björk, who received the Artist of the Year Award at the 16th Annual Webby Awards in a ceremony in New York City last night. The Webbys honor excellence on the Internet. Björk's latest album, Biophilia, was also released as a suite of Apps, with a dedicated App for each song on the album. She was introduced last night by Scott Snibbe, who led the team of Biophilia App developers. All Webby winners are kept to five-word acceptance speeches; you can watch Björk's in the video coverage here.

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