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  • Iron and Wine by Craig Kief bw
    Friday, May 17, 2013
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of May 17–19

    Iron and Wine closes out East Coast tour in Boston, Portland, and upstate New York ... Sam Amidon launches Europe tour with two Dutch festivals ... Devendra Banhart is in Santa Cruz ... The Black Keys headline KROQ Weenie Roast ... Bombino closes out European tour in Portugal ... Carolina Chocolate Drops join Dave Matthews Band in Texas ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter play Mountain Stage ... Nataly Dawn tours UK with Lord Huron ... Dawn Upshaw gives NY premiere of Donnacha Dennehy's That the Night Come at Carnegie Hall ... Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell tour Netherlands ... Audra McDonald makes New Orleans debut ... HBO airs Randy Newman's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ...  Joshua Redman is in France ... Sara Watkins concludes West Coast tour ... and more ...

  • Sam Amidon: "As I Roved Out"
    Thursday, May 16, 2013
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    Watch: Sam Amidon Unveils Video for "As I Roved Out" on NPR; NYC Concert to Stream Live

    Sam Amidon has unveiled the official video for "As I Roved Out," off his just-released Nonesuch debut album, Bright Sunny South. The video, directed by John Hardwick, premiered on NPR Music. MusicOMH says it "is arguably the most striking track on the album." Sam Amidon will perform at (Le) Poisson Rouge in NYC tonight; the show will streaming live via Livestream. He performed and discussed the new album on WNYC's Soundcheck; listen to the episode here.

  • Iron and Wine by Craig Kief
    Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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    Iron and Wine Announces US and Canada Tour Dates for September

    Iron and Wine, which is currently touring the US East Coast in support of the new album Ghost on Ghost, has announced a number of new tour dates for the US and Canada this September. The 11-city tour includes stops in Minneapolis, Chicago, Madison, Winnipeg, Calgary, Toronto, and more. Fan pre-sale begins on Wednesday via Artist Arena; general on-sale begins on Friday. Iron and Wine will perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live on June 24.

  • Nataly Dawn 2012h by Jeffrey Marini
    Monday, May 13, 2013
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    Nataly Dawn Launches European Tour

    California-based singer/songwriter Nataly Dawn launches a tour of Europe for the first time, in support of her critically acclaimed new album, How I Knew Her, including two UK headline shows in London (Slaughtered Lamb, May 15) and Nottingham (Rescue Rooms, May 16), and seven shows in the UK supporting Lord Huron, starting at Junction 2 in Cambridge tonight. The European tour also includes dates in France, Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. 

  • Donnacha Dennehy: "Grá agus Bás" [cover]
    Monday, May 13, 2013
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    Music from Donnacha Dennehy's Nonesuch Album "Grá agus Bás" to Receive US, NY Premieres at Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall

    The music of Donnacha Dennehy's 2011 Nonesuch debut album Grá agus Bás, which NPR called "a revelation," will be performed by the artists featured on the album—Crash Ensemble led by conductor Alan Pierson with vocalists Iarla O’Lionáird on the title piece and Dawn Upshaw on the song cycle That the Night Come—at The Kennedy Center this Tuesday and in Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on Friday. The concerts mark the US and New York premieres of That the Night Come.

  • Bottle Rock Festival 2013: The Black Keys, Iron & Wine, Carolina Chocolate Drops
    Friday, May 10, 2013
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of May 10–12

    The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley Festival runs through the weekend, including performances from The Black Keys, Iron and Wine, and Carolina Chocolate Drops ... Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet perform her Landfall in New Jersey ... Timothy Andres plays Philip Glass in London ... Devendra Banhart tours Southern California ... Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter duet in the Northeast ... Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell tour the UK ... Gidon Kremer performs in the Czech Republic ... Joshua Redman tours Europe ... Chris Thile & Michael Daves tour the West Coast ... Rokia Traoré plays European festival sets ... Sara Watkins tours California ... and more ...

  • Chris Thile & Michael Daves by Eric McNatt
    Thursday, May 9, 2013
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    Chris Thile and Michael Daves Launch West Coast Duo Tour

    Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile and guitar maven Michael Daves launch a week-long duo tour of the US West Coast, featuring music from their 2011 album Sleep with One Eye Open, with a performance at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco tonight, followed by shows in LA, Portland, and Seattle; they reunite in July for the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in upstate New York. The duo makes for "a rip-roaring partnership," says the New York Times. "Bluegrass, in their hands, gets roughed up in the best possible way, with skill and fervor, and a touch of abandon." Thile and his fellow Punch Brothers perform at a number of bluegrass festivals starting later this month.

  • Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell by David McClister bw-h
    Thursday, May 9, 2013
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    Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell Kick Off European Tour

    Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have kicked off their European tour in support of their new duets album, Old Yellow Moon. These special "An Evening With Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell" shows feature the acclaimed artists (and longtime friends) performing material spanning their vast catalogues. Following last night's concert in Manchester, England, the tour makes additional stops throughout the UK and Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland before concluding in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31. The next leg of their US tour begins on June 15. 

  • Joshua Redman 2013 h by Jay Blakesberg
    Wednesday, May 8, 2013
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    Joshua Redman Quartet Launches European Tour

    Joshua Redman, whose latest album, Walking Shadows, was released this week, kicks off a tour of Europe with his Quartet, featuring Aaron Goldberg on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Gregory Hutchinson on drums in Le Mans, France, tonight, followed by additional stops in France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany. Redman also heads to the UK to perform with bassist Christian McBride at Wigmore Hall in London. He returns to the States for a June 4 show at NYC's Town Hall with the quartet featured on Walking Shadows—Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier, Brian Blade—and an orchestra.

  • The Black Keys 2011 by Danny Clinch
    Friday, May 3, 2013
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    Nonesuch Events for the Weekend of May 3–5

    The Black Keys play two shows in Tennessee before helping to close out New Orleans Jazz Fest ... Kronos Quartet premieres new works at Carnegie Hall ... Jeremy Denk joins Renée Fleming at Carnegie Hall ... Devendra Banhart kicks off tour in Colorado ... Bombino plays Belgium and Germany ... Lianne La Havas is at Cheltenham Jazz Festival ... Gidon Kremer joins Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich ... Brad Mehldau Trio and The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman perform in LA ... Sara Watkins kicks off tour of US West ... and more ...

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