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Tuesday, July 1, 2008|0 CommentsChicago Tribune: Orchestra Baobab Plays for 13,000 in Series' "Most Jubilant Concert Yet"
Orchestra Baobab's Made in Dakar tour of the States culminated last night with a concert at the intimate Dakota Cafe in Minneapolis that lead Minneapolis City Pages reviewer Peter S. Scholtes to exclaim: "Orchestra Baobab is the kind of band that makes critics (at least this one) resort to hyperbole and sociology: They sound like God ..."
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008Orchestra Baobab, "Effortlessly Alive" (New Yorker), Perform Two Free Shows in NYC
Orchestra Boabab continues its US tour, bringing music from its latest release, Made in Dakar, to New York City for two free shows, today and tomorrow. This evening at 7 PM ET, the seminal Senegalese band will perform at Rockefeller Park on the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan as part of the summer's River to River Festival of free outdoor performances. Tomorrow, the group will head to Brooklyn's MetroTech center for a noon event as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rhythm & Blues Festival.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008CBS Sunday Morning: Randy Newman, "Our Stephen Foster and Our Mark Twain," Offers Hysterics and Heartbreak on New Album
Harps and Angels, Randy Newman's first album of new music in nearly a decade, is due out on Nonesuch August 5, and already, CBS Sunday Morning's Bill Flanagan is calling it one of the summer's best.
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Thursday, June 19, 2008Orchestra Baobab Concert to Air Live on NPR.org Tonight
Tune in to npr.org tonight at 7:30 PM ET to hear Orchestra Boabab, live in concert. After nearly 40 years of making music, Orchestra Baobab, says NPR, "remains one of the world's foremost purveyors of Afro-Cuban pop.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008Emmylou Harris Reaches UK Top 40, Plays NYC's Town Hall
All I Intended to Be, Emmylou Harris's first solo album since 2003's Stumble Into Grace, was released last week to a great reception from critics and fans alike, with the record reaching the Top 40 on the UK charts—a first for her in nearly 30 years.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008Boston Globe: Orchestra Baobab "More Soulful Than Ever" on New Album, Tour
Orchestra Baobab are currently touring the States with songs from their latest release, Made in Dakar, stopping at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee this past weekend to perform a set that PopMatters calls "the gem of the festival." Tonight they're in Western Massachusetts to play Northampton's Pearl Street Nightclub and head further east at the end of the week for a set at the Somerville Theater, outside Boston, on Saturday. The Boston Globe's Andrew Gilbert says the band is "sounding more soulful than ever" on the new album.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008Brad Mehldau, Bill Frisell Take JVC Jazz Fest NY Stages This Week
The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival New York got under way earlier this week and continues through June 28 at venues throughout the City, including Carnegie Hall, where the Brad Mehldau Trio will play this Sunday in Zankel Hall in a program titled "A Taste of Genius," and the Greenwich Village club Le Poisson Rouge, where Bill Frisell's new trio will make its New York debut this Thursday.
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Friday, June 13, 2008Adams, Reich, Glass, Frisell Music to Be Featured at 8 Days in June Festival
Works by John Adams, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Frederic Rzewski, Bill Frisell, John Zorn, John Cage meet the music of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's second annual 8 Days in June music festival, which kicks off tonight. It's a multidisciplinary affair aiming to examine the relationship between music and the explosive changes of the 20th and 21st centuries and harness the "The Power of Change."
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![T Bone Burnett: Tooth of Crime [cover]](http://www.nonesuch.com/files/imagecache/section-artists-latestrelease/media/images/burnett-tooth-of-crime.jpg "T Bone Burnett: Tooth of Crime [cover]")
Monday, June 9, 2008T Bone Burnett Discusses New Album Today on WNYC's "Soundcheck"
T Bone Burnett and the Raising Sand tour with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have made their way to New York City for two shows at Madison Square Garden. While in New York, T Bone stops by WNYC's Soundcheck to discuss Tooth of Crime, his recent Nonesuch release, and his efforts to improve sound quality in the digital age.
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Monday, June 9, 2008Edmonton Sun: k.d. lang "Sets Fire to Everything She Sings" for Hometown Crowd
k.d. lang's extensive tour of Canada with songs from her latest Nonesuch release, Watershed, continues this week, after several stops across the expanse of her native land, which recently announced that she would be among the newest inductees to Canada's Walk of Fame. "Still thrills, this voice," says the StarPhoenix's Joanne Paulson, after last week's show in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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