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  • Friday, September 22, 2023

    Rhiannon Giddens brings her new album, You’re the One, to New England. The Black Keys headline Sing Out Loud Festival in Florida. Kronos Quartet is in California. Natalie Merchant tours the Pacific Northwest. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs in Idaho. Chris Thile concludes tour Kentucky with Louisville Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams. Molly Tuttle plays Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Los Angeles.

  • Thursday, September 21, 2023

    “‘Dawning’ has multiple meanings for me,” composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams says of her first song on Nonesuch, out today, which features Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, Kafari on rhythm bones, and Nic Gareiss’ percussive dancing and provides an early peek at her new album, which the label will release in early 2024: “the dawning of my professional music career and a new love in my personal life, the dawning sky that appeared when I first started writing this song, and me smiling to myself with dawning recognition that I get to create music that I love for a living and share it with the world. This song represents a major shift in how I approach my music and expands the possibilities of what my songs can be.”

  • Monday, September 18, 2023

    Rhiannon Giddens is the latest guest on BBC Radio 3’s Private Passions with host Michael Berkeley. Giddens discusses and selects music from Bach, Dvorak, Mahalia Jackson, Duke Ellington, Stephen Sondheim, and more. You can hear their conversation and Giddens’ selections here.

Artist Spotlight

  • “‘Dawning’ has multiple meanings for me,” composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams says of her first song on Nonesuch, which features Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, Kafari on rhythm bones, and Nic Gareiss’ percussive dancing and provides an early peek at her new album, which the label will release in early 2024: “the dawning of my professional music career and a new love in my personal life, the dawning sky that appeared when I first started writing this song, and me smiling to myself with dawning…

  • Composer and bandleader Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society ensemble make their Nonesuch Records debut with Dynamic Maximum Tension. The album pays homage to some of Argue’s key influences with original songs dedicated to R. Buckminster Fuller, Alan Turing, and Mae West. Cécile McLorin Salvant joins the ensemble for “Mae West: Advice.” Dynamic Maximum Tension’s eleven tracks, on two CDs, also include a response to Duke Ellington’s “Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue,”…

  • Singer, songwriter, and musician Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway’s second album, City of Gold, follows their acclaimed 2022 record, Crooked Tree, which won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. Produced by Tuttle and Jerry Douglas and recorded in Nashville, City of Gold was inspired by Tuttle’s near constant touring with Golden Highway and their growth together as musicians and performers, cohering as a band. These 13 tracks—mostly written by Tuttle and Ketch…

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant’s album Mélusine is a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. They tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Mélusine agrees to marry Raymondin on the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. He agrees but is later convinced by his brother to break his…

  • Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, will release her new album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, September 15. She reinvents herself once again with the most playful and adventurous music of her career. Co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim), the album features twelve vibrant tracks she wrote and produced primarily in Germany that channel dance music and effervescent pop through her own confident sensibilities. “This record feels like what I've been working towards,” Tamko says. “It…

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Fri, Sep 22
7:00 PM
House of Blues
Boston, MAUnited States
Fri, Sep 22
House of Blues
Boston, MAUnited States
890921
Fri, Sep 22
7:00 PM
Chateau Ste Michelle Amphitheatre
Woodinville, WAUnited States
Fri, Sep 22
Chateau Ste Michelle Amphitheatre
Woodinville, WAUnited States
896041
Fri, Sep 22
7:30 PM
Happy Top Park
Beattyville, KYUnited States
w/Louisville Orchestra
Fri, Sep 22
Happy Top Park
Beattyville, KYUnited States
895571
Fri, Sep 22
7:30 PM
The Argyros
Ketchum, IDUnited States
Fri, Sep 22
The Argyros
Ketchum, IDUnited States