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  • Tuesday, March 25, 2025

    Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson have shared “Going to Raleigh” from their upcoming album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Originally released in 1939 by western North Carolina string band The Carolina Playboys, this version (learned by Robinson from Evelyn Shaw) was recorded at the historic former plantation Mill Prong House & Preservation in Red Springs, NC, where they filmed a video as well. You can watch it here.

  • Tuesday, March 25, 2025

    Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra), who just closed out a US tour as special guest of Bright Eyes, will join Ani DiFranco on tour for two weeks late this summer. The shows start in Deerfield, MA, on August 27 and continue in upstate New York, Vermont, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Segarra has also added new dates to their previously announced spring and summer headlining tour, with second shows in San Francisco and Chicago and new stops in Healdsburg, Louisville, and St. Louis, all ahead of fall dates with The Head and the Heart. 

  • Tuesday, March 25, 2025

    Chris Thile, who recently announced a solo US tour in October, has just announced a solo tour of Europe in November. The shows start in Schiltigheim, France, with stops in Rome, Milan, Paris, Chalon-sur-Saône, Montbéliard, London, Brisol, Manchester, Dublin, and Barcelona.

Artist Spotlight

  • David Longstreth’s Song of the Earth, a song cycle for orchestra and voices. Performed by Longstreth with his band Dirty Projectors—Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman, Olga Bell—and the Berlin-based chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, conducted by André de Ridder, the album also features Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie), Steve Lacy, Patrick Shiroishi, Anastasia Coope, Tim Bernardes, Ayoni, Portraits of Tracy, and the author David Wallace-Wells. Longstreth says that while Song of the Earth…

  • Lady on the Bike—the debut album from cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw—celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. The songs were collaboratively written and recorded by the duo. New Body Electric members Leah Vautar and Aaron K…

  • Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s album honey from a winter stone, which he calls a “self-portrait,” features improvisational vocalist Kokayi, pianist Sam Harris, Chiquitamagic on synthesizer, drummer Justin Brown, and the Mivos Quartet. “For arguably the most technically gifted trumpeter of his generation, a lot of Ambrose Akinmusire’s breakthroughs actually come from letting go of standards and structures," says the New York Times. "Lately Akinmusire has been…

  • Rhiannon Giddens reunites with her former Carolina Chocolate Drops bandmate Justin Robinson on What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Produced by Giddens and Joseph "joebass" DeJarnette, the album features Giddens on banjo and Robinson on fiddle, playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes. Many were learned from their late mentor, legendary North Carolina Piedmont musician Joe Thompson; one is from another musical hero, the late Etta Baker. Giddens and Robinson…

  • The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works features music recorded during the composer's forty years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first…

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Wed, Mar 26
7:00 PM
Julia Davis Park
Boise, IDUnited States
Treefort Music Fest
Wed, Mar 26
Julia Davis Park
Boise, IDUnited States
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Wed, Mar 26
7:00 PM
Creative Alliance
Baltimore, MDUnited States
The Way Out of Easy
Wed, Mar 26
Creative Alliance
Baltimore, MDUnited States
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Wed, Mar 26
8:00 PM
Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
New York, NYUnited States
People Have the Power: A Celebration of Patti Smith
Wed, Mar 26
Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall
New York, NYUnited States
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Thu, Mar 27
8:00 PM
Massey Hall
Toronto, ONCanada
Thu, Mar 27
Massey Hall
Toronto, ONCanada