This Labor Day long weekend, Jeff Parker is in LA. Sam Amidon leads a shape note singalong on Little Island in NYC. Jeremy Denk is at Music on the Strait in Washington State. Mary Halvorson joins Jacob Garchik at Nublu in NYC. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Ani DiFranco in Vermont and Buffalo. Cécile McLorin Salvant plays the Reykjavik Jazz Festival. Molly Tuttle is in Rhode Island and Virginia Beach.
This Labor Day long weekend in the United States, guitarist/composer Jeff Parker performs two sets at Hotel Covell in Los Angeles on Monday with synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and drummer Ben Lumsdaine. Tickets are available at the door with donation. Parker and his Tortoise bandmates’ Oganesson Remixes was released digitally earlier this year; the vinyl is out next Friday.
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Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Sam Amidon leads a shape note singalong in The Play Ground on Little Island in New York City. Attendees at the free, unticketed event are invited to raise their voices in four parts, led and actualized by Amidon. His parents, Peter and Mary Alice Amidon, can be heard on the 1979 Nonesuch album of shape note music Rivers of Delight: American Folk Hymns from the Sacred Harp Tradition as part of the Word of Mouth Chorus.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs at Field Arts & Events Hall in Port Angeles, Washington, on Labor Day Monday for Music on the Strait. He is joined by violinists Kristin Lee and James Garlick, violists Noah Geller and Richard O’Neill, and cellist Ani Aznavoorianfor the program, which includes works by Beethoven and Reinaldo Hahn.
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Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson joins Jacob Garchik, from her sextet Amaryllis, and others to perform at Nublu in New York City tonight, in celebration of his new album, Ye Olde 2. Halvorson was once again named Guitarist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, and her sextet, Amaryllis—Garchik, Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet)—has been named Group of the Year. Their new album, About Ghosts, released earlier this year, "conjures such vibrant, picturesque riffs, capricious melodic excursions, and suspenseful rhythmic undertows," DownBeat says in its four-star review, "a marvelous document for Halvorson’s compositional acumen and conceptual ingenuity.”
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) has kicked off a tour as special guest of Ani DiFranco. performing at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, on Saturday, and Outer Harbor Live at Terminal B in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. The tour, in which Hurray for the Riff Raff performs songs from their latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, and more, continues through next weekend.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—are in Iceland, performing in Eldborg at Harpa in Reykjavik on Sunday for the closing concert of the Reykjavik Jazz Festival. You can watch all four musicians perform “What does blue mean to you?,” the second song from Salvant’s upcoming album, Oh Snap, in a just-released video from their 2024 SFJAZZ concert here.
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Molly Tuttle, whose new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, was released earlier this month, is at Ninigret Park in Charlestown, Rhode Island, on Saturday for the Rhythm & Roots Festival, and at Virginia Beach Oceanfront in Virgina Beach on Sunday for a free performance. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” Watch the new video for “Old Me (New Wig)” directed by Fletcher Moore here.
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