Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform in Brussels and Paris. Mary Halvorson is in Poughkeepsie. Chris Thile performs in Indiana and Arkansas. Davóne Tines performs in Philip Glass's Satyagraha with Opéra national de Paris. Molly Tuttle is in Texas.
Laurie Anderson and Sexmob are in Europe, performing Republic of Love at Bozar in Brussels tonight and Philharmonie de Paris in Paris on Sunday. Anderson and Sexmob’s new live album, Let X=X, is due May 8 on Nonesuch. The title track, from Anderson’s landmark 1982 album, Big Science, along with a visualizer, can be seen here.
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma for Elysium Furnace Works’ Strings & Things at Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center’s VBI Theatre in Poughkeepsie, New York, on Saturday. Halvorson and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire’s duo album Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings is due June 12. You can hear the track "Soundcheck,” released yesterday, here.
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Mandolinist Chris Thile continues his US tour, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more to Allied Solutions Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, tonight, and Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker Hall in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Sunday. Gramophone names the album an Editor's Choice, calling it "an album of real beauty, emerging as if through the mist—the mandolin proceeds to bring to this familiar music a vivid and highly personal sense of both mystery and joy."
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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines joins the Opéra national de Paris, performing in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha, at the Palais Garnier in Paris tonight. The production, directed by Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, also stars countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, soprano Ilanah Lobel-Torres, and alto Adriana Bignagni Lesca, among others. Tines's debut solo album, ROBESON, released on Nonesuch in 2024, grapples with the legacy of a hero through the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson. “Like his predecessor [Robeson], Mr. Tines has always been more than just a performer," says the Wall Street Journal, "using his richly expressive, wide-ranging instrument and theatrical skill to excavate his own stories, dark side and all.”
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Molly Tuttle performs at Buda Amphitheater in Buda, Texas, on Saturday, headlining Buda's Birthday Music Festival. Earlier this year, Tuttle, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss performed "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby" at the Grand Ole Opry's 25th anniversary celebration of the Coen brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its famed T Bone Burnett–produced soundtrack at the Opry House in Nashville. You can watch it here.
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