Molly Tuttle celebrates the release of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on tour in Pennsylvania, Vermont, and upstate New York. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in California at La Jolla SummerFest. Caroline Shaw joins choreographer Vanessa Goodman in Toronto. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Mesa, Arizona. Chris Thile is in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Molly Tuttle, whose new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, is out today, tours the Northeast this weekend, performing at State Theatre in State College, Pennsylvania, tonight; Hunter Park in Manchester, Vermont, on Saturday for the Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival; and Point of the Bluff in Hammondsport, New York, on Sunday. Tuttle recently stopped by the Nonesuch office for the Nonesuch Selects video series to share some of her favorite albums from the music library. She chose recordings by Sam Amidon, Punch Brothers, Wilco, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lake Street Dive, Yola, and Emmylou Harris. You can watch it here.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant—joined by bassist Yasushi Nakamura, pianist Sullivan Fortner, flautist Emi Ferguson, percussionist Keita Ogawa, and lutenist Dušan Balarin—performs at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla, California, on Saturday, as part of La Jolla SummerFest. The program, Book of Ayres, is a boundary-blurry reimagining of early music, jazz, and folk. Salvant released “What does blue mean to you?,” the second song from her upcoming album, Oh Snap, last week; you can hear it here. Salvant had previously shared a live performance video of the title track to the album, performed with Sullivan Fortner at the piano; you can watch it here.
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Caroline Shaw joins choreographer Vanessa Goodman for Graveyards and Gardens—an exploration of memory, grief, rebirth, and joy—at Theatre Pass Muraille’s Mainspace in Toronto tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan (aka Ringdown) join choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber to kick off a week of performances at Little Island in New York City next week.
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Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed by Sedona Academy of Chamber Singers at the First United Methodist Church of Mesa in Arizona, on Saturday. The piece, with a libretto by Nathaniel Bellows, is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. Its first recording, featuring the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch, was released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records in 2020. You can listen to her talk about it on Resounding Verse here and watch videos for each movement of the piece here.
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Chris Thile performs a solo show at the 1932 Criterion Theatre in Bar Harbor, Maine, on Saturday. His full solo tour kicks off in October. Thile joined Brad Mehldau, Felix Moseholm, and Matt Chamberlain on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday to perform “Colorbars” from Mehldau’s upcoming album, Ride into the Sun, out August 29; you can watch that performance here and their performance from the recording session here.
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