Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—join choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber to perform on Little Island NYC, where Jeremy Denk performs John Adams and more. Emmylou Harris performs in Lancaster, PA. Natalie Merchant headlines the Summer Hoot in upstate NY. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Tokyo and Taipei. Molly Tuttle is in Georgia and South Carolina.
Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—join choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber to kick off a week of performances of the piece Seven Scenes at the Little Island Amphitheater with sold-out shows tonight and Saturday, and limited tickets on Sunday. “The people we work with—musicians, actors, dancers—they shape everything we do,” Schraiber tells the New York Times in a feature on Seven Scenes. “People who see things from different angles, it means there will be a collision. And we can’t wait for that. The collision is the core.” Performances continue through Thursday with limited availability. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, was released earlier this year; you can hear it and get it here.
Pianist Jeremy Denk is also at Little Island, performing free shows at the Glade tonight, Saturday, and on Sunday. Denk is joined by violinist Alexi Kenney tonight, performing John Adams's Road Movies and more; by Alex Agate, Ryan Jung, and Nicholas Phan on Saturday for an evening of piano solos inspired by the theme of water; and by Robert Carlson, Nicholas Phan, and Adria Ye on Sunday for an encore performance of the latter. Denk’s final free performance in the Glade, next Thursday, is a solo performance, featuring works by Rzewski and Beethoven.
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Emmylou Harris performs at the American Music Theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, tonight. Harris’s groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy gala in May. She will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as part of its 2025 class in October.
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Natalie Merchant performs at the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge, New York, on Sunday as part of Summer Hoot, with a Pewter Shop Session at noon and a performance on the main stage in the evening.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—conclude their residency at Blue Note Tokyo with early and late sets tonight in Minato City, before heading to Taiwan for a concert at the National Concert Hall in Taipei. 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 last week, is at Georgia Mountain Fairground’s Anderson Music Hall in Hiawassee, Georgia, tonight and at Firefly Distillery in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Saturday for the Marcus King Band Family Reunion. "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.”
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