This GRAMMY Weekend in LA, nominees Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle perform at the Americanafest Pre-GRAMMY Salute to Neil Young. Julia Bullock performs Messiaen’s Harawi in Houston. Mary Halvorson is in NYC. Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers to Cambridge. Davóne Tines performs there and at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in NYC and University of Richmond.
Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on Saturday as part of the sold-out Americanafest Pre-GRAMMY Salute: The Songs of Neil Young. Both artists are up for GRAMMY Awards this Sunday. Giddens and Justin Robinson have been nominated for Best Folk Album for What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, and Tuttle has been nominated for two GRAMMYs: Best Americana Album for So Long Little Miss Sunshine and Best Americana Performance for the album track "That's Gonna Leave a Mark." Also up for GRAMMYs on Sunday: Ambrose Akinmusire and Brad Mehldau for Best Alternative Jazz Album, Donnacha Dennehy and Alarm Will Sound for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and Best Contemporary Classical Composition, and Bob Mehr for Best Album Notes (Wilco).
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Classical singer Julia Bullock joins pianist Conor Hanick at Wortham Theater Center’s Cullen Theater in Houston tonight for a performance of Olivier Messiaen’s Harawi. Julia Bullock’s solo debut album, Walking in the Dark, was released on Nonesuch in 2022 and won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.
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Mary Halvorson joins trombonist Kalia Vandever, bassist Nick Dunston, and drummer Lesley Mok for a quartet set at The Stone in New York City tonight. Halvorson’s latest album with her sextet Amaryllis, About Ghosts, was recognized on many year-end lists, including the number one spot on the 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Poll New Jazz Albums list, The Quietus, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Slate, Guardian, NPR, and more.
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Gabriel Kahane is at the Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Sunday to perform from his 2018 Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers. Composed during a train journey across the United States that began the day after the 2016 Presidential election, this gallery of portraits of strangers met in restaurant cars is also the search for a shared humanity in a divided nation.
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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines joins Ruckus, performing at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City tonight, Sanders Theatre in Cambridge on Saturday, and University of Richmond’s Camp Concert Hall on Sunday. The program, What is Your Hand in This?, is part of a national tour leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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