North Sea Jazz takes place in Rotterdam with Artist in Residence Cécile McLorin Salvant, Flea, and Mary Halvorson. Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform at National Concert Hall in Dublin. Timo Andres music is performed at Carnegie Hall. Hurray for the Riff Raff plays close to home in Chicago. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Greece. Ringdown performs near Portland. Molly Tuttle is in Chula Visa, CA, with Chris Stapleton.
North Sea Jazz takes place at Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands, this weekend, with Cécile McLorin Salvant featured as the festival's Artist in Residence this year. She has sets there throughout the weekend, starting with a performance from her 2025 album, Oh Snap, on the Amazon stage tonight, followed by her baroque program Book of Ayres on the Hudson stage on Saturday, and culminating with music from her new album, With Every Breath I Take, joined by Metropole Orkest and conductor Jules Buckley, with whom she performs songs by Coleman, Coward, Ellington, Sondheim, Strayhorn, and Salvant, in new arrangements by Darcy James Argue, on the album.
Flea is playing the festival's Maas stage on Saturday night. He is joined by the band on his first full-length solo album, Honora—album producer and saxophonist Josh Johnson, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Anna Butterss, and drummer Deantoni Parks—to perform from the record, released on Nonesuch earlier this year.
Mary Halvorson is at North Sea Jazz as well, joining the Tomeka Reid Quartet at Yenisei stage this afternoon. They then head to Vienna for a show at Club Porgy & Bess on Saturday. Her album with trumpeter and composter Ambrose Akinmusire, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, was released last month on Nonesuch.
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Laurie Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob perform their program Republic of Love at National Concert Hall in Dublin on Saturday. Their new triple-LP, double-CD set, Let X=X, released last month on Nonesuch, was recorded live on their 2023 tour and features 23 songs, including favorites from throughout Anderson’s career performed in new arrangements.
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Timo Andres’s “The Night Jaunt,” from his album-length work Shy and Mighty, is performed by The Alonso Brothers during their two-piano concert in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in New York City on Sunday. Andres recorded the full piece with fellow pianist David Kaplan for his 2010 debut album.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff has two shows in and around their new hometown of Chicago this weekend, with a sold-out set at FitzGerald’s in Berwyn tonight and a free set in Lincoln Square in Chicago for Square Roots Festival on Saturday. They rejoin Rhiannon Giddens for more performances of Giddens’s American Tunes: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing tour at the end of the month.
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Robert Plant and Saving Grace perform at the Sani Resort in Kassandreia, Greece, as part of the Sani Festival on Saturday. Plant and the band will return to the US this fall for the next leg of their tour in celebration of their acclaimed album, Saving Grace.
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Ringdown—the cinematic electro-pop duo of Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—performs music from their debut album, Lady on the Bike, close to home in a free set at Tualatin Public Library on Sunday afternoon.
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Molly Tuttle is on tour with Chris Stapleton, playing two shows at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, California, tonight and Saturday.
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