Molly Tuttle and Chris Thile are both at Caramoor in Katonah, NY. Ambrose Akinmusire is in Italy and Germany. Joachim Cooder is in Italy, Switzerland, and Austria. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson tour California. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Chicago and Ontario. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in France. Davóne Tines is in The Gospel at Colonus on Little Island in NYC. Yasmin Williams performs in Quebec.
It’s a Nonesuch doubleheader at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, New York, this weekend, with performances from Molly Tuttle and Chris Thile. It follows a recent performance there by Sō Percussion, Caroline Shaw, and Ringdown, and comes ahead of Timo Andres’s recital there next Thursday.
Molly Tuttle and her new band perform at Caramoor’s Venetian Theater on Saturday. Tuttle released her new single “The Highway Knows”, the second off her upcoming album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, last week; you can watch the video here. She was on CBS Saturday Morning last weekend to talk with Anthony Mason and perform a Saturday Sessions set of music from the upcoming album, and her 2023 GRAMMY-winning album, City of Gold; you can watch it here.
Chris Thile joins The Knights and conductor Eric Jacobsen in concert at the Venetian Theater on Sunday. The program features Thile’s ATTENTION! (a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra) and music by Philip Glass, Caroline Shaw, and J. S. Bach.
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Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire is in Europe this weekend, performing from his latest album, honey from a winter stone, with vocalist Kokayi, pianist Sam Harris, drummer Justin Brown, bassist Reggie Washington, and Mivos Quartet at the Teatro Morlacchi in Perugia, Italy, tonight, as part of the Umbria Jazz Festival, and at the Bürgerhaus Unterföhring in Germany on Sunday. Akinmusire was just named Trumpeter of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll for the second year in a row.
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Joachim Cooder’s summer tour continues in Europe with performances featuring Adriano Viterbini this weekend, at the Arena del Monastero in Rivalta di Torino, Italy, tonight, as part of the Borgate dal Vivo Festival, and the Boschett del Parco Ciani in Lugano, Switzerland, on Saturday, for the Blues to Bop festival, before ending the weekend in Austria, at the Wiener Konzerthaus in Vienna, on Sunday as a special guest of Ben Harper.
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Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue—featuring Justin Robinson and four other string musicians—are in California this weekend performing music from Giddens and Robinson’s new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, and more at the Green Music Center’s Weil Hall and Lawn in Sonoma tonight and in a sold-out show at the Camp Navarro in Navarro on Saturday as part of Redwood Ramble. You can get What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow and hear it here, and watch performance videos of eight tunes from it here.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) performs at the Old Town School of Folk Music in their new home city of Chicago tonight, before heading to Guelph Lake Island, Ontario, for a set on Saturday, as part of the Hillside Festival. Segarra recently autographed copies of both vinyl editions of their acclaimed 2024 album, The Past Is Still Alive—glow-in-the-dark green and translucent orange—for the Nonesuch Store, available here.
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Robert Plant and his new band Saving Grace—whose self-titled debut album was just announced and will be released on Nonesuch in September—continue their European tour at Château de l'Empéri in Salon-de-Provence, France, on Saturday. The first single from the album, their take on the band Low’s song “Everybody’s Song,” is out now, along with a video you can see here.
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Davóne Tines continues in the singing role of Oedipus in the sold-out production of The Gospel at Colonus, directed by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, at Little Island in New York City all this weekend and through July 26. With book and lyrics by Lee Breuer and music and adapted lyrics by Bob Telson, The Gospel at Colonus is a retelling of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, set in the Black Pentecostal church. The 1988 Nonesuch album features the Blind Boys of Alabama collectively as Oedipus. You can hear it here. The New York Times called the show then "an exhilarating musical celebration," and the New Yorker called it "a masterpiece."
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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams is in Canada to perform songs from her Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, and more at Cour à Joanne in Baie-St-Paul, Quebec, tonight, as part of Le Festif de Baie-St-Paul.
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