Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines celebrate Julius Eastman at Lincoln Center. Tyondai Braxton is in Chicago. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti, Frank Rosaly bring MESTIZX to Vancouver. Rhiannon Giddens is at Glastonbury. Hurray for the Riff Raff is at Blue Ox Music Fest in Wisconsin, as is Molly Tuttle, who also plays Milwaukee's Summerfest. Kronos Quartet celebrates Terry Riley's 90th with the composer in Tokyo. Brad Mehldau tours France and Belgium. Ringdown plays the Spiegeltent in upstate NY. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours France and Italy. Chris Thile, Punch Brothers are at Acousticamp. Yasmin Williams performs at Montreal Jazz Fest.
Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines take part in a weekend-long celebration of composer Julius Eastman for Lincoln Center’s Summer For The City series in New York City and its Run AMOC* Festival, performing in a choose-what-you-pay concert A Power Greater Than, its New York premiere, in David Geffen Hall on Saturday and a free show The End Is Not in Sight on the dance floor at Josie Robertson Plaza on Sunday. Bullock and Tines, founding members of American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), and recently starred together in John Adams’s El Niño at the Met and in his Girls of the Golden West, the premiere recording of which was released on Nonesuch last year.
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Tyondai Braxton performs at the Epiphany Center for the Arts in Chicago on Saturday as part of Third Coast Percussion’s Rhythm Fest celebrating the ensemble’s twentieth anniversary season.
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Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly wrap up a week in Canada with a performance of songs from their album MESTIZX on the Vancouver International Jazz Festival’s Revue Stage, as part of the festival’s Innovation Series, tonight.
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Rhiannon Giddens is at the Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England, on Sunday, performing on the Acoustic Stage with Dirk Powell, a longtime collaborator who is joining Giddens on her Old-Time Revue tour. They head back to the US for another month of that tour in support of her album with Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. You can get the album and hear it here, and watch performance videos of eight tunes from it here.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, makes their Blue Ox Music Festival debut, performing on the main stage in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, on Saturday afternoon. 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.
Molly Tuttle takes the Blue Ox main stage tonight, before heading to Milwaukee to continue her festival-filled summer with a set for Summerfest on Saturday. Tuttle’s new song “That’s Gonna Leave a Mark,” the video for which you can watch here, was released earlier this month. Her album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, is due August 15 and available to pre-order here.
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Kronos Quartet is joined by composer Terry Riley for an all-Riley program celebrating his 90th birthday at the Tokyo University of the Arts Concert Hall in Japan on Saturday. The program includes “Good Medicine” from Salome Dances for Peace, Cadenza on the Night Plain, and more and follows Wednesday's concert in Yokohama, in which Kronos gave the Japanese premiere of Riley’s Sun Rings at the request of the composer himself.
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Brad Mehldau and his trio—bassist Felix Moseholm and drummer Jorge Rossy—take on two festivals this weekend, with a performance at the Capiteau de Blainville in Blainville-Crevon, France, tonight for the Archéo Jazz Festival, and at the Maison de la Culture in Tournai, Belgium, on Saturday for the Tournai Jazz Festival. Mehldau released the third single, “Between the Bars,” from his upcoming album Ride into the Sun, yesterday. The album—due August 29—is a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Moseholm performs on the album, as do singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassist John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. You can pre-order the album here and listen to the new single here.
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Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—brings music from their debut album, Lady on the Bike, to the Fisher Center at Bard’s Spiegeltent in Hudson, New York, on Saturday. The album, which was released last month, celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. You can hear the album and get it here.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Europe this weekend for two festivals, bringing music from her latest album, Mélusine and more, to the Parc du Château de Fontainebleau in France for the Festival Django Reinhardt, tonight and on the main stage of the Ground Up Music Festival in Alberobello, Italy, on Sunday.
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Chris Thile hosts the third-annual Acousticamp—a four-day celebration of acoustic music—this weekend, kicking off tonight at the Asilomar Hotel in Pacific Grove, California, with an evening performance by the host himself. Thile is joined by his fellow Punch Brothers—fiddler Brittany Haas, banjoist Noam Pikelny, guitarist Chris Eldridge, and bassist Paul Kowert—for a Sunday afternoon masterclass. Punch Brothers close out the long weekend with an evening concert on Monday.
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Yasmin Williams gives a free performance of songs from her Nonesuch debut album, Acadia, and more in downtown Montreal tonight as part of the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal. You can hear her recent performance on NPR’s Mountain Stage here.
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