Emmylou Harris performs at the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala; her album Wrecking Ball is being inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. Timo Andres joins Calder Quartet in NYC. Ambrose Akinmusire joins Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Jeremy Denk is with Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in Honolulu. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson take The Old-Time Revue to Ontario. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours California. Makaya McCraven is in Chicago. Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Marcus Gilmore tour China. Punch Brothers are in Virginia and Tennessee. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in New Jersey. Molly Tuttle plays at Royal Albert Hall for Eric Church’s festival. Vagabon is in Salt Lake City.
Emmylou Harris performs at the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala in Beverly Hills, California, tonight, at which her groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball is being inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. Wrecking Ball, originally released on Elektra Records and later reissued on Nonesuch, was produced by Daniel Lanois, and won the 1996 GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Harris’s album The Traveling Kind, her second duo album with Rodney Crowell, had its tenth anniversary this week.
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Composer/pianist Timo Andres joins Calder Quartet at High School of Fashion Industries in New York City tonight as part of the People’s Symphony Concerts series. The program includes the New York premiere of Andres’ piano quintet The Great Span along with works by Schubert, Ann Southam, and Debussy. A recording of the concert will be available to stream next week. Andres recently won the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Elise L. Stoeger Prize—a $25,000 cash prize, awarded biennially by CMS to recognize significant contributions to the field of chamber music composition. The fifteenth anniversary of Andres’s debut album, Shy and Mighty, is this Sunday.
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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire concludes his live performance, world premiere collaboration with Alonzo King LINES Ballet at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco this weekend, with final performances tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Earlier this month, Akinmusire won the JJA Jazz Award for Trumpeter of the Year for the second year in a row.
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Pianist Jeremy Denk, who celebrates a birthday today, joins violinist Ignace “Iggy” Jang and the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra for Mother Goose and the Hen: Ravel, Haydn & Mozart at Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu on Sunday. The program includes Ravel’s Ma mère l'Oye (Mother Goose); Haydn’s Symphony No. 83, “The Hen”’ and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503. Denk performs that last piece with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra on his 2021 Nonesuch album, Mozart Piano Concertos.
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Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue, featuring Justin Robinson and four other string musicians, have brought their tour in support of Giddens and Robinson’s new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, to Ontario, Canada, for shows at Koerner Hall in Toronto tonight and National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall in Ottawa on Saturday. You can watch performance videos of eight tunes from the new album here.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra) kicked off the spring/summer leg of their tour earlier this week and bring music from their latest album, The Past Is Still Alive, and more to California with shows at The Chapel in San Francisco tonight, Sebastiani Theater in Sonoma on Saturday, and Little Saint in Healdsburg on Sunday. You can watch the music video for their latest single, "Pyramid Scheme," here.
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Percussionist, producer, and composer Makaya McCraven is at the Chicago Drum Show at Kane County Fairgrounds in St. Charles, Illinois, tomorrow afternoon, hosting a clinic demonstrating his innovative approach to drumming, blending tradition with technology. McCraven’s latest album, In These Times, was released to critical acclaim on International Anthem / Nonesuch Records / XL Recordings in 2022.
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Pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Marcus Gilmore continue their Asian tour in China this weekend at Blue Note Beijing in Chaoyang Qu, with early and late sets tonight, and at Blue Note Shanghai in Shanghai, for early and late sets on Saturday. The trio concludes their tour in Seoul, South Korea, on Tuesday.
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Punch Brothers kicked off their spring tour earlier this week in Virginia, and return to the state for a sold-out show at Lime Kiln Theater in Lexington tonight, then head to Tennessee for a show at The Caverns in Pelhamon Saturday. Season one of their show The Energy Curfew Music Hour is currently available on Audible and all podcasting platforms, and the season two live taping concluded last month.
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Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed by Monmouth Civic Chorus at the First Presbyterian Church in Freehold, New Jersey, tonight. The piece is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. Its first recording, featuring the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch, was released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records in 2020. You can listen to her talk about it on Resounding Verse here and watch videos for each movement of the piece here.
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Molly Tuttle is at Eric Church’s Highways Festival in London, performing at the Royal Albert Hall tonight. Earlier this year, Tuttle was joined by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville to perform "San Joaquin," a song they co-wrote for her Grammy-winning 2023 album City of Gold; you can watch it here.
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Vagabon (aka Laetitia Tamko) performs at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City on Saturday afternoon as part of the Kilby Block Party. Their latest album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, was released on Nonesuch in 2023.
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