Jeremy Denk plays Ives at Little Island NYC. Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Frank Rosaly take MESTIZX to Austin. Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform in Cork. Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet tour Lexington, Bloomington, and Chicago, where Jeff Parker is too. Emmylou Harris goes to Georgia. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Ottawa. Kronos Quartet tours Switzerland and Austria. Natalie Merchant performs in Kingston, NY. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Colombia and Ecuador. Molly Tuttle is in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where Yasmin Williams is too.
Jeremy Denk performs in Ivesiade, a sold-out show he curated with fellow pianist Conor Hanick celebrating the music of composer Charles Ives at the Little Island Amphitheater on Saturday. He and Hanick are joined by violinist Nathan Meltzer, cellist Coleman Itzkoff, Mastervoices choir, and The Queer Big Apple Corps for the program. Denk’s latest album, Ives Denk, includes Ives’s four violin sonatas, performed with violinist Stefan Jackiw, and a remastered recording of Denk performing the composer’s first and second piano sonatas. “An album of Ives music, especially one as well played and thought provoking as Ives Denk, is worth engaging with at any time,” NPR says.
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Bolivian-born singer and multimedia performer Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti and Chicago expat jazz drummer Frank Rosaly return to the US to perform their collaborative project, MESTIZX, at the Austin Scottish Rite Theater in Austin tonight as part of Sonic Transmissions. On MESTIZX, their debut full-length album as co-composers, arrangers, and musicians, the Amsterdam-based duo dove deep into the sounds of their respective ancestral roots in Bolivia, Brazil, and Puerto Rico to create a deeply personal meditation on decolonization and the defiant power of ritual and protest.
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Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi perform at the Cork Opera House in Cork, Ireland, on Saturday. Their two albums together, there is no Other and They're Calling Me Home, were released on Nonesuch in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Giddens's album with Justin Robinson, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, was released earlier this year; you can listen to the album here and watch performance videos of eight tunes from it here.
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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and her improvisatory sextet Amaryllis—Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet)—bring music from their latest album, About Ghosts, to Constellation in Chicago, on Friday, launching a US tour at the Sound and Gravity festival, before heading to Singletary Center in Lexington, Kentucky on Saturday, and Indiana University’s Auer Hall in Bloomington, Indiana on Sunday. About Ghosts, released earlier this year, "conjures such vibrant, picturesque riffs, capricious melodic excursions, and suspenseful rhythmic undertows," DownBeat says in its four-star review, "a marvelous document for Halvorson’s compositional acumen and conceptual ingenuity.”
Guitarist/composer Jeff Parker is also at Sound & Gravity, performing at Beat Kitchen tonight. It was announced this week that he and his Tortoise bandmates’ new album, Touch, will be released October 24; you can watch a video for the lead single, "Layered Presence," here.
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Emmylou Harris performs at the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Gainesville, Georgia, tonight. Harris’s Nonesuch debut album, Red Dirt Girl, was released 25 years ago last week. Her groundbreaking 1995 album, Wrecking Ball, was inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy gala in May. Next month, she will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame as part of its 2025 class.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) is at the Faskin Stage in Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Ontario, on Saturday for CityFolk Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff hits the road with The Head and the Heart in October, bringing their album The Past is Still Alive and more to the US South and Southwest.
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Kronos Quartet is in Europe, at Abbey Bellelay in Saicourt, Switzerland, tonight, performing selections from Philip Glass’s Mishima, John Coltrane, Neil Young, and more. On Sunday, Kronos is at Tanzschule Seifert in Salzburg, Austria, for a sold-out sunrise concert, and at Andräkirche Salzburg, for a sunset concert. The two programs feature works by Glass, Terry Riley, Laurie Anderson, and more.
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Natalie Merchant takes part in a tribute concert for Bill Vanaver at Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, on Sunday.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—are in South America, performing at Teatro Colsubsidio in Bogotá, Colombia, tonight for the International Jazz Festival, and Teatro Nacional Sucre in Quito, Ecuador, on Sunday for the Ecuador Jazz Festival. You can watch Salvant, Nakamura, Poole, and pianist Sullivan Fortner perform “What does blue mean to you?,” the second song from Salvant’s upcoming album, Oh Snap, in a recently released video from their 2024 SFJAZZ concert here.
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Molly Tuttle, whose new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, was released last month, kicked off her The Highway Knows tour earlier this week in Chicago, and continues this weekend at Globe Iron in Cleveland tonight, and Carnegie Homestead Music Hall in Pittsburgh on Saturday. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” Watch the new live performance video for “Everything Burns” here.
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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams brings music from her latest album Acadia and more to the Upper Merion Township Building Park in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, on Saturday for Concerts Under the Stars with Mdou Moctar.
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