Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. John Adams is performed in Brisbane. Mary Halvorson is in White Plains, NY. Hurray for the Riff Raff marks Climate Week in NYC. Rhiannon Giddens performs at Philharmonie Luxembourg. Richard Goode plays Mozart in Georgia. Makaya McCraven plays Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Fest. Brad Mehldau performs his Piano Concerto with Nashville Symphony. Robert Plant and Saving Grace take their US tour to Arizona and Southern California. Steve Reich is performed in Paris and London. Cécile McLorin Salvant is at Monterey Jazz Fest. Molly Tuttle tours North Carolina. Yasmin Williams is in Colorado.
Laurie Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob—Steven Bernstein on brass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass—are touring California this week, performing Republic of Love at Curran Theatre in San Francisco tonight and Rio Theatre in Santa Cruz on Saturday. Let X=X, a triple-LP / double-CD set of twenty-three songs recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and Sexmob, was released in May. The album includes many favorite songs from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements—plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica.
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John Adams's 1995 piece Lollapalooza is performed by Queensland Symphony Orchestra at Queensland Performing Arts Centre in Brisbane, Australia, tonight and Saturday. The first recording of the piece, performed by The Hallé Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano can be heard on a 2001 Nonesuch album with Century Rolls, on the 2010 soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino's film I Am Love, and on the 2022 box set John Adams Collected Works.
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Rhiannon Giddens performs at Philharmonie in Luxembourg on Sunday. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, inspired by the beauty of people coming together and drawing strength from each other, released last week. You can watch the video for the title track, which shows artist Uzoma Samuel Anyanwu’s process creating the cover art, and listen to the rest of the album here. You can hear Giddens discuss the album NPR's flagship programs here.
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Richard Goode opens Spivey Hall’s concert season at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia, on Sunday. The program includes Mozart’s Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310, which he recorded for Nonesuch in 2005.
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Mary Halvorson joins pianist Sylvie Courvoisier at Arts Westchester in White Plains, New York, on Saturday afternoon for Jazz Fest White Plains. Halvorson's latest album, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, is a duo collection with label mate trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff performs at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn for Floodlines, an evening of music, poetry, science, and conversation about what happens when waters rise and how cities heal, hosted by Hanif Abdurraqib, coinciding with Climate Week NYC.
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Makaya McCraven celebrates the 20th anniversary of Chicago's Hyde Park Jazz Festival, performing on the Wagner Stage on Saturday.
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Brad Mehldau performs his Piano Concerto with the Nashville Symphony at their hometown Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Also on the program are works by Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. Mehldau's new album, Fantasy & Reveries, on which he performs his solo compositions Fantasy for Piano and Fourteen Reveries, is due November 13; you can hear the first two reveries and pre-order the album here.
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Robert Plant and the band Saving Grace—singer Suzi Dian, drummer Oli Jefferson, guitarist Tony Kelsey, banjo and string player Matt Worley, and cellist Barney Morse-Brown—continue their Up the Sharp End US tour at Pepsi Amphitheater in Flagstaff, Arizona, tonight and Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Highland, California, on Saturday. They are joined by special guest Rosie Flores. Plant's EP Saving Grace: All That Glitters… is out digitally on October 9; you can hear the track “Two Coats” and watch the video here.
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Steve Reich’s Drumming is performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris tonight and Saturday. Across the channel, Carducci Quartet, Ligeti Quartet, Solem Quartet join forces to celebrate Steve Reich at 90, playing Different Trains (1988), WTC 9/11 (2010), and Triple Quartet (1999)— all of which were written for and first recorded by Kronos Quartet—at Purcell Room in London.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant performs on the Monterey Jazz Festival's Jimmy Lyons Stage in Monterey, California, this weekend. She is joined by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis on Friday and leads her own set on Saturday.
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Molly Tuttle plays two triple bills in North Carolina with Houndmouth and Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country at TD Amp Ballantyne in Charlotte tonight and at Hellbender in Asheville on Saturday. She was recently awarded Artist of the Year at the Americana Awards and Honors. Her latest release, So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Acoustic), strips back five standout tracks from her acclaimed 2025 album.
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Yasmin Williams performs at Riverside Park in Salida, Colorado, at Smalltown Gathering tonight.
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