We're excited to be back at the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg on Saturday. Hope to see you there! There's lots of great live music ahead around the world from John Adams in San Francisco, Sam Amidon in Latvia, Attacca Quartet in Japan, Devendra Banhart in New Mexico, The Black Keys in Ohio, Jeremy Denk in Scotland, Emmylou Harris in Indiana, Hurray for the Riff Raff in London and Brighton, Gabriel Kahane in Houston and Austin, Lake Street Dive at Radio City Music Hall, The Magnetic Fields in Lisbon and Amsterdam, Makaya McCraven and Jeff Parker are in Raleigh, Molly Tuttle touring the South, and Wilco in the Midwest.
There are lots of great live events this weekend, including the return of the Brooklyn Flea Record Fair at Smorgasburg tomorrow from 11am to 6pm. We’re excited to be there in Williamsburg's Marsha P. Johnson State Park on what looks to be a beautiful day. The event, last held in 2019, is free and includes a record label and independent record store market situated next to Smorgasburg and its delicious food and drink options. Stop by the Nonesuch table then to say hi and pick up copies of your favorite Nonesuch vinyl releases, limited-edition prints, tote bags, and more.
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Composer John Adams's new opera, Antony and Cleopatra, is being given its world premiere performance by the San Francisco Opera at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on Saturday night. Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the company, starring Gerald Finley as Antony and Aminda Edris as Cleopatra, in this weekend's performance and in the six remaining performances through October 5.
"There is an easy argument to be made that Adams is the greatest living American composer," writes the New York Times's Joshua Barone in a feature on Adams in last Sunday's paper. You can read it here.
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Sam Amidon’s Trio is joined by pianist Pablo Held for a performance at Latgales vēstniecība GORS in Rēzekne, Latvia, on Saturday.
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Attacca Quartet continues its tour of Japan with three concerts in Nagoya this weekend: two concerts with Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra at Aichi Arts Center tonight and Saturday, featuring John Adams’s The Chairman Dances and Absolute Jest and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8, and a Sunday afternoon concert of their own at Munetsugu Hall, performing Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, from their Grammy Award–winning collaboration Orange, and more.
Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet's newest collaboration, the album Evergreen, is due out September 23.
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Devendra Banhart performs a set at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, tonight as part of the Ladder to the Moon festival.
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The Black Keys bring their Dropout Boogie tour back home near Akron, Ohio, for a concert at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls tonight.
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Jeremy Denk, who began a two-week tour of Scotland and Northern England at the Lammermuir Festival last night, plays the second of four Lammermuir sets at St Mary’s Parish Church in Haddington with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra tonight. Denk and the orchestra then head to Aberdeen for a Sunday afternoon concert at the Music Hall.
Denk marked the start of the tour as the guest on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune earlier this week, joining host Katie Derham in the studio for a conversation. He also performs at the piano throughout the episode. You can hear it here.
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Emmylou Harris takes Nashville, Tennessee, to Nashville, Indiana, for a night at the Brown County Music Center tonight.
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Hurray for the Riff Raff closes out their UK tour featuring music from their Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, with a sold-out show at Lafayette in London tonight and a concert at CHALK in Brighton on Saturday. Their European tour concludes at Point Éphémère in Paris on Monday.
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Gabriel Kahane kicks off the next leg of his US tour featuring music from his new album Magnificent Bird with two shows in Texas this weekend: at Stages in Houston tonight and at 3TEN in Austin on Sunday. The tour continues in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, San Luis Obispo, Seattle, New York City, and St. Louis in the weeks ahead.
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Lake Street Dive has a heck of a weekend ahead, with a concert at The Anthem in Washington, DC, tonight and two shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, Saturday and Sunday.
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The Magnetic Fields continue their whirlwind tour of Europe, performing at LAV in Lisbon on Saturday and at Tolhuistuin in Amsterdam.
The band has been met with critical acclaim at every step of the tour, including last weekend’s End of the Road festival, about which Uncut’s Mark Beaumont wrote: “It’s an evening not short on wonders. Merritt’s ... melodies rank among the greatest ever written, but what elevates him into the pantheon of leftfield gods is his almost casual ability to melt arch wit into profound emotion. Having charmed us out of our minds with what must surely be amongst EOTR’s finest ever sets, Merritt then breaks every heart ...”
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Makaya McCraven is joined by guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Junius Paul, trumpeter Marquis Hill, and flautist De'Sean Jones to perform in Moore Square in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Saturday as part of the Hopscotch Music Festival. All of the artists performing with McCraven can be heard on his new album, In These Times, due September 23 on International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings.
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Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway continue their tour featuring music from their new album, Crooked Tree, at the Imperial Theatre in Augusta, Georgia, tonight, and in Bristol, Tennessee, for the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion on Sunday. Tuttle is at the Wilson Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday as special guest of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit.
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Wilco is at The Sylvee in Madison, Wisconsin, tonight; Grand Rapids Library Amphitheater in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for the Grand Rapids Riverfest on Saturday; and Outdoors at Fargo Brewing Company in Fargo, North Dakota, on Sunday.
Jeff Tweedy is featured on the September issue of Range magazine out of Canada, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Wilco’s groundbreaking album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. You can read the interview here. The special super deluxe and deluxe 20th anniversary editions of the album are due September 30 on Nonesuch and are available to pre-order here.
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