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Nonesuch Relaunches Website

Nonesuch Records is happy to announce the relaunch of its website, nonesuch.com. The new site will remain a great source for in-depth information on the extensive and diverse Nonesuch catalog, spanning more than 500 titles, and will include a number of new and improved features, in what we hope will be a much more user-friendly and enjoyable online experience.

Among the site's features are: a multi-station radio with full-song streams of tracks organized into genres or combined into one all-inclusive Nonesuch Mix; a dedicated multimedia section with video and photo galleries; improved album pages with more detailed information and more sound clips from each track; a brand-new "think map" feature on our Artists page that showcases many of the connections among Nonesuch artists; and an enhanced store section, where you can choose from nearly 200 new and catalog CDs available with instant, high-quality album MP3 downloads at no extra cost, with many more to come in the months ahead.

Most relevant to the Nonesuch Journal, the redesign features a fully integrated Journal within the site, making it easier than ever to catch up on all the latest news from your favorite Nonesuch artists. From now on, simply visit nonesuch.com for all the news, reviews, and information you've come to find on journal.nonesuch.com.

We thank you for your support and look forward to your comments.

Punch Brothers Finalists in ESPN's Battle of the Bands; Chris Thile Answers Fans' Questions on "Baseball Tonight"

Congratulations to Punch Brothers: the band's take on "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" has been selected as one of three finalists in ESPN's Battle of the Bands, part of Baseball's Tonight's celebration of the 100th anniversary of that classic baseball tune.

Chris Thile be stopping by the show Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 PM ET to answer fans' questions about the tune, the contest, the band, and anything else that might cross fans' minds. You can submit your own question now by clicking here.

You can hear the three finalists' versions of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and vote for your favorite by clicking here.

Watch Randy Newman's Appearance on France 2's "Esprits Libres"

Randy Newman celebrated the Fourth of July last week with music and fireworks over three consecutive nights at the Hollywood Bowl, July 2-4, with the LA Philharmonic.

Also on the Fourth, Randy's appearance on the TV show Esprits Libres aired across France on the station France 2. Francophiles can enjoy all two hours of the show, covering a broad range of topics and featuring a number of insightful guests, online at www.france2.fr. For Randy's segment, jump forward to 1:50 in. After being introduced as "un grand monsieur de la musique Américaine," Randy performs "Losing You" from his forthcoming release, Harps and Angels, and, at the request of the show's host, an impromptu version of "In Germany Before the War," as well as "Sail Away," from the seminal 1972 album of the same name.

Nonesuch Events for the Long Weekend of July 3–6

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this long, holiday weekend featuring Nonesuch artists:

Randy Newman continues his three-day musical celebration of the Fourth of July with the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Rob Fisher at the Hollywood Bowl tonight and tomorrow night (tickets: hollywoodbowl.com). Also making special guest appearances are two legendary Brooklyn/LA Dodgers icons: former manager Tommy Lasorda and broadcaster Vin Scully. The July 4th Fireworks Spectacular, which also celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers in L.A., began last night and made the Los Angeles Times's list of not-to-be-missed events.

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The Izumi Sinfonietta Osaka, led by Norichika Iimori, performs John Adams's Chamber Symphony tonight in its hometown Izumi Hall in Osaka, Japan, and performs the program the following night in Tokyo at Kioi Hall. Info: izumihall.co.jp.

The Carroll Symphony Orchestra out of Carrollton, Georgia, led by Terry Lowry, celebrates Independence Day with a performance of the composer's Short Ride in a Fast Machine at the Carrollton Elementary School. On Sunday, the Brevard Music Ensemble, led by J. Falletta, will perform Short Ride at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium in  Brevard, North Carolina. On Saturday, the Neue Elbland Philharmonie will perform the piece at Freyler-Halle in Riesa, Germany.

Also in Germany, on Sunday, the piece continues to contribute to performances of choreographer John Neumeier's Parzifal: Episodes and Echo, by the Hamburg Ballet at the Staatsoper in Hamburg, in a score that also includes Adams's Tromba Lontana, Christian Zeal and Activity, The Wound-Dresser, El Dorado, and The Dharma at Big Sur. Tickets: hamburgballet.de.

For another Sunday performance in Germany, Adams's Lollapalooza will be performed by the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led by Benjamin Shwartz in the Theater at the Festsaal in Ingolstadt. Info, auf Deutsch, at ingolstadt.up2city.de.

Back in the States, on Saturday, the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra, led by Carlos Kalmar, will perform Adams's Slonimsky's Earbox as part of its free series of summer concerts at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millenium Park. Bill McGlaughlin, host of Exploring Music on Chicago radio's WFMT, narrates a program of American works spanning 125 years, beginning in the post Civil War era and ending with the music of today. Tickets are not required. Info: grantparkmusicfestival.com.

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On Saturday, The Black Keys take the stage at the weekend-long Rothbury Festival in Rothbury, Michigan. For a complete list of artists and events, visit rothburyfestival.com.

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The Magnetic Fields' European tour, which got under way last week with stops in Spain, Portugal, and Scandinavia, continues this weekend with three performances in Germany: tonight at the Karlstorbahnof in Heidelberg (karlstorbanhof.de), tomorrow night for an Independence Day concert at the aptly named Freiheizhalle in Munich (freiheiz.com), and Sunday night at the Passionskirche in Berlin (akanthus.de).

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Brad Mehldau will be in Europe for Fourth of July and throughout the month as he and his Trio, with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums, tour the continent. On Friday, the Trio will perform in Duisberg, Germany, at the Kraftzentrale in Landschaftspark Duisberg-Nord. They'll then head to Italy for the first of several dates in that country with Saturday's show at the Piazza Grande Polo Della Qualita in Marcianise. For further tour dates, click here.

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Orchestra Baobab performs a free concert tonight at 9 PM in Toronto. The band on the Harbourfront Centre's main stage as part of the city's World Routes free concert series. Info: harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Nicholas Payton performs in his hometown of New Orleans this Sunday  at the weekend-long Essence Festival. Tickets: essencemusicfestival.com.

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Punch Brothers play one more show Stateside, at the Britt Pavillion in Jacksonville, Oregon, Saturday night (brittfest.org), before heading to the UK and Ireland for a two-week tour later this month. For complete tour info, click here.

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Steve Reich's Sextet (1984) will be part of the Cheltenham Music Festival, which kicks off on July 4 and runs through July 19, when Three Strange Angels performs the piece at Town Hall in Cheltenham on Sunday. Tickets: cheltenhamfestivals.com.

Chicago Tribune: Orchestra Baobab Plays for 13,000 in Series' "Most Jubilant Concert Yet"

Orchestra Baobab's Made in Dakar tour of the States culminated last night with a concert at the intimate Dakota Cafe in Minneapolis that left Minneapolis City Pages reviewer Peter S. Scholtes to exclaim: "Orchestra Baobab is the kind of band that makes critics (at least this one) resort to hyperbole and sociology: They sound like God ..."

Scholtes distills "last night's fun at the Dakota" into "terms any rocker would get: Their star player among stars, guitarist Barthelemy Atisso, delivers the same giddy, sensual pleasure in mastery as a Van Halen or a Greg Ginn."

Read the concert review at blogs.citypages.com.

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This past weekend, the band played before a rather larger crowd in Chicago: an audience of some 13,000 at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavillion in what Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich calls "the most jubilant concert yet" in the city's free world-music concert series Music Without Borders.

"Orchestra Baobab gleefully shattered stylistic boundaries that usually distinguish East from West, continent from continent, past from present," writes Reich. "Certainly few ensembles merge musical practices more joyously, or more skillfully, than Orchestra Baobab."

The band made note of that diverse mastery in the title of its 2002 "comeback" album Specialist in All Styles and in the song selection on their new album, which covers their many years of music-making together. What's more, says Reich: "By now, this vocal-instrumental powerhouse does more than dip into an eclectic mix of styles: It fuses them with tautly conceived, finely honed arrangements."

He concludes:

But the crowning achievement of Orchestra Baobab's show lay in the amount of musical information packed into every number. Imagine keening electric guitars, steeped-in-jazz saxophones and multiple layers of percussion interacting with clockwork precision, and you have a basic idea of the textural density of this enterprise.

To read the article, visit chicagotribune.com.

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This Thursday, the band continues its round of free outdoor concerts at Toronto's Harbourfront Centre with music from Made in Dakar, which the city's Toronto Star calls "a lively and surprisingly contemporary disc."

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Last week, during a tour stop in New York City for two free outdoor shows, the band was featured on WNYC's Soundcheck. You can listen to the episode online at wnyc.org.

Hartford Courant: Ry Cooder Has "Outdone Himself" with "I, Flathead"

Ry Cooder's latest Nonesuch release, I, Flathead, receives four stars from The Independent (UK). The third in a trilogy of California-focused albums that includes Cooder's previous album, My Name Is Buddy, and what reviewer Andy Gill calls "the superb Chavez Ravine," the new album tells the tale of a in mid-century car culture in the Golden State. He describes it this way:

Accompanied by a 95-page novella, the result is a diversely detailed portrait of outlaw spirits in a land of shrinking opportunities, where lives are built on dreamy foundations, and broken by disillusion. The trilogy offers an alternative history of a state which prizes myths and fanciful lies over stark reality.

To read the full review, visit independent.co.uk.

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The Philadelphia Daily News gives the album an A. Reviewer Jonathan Takiff says that with I, Flathead, Ry "is really in his element." Takiff finds much to like in the project's "deliciously twisted tales ... Better yet," he continues, "this killer guitarist is rocking his box like we haven't heard him do in eons." He also praises the album's "glorious tributes to country greats, including the most-amazing '5000 Country Music Songs' ..." For the complete review, visit philly.com.

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The Hartford Courant's rock critic Eric R. Danton says Ry's "outdone himself" with the new CD and accompanying novella. Danton sees the project as "an elegy for that unique American do-it-yourself weirdness increasingly crowded out by interconnectivity and cultural homogenization." All is not lost though, he concludes: "Fortunately, a hint of that old America lingers on, and Ry Cooder is one of those rare individualists who helps keep it going." To read the review, visit courant.com.

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Pasadena Weekly counts Ry among "a threatened species: a bona fide Los Angeleno," something reflected in his California trilogy. The paper sums up I, Flathead as "a juicy celebration of hot rods, desert rats, sci-fi, and So Cal culture," and goes on to say:

The real value of Flathead is in how its often playfully amusing content thrives on truthful context; Cooder’s an avid historian of California’s constantly rewritten past, and few peers exhibit surer grasp of the myriad musical forms ... that have recorded its cultural evolution. As he did so masterfully in the more Latin-sounding Chavez Ravine, in the sounds and scenarios of Flathead he gets it right: Bakersfield-style twang, dirty blues guitar, lighthearted Western swing, mariachi’s romantic harmonies (courtesy of Mariachi Los Camperos), the lovable kitschiness of midcentury rock ’n’ roll style ...

Having explored North American music ... over four-plus decades, and with numerous awards and accolades under his belt for boundary-crossing collaborations with global legends like the late Ali Farka Toure and Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, Cooder’s ideally situated to comment on how those musical traditions have been distilled within our dynamic culture. The world he recreates in his trilogy is California.

For more, visit pasadenaweekly.com.

Sam Phillips Performs in a "Tiny Desk Concert" for NPR

"I don't think enough people have heard the music of Sam Phillips," says Bob Boilen, host of NPR's All Songs Considered, "and now seems like a good time to change that." Boilen goes on to say:

Her songs unfold like perfect miniature pop dramas, and her new album, Don't Do Anything, is loaded with great ones. Of all her incarnations as a performer ... the current Sam Phillips is the one I find most alluring.

Boilen invited Sam to perform songs from the new record at the NPR offices as part of the new All Songs Considered "Tiny Desk Concert" series. You can watch her and violinist Eric Gorfain perform four songs in those intimate environs at npr.org.

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Emmylou Harris to Appear on "Charlie Rose" Tonight

Tune in to the Charlie Rose show tonight on PBS stations across the country to catch an interview with Emmylou Harris. For show times and station information, visit charlierose.com.

NPR: Randy Newman's New Album Brings Smiles, Like a "Languid Southern Summer"

Randy Newman's forthcoming release, Harps and Angels, is featured in the latest edition of NPR's All Songs Considered: the Summer Music Preview. The show's host, Bob Boilen, says Randy's new record reminds him of the Newman records he first new and loved, like Good Ol' Boys and Sail Away. Harps and Angels, he says, "just made me smile," bringing to mind, as it does, a "languid Southern summer." He praises Newman for his use of the blues form "to tell a tale in such a great way."

Boilen's guest, World Cafe Executive Producer Bruce Warren, concurs. "It really does hearken back to albums like Sail Away," says Warren. "The whole song cycle on this record is kind of a record about America now, and boy the irony is thick enough, like peanut butter in the refrigerator."

You can listen to album's title track and hear the entire summer preview episode at npr.org.

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Orchestra Baobab, "Effortlessly Alive" (New Yorker), Perform Two Free Shows in NYC

Orchestra Boabab continues its US tour, bringing music from its latest release, Made in Dakar, to New York City for two free shows, today and tomorrow. This evening at 7 PM ET, the seminal Senegalese band will perform at Rockefeller Park on the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan as part of the summer's River to River Festival of free outdoor performances (rivertorivernyc.com). Tomorrow, the group will head to Brooklyn's MetroTech center for a noon event as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rhythm & Blues Festival (bam.org).

You can catch a concert preview today at 2 PM ET, when Orchestra Baobab will be featured on WNYC's Soundcheck with host John Schaefer. Listen live then at wnyc.org.

The New Yorker's music critic Sasha Frere-Jones says that even though it's been nearly 40 years since the band first played together, "time has done nothing to diminish the group's quiet intensity." These days, says Frere-Jones, "Baobab is effortlessly alive and globally indeterminate, a soothing and bewitching puzzle that always feels worth solving." Read more at newyorker.com.

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Following the band's performance at The Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, last week, which NPR webcast live (listen at npr.org), the Washington Post's Stephen Brookes writes: "[I]t's impossible to sit still when this Senegalese band gets moving, and it gets moving fast ... [I]t kept the crowd jumping all night." While he recognizes the truly collective effort on stage, Brookes points to the performance by the band's guitarist, Barthélemy Atisso (he of the "ferocious musical brain"), as "almost reason enough to see the show ... Attisso's a fascinating musical thinker, as he proved again and again." To read the concert review, visit washingtonpost.com.

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In the Pitchfork review of the new album, Made in Dakar, Joshua Klein says the band offers "seamless style blending" in a way that is "subtle, and always rooted in traditional music ... Orchestra Baobab is so smooth, so deceptively accessible, that for once the liner notes actually significantly enhance the listening experience."

Klein explains:

Each song here ... is equally rich in history, testament to one of the few positive outcomes of European occupation as they deftly incorporate soul and salsa, rumba and jazz, reggae and country, an exercise in cross-pollination made all the more impressive by the near invisibility of the threads connecting it all. That's ultimately what makes Orchestra Baobab such a joy: It's dance music, pure and simple, made for others to have a good time, easily appreciated on the basis of its musicianship alone (Attisso is particularly inspired throughout) but becoming more impressive the deeper you dig into what's actually being done.

To read the full review, visit pitchforkmedia.com.

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AP: Ry Cooder's New Album an "Unqualified Success"

Ry Cooder's new album, I, Flathead, releases today and follows Chavez Ravine (2005) and My Name Is Buddy (2007) as the third and final album in Cooder's California trilogy. Two versions of the new record are available: the standard CD as well as a deluxe package with both the CD and the accompanying 95-page novella that Ry wrote in conjunction with the album songs, told from the perspective of the fictitious musician Kash Buk and featuring an oddball cast of characters and car obsessives from California's drag-racing salt flats in the 1960s. Ry will be on today's edition of Soundcheck on WNYC, New York public radio, to discuss his latest release with the show's host, John Schaefer. Listen live today at 2 PM ET on wnyc.org.

Associated Press writer Scott Bauer finds I, Flathead to be a fitting finish to Cooder's "intriguing" trilogy, calling it "another record that stands out for its lyricism and sounds a lot like a book set to music. Which, in this case, it is." Bauer concludes: "I, Flathead gives listeners (and readers) plenty to consider. And in that regard, it's an unqualified success." You can read the AP review in the San Francisco Chronicle at sfgate.com.

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The Independent (UK)'s Nick Coleman calls the new album "immaculately played and produced high-resolution Americana ... This is Cooder doing what he does best, which is to summon a lost America from his fibres and set it to the music he hears in other people's heads."

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BBC's Chris Jones says the new album sees Ry "combine the best of all his areas of expertise. It's for sure that whether you're a fan of his Americana, his guitar playing or just his fine writing that you'll be satisfied with I, Flathead."

"Cooder blends his love of country, blues, rock 'n' roll, and even mariachi," Jones continues, "weaving it in with the usual blend of sociopolitical history and a BIG dollop of humour." The reviewer points to two tracks on the album as welcome nods to earlier highlights from Cooder's career, writing: "Cooder's willingness to bring guitars back into centre stage means 'Steel Guitar Heaven' is a total, jazzy blast while 'Spayed Cooley' combines country swing with canine-related jokes."

Jones finds further references to the past on this "most typically 'Cooderish' album in a long while" in the track "Ridin' with the Blues," which, "with its references to his glory days on the road with the Stones may be the loudest, raunchiest thing he's done in a long while."

I, Flathead, Jones concludes, "is a fine end piece" to Cooder's California trilogy. To read the review, visit bbc.co.uk.

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CBS Sunday Morning: Randy Newman, "Our Stephen Foster and Our Mark Twain," Offers Hysterics and Heartbreak on New Album

Harps and Angels , Randy Newman's first album of new music in nearly a decade, is due out on Nonesuch August 5, and already, CBS Sunday Morning's Bill Flanagan is calling it one of the summer's best.

"I was in New Orleans for JazzFest last month and Randy Newman stole the show," says Flanagan. "Newman is our generation's Stephen Foster and our Mark Twain. His new album Harps and Angels ... will have you in hysterics with one song and break your heart with the next."

To read more of Flanagan's Best CDs of Summer 2008 report, visit cbsnews.com.

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Randy will join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a special guest at the Hollywood Bowl on July 2, 3, and 4 for a special July 4th Fireworks Spectacular celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He'll perform "Losing You" from the forthcoming album, plus his classic tunes "I Love L.A." and "You've Got a Friend in Me," and will conduct the Philharmonic in music from his Oscar-nominated score for the film The Natural. For tickets, visit hollywoodbowl.com.

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Emmylou Harris Visits Borders Tysons Corner on Sunday

Emmylou Harris and her band are taking songs from her latest release, All I Intended to Be, on the road, touring the country and pairing those new tunes with a number of favorites from throughout her career. This Sunday night, they'll play at the Wolf Trap Filene Center in Vienna, Virginia. But first, Emmylou will stop by the Borders store at nearby Tysons Corner, at 1 PM ET, to meet with fans and sign copies of the new record. For more information, visit bordersstores.com.

Yesterday, BBC Radio 2 aired an interview with the songstress on the Bob Harris Country show. For the next week, you can listen to the show online at bbc.co.uk. Emmylou's segment starts about 20 minutes into the show.

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Nonesuch Events This Weekend

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this weekend featuring Nonesuch artists:

London Sinfonietta, led by Diego Masson, will perform John Adams's Chamber Symphony tomorrow night at Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore in its second of two performances at the 2008 Singapore Arts Festival. Also on tonight's program: Piazzolla's Tango Seis, Takemitsu's Rain Coming, and Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale. Info: singaporeartsfest.com.

Also tomorrow night, the Holland Symfonia, led by Henrik Schaefer, performs works from South America, including Adams's orchestrations of Piazzolla's La Mufa, Tango and Todo Buenos Aires. The Symfonia continues its South American program Sunday night with more works by Piazzolla. Info: hollandsymfonia.com.

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The Black Keys' tour of New Zealand and Australia winds down this weekend, jumping from the eastern to western coasts of Australia. Saturday, the band will play at the Manning Bar in Camperdown, Sydney (manningbar.com), then fly to Perth for a show at Metro Fremantle on Sunday, before heading home.

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T Bone Burnett continues to cross the country with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss as part of the Raising Sands tour. This weekend it brings them to the Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado. Info: redrocksonline.com.

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Bill Frisell has had to cancel his appearance tonight at the 8 Days in June festival in Detroit, Michigan, due to a family illness. For information on refunds and ticket exchanges, call the Orchestra Hall box office at 313-576-5111.

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Emmylou Harris played the second of two nights yesterday at New York City's The Town Hall and heads out to Long Island tonight for the Opening Night Gala performance the The Planting Fields Arboretum's summer season of concerts in Oyster Bay, New York (fotapresents.org). She'll then perform at the Wolf Trap Filene Center in Vienna, Virginia, on Sunday (wolftrap.org).

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The Brad Mehldau Trio joins the festivities for the annual JVC Jazz Festival New York with a performance Sunday night in Carnegie Hall's intimate Zankel Hall. Info: festivalnetwork.com.

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After a rocking performance last night at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia, broadcast live on npr.org and now available at npr.org/music, Orchestra Baobab heads up to the Boston area to play the Somerville Theatre tomorrow night. (somervilletheatreonline.com). "There are few summer sounds more breezily soulful than those wafting north from Cuba," says the Boston Herald, "unless they make their way here via a detour through Africa." The Herald calls the band's sound "an infectious mix of high life, Afro-Cuban rhythms, and Congolese rumba that made it legendary in West Africa."

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Tonight, Nicholas Payton joins drummer Roy Hanes and fellow Birds of a Feather participants Donald Harrison on sax, Christian McBride on bass, and Dave Kikoski on piano, paying tribute to John Coltrane, for the finale concert in the Gene Harris Jazz Festival in Boise, Idaho. The concert will take place in the Morrison Center at Boise State University. Info: boiseevents.com.

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Punch Brothers perform at the Sheridan Opera House for the closing-day events of the 35th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado, on Sunday. Tickets and info: bluegrass.com/telluride.

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This weekend, the Cincinnati Conservatory at the University of Cincinnati will conclude its weeklong Music 08 festival, showcasing new works and masterworks of the 20th and 21st centuries. Frederic Rzewski and Steve Reich are guest composers at the event, leading master classes today and tomorrow. The festival's culminating events include an all-Reich concert tomorrow night in the school's Corbett Auditorium, featuring Cello Counterpoint and Music for 18 Musicians, and a Sunday afternoon performance of Double Sextet by eighth blackbird, which held a master class yesterday. Info and tickets: ccm.uc.edu.

Reich's New York Counterpoint will be on the program tonight in the London Sinfonietta's first of two performances for the Singapore Arts Festival at Esplanade Concert Hall, in which the music will be accompanied by original visuals by video art collective Flat-e. Info: singaporeartsfest.com.

Also tonight, pianist Stephen Drury joins performers from the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice for Reich's Sextet at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall in Boston. Info: sicpp.org.

Emmylou Harris Enters US Charts at No. 22

Congratulations to Emmylou Harris, who, the same week she entered the Top 40 on the UK pop charts, with her latest release, All I Intended to Be, debuted at No. 22 on the US pop charts, a career high. The new album simultaneously reached No. 4 on this week's country charts.

Emmylou delighted her New York fans last night at The Town Hall with the first of two performances at the venue. She returns tonight for an encore performance before heading out to Long Island tomorrow night for the Opening Night Gala performance the The Planting Fields Arboretum's summer season of concerts in Oyster Bay, New York. For more information, visit fotapresents.org.

Last week, Emmylou was in New York City as well to celebrate the release of the new record with an intimate interview and performance at New York's flagship Barnes & Noble store in Union Square. The special event, held before a capacity crowd, was part of the store's One on One series, hosted by Katherine Lanpher. Emmylou was the first musician to be featured in the series, which has otherwise focused on authors. You can watch video of the entire event here:

The Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli recently went to Nashville to visit Emmylou at her home and join her for a walk through the museum at the Country Music Hall of Fame, into which she was recently inducted. In an article that examines the breadth of her 35-year career, Fusilli describes Emmylou's appeal this way:

Ms. Harris delivers her songs with Mother Carter's passion and unadorned directness; knows that Monroe's musical adventurism trumps the homogeneous sound of contemporary country; and in the early 1970s, with Gram Parsons, studied the Louvins' vocal harmonies.

To read the article, visit wsj.com.

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