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Audra McDonald: Build a Bridge

Please tune in to see Audra McDonald guest co-host The View tomorrow, September 26, at 11am on WABC in New York and at 10am on KABC in Los Angeles, along with guests Ray Liotta and Bridget Moynahan (check website for local airtimes.) At the end of the show, Audra will perform “Bein’ Green” from Build a Bridge.

A profile of Audra McDonald aired on Saturday, September 23, on NPR's All Things Considered. The piece included an interview with Audra, as well as ones with her long-time music director Ted Sperling and NY Times critic Stephen Holden.  Additionally, NPR prepared a special webpage, with pictures, extra interview audio, a few songs from the new album Build a Bridge, and links -- you can find it at www.npr.org

Click to listen to Build a Bridge, and find out more about Audra's upcoming tour.

Photo by Michael Wilson

Jeff Tweedy "Sunken Treasure" trailer

Watch the trailer for Jeff Tweedy's solo DVD, "Sunken Treasure: Live in the Pacific Northwest"

More info and pre-order

In Memoriam

Over the last few months, four artists   with whom the company had an important association have passed away: Hamza El Din, Ali Farka Toure, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Edward Aldwell.

The Black Keys / Magic Potion

Listen to Magic Potion, the new album from The Black Keys:

http://nonesuch.com/theblackkeys/index.html?pmc=bkbg

Watch the band perform live on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic"

"Your Touch" featured on NPR's "Song of the Day"

BLACK KEYS TV!

Guitar shopping with Dan:

Euro promo tour:

The band will be touring the US this fall:

9/6/06	Seattle, WA	Showbox
9/7/06	Portland, OR	Roseland Theatre
9/9/06	San Francisco. CA	Fillmore
9/14/06	Hollywood, CA	Avalon
9/15/06	San Diego, CA	House of Blues
9/16/06	Tempe. AZ	Marquee Theatre
11/2/06	Boston, MA	Avalon Ballroom
11/3/06	New York. NY	Nokia Theatre
11/4/06	Philadelphia, PA	Electric Factory
11/5/06	Washington, D.C	9:30 Club
11/6/06	Washington, D.C	9:30 Club
11/8/06	Norfolk, VA	The Norva
11/9/06	Carrboro, NC	Cat's Cradle
11/10/06	Atlanta, GA	Variety Playhouse
11/15/06	Louisville, KY	Headliners
11/27/06	Madison, WI	Majestic Theater
12/12/06	New Orleans, LA	House of Blues

A Letter from New Orleans

From Bob Hurwitz to his Warner Music Group colleagues

Lower Ninth Ward

A group of us from Nonesuch went down to New Orleans last Tuesday to present a check for $1 million to Habitat for Humanity on the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I was with four of my colleagues from Nonesuch—David Bither, Karina Beznicki, Melissa Cusick and Eli Cane—all of whom gave up two months of their lives to work on this record. None of us fully understood the scope of this tragedy until we spent many hours driving around the city, seeing the Lower Ninth Ward and many of the neighborhoods that had been terribly damaged during Katrina.

We knew that making the album Our New Orleans and raising money was important and essential, but we had no clear picture of what it really meant until we actually came to the site of Habitat’s Musicians’ Village.