The Low Anthem performs in Boston to benefit the Red Sox Foundation's Foundation to Be Named Later ... Carolina Chocolate Drops kick off tour in Georgia and South Carolina ... Steve Reich joins So Percussion for Clapping Music at Stanford ... Allen Toussaint plays Kansas City and debuts on Austin City Limits ... Sara Watkins returns to A Prairie Home Companion ... and more ...
The Low Anthem performs at a venue close to home (Boston's House of Blues) for a cause close to heart in the Hot Stove Cool Music concert, a benefit for the Red Sox Foundation's Foundation to Be Named Later, Saturday night. Also performing are State Radio, Tinted Windows (with members of Hanson, Cheap Trick, Smashing Pumpkins, Fountains of Wayne), HSCM All Stars (Peter Gammons, Bronson Arroyo, Bill Janovitz, Theo Epstein, Ken Casey), Kay Hanley from Letters of Cleo, and MC Mike O'Malley.
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The Carolina Chocolate Drops begin their two-month tour tonight at the Melting Pot in Athens, Georgia, followed by two dates in South Carolina: Saturday at the McCelvey Center in York and Sunday at the Pourhouse in Charleston. "What they do requires skill, knowledge, and a healthy dose of inspired, collective creativity," says the Charleston City Paper in a preview of Sunday's show.
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Steve Reich joins So Percussion in a performance of Clapping Music for an all-Reich program at Stanford University on Saturday. The concert, featuring the US premiere of Reich's latest piece, Mallet Quartet, is the culmination of a number of related events at Stanford this week, including a public conversation with Reich and Beryl Korot held on Thursday. The San Jose Mercury News calls it all "a welcome and rare opportunity for immersion in Reich's rhythmical realm."
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Allen Toussaint performs at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, tonight. He then makes his Austin City Limits debut on the PBS stations across the country on Saturday. Toussaint and his band perform interpretations of jazz classics from his Grammy-nominated Nonesuch debut, The Bright Mississippi, as well as beloved Toussaint originals like “Working in the Coalmine” and “Southern Nights.”
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Sara Watkins returns to the set of NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, joining host Garrison Keillor and crew for a live broadcast from San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House Saturday afternoon. Sara, whom the show describes as "a bright shining star of modern bluegrass," will be this week's special guest, along with Metropolitan Opera tenor Raúl Melo.
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