Punch Brothers perform at Stanford's Dinkelspiel Auditorium tonight; the San Francisco Chronicle says the band performs "with a sense of adventure that's hard to resist." This closes out the band's run of shows in California that included Wednesday's show at LA's El Rey Theater with Jon Brion, at which, says the Los Angeles Times, Punch Brothers "flexed the kind of instrumental chops that even a non-player can admire." They head next to the East Coast to join T Bone Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue benefit for music and arts education programming in public schools.
Punch Brothers perform at Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium tonight, coming right on the heels of Kronos Quartet's Lively Arts Opening Night performance earlier this week. This closes out Punch Brothers' recent run of shows in California that included a show at the El Rey Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday with an opening set from Jon Brion, who produced their latest Nonesuch album, Antifogmatic. The Los Angeles Times, in its review of the show, says the Punch Brothers "flexed the kind of instrumental chops that even a non-player can admire." Read the complete concert review at latimes.com.
The San Francisco Chronicle, previewing tonight's show, says of the band: "Using traditional bluegrass instruments, the quintet serves up heartfelt if elusive originals spiked with dissonant chords and jarring rhythmic shifts, delivered with a sense of adventure that's hard to resist."
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When they were last in the Bay Area, two weeks prior, Punch Brothers joined T Bone Burnett and friends on stage in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. The artists join each other again on the East Coast this Saturday for the first of two dates of Burnett's Speaking Clock Revue, featuring Elton John & Leon Russell, John Mellencamp, Elvis Costello, Gregg Allman, Ralph Stanley, Jeff Bridges, Karen Elson, The Secret Sisters, and Neko Case. Saturday's show will take place at the Wang Theatre in Boston. The next Speaking Clock Revue will be held at New York's Beacon Theatre on Wednesday.
Both of these dates of The Speaking Clock Revue are presented with Participant Media in conjunction with the release of the new documentary film Waiting for “Superman," about the American education system. All net proceeds from these shows will be donated to The Participant Foundation to support music and arts education programming in public schools.
Boston Globe music critic Sarah Rodman spoke with Burnett about the upcoming shows and his involvement with The Participant Foundation in a feature article you'll find at boston.com. And for more information on The Speaking Clock Revue shows, you can read about it in the Nonesuch Journal.
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For the complete Punch Brothers tour schedule, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour. To pick up a copy of Antifogmatic with high-quality, 320 kbps of the album included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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