Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris, Molly Tuttle, Natalie Merchant, Makaya McCraven, Timo Andres News & More
Rhiannon Giddens Pulitzer Prize, new album pre-order * Emmylou Harris vinyl * Molly Tuttle performance * Natalie Merchant on BBC Radio 2 * Makaya McCraven, Timo Andres podcast * and more
Available to Pre-Order
Rhiannon Giddens: You're the One
Available August 18
Rhiannon Giddens' You're the One is her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs. This collection of twelve tunes written over the course of her career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music she knows so deeply and its pop descendants. The album was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June) and recorded with an ensemble including Giddens' closest musical collaborators from the past decade, a string section, and the Miami Horns. The lone featured guest on the album is Jason Isbell on "Yet to Be." You can hear the album's title track now.
Now on Vinyl
Emmylou Harris: Stumble Into Grace
To mark the 20th anniversary of Emmylou Harris's album Stumble Into Grace comes its first-ever vinyl release, in a limited cream-colored vinyl edition. On this, her second album of original material, following her Nonesuch debut album, Red Dirt Girl, Harris is joined by guests like Linda Ronstadt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Gillian Welch, Jane Siberry, Buddy Miller, Daniel Lanois, and Malcolm Burn, who produced the record. Newsweek declared: "Her stellar voice takes on new depth when tied to songs this personal."
News from the Nonesuch Journal
Rhiannon Giddens, Michael Abels Win Pulitzer Prize
Congratulations to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, who have won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Music for their opera Omar. Based on the life and autobiography of enslaved Muslim scholar Omar Ibn Said, who was forcefully brought to Charleston from Africa in 1807, Omar premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston in May 2022 and has been performed by LA Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Carolina Performing Arts, and Boston Lyric Opera. It will be performed by San Francisco Opera in November.
Watch: Molly Tuttle Performs for Garden & Gun
Molly Tuttle stopped by Garden & Gun to perform a Back Porch Session. She and Golden Highway banjo player Kyle Tuttle perform a song from their upcoming album, City of Gold, and three songs from their Grammy-winning debut album, Crooked Tree.
Watch: Rhiannon Giddens on PBS's The Articulate Hour
"We have this tendency to group ourselves, but then we also have this ability—through music, through dance, through food—to come together and make something new," Rhiannon Giddens says on the PBS series The Articulate Hour hosted by Jim Cotter. You can watch it now, along with the second episode of her own PBS series, My Music, with guest Allison Russell.
Listen: Natalie Merchant on BBC Radio 2
"A literate, observant, thoughtful songwriter, champion of the dispossessed, admirer and interpreter of folk songs and sounds, and we hear that again on Keep Your Courage," Mark Radcliffe says of Natalie Merchant, his guest on BBC Radio 2's The Folk Show. "Always full of engaging ideas and thoughts. And if it's on Nonesuch it's always worth your attention."
Listen: Makaya McCraven on International Anthem Podcast
Makaya McCraven, who performs at the Outline Festival in NYC on Saturday, is the guest on the latest episode of the International Anthem Podcast. McCraven talks with host Ayana Contreras about the reception of his acclaimed new album, In These Times, and revisits the concepts, intentions, growth, and changes the work encompassed along his decade-long journey of making it.
Listen: Natalie Merchant DJs for Radio Woodstock
Natalie Merchant took over the airwaves at Radio Woodstock in upstate New York one recent Saturday, sharing some of her favorite songs in a wide-ranging three-hour DJ set.
Nonesuch Events for the Weekend
Rhiannon Giddens caps off a UK tour at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Birmingham Town Hall, and Saffron Hall in Essex. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in Dante. Sam Amidon is in Galway and Belfast. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Santa Barbara. Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley's Sun Rings in Paris. Makaya McCraven is in NYC for Outline Festival. Brad Mehldau Trio is in Stockholm. Natalie Merchant sings in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play North Carolina Brewers and Music Fest.
Listen: Timo Andres Talks with The Next Track Podcast
Composer/pianist Timo Andres is on The Next Track podcast to talk about a number of contemporary classical pieces, including those on his own albums Home Stretch and Shy and Mighty, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet, Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach, Terry Riley's In C, and works by Cage, Messiaen, Pärt, Rzewski, Takemitsu, and Sufjan Stevens.
Joshua Redman's Walking Shadows at 10
It was 10 years ago this week: Joshua Redman's Walking Shadows was released on Nonesuch. Produced by Brad Mehldau, who performs in the core quartet with Larry Grenadier and Brian Blade, the album is Redman's first recording to include an orchestral ensemble. Walking Shadows includes original tunes from both Redman and Mehldau along with works by a wide range of composers, like John Mayer and Pino Palladino, Kern and Hammerstein, Lennon and McCartney, Billy Strayhorn, Wayne Shorter, and Hoagy Carmichael.