A sensational live band, Tinariwen electrifies traditional Tuareg melodies with edgy blues, rock, Berber, and Arabic influences, producing a gritty, hypnotic sound.
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Looking for things to do around Boston this weekend? Here’s some music and dance events in and around Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville we think you might like!
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June 09French-British pianist RIOPY has brought classical music to wider audiences. After leaving his home country of France at 18 he settled in London and began to compose for cinema (The Danish Girl, The Shape of Water, Mr. Turner), and has since racked up more than half a...
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June 25Back by popular demand, Brazilian diva Marisa Monte returns to North America in the summer of 2023! Releasing one wildly successful album after another, Marisa Monte is a four-time Latin Grammy-winner widely recognized as one of the greatest Brazilian singers of her generation. She will perform...
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June 27Los Angeles-based La Santa Cecilia (named for the patron saint of musicians) draws musical inspiration from Pan-American rhythms including Colombian and Mexican cumbia, bossa-nova, rumba, bolero, tango, and jazz. The children of immigrants, the band’s acclaimed debut album, Treinta Dias...
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June 30Founding member of the Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, Cuban singer and percussionist Pedrito Martinez founded The Pedrito Martinez Group in NYC in 2005. A consummate master of Afro-Cuban music and the batá drum, Martinez has been called a "genius" by Wynton Marsalis, "an incomparable...
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September 21MORE »Pioneering Grammy-winner Kurt Elling has secured his place among the world’s foremost jazz vocalists and has been proclaimed as “the standout male vocalist of our time”...
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September 22With her spectacular banjo and fiddle playing, passionate vocals, and perceptive songwriting, Rhiannon Giddens uses her art to excavate the past and reveal bold truths about our present. A MacArthur “genius grant” recipient, Giddens cofounded the Grammy-winning Carolina Chocolate Drops and is...
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October 08Sitar virtuoso Anoushka Shankar, daughter of the late Ravi Shankar, is a singular, genre-defying artist who spans classical and contemporary, acoustic and electronic. She'll be performing new music alongside reinterpreted favorites with her new quintet that includes clarinetist Arun Ghosh,...
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October 19British singer-songwriter and guitarist Charlie Cunningham creates rhythmically driven, melancholic, and timelessly beautiful songs with a thoroughly modern lens. His expansive yet intimate music is laden with delicate flourishes, intricate melodic turns, and moments of stark introspection.
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