Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson were hard to tame. Both artists were passionate, convicted, admirably idealistic, and would seemingly not bend or break for anyone or anything. That’s simply who they were and why their music was so great. Hence, when Cash debuted Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Comedown” in 1970 at the Ryman Auditorium, Cash subverted some executive’s wishes for his good friend.
"On March 6, 2025, Angélique Kidjo joined nine-time GRAMMY winning bassist and composer Christian McBride for the Ralph Pucci 9th Annual Jazz Set, The Lowdown: Conversations with Christian®. The evening benefited Jazz House Kids, a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit that uses the power and legacy of jazz to give young people an artistic edge, providing access to world-class arts education and live performances, no matter what their financial constraints. Angélique brought her dynamic presence to an intimate evening at Ralph Pucci International in New York City, set against the iconic backdrop of Frank Stewart's masterful jazz photography."
"CORRESPONDENCES, the long-term audio-visual project by Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, documents the sonic footprints of poets, filmmakers, revolutionaries, and climate change across numerous global locations. Following last year’s release of Correspondences Vol I, they have today announced the release of Correspondences Vol II. Accompanying the announcement of the new 2-track EP, out March 21 via Bella Union, is the first fifteen minute track, titled “Children Of Chernobyl”. (...) It’s here, where the natural meets the unthinkable, that the story of Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith’s CORRESPONDENCES continues. More ghostly still are the same words sung in Ukrainian at the song’s end by the Chernobyl Children’s Choir: “There are roses underfoot that one cannot smell / There is fruit on the vine that one cannot eat / And they went to bed hungry / And hungry they’ll sleep / For a thousand years.”"
June is set to be a big month for Aussie rock legend Jimmy Barnes” he’ll release his 21st album and celebrate with a six-date tour around the country. Barnes’ new record DEFIANT will be released on Friday, June 6th through Mushroom Music. The next night, he’ll kick off the tour of the same name in his old hometown of Adelaide at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. From there, he’ll play dates in theatres in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney before finishing up in Canberra at the end of the month.
More than six decades after Richards co-wrote Faithfull’s breakout single, "As Tears Go By," he recognizes the late singer's “pure and simple” voice, her impact on the Rolling Stones, and her 1979 masterpiece, Broken English.
Before his passing in 2024, Kris Kristofferson headlined thousands of shows, appeared in a plethora of feature films, and stunned the masses with his rough and gruff grisly charisma. That being so, it seems the man was always destined to be the center of many’s attention thanks to his music. However, the boxer and English literary scholar didn’t care if any of that transpired. Instead, he thought his artist presence would reside merely between himself and the isolation of being a writer.
To be clear, I don’t think that director James Mangold has some kind of vendetta against Baez. I think a more accurate statement would be that every character in “A Complete Unknown” is confined by the limits of the biopic genre, and Mangold does relatively little to rescue the film from its worst impulses. I like to call it “biopic syndrome”: in place of a cohesive narrative, a dizzying number of scenes are stitched together in a montage of events that decorate Dylan’s rise to fame. This style of filmmaking is endemic to the genre, and it’s the source of many viewer complaints over the years who regard biopics as messy, disconnected and worthy of ridicule. And because “A Complete Unknown” places most of its attention on Dylan’s personal relationships rather than his art, the climax of the film is rendered completely ineffective, more akin to a love triangle than a portrait of a complicated artist.
AER LINGUS will fly the Riverdance troupe across the globe this year as they embark on their 30th anniversary tour. (...) Originally a seven-minute Eurovision interval act which impressed television audiences in 1994, Riverdance debuted in 1995 as a full-length musical and theatrical performance. Composed by Bill Whelan, produced by Moya Doherty, and directed by John McColgan, the original troupe was led by Michael Flatley and Jean Butler.Thirty years later, the show continues to captivate new audiences, with the Riverdance - The New Generation tour set to stop in 45 locations in the US and Canada alone this year.
Since her death on January 30, Marianne Faithfull’s music has been growing in popularity. (...) Last week, Faithfull scored a hit album and saw one of her most successful singles become a smash again on two charts in the United Kingdom. (...) Faithfulls’s simply-titled "The Collection" debuts on the Official Album Download chart this week at No. 70. It is her third project to reach the list of the most-downloaded sets throughout the U.K.
Patti Smith will perform her debut album Horses in full on tour to celebrate the LP’s 50 anniversary. The tour will feature feature guitarist Lenny Kaye and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, both of whom played on the original 1975 recording. (...) A press release notes, “Please join us to help celebrate the final ride of our irreverent thoroughbred.” The anniversary trek will kick off on Oct. 6 at Dublin’s 3Arena, with dates in Madrid, Bergamo, Brussels, Oslo, London, and Paris. Smith will head to the U.S. the following month, with shows beginning Nov. 10 at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre. The U.S. segment will also stop in Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia. (...) The upcoming tour marks 20 years since Smith performed Horses live in its entirety for the first time. She initially revisited the album in 2005 for its 30th anniversary during Meltdown Festival in London, which she was invited to curate that year.
Sweet Relief Musicians Fund celebrated the legacy of legendary folk singer Joan Baez on Saturday, Feb. 8 at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. (...) Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides services and financial assistance for career musicians and music industry professionals. Grants are earmarked for medical and vital living expenses, including insurance premiums, prescriptions, medical treatment and operative procedures, housing costs, food costs, utilities, and other basic necessities. The event raised more than $600,000. 100% of all donations to Sweet Relief for California fire relief are being distributed to victims.
Grammy winner and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo, shares insights on blending cultures, empowering women and youth, and her ongoing mission to bring Africa’s voice to the world. A conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa’s future, and breaking boundaries.
Grammy-nominated artist Angélique Kidjo, stunning in a black glittering suit paired with a light brown silk shirt and an elegantly wrapped Ankara scarf, left a lasting impression with her powerful performance at the Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash's Sunday afternoon appearance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum continued to honor her new exhibition, "Rosanne Cash: Time Is a Mirror," which will run through March 2026 and is included with museum admission. Cash's appearance and exhibition highlighted her broader contribution as an "unwavering artistic spirit (who) defined and redefined American roots music," said Hall of Fame and Museum Writer-Editor R.J. Smith.
“The Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame is the perfect place to honor Joan’s impact on music and American history. Her career started on the stage of Club 47 and others around Boston and Cambridge, and she was in the Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of inductees,” said Casey Soward, President and CEO of the Boch Center. “We continue to celebrate her legacy, educating a new generation about the incredible life the iconic singer has led.” Joan Baez: A Life of Music, Art, and Activism showcases a variety of items from the life and artistry of Joan Baez. As a singer/songwriter, Baez occupies a singular space in history, but her body of work extends into many facets of creativity, including poetry and visual art.
How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, and original songs that have earned the pair a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Today, Brittany and Esperanza get into the years-long intergenerational friendship behind the music, and the Brazilian influences on the album.
You could tell the story of Marianne Faithfull, who died Jan. 30 at the age of 78, in three recordings — specifically three versions of “As Tears Go By.” The British singer initially recorded the song, one of the first that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards wrote together, in 1964 as a 17-year-old ingénue. Produced by Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who discovered her at a party, the recording is a brisk, breezy slice of chamber-pop and Faithfull’s vocals are all breathy sweep. Faithfull wrote in her 1994 autobiography that Oldham immediately knew it would be a hit, and it reached No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The singer and actress, who embodied the Swinging Sixties and performed for decades afterward, exuded an effortless cool.
Those who first glimpsed Marianne Faithfull in the 1960s as Mick Jagger’s angelic girlfriend, or the winsome singer of As Tears Go By, probably did not imagine she would go on to forge a career of more than 50 years as a songwriter and recording artist in her own right. Faithfull, who has died aged 78, released 22 solo albums and collaborated with many big names in music. She also had some success as an actor. All of it was achieved against a backdrop of addiction and personal struggles that she did not hide.
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has died at the age of 78, her spokesperson has said. Born in Hampstead in December 1946, she was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964, and for starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Faithfull's long-time friend, the BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, called her an "encapsulation of the sixties". He said while she initially was known for being Mick Jagger's girlfriend, through her "people began to see her as an artist, as a creator".
Correspondences is an ongoing collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith, spanning over a decade and traversing diverse geographies, histories, and natural environments.The presentation at kurimanzutto marks the first time this body of work is shown in New York and in a gallery setting. At its core, the project transforms field recordings collected by Soundwalk Collective’s founder, Stephan Crasneanscki, from some of the world’s most remote and resonant landscapes—sites of poetic inspiration, historical significance, and environmental urgency—into immersive soundscapes. These compositions evoke a “sonic memory” of place, embodying traces of revolutionaries, artists, and the ongoing impact of climate change. Through an intimate dialogue with these recordings, Patti Smith channels her poetic voice to create pieces that reflect on the intersections of nature, human history, and artistic creation. Each work challenges the traditional relationship between sound and image, allowing the sonic landscapes to dictate their visual counterparts.
The National Music Council is thrilled to announce it will honor global musical icon Rosanne Cash at the organization’s 41st annual American Eagle Awards on Friday, January 24th at the 2025 NAMM Show in Anaheim. The highly prestigious award is presented each year in recognition of long-term contribution to American musical culture and heritage, and highlights the importance of music education for all children, as well as the need to protect creators’ rights both domestically and internationally.
The creative genius and passionate determination of one of America’s musical icons comes to life inside the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame with "Joan Baez: A Life of Music, Art, and Activism". The exhibit, curated by Museum Collective, will feature handwritten lyrics, rarely seen personal photos, original artwork and famous instruments that defined Baez’s award-winning career. The new exhibit opens inside the Boch Center Wang Theatre, March 6, 2025.
In 2018, esperanza spalding released the song “You Have to Dance” as part of her Grammy-Award-winning record “12 Little Spells.” The jazz composer and bassist’s jaunty tune revolves around the concept of being “magical” through movement, with spalding’s bass leading a proclamation of empowerment: “And I claim it / Yes, I’m magical.” Seven years later, spalding is still exploring the magical intersection of dance and jazz, a junction that’s been the centerpiece of her stripped-down shows for the past 2½ years. With only two bandmates and two dancers joining her onstage, spalding’s exploration of the interplay between the two art forms embraces intimacy, focus, and fluidity — an approach that the artist’s Massachusetts fans will witness for the first time this Saturday at Cary Memorial Hall in Lexington. (Her brief slew of January shows begins one night prior at the Nashua Center for the Arts in New Hampshire.)