“The result is not fusion but coexistence, an interweaving of musical/linguistic threads from Chinese and American heritage in which strands harmonize without losing identity.” Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn is available everywhere now on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Following the release of their first collaborative album Secrets Are The Best Stories, Elling and Pérez sat down with JazzTimes to discuss the music and cultural statement they intend to make.
“The rollicking Sonar takes the concept of navigating via sound as a metaphor for the way in which we relate to our surroundings, echoing off of and situating ourselves within a larger picture.”
The new track debuts on Spotify’s State of Jazz playlist and is the cover of TIDAL’s Modern Contemporary!
Be Water is available everywhere July 17, 2020.
Dear Friends,
First and foremost, I am writing to express my profound hope that you, your family and your colleagues are healthy, staying safe and taking all precautions.
We are all facing what is, for many of us, the most difficult and scary global threat of our lifetime. It has slammed the brakes on all of our normal lives and business activity.
It has eliminated all live performance income for musicians and presenters. Our touring artists have lost all performances scheduled for at least the next several months, and many of you have had to completely close down temporarily. For all who have been impacted, I am very sad about what is happening, but resolved to utilize the full resources of our company. Our team will do everything we can to support both you and our artists, so we can mitigate as much as possible the losses, suffering and damage that has resulted.
The artists we represent are a part of our family and we deeply care about their wellbeing. You are part of our extended family of global presenters who partner with us in the creation of performance opportunities for our artists. We also greatly care about your wellbeing and want to assure you that we will do our best to cooperate with you and reschedule cancelled bookings to help all of us get back on our feet.
All of our agents and the whole TKA staff are fully engaged and fully operational. Our entire team will be working hard to get our artists back on the road and to get back to business as circumstances allow for you and us to do what we love best — arrange performances!
Thank you and please take good care of yourself.
Regards, Ted
Bob Dylan has rolled out dates for a U.S. summer tour of arenas and amphitheaters where he’ll be joined by Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats and the Western swing trio the Hot Club of Cowtown. It kicks off June 4th in Bend, Oregon, at the Les Schwab Amphitheatre and wraps up July 12th in Bethel Woods, New York, at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.
Dylan last toured with the Hot Club of Cowtown in 2004 when they opened up on his summer co-headlining tour with Willie Nelson. The following year, Hot Club of Cowtown fiddle player Elana James played briefly in Dylan’s band, making her the first female musician to take on a role in his group since violinist Scarlet Rivera in 1976.
2020 Grammy winners and rising stars Ranky Tanky appeared on NPR’s esteemed All Things Considered segment to shed some light on their South Carolinian roots and the importance of Gullah music.
The Grammy-nominated jazz pianist and composer will conduct clinics for students and perform in multiple acts over the course of the festival.
Listen to Sands’ Interview with Festival Director Tim Jackson
Sunny Jain’s worldly, genre-bending new album and touring project Wild Wild East is making waves, garnering incredible reviews and recommendations from top publications across the music spectrum.
Inspired by his recent role in Netflix film “Dolemite Is My Name,” starring Eddie Murphy, Bobby Rush proceeded to craft a new single encapsulating the raw tenacity of Rudy Ray Moore, mirroring his own as he enters the seventh decade of his career.
In anticipation of their upcoming self-titled album on Smithsonian Folkways, the eclectic multicultural folk duo have dropped their first single, “Water Is Wide/Wusuli Boat Song (乌苏里船歌).” The release of the full LP is slated for April 3rd.