Midori and Festival Strings Lucerne
Midori, recognized as one of the most outstanding violinists of our time, will play alongside the 39 piece Swiss chamber orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne.
Takács Quartet
Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Takács Quartet garnered international attention by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition. The Takács is renowned for "marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play."
The Takács Quartet garnered international attention by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition. The Takács is renowned for "marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play."
Sun Ra Arkestra and Theon Cross
Presented at The Englert Theatre
Sun Ra Arkestra has been at the forefront of exploring new horizons in creative music and inspiring the ever-evolving tenets of Afrofuturism. Opening act Theon Cross has reinvented the tuba as the low-voiced leader of innovative and explosive—and hard to define—ensembles.
Sun Ra Arkestra has been at the forefront of exploring new horizons in creative music and inspiring the ever-evolving tenets of Afrofuturism. Opening act Theon Cross has reinvented the tuba as the low-voiced leader of innovative and explosive—and hard to define—ensembles.
Disney/Pixar's COCO live-to-film concert
Coco takes 12-year-old Miguel to the Land of the Dead as he implores his great-great-grandfather to help him reverse his family's ban on music. The full movie will be presented on the big screen at Hancher while the score is performed live by Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México.
Samara Joy
Samara Joy's "buttery vocals melt across the warm grooves of whatever songs she's singing, conjuring the greats of yore while simultaneously forging her own effervescent stye" (The Old Grey Cat blog).
Kurt Vile and The Violators
Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era.
Model/Actriz
Presented at Gabe's
Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz, is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive.
Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz, is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive.
Love In Exile and In These Times
Love In Exile is the daring new collaboration from Grammy Award-winning singer Arooj Aftab, Shahzad Ismaily, and Vijay Iyer. In These Times is a masterwork album from Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven.
Sphinx Virtuosi
Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists aiming to evolve the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and community engagement.
The Sphinx Virtuosi is a dynamic self-conducted chamber orchestra comprised of eighteen accomplished Black and Latinx artists aiming to evolve the face of classical music through artistic excellence, pioneering programming, and community engagement.
Rhiannon Giddens
Giddens’ lifelong mission is to lift up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased, and to work toward a more accurate understanding of the country’s musical origins. Pitchfork has said of her work, “few artists are so fearless and so ravenous in their exploration.”