Singer/songwriters Inez Barlatier and Justin Roberts share songs about finding calm in our busy lives and youthful anthems that celebrate our common humanity in an inspiring new musical collaboration.

Four-time Grammy® nominated children’s musician Justin Roberts has been creating the soundtrack to families’ lives for 25 years. Now, with his 16th full length album, Space Cadet, Justin’s rock journey goes interstellar with feel-good songs rooted in themes of inclusion, acceptance, and self-discovery. Justin has been praised by the New York Times for his “remarkable ability to see through a child’s eyes…,” and is known for writing meaningful songs that acknowledge kids’ emotional depth while still letting the fun shine through.

Inez Barlatier, a Miami native, is a multifaceted performer of Ayisyen (Haitian) descent. As Tati Nuzi, she celebrates the art and culture of her homeland Ayiti (Haiti) through energetic drumming and singing, colorful costumes and traditional dances, folktales, and visual art. Inez’s ancestral and resonant voice brings forth the deeply rooted musical traditions of her family with a youthful vibrancy that is ecstatic and infectious. 

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We regret to inform you that the Aoife O’Donovan performance on Sunday, October 29, 2023, has been canceled.

Message from the artist:

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we have to reschedule the October Nebraska shows.  Fortunately, we were able to find new dates for LA, SF, Boulder, and Philadelphia. We’re sad to report that Steamboat and Aspen are canceled, but hope to get there in 2024. Thanks so much for understanding. 

xo, Aoife

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Deemed “a vocalist of unerring instinct” by the New York Times, she has released three critically-acclaimed and boundary-blurring solo albums including her most recent record, 2022’s boldly orchestrated and literarily crafted Age Of Apathy. Recorded and written over the course of Winter and Spring 2021 with acclaimed producer Joe Henry, Age Of Apathy is “stunning” (Rolling Stone) and “taps into the propulsion of prime Joni Mitchell” (Pitchfork).

 

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Four young women trapped in the limbo of a refugee camp retell Odysseus’ adventures as they struggle with their own search for a home.

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Adapted and directed by Lisa Peterson

Translated by Emily Wilson

What will you do to go home again? Lisa Peterson’s adaptation of The Odyssey brings new life to this ancient epic. Four young women trapped in the limbo of a refugee camp retell Odysseus’ adventures as they struggle with their own search for a home. A production based on the revelatory new translation by Emily Wilson, its bold theatricality brings new humor and grace to a story we all think we know.

Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with members of the first graduating class of Juilliard’s Drama Division, The Acting Company has performed 148 productions for over 4 million people in 48 states and 10 foreign countries, in small towns and large cities alike.

Recommended for ages 12 and above. No children under 6.

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With over 20 Grammy Awards collectively, this quartet redefines collaboration.

There’s a bit of the sorcerer in Béla Fleck (banjo), Zakir Hussain (tabla), Edgar Meyer (double bass), and their special guest Rakesh Chaurasia (bansuri, Indian flute). Most musicians hope at most for proficiency in their chosen form, but these gentlemen move from bluegrass to Western classical to Indian classical to jazz, transmuting genres into something uniquely their own as though they’d gotten hold of the alchemist’s tools that legendarily changed lead into gold. In any case, it’s music that transcends description; ineffable, indefinable, and very beautiful. 

Hence As We Speak, an album that not only showcases the group’s breathtaking abilities as instrumentalists, but underscores the wide range of musical influences at their command. Across a dozen tracks, the group glides easily between the cerebral complexity of Indian rhythm and the gut-level groove of a funky bass line, sounding equally at home with the rigors of raga.

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Catch Son Little, rightful torchbearer of the celebrated musical tradition known as rhythm and blues, with his band on their North American Tour in support of their newest album Like Neptune.

On sale to the public September 29.

Son Little, praised by American Songwriter as “one of the best songwriters working today,” conceived his latest album, Like Neptune, in a cabin overlooking the Delaware River in upstate New York. Trading in the existential dread permeating his previous work for unbridled joy and self-acceptance, Son Little transmutes the chronic pain of self-doubt into a beautiful and freeing opus about overcoming generational trauma. Hailed by Afropunk as “a stunning statement of purpose,” Like Neptune decorates the altar of the primordial blues and elevates the labor of healing to high art. “I’ve always felt as though I was making music because I had to, something inside compelled me. Fueled me,” Little shared. “This the first time in a long time I’m making music for the pure joy of creating.”

Son Little and his band, comprised of Little (vocals/guitar), Steve McKie (drums), and DeShawn Alexander (keys/bass), will tour North America for the first time in support of Like Neptune through November and December.

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The Wall Street Journal  said it best, “Who needs another Broadway show when you can hire a jazz combo playing music from Bugs Bunny cartoons?” Keenly aware of all things holiday-oriented and completely ridiculous, musical ensemble The Queen’s Cartoonists have set out to find the best of the best (and best of the worst) holiday-related cartoons, films, and jazz. 

On sale to the public September 29.

The Queen’s Cartoonists’ performances are perfectly synchronized with the films projected on stage. The band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem, and comedy.

Projections of animated films dazzle the audience, while the band re-creates original soundtracks note-for-note, or writes their own fresh compositions to modern pieces, all the while breathing new life into two uniquely American forms of art: jazz and animation. Tying everything together is the Queen’s Cartoonists’ brand of comedy – anecdotes about the cartoons and their composers, stream-of-consciousness humor, and elements of a musical circus.

Since their inception in 2015, the band, hailing from as far away as Australia, Bulgaria, and Washington, DC, now all reside in Queens, New York, and are a creative part of the New York jazz scene. The band has brought their unique concert experience to performing arts centers, clubs, and festivals all across the United States and Europe. The Queen’s Cartoonists have opened for the New York Philharmonic and are the only artist in the 40-plus year history of the Blue Note Jazz Club in New York City to sell out multiple all-ages shows. They have been featured in over 50 publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, NPR, Mashable, and featured on TV spots for Pix11 and Fox5.

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The Americana/bluegrass music of the Sweet Lillies’  is, first and foremost, heartfelt and collaborative.  Those defining traits are given life by the quartet of musicians who make up the Lillies: Julie Gussaroff, Becca Bisque, Dustin Rohleder, and Jones Maynard. Together they have combined their individual strengths to deliver powerful narratives of life in song.  With their newly formed lineup of guitar, viola, upright bass, drums, and ethereal vocal harmonies that float like a dream, the Sweet Lillies’ music has a hard-hitting original flavor with a forward-looking eye.  The Sweet Lillies have incorporated all of their cumulative life experiences into their music, song-writing, and artistry, crafting an uncommonly beautiful style they have christened “String-Americana” – a nod to the band’s all-encompassing musical tastes and willingness to experiment with genres.  As Gussaroff explains, “Some musicians learn from teachers, some learn from family members, and some are self-taught.  Some musicians are classically trained, some come up through folk, some draw from multiple springs, from hip hop through pop to bebop.  In the Lillies’ all of these skill sets are valuable, relevant, and appreciated.”

On sale to the public September 29.

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Known as the “one-man band”, Keller Williams is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who combines elements of bluegrass, folk, alternative rock, reggae, electronica/dance, jazz, funk, and more.

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Unbeholden to conventionalism, Keller seamlessly crosses genre boundaries. The end product is music that encompasses rock, jazz, funk, and bluegrass and always keeps the audience on their feet. Keller built his reputation initially on his engaging live performances, no two of which are ever alike. For most of his career, he has performed solo. His stage shows are rooted around Keller singing his compositions and choice cover songs while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, bass, guitar synthesizer, and drum samples; a technique called live phrase sampling or “looping”.  The end result often leans toward a hybrid of alternative folk and groovy electronica, a genre Keller jokingly calls “acoustic dance music” or ADM.”

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With two #1 songs on the Americana Singles Hits, Nashville-based trio The Lone Bellow has a singular sound encompassing everything from arena-ready rock anthems to gorgeously sprawling Americana tunes.

On sale to the public September 29.

The Lone Bellow burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut in 2013. The Nashville-based trio (Zach Williams, Brian Elmquist, Kanene Pipkin) quickly became known for their transcendent harmonies, serious musicianship, and raucous live performance — creating what NPR calls, ‘earnest and magnetic folk-pop built to shake the rafters.’ In 2015, the band released Then Came The Morning, produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner. The album was nominated for an Americana Music Award and took the band to numerous late-night shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Show With David Letterman, and Later…with Jools Holland, among others.

Throughout their lifespan as a band, Lone Bellow has cast an indelible spell with their finespun songs of hard truth and unexpected beauty, frequently delivered in hypnotic three-part harmony. In a departure from their past work with elite producers, the Nashville-based trio struck out on their own for their new album Love Songs for Losers, dreaming up a singular sound encompassing everything from rock anthems to the gorgeously sprawling Americana tunes the band refers to as “little redneck symphonies.” Recorded at the possibly haunted former home of the legendary Roy Orbison, the result is an intimate meditation on the pain and joy and ineffable wonder of being human, at turns heartbreaking, irreverent, and sublimely transcendent.

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Few bands stick around for thirty years. Even fewer bands leave a legacy during that time that marks them as a truly special, once-in-lifetime type band. And no band has done all that and had as much fun as Leftover Salmon.

On sale to the public September 29.

Leftover Salmon has been a crucial link in keeping alive the traditional music of the past while simultaneously pushing that sound forward with their own weirdly, unique style. They began as a forward-thinking, progressive bluegrass band who was unafraid to stir in any number of highly combustible styles into their ever-evolving sound, found their role as a pioneer of the modern jam band scene, and have evolved to their current status as elder-statesmen of the scene who cast a hugely influential shadow over every festival they play.

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