Valerie Simpson

Wednesday night’s program, ”The Motherlode,” paid tribute to Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and others through performances by Amina Claudine Myers, Courtney Marie Andrews, Rhiannon Giddens, Cleo Reed, Lizz Wright, Charenee Wade, Valerie Simpson and more.

The 2019 lineup of the free Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival has been announced, including a mix of live music, dance, film, comedy and more.

He joins a stacked lineup that already included Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Donald Fagen, Billy F. Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr., Mavis Staples, and more.

The second annual benefit concert also features Emmylou Harris, Billy F. Gibbons, Warren Haynes, Gary Clark Jr., Mavis Staples, Andra Day, Ann Wilson, Bernie Williams, and tons of others.

Tuesday night (7/11) at Beacon Theatre was the 2017 “GRAMMY Salute to Music Legends” — an awards ceremony and concert that honored this year’s 2017 Merit Awards recipients. Among those recipients were The Velvet Underground. “The establishment caught up with us at last,” joked John Cale…

NYC’s annual Blue Note Jazz Festival runs June 1 – 30 at various venues around the city (including many at the Blue Note itself). This year’s lineup includes Pat Metheny, Dr. John, The Isley Brothers, Kool & The Gang, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jacob Collier, Hiromi, Eddie Palmieri, Cassandra Wilson, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, McCoy Tyner, […]

Kurt Vile is having quite the busy week in NYC. He played the big Ground Control 15th anniversary show on Wednesday (12/2), and joined Dinosaur Jr at the first of their seven Bowery Ballroom shows last night (12…

Toilet Boys are playing a show with The Sweet Things and Battletorn at Saint Vitus on February 13. Tickets are available now. Toilet Boys’ singer Miss Guy’s fellow Barbara Maier student Justin Vivian Bond’s annual holiday shows at Joe’s Pub are coming up too…

Bonnie Prince Billy at ATP NY 2011 (more by Dana Yavin) Lincoln Center’s acclaimed series American Songbook returns to the Allen Room (truly one of the most amazing concert settings in NYC) in January for its fifteenth season, which celebrates “the diversity of modern American song…