Season 2 of The Energy Curfew Music Hour, hosted by Chris Thile and the Grammy Award-winning Punch Brothers, is out now only from Audible. Check out the official video trailer.
Hailed as a “modern dance savior” by the New York Times, Ronald K. Brown returns to fuse the form, rhythm, and history of African dance with contemporary and urban dance styles. In Mercy, a Kennedy Center co-commission (the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Carolina Performing Arts, UNC Chapel Hill, and The Joyce Theater’s Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New York), Brown finds an ideal collaborator in visionary vocalist, composer, and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello.
After recently confirming his new role in FX's Emmy® Award-winning limited series Fargo,Andrew Bird debuts the “Manifest” single today, featuring a new version of the song recorded with a string quintet alongside the album version—listen here. Taken from his critically acclaimed new album, My Finest Work Yet, “Manifest” reflects on the evolution of mankind and climate change—Rolling Stone praises, “Andrew Bird unspools an ambitious take on the circle of life.” Check out his “Making Manifest” video here.
Hosted by best-selling author and comedian Baratunde Thurston and actress, musician and activist actress Sara Ramirez, TED Talks: Education Revolution explores new and innovative approaches to learning and teaching.