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August 19thNeighborhood Open Space Community Concert
August 20thThe New Respects
August 21stHOTH Brothers Band
August 22ndLumbre Del Sol
August 23rdJimmie Vaughan
August 23rdMeow Wolf Monster Battle
August 25thJimmie Vaughan
August 25thEli Paperboy Reid
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August 27thDune
August 27thSteve Earle & The Dukes
August 28thBig Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
August 29thThe Santa Fe Revue
August 30thYonder Mountain String Band
August 31stNuestra Musica: Mariachi Sonidos del Monte
September 1stFucked Up
September 2ndLittle Big Town
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September 9thBéla Fleck
September 13thBuddy Guy | John Hiatt & the Goners feat. Sonny Landreth
September 14thPrince Diabaté and Friends
September 14thPrince Diabaté and Friends
September 15thWilco
September 15thGabriel Kahane
September 16thNeighborhood Open Space Community Concert
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September 17thAlbert Cummings
September 20thBob Mould - Solo Electric
September 20thAlbert Cummings
September 21stAn Evening with Emmylou Harris & The Red Dirt Boys
September 23rdNeighborhood Nature Festival
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September 24thTropa Magica
September 25thCimafunk
September 29thKhruangbin - SOLD OUT!
October 2ndWallows - SOLD OUT!
October 3rdMadison Cunningham
October 4thSuzanne Vega
October 4thBroken Social Scene - SOLD OUT
October 4thNoah Cyrus
October 5thWhitney
October 5thKevin Morby - Sold Out
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October 6thImarhan
October 7thBonobo
October 10thDylan LeBlanc
October 12thDEHD
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October 13thilluminati hotties
October 15thShovels & Rope
October 18thFlor De Toloache
October 25thOFF!
October 26thMAX
November 2ndLucius
November 2ndOs Mutantes
November 3rdMac DeMarco - CANCELED
November 4thBelinda Carlisle
November 8thAWOLNATION
November 8thBébé La La
November 13thJuan Carmona
November 16thMartin Sexton
November 17thJuan Carmona
November 18thHermanos Gutiérrez
November 20thThe Mavericks' Very Merry Christmas Tour
December 6thThe Mavericks' Very Merry Christmas Tour
December 7thPink Martini
January 16thPink Martini
January 18thEric Johnson
March 4thRising Appalachia
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It'd been 10 months since the band members of sister-led, world-folk music outfit Rising Appalachia had seen each other, much less played music together. A grand reunion took place for a one-off live stream show in 2020 at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC, but positivity and creativity took root, and the very next day the band remained in the studio with no plan except to "press record and see what happens." What poured out of the six members of Rising Appalachia was nothing short of divine musical guidance—a full-length album dubbed The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know. This new collection of nine songs is abstract; a concept album of sorts of which the band calls "the most dynamic fun we have ever had in the studio." Rising Appalachia—Leah Song, Chloe Smith, Biko Casini, Arouna Diara, Duncan Wickel, and David Brown—removed themselves from the outcome, let the songs lead, and were rewarded with a gorgeous snapshot of not just the music, but the time and circumstance that forged it.
The Lost Mystique of Being in the Know really was an impromptu, organic, and healing process for all involved. "All the strangeness of the year, all the high tides and low tides, came out through the music," says Smith of the recording process. "We did not have a plan or a knowing of what we wanted to achieve. We simply wanted to get outside our own box and see what would happen if, during one of the most unpredictable years of our lives, we came together and let the music speak for itself and carve its own path into the rock."
Arouna Diarra, originally from Burkina Faso, West Africa, is an accomplished n'goni & balafon player. Performing a tradition of folk songs reflecting topics from war to building love for one another, Arouna sings with spirit, nostalgia, and great joy, in his native language, Bambara. Arouna brings a dynamic repertoire to the table, full of timing changes and improvisational prowess. He plays the kamale n'goni, a 14-string harp-like instrument (which he makes himself), with a melodic and percussive sensibility.