Just under three weeks til my last NYC show of the year. I’ll be joined by special guest Aoife O’Donovan of I’m With Her in celebrating the release of limited edition 180 gram vinyl for my 2011 album ‘Where are the Arms’. Should be a swell time. Tickets are limited; link in my story!
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PDX!! Couldn’t be more excited to share news about the inaugural installment of my new concert series, Open Music, presented by the Oregon Symphony, as part of my creative chair duties.
For this series, I invite a musician – generally a composer, though not always – to open their brain onto the stage through a concert of their own design. It might include some music they’ve written, but more importantly, it will include music and perhaps art in other forms that inspires and informs their work. Caroline Shaw, a friend and colleague for nearly a decade, is an absolute dream guest for our first concert: she is brilliant, kind, relentlessly creative, and an eloquent advocate not only for her own work, but for any art that’s important to her. I am thrilled to have this opportunity to introduce her to the OSO community.

Tickets go on sale on Monday, October 8th, and are extremely limited, so get involved!!!
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Overjoyed to announce that I’ve been appointed Creative Chair of the Oregon Symphony in Portland. Working with them on ‘emergency shelter intake form’ was a career highlight for me, and it’s an honor to be welcomed into their family for the next several years. In the coming seasons, I’m going to be writing three substantial new works, devising & programming two concert series, engaging the community, and last but least, advising on contemporary programming for the classical series. I am deeply committed to championing all of the dynamic voices in our community, but in particular, those who’ve been historically marginalized or shut out of the concert hall. To that end, I am conducting an open call for scores & recordings, which you can send to me at gkahane at orsymphony dot org. (Dropbox links preferable to attachments). If you haven’t had an opportunity to write for orchestra, send me your chamber music!! Oh, and come hear me sing songs with the orchestra in Portland in December!
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It only took eight years, but limited edition vinyl of my sophomore album & second child, ‘Where are the Arms’, is now available for pre-order. Only five hundred copies are available, so get involved quick over at the bandcamp dot com ! Still grateful to Jim Bredouw for letting us record in his gorgeous barn on Orcas Island. Pictured here: Rob Moose & Casey Foubert, admittedly recording something from ‘The Ambassador’, but it’s the same studio so I think that counts?! 📷: @ootermind
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Thank you, Paris!! Onward to Lyon, London, Dublin, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Berlin, and Nantes!
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Having been teased relentlessly as a child for the size of my ears, it was great to play at a festival where that was not just accepted, but warmly embraced. Thanks, Big Ears Festival!! I’ll be doing four more shows with Punch Brothers this week, in the midst of which you can find me at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday doing a headline set!! Then it’s off to Europe…
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If you read one book this year, make it this one. Somehow, David Wallace-Wells has managed to write a passionate, eloquent, and open-ended book that instills terror, optimism, powerlessness, and a sense of agency all at once. No book has so drastically altered my understanding of climate change, and more broadly, the political and societal conditions over several centuries that have brought us to the treacherous ecological precipice we now find ourselves balancing on, often eyes wide shut. Please read this book, and encourage everyone you know to do so. And encourage your elected representatives to fight for a comprehensive Green New Deal, in the absence of which, our grandchildren will inherit a planet that barely resembles the one we live on today.
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Thank you, Milwaukee, for treating us so well last night. Hard to think of a more beautiful room or audience…
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