Weekend Ideas: March 5, 2015

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It’s feast or famine with live music, and this weekend offers one those ridiculously rich spreads. Let’s start with Friday. Roxbury-bred drummer Roy Haynes reigns as one of the jazz greats, having served with John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughn, and the 89-year-old icon brings his Fountain of Youth band into Scullers Jazz Club for the first of two nights. Chris Thile returns from his Nickel Creek reunion to front the Punch Brothers’ inventive contemporary bluegrass at House of Blues. Joan Osborne takes a break from new band Trigger Hippy to float solo hits like “One of Us” and this one in an acoustic duo at Johnny D’s Uptown. Guitarist Andy Gill remains the only (though most crucial) original member of the great Gang of Four when that British post-punk band hits the Paradise Rock Club. Cross-cultural party band Red Baraat celebrates the Hindu holiday of Holi with its Festival of Colors at the Sinclair; here’s a snatch of a recent show and a jump to my recent interview. And Arcade Fire multi-instrumentalist Will Butler (brother of that band’s frontman Win) brings his solo project to the Middle East Downstairs.

Atmospheric rock returns to the intimate Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre at Emerson’s downtown Paramount Center with a spirited double bill of Hallelujah the Hills and psych-rock terrors New Hymnal Highway on Friday and a night of more somber, elegant folk-tinged music with Marissa Nadler, Damon & Naomi (ex-Galaxie 500, Luna) and Glenn Jones on Saturday. Looking at the rest of Saturday’s options, beginning down the street at the Wilbur Theatre, Genesis guitarist Mike Rutherford hits the road with his ‘80s pop alternative Mike & the Mechanics. Alloy Orchestra performs one its live soundtracks to the film The Son of the Sheik at the Somerville Theatre and G. Love & (his original) Special Sauce return to rock House of Blues with their rappy blues. Over in Harvard Square, Rockport’s own Paula Cole surfaces at cozy Club Passim to revisit her catalog, likely to include this old hit from back when Katie Holmes was a TV teenager on “Dawson’s Creek.” And around the corner at the Sinclair, Maine native Aly Spaltro returns as Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, delving into more open-hearted material from her new album After, a shift in tone from her brilliant if sometimes harshly passionate past fare. And Great Scott rocks on Saturday with the psychedelic sounds of Moon Duo.


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