Weekend Ideas: August 15, 2014

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Tori Amos digs the nuance and dynamics of solo performance, and piano-heavy material from her fine new album Unrepentant Geraldines fits an intimate indoor space like the Opera House, where she plays on Friday. Straddling her bench between two keyboards, Amos has been shuffling setlists, including covers from Depeche Mode to Billy Joel to this interpretive run. The same night, the David Wax Museum should swing from playful to romantic with its Mexican-flavored folk-rock to the Center for Arts in Natick. Eclectic rapper Moe Pope and producer the Arcitype toast their new project STL GLD with guests including our recent Music Issue cover artist Dutch Rebelle at the Brighton Music Hall.  And Boston ska pioneers Bim Skala Bim bring their annual New England jaunt to Wellfleet’s Beachcomber on Friday and then Hookfest in Portsmouth, N.H., on Saturday. Here’s a flashback to last year’s Bim bash at the Beachcomber as well as a jump to my recent interview.

Rockport’s Shalin Liu Performing Arts Center remains a hidden jewel on the northern shore, hosting jazz and pop as well as classical acts. And it’ll groove all weekend with the Rockport Jazz Festival, which presents pianists Donal Fox (doing his cross-genre “Mashups in Afro Blue”) on Friday and elegant post-bop master Kenny Barron on Saturday, while premier bassist Christian McBride closes it out Sunday evening after a 2 p.m. matinee of swing guitarists led by the legendary Bucky Pizzarelli. Also on the festival front north of Boston, the free annual Salem Jazz and Soul Festival takes over Salem Willows on Saturday and Sunday with acts that include Delta Generators and the Berklee-bred upstart Alissia Benveniste.

Lyle Lovett cast a unique shadow on the alt-country scene at the dawn of the ’90s, deadpanning his way through horn-laced tunes like “Here I Am” with his Large Band, which he’ll be fronting at Lowell’s Boarding House Park on Saturday. And the dance-savvy indie-rockers Miniature Tigers hit the Brighton Music Hall on Sunday.

This week, we saw one slice of what a future without the Allman Brothers Band will be like as Warren Haynes teased some Allman gems with his band Gov’t Mule during a jam-sprawled set at the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion. After serving in the AAB for more than 20 years, Haynes certainly can lay claim to that catalog. However, for my Throwback, with this weekend being one of the last chances to catch the AAB at the Peach Festival in the Poconos, here’s a vintage chunk of the Allman Brothers back in 1970.


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