Tickets: https://billy-strings-salt-lake-2019.eventbrite.com Poised to take bluegrass in bold new directions, singer/songwriter/guitarist Billy Strings is quickly gaining attention for his incendiary live performances and imbuing his take on Americana with distinctive bursts of psychedelic virtuosity.

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Sight & Sound: Power Couples will be held in the G.W. Anderson Family Great Hall and is free with admission.

In the spirit of the powerful duos featured in the exhibition Power Couples: The Pendant Format in Art, please enjoy a stunning vocal and piano performance from University of Utah School of Music students in the UMFA’s Great Hall. Let the music performed by this duo inform your experience of the art as you explore the galleries. Presented in conjunction with the University of Utah School of Music.

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Featuring: Oliver Tree, Tommy Cash, Nvdes,

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The final words sung on the sixth album by WHY? are an apt place to begin: “Hold on, what’s going on?” Because while there’s much familiar about the oddly named Moh Lhean—mastermind Yoni Wolf’s sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet’s drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement—a great deal has changed in the four years that’ve passed since 2012’s Mumps, Etc., an LP that honed the band’s orchestral precision and self-deprecating swagger to a fine point. It’s significant that this is the first fully home-recorded WHY? album since the project’s 2003 debut. Made mostly in Wolf’s studio and co-produced by his brother Josiah, the result is obsessive, of course, but also intimate, and flush with warmth and looseness. But the biggest transformation is a bit subtler. After years of eying his world, in part, with a cynical squint, Wolf here learns a new mode. While Moh Lhean never stoops to outright optimism, it chronicles our hero finding peace in the unknowing, trading the wry smirk for a holy shrug, and looking past corporeal pain for something more cosmic and, rest assured, equally weird.

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Tickets: https://john-craigie-salt-lake-2019.eventbrite.com Renowned for his eloquent Americana style, engaging live shows, and off-the-cuff clever observations, John Craigie carries on the legacy of classic singer-songwriters, while blazing a trail of his own.

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