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Looking ahead to warmer months, Music@Menlo holds a concert and reception on Jan. 25 to announce the theme and lineup for its summer festival, and registration is open for Silicon Valley Open Studios, which will take place over three weekends in May. Plus, Palo Alto-raised double Grammy winner Molly Tuttle teams with Ringo Starr on his new country album.
Music@Menlo to unveil 2025 season at concert, reception
If the post-holiday slump and chilly weather have you longing for summer, Music@Menlo is offering another reason to plan ahead for that sunnier season. The organization holds a concert and reception on Jan. 25 to announce what’s planned for its monthlong summer chamber music festival.Â
Festival founders and artistic directors Wu Han and David Finckel will announce the festival’s theme and lineup. In addition to the preview of what’s to come for its 2025 season, attendees will hear works by Mozart and Ernó Dohnányi performed by violinists Anna Lee and Jason Moon; violist James Thompson; cellist Andrew Ilhoon Byun and pianist Yun Janice Lu.
The event takes place Jan. 25, 4 p.m., at the chamber festival’s regular venue, Menlo School in Atherton. Tickets are $50. A catered reception will follow the performance.
For more information, visit musicatmenlo.org.
Registration open for Silicon Valley Open Studios
Artists looking to participate in the 2025 Silicon Valley Open Studios can register for the event through Jan. 21, according to the organization’s website. The popular spring event, which brings the public to a variety of spaces where artists create or display their work, will take place over three weekends between May 3 and 18.
Visitors can check out artists’ spaces throughout the Peninsula, South Bay and Coastside. Each weekend highlights a different region, with Coastside and northern Peninsula studios open May 3-4; Midpeninsula studios on May 10-11 and South Bay studios on May 17-18.
Last year was the event’s largest showing yet in its nearly 40-year history, with over 375 artists taking part at over 125 locations, according to the 2024 program guide.Â
As the organization’s registration page notes, now is also the time that art lovers can also get a preview of participating artists on the website.
For more information, visit svos.org.
Molly Tuttle guests on Ringo Starr’s new country album
Palo Alto-raised musician Molly Tuttle has come together with Ringo Starr on the legendary artist’s new country album, titled “Look Up.” The album was released on Friday, Jan. 10.
Tuttle, who in the past two years has taken home two consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album, lent her vocal and instrumental talents to three of the album’s songs, including the title track, according to a listing on The Beatles’ website.
Produced by Grammy-winning producer and guitarist T. Bone Burnett, who wrote or co-wrote nine of the album’s 11 songs, “Look Up” also features guest appearances by Alison Krauss, Billy Strings, Larkin Poe and Lucius.
Tuttle shared a clip from the official video for the album’s title track on her Instagram page, celebrating the album’s release.
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