Echoes Holiday Shows for 2024
Echoes has another slate of new seasonal programming to put the right kind of chill in your Holidays including exclusive live performance by acclaimed guitarist Trevor Gordon Hall of Tripliciti and Four Guitars.
An Echoes Acoustic Thanksgiving (November 28th, 2024)
An Echoes Acoustic Thanksgiving for 2024 brings us an array of acoustic sounds to set the mood for this time of coming together. It will feature music from the first posthumous release by pianist George Winston, Eastern Montana and sounds from the Penguin Café. We’ll hear new music by guitarist Jim “Kimo” West & Kora player Joss Jaffe, and the acoustic guitar trio Tripliciti with Andy McKee, Trevor Gordon Hall and Calum Graham.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Available Tuesday 11/26 12:00pm
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, Thursday, 11/28
Trevor Gordon Hall In an Echoes Christmas Concert (December 16, 2024)
Trevor Gordon Hall is a master finger-style guitarist who also plays a custom-designed instrument called the Kalimbatar, that combines the African kalimba with an acoustic guitar. He’s a member of the quartet, Four Guitars which includes Windham Hill Records founder Will Ackerman, and the trio Tripliciti with Andy McKee and Calum Graham. NPR’s Tom Moon said Hall created “Sharp, absorbing and beautiful meditations for guitar that will get your mind moving in new ways…” and Acoustic Guitar Magazine said that Hall is “. . . helping to transform the way the instrument is being played around the world…”. Based in Philadelphia, he’s released two albums of seasonal music, “Let Your Heart Be Light” and “Live at the Strand Theater: A Christmas Special”, the latter the soundtrack his new PBS special. We’ll hear him play that live. His concert will be surrounded by seasonal sounds.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Available Monday 12/16
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, Monday 12/16
An Echoes Winter Solstice (December 20, 2024)
Get ready for the big chill on An Echoes Winter Solstice. Echoes’ John Diliberto creates a soundscape of snow-shrouded trees, silent saguaro cacti and white-out conditions. It’s a winter fantasy with no Christmas carols, but a sleigh full of music taking you into the celestial and chilled side of the season.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Feeds Wednesday 12/18 12:00pm ET
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, 12/20
An Echoes Seasonal Soundscape (December 23, 2024)
In an all-instrumental program, we create a soundscape for the season. We play music inspired by the season in all its quiet majesty and interior warmth. Original songs mix with carols from artists like David Arkenstone, George Winston, Ólafur Arnalds, Erik Wøllo and many more. We weave these sounds into a seamless journey for that pause just before Christmas.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Feeds Wednesday 12/18 12:00pm ET
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, 12/23
An Echoes Night Before Christmas (December 24, 2024)
Get the sugar plums dancing with an Echoes Night Before Christmas. It’s a time when life seems suspended between the Christmas build-up and the explosion of Christmas morning. It’s not your shopping mall Christmas carols. We’ll hear music from the Ornamental and Dark Noel albums, Jeff Johnson’s Winterfold and Smoke Fairies’ Wild Winter, and David Arkenstone’s Winterlude. John Diliberto decorates your ears with seasonal music that’s cool and chilled on an Echoes Night Before Christmas.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Feeds Thursday 12/19 12:00pm ET
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, Tuesday 12/24
An Echoes Christmas Day (December 25, 2024)
On this day, flow into a soundscape for that long winter’s nap; or for wrapping presents and putting together those last-minute toys. John Diliberto will bring you music from Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Kate Bush, George Winston, Loreena McKennitt and the Winter Tales collection. Hear traditional carols reinvented and new carols for the 21st century. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night with an Echoes Christmas.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Feeds Thursday 12/19 2:00 PM ET
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, Wednesday 12/24
Echoes Ambient New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2024)
Dance in 2025 with an Echoes Ambient New Year’s Eve. All systems are plugged in, and the chill is turned up to 11, as we swing in on electronic sounds old, new and beyond time and space. John Diliberto dials up the best of chilled, downtempo and ambient music from 2024 to kick off the new year.
Duration: 2 hours
Clock: Follows Echoes Normal Clock
Feed Monday 12/30 12:00pm ET
Feeds in regular Echoes Program, 12/31