On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE we listen to selections from two concerts at our 2025 festival, beginning with the world renowned Danish String Quartet and finishing with a collaboration between Swedish traditional music duo Väsen and American acoustic music ensemble Hawktail.

On this episode of Savannah Music Festival LIVE, we listen to selections from two amazing solo piano concerts given during the 2025 season: Simon Mulligan’s transcriptions and improvisations over the indelible melodies of Leonard Bernstein, followed by highlights from the second half of an Emmet Cohen solo piano concert.

On this episode we’ll listen to portions of two concerts from our 2025 season:

the second half of the Taj Mahal Quintet’s show featured on a previous episode, followed by a portion of Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s concert at the Trustees Theater.

On this episode we’ll listen to portions of two concerts from our 2025 season: a celebrated string quartet from the Philip Dukes & Friends chamber series, and then the rest of a program of Irish traditional music played by Cillian Vallely, David Doocey, and Alan Murray. We begin with Antonin Dvorak’s American quartet, the String Quartet No. 12, Opus 96, performed at the opening of an all-Dvorak program entitled “The Locomotive Man.”

This two-part episode begins with the duo of Senegalese kora player and vocalist Ablaye Cissoko and French diatonic accordionist Cyrille Brotto, followed by a segment of a Taj Mahal Quintet concert, both from the 2025 Savannah Music Festival.

This two-part episode includes an evening performance by Emmet Cohen & New Jazz Underground, followed by a solo lunchtime concert given by Cohen, both at the 2025 Savannah Music Festival.

This two-part episode of 2025 festival performances includes the Irish traditional music trio of Cillian Vallely, David Doocey, and Alan Murray, and Jenny Scheinman's All Species Parade with Scheinman, Bill Frisell, Carmen Staaf, Tony Scherr, and Kenny Wolleson.

From a lunchtime performance during the 2024 Savannah Music Festival, this episode spotlights pianist Isaiah J. Thompson and saxophonist Julian Lee.

The second half of a 2022 Savannah Music Festival concert with Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart, including Fleck on banjo, Stuart Duncon on fiddle, Sierra Hull on mandolin and vocals, Justin Moses on vocals, fiddle, banjo and dobro, and Mark Schatz on bass.

From a 2024 Savannah Music Festival co-bill at Ships of the Sea North Garden Assembly room, AJ Lee & Blue Summit and The Po' Ramblin' Boys are featured on this episode in their SMF debuts.