Concerts worth the trip downtown

Marjorie Feld

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Eleven evenings I've marked in the little paper calendar I still keep, mostly chosen because the A train gets me home after without too much fuss. I favor a hall where you can hear a brush on a snare drum and a seat where nobody's phone is glowing six inches from my face; bridge club forgives a Thursday swap, but only for good reason.

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Concerts worth the trip downtown — 3 items
Name	Artist / Act	Venue	Address	City	Genre	Price Range	My take
1Punch Brothers	Punch Brothers	Carnegie Hall	881 7th Ave	New York	Bluegrass / Chamber folk	$45–$120	Five men with mandolins behaving like a string quartet. I brought earplugs once and never needed them.
2Rhiannon Giddens	Rhiannon Giddens	Carnegie Hall	881 7th Ave	New York	Folk / Americana	$55–$145	A voice that could hush a cafeteria full of eighth graders, which, trust me, is no small feat.
3Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck	Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck	Carnegie Hall	881 7th Ave	New York	Crossover / Banjo & soprano	$65–$180	Opera and banjo in the same sentence sounded like a dare until I actually heard the recording.