MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
8:00 PM

The Hands Free
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street, Chelsea, Manhattan

$20
http://thekitchen.org/event/the-hands-free-album-release

The Hands Free is a new band fronted by Caroline Shaw, whose improbable career merits some discussion.  Many of us got to know her as a violinist in various NYC ensembles, or as a vocalist in Roomful of Teeth and various NYC choirs.  But then -- very few of us saw this coming (including, I have to guess, Shaw) -- she emerged as one of the great compositional voices of her generation:  the youngest person ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for composition (and, as a Kanye collaborator, we can only assume a complete supporter of the current Pulitzer to Kendrick Lamar).  This is her new acoustic band (violin/guitar-banjo/accordion/bass).  Shaw's rough equivalent in the jazz-guitar world, Mary Halvorson, guests!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Go to El Quinto Pino.  Order an uni panino.  Have some sherry.  You'll thank me.