Music Livestreams: Tory Lanez, Luke Combs, Janelle Monae, Garth Brooks, John Legend, Avi Kaplan and More
By Chris Willman
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Tory Lanez, whose “New Toronto 3” mixtape has been among the top 10 albums for the last two weeks, is one of the hottest current stars putting up a concert livestream in the coming days. If country is more your music lane, Luke Combs or the pairing of Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood will have you covered with their own live shows this weekend. Also on the imminent webcast horizon: Janelle Monae, John Legend, Pentatonix’s Avi Kaplan, Mike Dean, Rob Thomas, Leon Bridges, Grace Potter, Lukas Nelson, Christine and the Queens, Cold War Kids, the Mekons’ Jon Langford and many more.
Check out our listings:
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
Janelle Monae
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Verizon’s Twitter)
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Rob Thomas, Gavin DeGraw, Chris Daughtry, Jason Mraz
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(Rock the House for Animals, via Humane Society website, YouTube, Twitch and Facebook)
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Lukas Nelson, Grace Potter, Valerie June, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast and more
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via YouTube; The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum presents “Space Songs: Through the Distance,” hosted by Tested’s Adam Savage and including Clipping, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast, Dan Deacon, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, Valerie June, Lukas Nelson, Grace Potter, Vagabon and Wolf Parade)
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Leon Bridges
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via Twitch)
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Mike Dean
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via YouTube)
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Echosmith
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via LiveXLive)
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Ben Gibbard
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via Found.ee, YouTube, Facebook and Twitch; benefits Seattle’s Hunger Intervention Program)
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Cassadee Pope
8:30 p.m. ET, 5:30 PT
(via Facebook)
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FRIDAY, MAY 1
Tory Lanez
7 p.m. ET, 4 PT
(via YouTube)
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Luke Combs
8 p.m. ET, 4 PT
(via Miller Lite’s YouTube, to support the United States Bartender’s Guild National Charity Foundation and its Bartender Emergency Assistance Program)
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John Legend
7 p.m. ET, 4 PT
(via YouTube, iHeartRadio’s First Responder Fridays)
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Christine and the Queens
5:30 p.m. ET, 2:30 PT
(via Facebook)
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Kenny Chesney
7 p.m. ET, 4 PT
(via Facebook; album launch party)
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Jon Langford
2 p.m. ET, 11 a.m. PT
(Mekons frontman, live from a cemetery in in Forest Park on the Forest Park Historical Society’s Facebook page)
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Cold War Kids
3 p.m. ET, noon PT
(via Instagram)
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Craig Morgan
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(weekly, via Facebook)
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Lauren Jenkins
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(via Wrangler’s Facebook)
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Rhett Miller
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via Stageit)
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Big Freedia
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via Facebook and Instagram)
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“Virtual Prom” with Joe Jonas
9:30 p.m. ET, 6:30 PT
(DJ asset, via KIIS’ YouTube)
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The Airborne Toxic Event
3 p.m. ET, noon PT
(via Instagram Live with KRBZ/Kansas City)
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Billy Strings
6:30 p.m. ET, 3:30 PT
(via Nugs)
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“Shut In & Sing” with Doria Roberts, Kim Richey, Raina Rose, & Ellis Delaney
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Stageit)
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SATURDAY, MAY 2
Grand Ole Opry with Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via the artists’ Facebook page and Circle All Access)
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Avi Kaplan
Noon ET, 9 a.m. PT
(former Pentatonix member, via Instagram)
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Ben Folds
7 p.m. ET, 4 PT
(weekly requests, via Facebook)
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Old Crow Medicine Show
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(Hartland Hootenanny Featuring Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show)
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Andy Bell (of Ride)
G. Love
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(via Facebook, benefitting the Troubadour)
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SUNDAY, MAY 3
Sarah Shook
4:30 p.m. ET, 1:30 PT
(live on the Men’s Health magazine Instagram page)
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“The Roots of Gram Parsons,” co-hosted by Ronnie Mack and Pamela Des Barres, with Jesse Dayton, Mike Stinson, Albert Lee, Jon Corneal and more
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(via Stellar Shows)
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Judith Owen
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(via YouTube)
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Todd Snider
noon ET, 9 a.m. PT
(via Twitch)
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MONDAY, MAY 4
Questlove
7 P.M. ET, 4 PT
(via Northwell Health’s YouTube and Questlove’s Twitter, Instagram and Facebook)
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Grace Potter
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(weekly, via YouTube)
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Robbie Fulks
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Facebook)
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Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via the New York Guitar Festival’s Facebook channel, exploring the music of Reverent Gary Davis, the start of a 12-day series with various artists benefitting MusiCares)
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The Mastersons
6 p.m. ET, 3 PT
(weekly, via Facebook)
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Emmet Cohen
7:30 p.m. ET, 4:30 PT
(modern jazz pianist, weekly, via Quobuz’s Facebook page)
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TUESDAY, MAY 5
Switchfoot
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(weekly, via YouTube)
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Amythyst Kiah
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via the New York Guitar Festival’s Facebook channel, exploring the music of Reverent Gary Davis, part of a 12-day series with various artists, benefitting MusiCares)
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 6
Whiskey Sour Happy Hour with Ed Helms and artists TBA
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(presented by the Bluegrass Situation, via Facebook)
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Fantastic Negrito
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via the New York Guitar Festival’s Facebook channel, exploring the music of Reverent Gary Davis, part of a 12-day series with various artists, benefitting MusiCares)
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Robyn Hitchcock and Rhett Miller
5 p.m. ET, 2 PT
(via Paste’s YouTube)
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THURSDAY, MAY 7
Robbie Fulks
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Mercury Lounge Tulsa’s Facebook, Instagram and YouTube)
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Bill Frisell
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via the New York Guitar Festival’s Facebook channel, exploring the music of Reverent Gary Davis, part of a 12-day series with various artists, benefitting MusiCares)
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FRIDAY, MAY 8
Don Flemons
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via the New York Guitar Festival’s Facebook channel, exploring the music of Reverent Gary Davis, part of a 12-day series with various artists, benefitting MusiCares)
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Hayes Carll and Tommy Emmanuel
4 p.m. ET, 1 PT
(via Paste’s YouTube)
SATURDAY, MAY 9
Grand Ole Opry with Blake Shelton & Gwen Stefani, Trace Adkins and Dustin Lynch
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Circle Media’s Facebook)
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Brandy Clark
9 p.m. ET, 6 PT
(via Martin Guitars’ Facebook)
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Allison Moorer
8 p.m. ET, 5 PT
(via Facebook)
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