Music

Al Jarreau performs with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra this Saturday at the Ohio Theatre.

For a guy who gets tagged with a lot of limiting descriptors — "freak folk," "hippie" and so forth — Devendra Banhart doesn't like to let his music sit in any spot for long. His catalog, which now includes seven official albums, has taken him through warmly intimate ballads, raw and unselfconsciously strange home recordings, songs in several languages (Banhart spent much of his childhood in Venezuela), a lot of smoothly strummy folk-pop and the occasional low-key anthem about free-spiritedness.

He's on tour with Whitehorse and will be in Columbus at the Basement later that night.

Hear the country music of Daniel Romano on March 6 during the 11am hour.

That's on 90.5 WCBE FM and HD Columbus, 106.3 FM in Newark, and online at wcbe.org

Robyn Hitchcock turns 60 this weekend. The British singer and guitarist has traveled a long way to this point, beginning in the 1970s as the frontman of proto-punk group The Soft Boys and continuing through a solo career that has produced hundreds of songs. He's even appeared in a few films: Jonathan Demme showcased the singer in Storefront Hitchcock and gave him a cameo as a Russian operative in the 2004 verison of The Manchurian Candidate.

Please join us for The Eighth Annual Townes Van Zandt Tribute & Benefit For WCBE! 

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Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland, the husband and wife duo behind Whitehorse, will perform a few songs live during the Global Village ahead of their show that night at The Basement!