Noakes’s Moonlight and Gold and the Rafferty family’s poignant harmonies on The Ark all delivered delicious shivers. It fell to Paul Brady to front a wonderfully rich rendering of Baker Street, crowned with Collins’s powerhouse sax solo, before a massed...

An all-star line-up will assemble to celebrate the life and music of Rafferty, in a show organised by his daughter, Martha Rafferty, and friend, Rab Noakes, this Saturday. It will feature the Proclaimers, Barbara Dickson, Maria Muldaur and Ron Sexsmith.

Wainwright brought tears from mourners with an a cappella version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Singers Teddy Thompson and Jenni Muldaur also gave stirring performances, of “This Little Light of Mine” and “Amazing Grace,” respectively. The three...

Artists include The Proclaimers (Rafferty having co-produced their 1987 breakthrough hit Letter from America); Barbara Dickson (who sang backing vocals on City to City and Night Owl, later duetting with Rafferty on her Dylan album); fellow 70s hitmaker...

Headliners & clubs Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance Off , Knockout (today). Cass McCombs , Great American Music Hall (today). Kenny Werner Quintet , Kuumbwa Jazz Center (Mon.). Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard, the Yellow Dress , Rickshaw Stop. (Tues.).

He was and remains an enduring reminder that music has inherent power. McCutcheon's album, This Land: Woody Guthrie's America, revisits many of Guthrie's songs. McCutcheon is joined here by such friends as Maria Muldaur, Fats Kaplan, Kathy Mattea, Tim...