Last night The Books and Kronos Quartet absolutely killed at Memorial Hall to kick off this years MusicNOW festival. And tonight the fest continues with some good news and some bad news as well.

The bad news is that Tiomane Diabate’s wife went into unexpected labor and there are some serious complications, so he will not be performing tonight.

The good news is that Kronos are playing again as scheduled, and will be playing a Steve Reich piece tonight and premiering a piece by Bryce Dessner as well. They will have an extended set with The Books performing before hand again!

And if you missed the impromptu performance downstairs last night, Bryce and Aaron Dessner, Richard Reed Parry of Arcade Fire and Tyondai Braxton of Battles set up and played a really cool piece as well. Some video is below.

Word is that this will happen again tonight, so get there early and enjoy!