Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan — who between them hold a Pulitzer Prize, multiple Grammys, and a shared refusal to stay in any one genre — make music together as Ringdown that is genuinely difficult to describe and impossible to forget. They describe Ringdown as an electronic cinematic pop duo based in Portland, OR and New York, NY. Others have described Ringdown as the love child of Johannes Brahms and Brandi Carlile—if they were born in the same century and if Brahms was a queer woman. You decide.

Their debut album on Nonesuch Records draws on Shaw's classical and compositional world and Parpan's percussive, emotionally raw singer-songwriter instincts, and the result is something that feels both intimate and vast — music that sits in your chest long after it ends. Two nights later, you can hear them again on the Mainstage as part of the Reverberations preview with Decoda. Hosted by Meena Bhasin, this Well-Being Concert is a different kind of encounter: just the two of them, the room, and music that asks nothing of you except to be present.