English singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney concludes her tour with The Decemberists with performances at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in Davis, California, tonight, and Britt Pavilion in Jacksonville, Oregon, on Saturday. She opens for the band and joins them for performances from their new project, Offa Rex, which released its debut album, The Queen of Hearts, last month to critical acclaim. The Independent gives it a perfect five stars, calling it "a sublime collection of old songs given contemporary heart transplants without ever betraying their essential original truth and spirit."

Olivia Chaney released her debut album, The Longest River, on Nonesuch in 2015. The Observer calls it “an enchanting, stately creation.” “Live, Chaney has a casual yet commanding presence,” says the New Yorker. “It’s as if a mystical spirit has entered the room. With an earthiness to her expressive soprano, Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century.”

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Fleet Foxes conclude the current leg of their North American Crack-Up tour with a show at The Bomb Factory in Dallas tonight. The band heads back out on the road next month, beginning with sold-out shows in Vancouver and their hometown of Seattle. Crack-Up is “likely to be the most remarkable album you will hear this year,” exclaims the Times of London. “The return of one of the most original bands of this century." “Ambitious, mature, meticulous,” says Uncut. “A recipe for total entertainment forever.”

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Rhiannon Giddens rounds out the current leg of her North American tour, featuring music from her new album, Freedom Highway, with a set at Rocky Mountains Folks Festival in Lyons, Colorado, tonight. Exclaim, reviewing her set at the Edmonton Folk Festival last weekend, called it an “enthralling and stunning” performance, praising her “tremendous and explosive stage presence.” Giddens resumes her tour in the Midwest next month.

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Lake Street Dive is at Rocky Mountains as well, performing the festival’s penultimate set on Sunday, just before Dave Rawlings Machine closes out the weekend’s festivities. The band is at The Jones Assembly in Oklahoma City tonight.

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k.d. lang continues the month-long Canadian leg of her Ingénue Redux Tour with two shows at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on Saturday and Sunday. The concerts follow the release of the Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition two-CD set on Nonesuch last month, in celebration of the album's silver anniversary, and today’s release of the two-LP vinyl edition. "Ingénue still dazzles, 25 years later,” exclaims Uncut. “A modern classic … Perfectly pitched, in pretty much every way.”

“Just enjoy your adventures,” lang told the Victoria Sun ahead of her shows at the Orpheum Theatre this week. “You better be present and you better give everything you can for that hour-and-a-half or two hours or three hours, whatever you are performing, because that’s what it is all about.” You can read what else she had to say here.

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Conor Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, brings his European Salutations tour to the UK this weekend: performing a concert at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London tonight and a set at the sold-out Green Man Festival in Wales on Sunday. The tour concludes early next week with shows in Liverpool and Glasgow. Oberst returns to the US for dates in September and October.