Punch Brothers performed much of their new album, All Ashore, and more at the House of Blues in Boston on tour in July. The WGBH program Front Row Boston captured the full concert, which you can watch here. The tour continues in the US into mid-September and heads to Europe in November.

Brad Mehldau brought music from his album After Bach to the Philharmonie de Paris this spring for a full concert that can be seen here via ARTE. "Brad Mehldau is one of the most influential jazzmen of the last twenty years," says the Philharmonie. "For this exceptional program, he departs from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier to develop his own compositions ... This offering by Mehldau is unlike any other."

Rhiannon Giddens has curated a series with Symphony Space in NYC for this November. She will be joined by a handpicked selection of artists for a complementary pair of programs celebrating both historical and contemporary women of color in music, dance, spoken word, and more. "I really believe in fostering an artistic community whenever possible," she says, "to play for and with each other, create with each other, make something bigger than ourselves." Giddens has also scored an original ballet for Nashville Ballet and will take part in the premiere performances in February.

Punch Brothers were on CBS This Morning: Saturday over the weekend for a Saturday Sessions set of songs from their new album, All Ashore. They performed "It's All Part of the Plan," "Three Dots and a Dash," and the web-exclusive "The Angel of Doubt," and discussed the "mind meld" that happens when they get together to play. Watch the performances and the conversation here.

Rhiannon Giddens's "At The Purchaser's Option," from her 2017 album, Freedom Highway, has made NPR Music's list of The 200 Greatest Songs By 21st Century Women+. The song comes in at No. 30 on list, part of NPR Music's Turning the Tables project. "The songs are by artists whose major musical contributions ... have shifted attitudes, defied categories and pushed sound in new directions," says NPR. "Giddens has become a leader in the Americana world by foregrounding her talent for telling black Americans' stories, as she does on her 2017 LP Freedom Highway."

Gabriel Kahane has released a new song from his forthcoming Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers, called "What If I Told You," and a new video here. The song is available to download now with pre-orders of Book of Travelers along with three other recently released album tracks. Nonesuch Store pre-orders also include a limited-edition signed print.

Congratulations to Punch Brothers and the band's own Chris Thile and Noam Pikelny, all of whom have been nominated for 2018 International Bluegrass Music Awards. Punch Brothers are among the finalists for Instrumental Group of the Year, Thile is up for Distinguished Achievement Award, and Pikelny for Banjo Player of the Year. The Distinguished Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by the IBMA outside of induction into the Hall of Fame. Winners will be announced in Raleigh, NC, on September 27. Punch Brothers' new album, All Ashore, will be eligible for the 2019 awards.

Olivia Chaney has shared a video for the title track to her new album, Shelter, as she begins a three-week tour of North America. The video was filmed by Gavin Elder in the rustic cottage in the hills of the North Yorkshire Moors where she wrote the songs on the album. Watch it here. The tour begins in Decatur, Georgia, tonight and includes headline shows across the US and Canada, plus sets as special guest of Patty Griffin and Bruce Hornsby.

Punch Brothers performed "Like It's Going Out of Style," from their just-released album, All Ashore, at Layman Drug Company in Nashville for a new video made by Alex Chaloff. You can watch it here. Punch Brothers bring their big summer tour to Boston's House of Blues on Wednesday, followed by shows in Burlington and Portland, and at the Beacon Theatre in NYC .

Emmylou Harris will take part in The Lantern Tour: Concerts for Migrant and Refugee Families with Jackson Browne, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Lila Downs, Steve Earle, and Graham Nash in support of families seeking safety at the US–Mexico border. Proceeds will go to the Women's Refugee Commission. The tour begins in Nashville on October 23 and includes shows in Washington, DC; Collingswood, NJ; Boston; and NYC. 

Punch Brothers celebrated the release of their new album, All Ashore, last Friday with a Facebook Live Q&A with The Bluegrass Situation. They discussed the album with host Craig Havighurst backstage at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, where they performed over two nights last weekend.

Nonesuch Records' 1998 Grammy-winning recording of Steve Reich's landmark piece Music for 18 Musicians, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians, is back on vinyl. First released on vinyl in a limited run for Record Store Day 2015, the album, mastered for vinyl by Robert C. Ludwig, is now available at a new, low price, pressed on two 140-gram vinyl LPs at Pallas Manufacturing in Diepholz, Germany. The New York Times says: "It would be hard to think of any American music more important than this."