The Staves, currently touring North America, have announced six headline shows in cities across the UK and Ireland this spring, following previously announced appearances at Forbidden Fruit Festival in Dublin and Bushstock in London. The tour, which begins in Manchester on May 31, will make stops at venues in Belfast, Galway, Limerick, Glasgow, and Brighton. The tour follows the release of the digital double A Side Tired As Fuck / Train Tracks last month. 

Conor Oberst launches Salutations tour … Laurie Anderson performs in Virginia … Devendra Banhart heads East … Jeremy Denk joins Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra … Rhiannon Giddens performs on Grand Ole Opry … Richard Goode plays Bach, Chopin in DC … Tigran Hamasyan, The Staves, Chris Thile play NYC … Kronos Quartet joins Toronto Symphony Orchestra … Lake Street Dive heads West … Audra McDonald is in Florida … Brad Mehldau is in California … Pat Metheny honored at Alternative Guitar Summit in NYC … Rokia Traoré performs in France, Sweden … Caetano Veloso, Teresa Cristina tour South America … and more …

Punch Brothers and I'm With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O'Donovan) join forces this summer for the American Acoustic US tour, with dates at the Newport Folk Festival, Wolf Trap, NYC's Beacon Theatre, and more. Guitarist Julian Lage joins the bands, which will play a mix of featured sets and collaborations, as a special guest. Tickets for most shows go on sale Friday, March 10.

Tigran Hamasyan tours West Coast … John Adams leads LA Philharmonic in Nixon in China … Laurie Anderson brings The Language of the Future to Berlin … Devendra Banhart, Lake Street Dive both play Minneapolis … Jeremy Denk joins Vancouver Symphony Orchestra … Rhiannon Giddens, Dirk Powell play duo dates in Northeast … Kronos Quartet is in DC … Brad Mehldau scores Luxembourg film screening … The Staves tour the South … and more …

John Adams’s Scheherazade.2 is performed by San Francisco Symphony, violinist Leila Josefowicz … Timo Andres performs Adams, premieres new work at Barbican … Devendra Banhart is in Florida … Richard Goode plays Bach, Chopin in Texas … Tigran Hamasyan launches world tour in Los Angeles … Lake Street Dive heads south … Brad Mehldau Trio rounds out European run … Joshua Redman brings new quartet to Houston … The Staves play out West … and more …

Conor Oberst has shared the music video for "Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out," from his forthcoming album, Salutations. The video, directed by Greg Marinaccio, was filmed at the very same bar in Manhattan's East Village that inspired the song. You can watch it here and download the track (and three others) now when you pre-order Salutations. Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, will tour in support of Salutations beginning March 9 in his hometown of Omaha, including several just-announced new dates.

Rhiannon Giddens has announced an extensive US tour this spring, including several new shows that go on sale this Friday, the day her new album, Freedom Highway, will be released. Following several intimate performances in the Northeast in March with Dirk Powell, with whom she co-produced the album, and a performance in a multi-artist tribute to Aretha Franklin at Carnegie Hall, Giddens heads to Europe and Australia to tour. She returns to the US in April to tour, starting at the Stagecoach festival in California on April 28. The tour includes headline shows throughout the country and festival sets at New Orleans Jazz Fest, Newport Folk, Newport Jazz, Spoleto, ROMP, and more.

This President’s Day weekend, The Staves tour West Coast … San Francisco Symphony performs John Adams … Devendra Banhart heads south … Jeremy Denk joins Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra … Emmylou Harris is aboard Cayamo cruise … Kronos Quartet is in Geneva … Lake Street Dive tours Northeast … Brad Mehldau Trio tours Europe … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul, holds artist talk in Atlanta … and more …

Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express will perform music from their album Junun as the opening act for Radiohead in select cities on the band's sold-out European tour: at the Spektrum in Oslo on June 6 and 7, Ericsson Globe in Stockholm on June 9, 3 Arena in Dublin on June 20, and Manchester Arena on July 4 and 5. Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express will also perform at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 3 and Best Kept Secret in the Netherlands on June 18. The Times of London calls Junun "intriguing, sinuous, and essential listening."

Emmylou Harris will join John Mellencamp as very special guest on his US tour this spring and summer. Their first stop is at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre in Denver, followed by shows across the country, in Idaho, Washington, California, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York, culminating at the Forest Hill Stadium in Queens on July 11. Tickets for most shows go on sale starting next Friday, February 24.

The Staves, who kick off a four-week tour of North America next week, release the double A side "Tired As Fuck," a previously unreleased tune, and "Train Tracks," a re-mastered version of a bonus track from their 2015 album If I Was. The former was "written in the midst of a relationship breaking down," says the trio. "Lamenting the lack of some sort of guidance, but also accepting and resigning yourself to fact that you have to soldier on. Keep going. There is no helping hand. 'Train Tracks' is the beginning of something new and how confusing and difficult that can be when you're really just as clueless as anyone! The two tracks bookend each other in that respect." You can watch a video for "Tired As Fuck" here.

Chris Thile welcomes Brad Mehldau to A Prairie Home Companion, meets up with Michael Daves in Miami … John Adams hosts concerts with San Francisco Symphony members … Sam Amidon is in Sydney with ACO … Laurie Anderson joins Phillip Glass at UNC … Devendra Banhart is in New Mexico … Richard Goode, Budapest Festival Orchestra conclude Beethoven tour … Kronos Quartet plays Carnegie Hall … Audra McDonald joins New World Symphony gala in Miami … and more …