Following the success of their recent tour of the UK and Ireland, Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter will once again be setting out on tour together. These longtime friends will share the stage as an intimate duo, performing material spanning their vast catalogs as well as some of their favorite songs. The first handful of shows have been announced, starting February 21, 2013, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Colvin performs at the WFUV Holiday Cheer in New York City tonight, followed by a series of US headlining shows in the coming weeks.

The Black Keys take their European tour to France and Italy ... Bombino is in India ... Carolina Chocolate Drops kick off Southern tour in Atlanta ... Shawn Colvin plays in Texas ... Jeremy Denk joins Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in NYC ... Gidon Kremer makes three stops in Italy ... Lianne La Havas is in Zurich and Munich ... Jessica Lea Mayfield, David Mayfield launch Sibling Rivalry Tour ... Brad Mehldau Trio closes out European tour in Turkey ... Natalie Merchant performs on Long Island ... Punch Brothers play three shows in California ... Sara Watkins kicks off West Coast tour ... and more ...

Nataly Dawn will open for Ben Folds Five on the band's US tour in late January and early February 2013. She announced the news in her latest vlog post, which also notes that her forthcoming solo album, How I Knew Her, which had been slated for release on Nonesuch on January 22, 2013, is now due out on February 12. In the meantime, Dawn is offering five free downloads via her new Tumblr page, natalydawn.tumblr.com, including the album's opening track, "Araceli," and will release a number of new videos from the album in the coming months. Watch her latest vlog post here.

Nonesuch Records wishes everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving in the US and a fruitful Black Friday. (Not to mention a Happy Birthday to Dr. John and Björk.) Remember: CDs, LPs, and DVDs in the Nonesuch Store (excluding pre-orders) are currently 34% off the standard retail price as part of the store's anniversary sale. There are also some noteworthy performances in the coming days, including Richard Goode's trio of concerts with the Budapest Festival Orchestra; European tours from Lianne La Havas and the Brad Mehldau Trio; and Punch Brothers return to North America for the next leg of their tour.

Lianne La Havas closed out her US tour with sold-out shows in LA and San Francisco this weekend. Friday's concert at LA's Roxy Theatre was "a pitch-perfect performance," raves the Los Angeles Times. She "delivered on the promise of her soulful, mature debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?," says the Times. "She was, to put it simply, fantastic ... a natural talent with boundless potential whose charisma is matched only by her musical prowess." La Havas performed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic Friday morning; watch her KCRW take on the album track "Forget" here.

Carolina Chocolate Drops tour Midwest, lead benefit for The Ark in Ann Arbor ... Laurie Anderson performs at Mills College ... Bombino tours France ... Shawn Colvin plays with Heart in Mississippi ... Donnacha Dennehy’s music opens HCMF ... Dr. John, Blind Boys of Alabama conclude US tour ... Richard Goode is in Glasgow ... Emmylou Harris closes out Australia, New Zealand tours ... James Farm plays Poland ... Gidon Kremer, Brad Mehldau Trio are in Germany ... Lianne La Havas closes US tour in California ... The Low Anthem leads Providence benefit ... Punch Brothers play Crossing Border fest ... Sara Watkins concludes tour with Jackson Browne ... Dawn Upshaw joins Boston Symphony Orchestra ... and more ...

Lianne La Havas brings her brief US tour to a close this weekend with sold-out shows at the Roxy in LA and Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco. La Havas stops by KCRW in LA today for an appearance on Morning Becomes Eclectic, which calls her "a stunning newcomer with a soulful voice and incredible depth and range." The Los Angeles Times says her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, is "brimming with understated production, poetic lyrics and La Havas’ guitar-driven blend of soul, folk and jazz." Watch her performance on Conan from earlier this week here.

The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (HCMF), the UK's largest contemporary music festival, gets under way today, and Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy's Grá Agus Bás will be the culminating piece in tonight's Opening Night concert. The all-Dennehy program will be performed by Crash Ensemble, with Alan Pierson conducting and featuring vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, all of whom performed Grá Agus Bás on Dennehy's Nonesuch debut album of of the same name. Crash, an ensemble in residence at HCMF, will also bring Grá Agus Bás to the US in 2013 for performances with Dawn Upshaw at The Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall.

Shawn Colvin joins BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris in session, recorded during her recent UK tour with Mary Chapin Carpenter, for the latest episode of his program, airing this evening at 7 PM GMT. Colvin performs songs from her latest album, All Fall Down, and talks with Harris about recording the new album in producer Buddy Miller's home studio; writing her memoir, Diamond in the Rough; and much more. Colvin concludes her tour as special guest of the band Heart this weekend before returning to the road with her own US headline shows.

Sara Watkins brings her US tour as special guest of Jackson Browne to a close this weekend. Before then, they give an intimate acoustic performance at the historic Paramount Theater in Denver tonight, which will be broadcast live at 10 PM ET on AXS TV. Watch a preview of the event here. Watkins launches a seven-city West Coast headline tour with Aoife O'Donovan in December and heads to the UK and Ireland in January.

Lianne La Havas stopped by Minnesota Public Radio's The Current yesterday to discuss her recently released debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?; her performance at the Mercury Awards, for which she was shortlisted; meeting Prince on her last visit to the Twin Cities; and much more. She also performs three songs off the new album. Listen to the complete show and watch La Havas' performance of the title track in The Current studios here. La Havas makes her debut on Conan this Wednesday night. Her Spotify Session is out today.

John Adams leads the Seattle Symphony in performances of his Harmonielehre and Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour the East Coast ... Shawn Colvin joins Heart in Florida ... Dr. John, Blind Boys of Alabama are on the East Coast ... Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach is in Mexico City ... Emmylou Harris tours Australia ... James Farm, Brad Mehldau tour Germany ... Gidon Kremer tours Taiwan ... Kronos Quartet performs outside SF ... Lianne La Havas plays outside DC ... Punch Brothers tour the UK ... Sara Watkins joins Jackson Browne ... and more ...