David Byrne has begun his North American American Utopia tour, with shows in San Diego, Arizona, and Las Vegas and sets at Coachella in the week ahead, and across the US and Canada in the months ahead. The tour includes songs from the new album as well as classics from his solo career and Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band joins Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson–choreographed concert that he has called "the most ambitious show I’ve done since Stop Making Sense."

The Brad Mehldau Trio launches a tour ahead of the release of the new album Seymour Reads the Constitution!, due May 18. The tour begins in Baton Rouge, followed by shows in Texas, Colorado, Utah, New York, and Massachusetts, including a three-night residency at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The group heads to Europe in May for shows in Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Prague, and more.

Fleet Foxes launch their spring US Crack-Up tour at McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, tonight, making multiple stops in California—including sets at Coachella—and across the country, from Albuquerque to Atlanta, San Antonio, TX, to South Burlington, VT. There are summer dates on the books in the US and Europe as well.

Laurie Anderson is the Artist in Focus at Rewire Fest in The Hague … David Byrne brings American Utopia to Mexico … Michael Daves & Chris Eldridge play guitar at Brooklyn Folk Fest ... Richard Goode plays solo in St. Paul … Kronos Quartet is in Stanford … Audra McDonald performs at Savannah Music Fest … Robert Plant closes Australia tour in Perth … Rostam concludes spring Half-Light tour in Texas … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Minneapolis …

Lake Street Dive has shared an intimate video for the emotionally charged new song "I Can Change" from their forthcoming album, Free Yourself Up, due May 4. The video was created by Claire Marie Vogel. The band also announced more North American stops on their international tour of now more than fifty additional performances, included newly added shows in Cleveland, Portland, Atlanta, Austin, Memphis, Chicago, and more. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 6.

John Adams conducts New World Symphony, pianist Timo Andres in Miami … Sam Amidon continues tour in Boston, Montreal, Toronto … Dan Auerbach brings Easy Eye Revue to Cleveland … Jeremy Denk joins Seattle Symphony … Richard Goode performs with LA Phil … Tigran Hamasyan is in Germany … Brad Mehldau plays solo in France … Robert Plant continues Australia tour … Rostam brings his music to Missouri …

The Magnetic Fields will bring 50 Song Memoir back on the road in June, performing at the Apollo Theater in NYC on June 15 and 16, Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh on June 19 and 20, and the Luminato Festival in Toronto on June 22 and 23.

Natalie Merchant has announced A Summer Evening With… summer tour of intimate, historic venues across the UK. The tour, from St Ives on July 13 to Oxford on July 30, is her most far-reaching of the country to date and includes songs from throughout her career. "There's so much of Britain I've never seen," says Merchant. "I expect this summer's tour will satisfy my desire to explore those historic and scenic regions while meeting up with my fans who live there."

Sam Amidon, Rhiannon Giddens, and Rostam are at Big Ears in Knoxville … Dan Auerbach takes Easy Eye Revue to Northeast US … David Byrne brings American Utopia to Brazil … Jeremy Denk performs Ives in upstate New York .. Tigran Hamasyan tours France, Latvia … k.d. lang takes Ingénue tour to Pennsylvania, Maryland … Audra McDonald joins Utah Symphony … Robert Plant launches Australia tour in Sydney … Joshua Redman is in Chicago … and Nonesuch is at MoMA PS1 ...

Sam Amidon has announced a UK tour for October, with shows in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Newcastle, in addition to previously announced summer festival sets. He begins a North American spring tour at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville this Friday, with shows in Lexington, Philadelphia, NYC, Brattleboro, Cambridge, Montreal, Toronto, Ann Arbor, and Chicago, plus sets at the MusicNow festival in Cincinnati.

Rhiannon Giddens, the Guest Curator of the 2018 Cambridge Folk Festival, has selected the performers she has invited to Cherry Hinton Hall this August 2–5: Peggy Seeger, Kaia Kater, Birds of Chicago, Amythyst Kiah, and Yola Carter will be introduced by Giddens before each takes the stage. Giddens will also perform at the Festival. She will give the keynote address at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville this Saturday.

Rostam, who resumes his US Half-Light tour at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville on Sunday, announced two new headline shows: at Brooklyn Steel in NYC on May 24 and the Fonda Theatre in LA on September 14. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh has released a video of Rostam with a string quartet performing "Gwan," from Half-Light, and a cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon," made as part of The Warhol's Silver Studio Sessions series. You can watch it here.