Lake Street Dive kicks off final week of US summer tour … Sam Amidon is in Switzerland … Devendra Banhart begins South American tour … Emmylou Harris performs in Virginia … Kronos Quartet is in Singapore … k.d. lang continues Ingénue Redux Tour in Québec … The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir to Bristol, Liverpool … Conor Oberst plays Pacific Northwest … and more …

Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, has returned to North America to begin the next leg of his Salutations tour. They perform a sold-out show at The Wild Buffalo in Bellingham, WA, Friday, followed by shows in Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and more over the next few weeks. The tour picks up again in October with stops back West and across the South.

Devendra Banhart begins a tour of South America, featuring music from his latest album, Ape in Pink Marble, with a performance at CC Barranco in Lima, Peru, on Friday. The 10-city tour includes a concert in Santiago, Chile, seven shows in Brazil, and a final stop in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Magnetic Fields have brought their 50 Song Memoir tour—which chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt's life with one song per year—to the UK and Ireland. The tour, performed over two nights in each city (songs 1–25 on night one, songs 26–50 on night two), begins with two nights at the Edinburgh International Festival this Friday and Saturday, followed by dates in Dublin, Bristol, Liverpool, and Brighton, culminating at London’s Barbican Hall on September 9 and 10.

Kronos Quartet, which released an album of Folk Songs with four Nonesuch label mates in June, has announced its concert season for the autumn of 2017. On the schedule ahead are travels to Singapore, South Korea, and throughout the US and Canada, as well as multiple shows in and around the quartet's hometown of San Francisco.

Olivia Chaney concludes her tour with Offa Rex partners The Decemberists on the US West Coast … Fleet Foxes play Dallas … Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive perform at Rocky Mountains Folks Festival in Colorado … k.d. lang continues Ingénue Redux Tour in Edmonton … Conor Oberst brings Salutations to the UK … and more ...

Following the release of Dark Matter, Randy Newman will tour Europe in February and March. The tour includes three UK shows—at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall on March 8, Gateshead’s Sage on March 12, and London’s Palladium on March 14—as well as performances in Germany and Ireland, with further European dates to be announced shortly.

k.d. lang launches Canadian leg of Ingénue Redux Tour … Devendra Banhart DJs in Boston … Fleet Foxes play Outside Lands … Rhiannon Giddens is in Alberta and Wyoming … Kronos Quartet performs in San Francisco … Lake Street Dive tours Midwest … Pat Metheny plays solo in Annapolis, Richmond … Conor Oberst brings Salutations to Scandinavia … Offa Rex, Olivia Chaney play Travelers' Rest … Punch Brothers continue American Acoustic tour in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids … Joshua Redman concludes Still Dreaming tour … and more …

Fleet Foxes have shared two videos from their four nights of concerts at the Sydney Opera House during Vivid LIVE earlier this year. The Australian called the shows "spellbinding." You can see why in the performances of the songs "Fool's Errand" and "If You Need To, Keep Time on Me," from their new album, Crack-Up, here.

Sam Amidon has announced a fall tour of North America, in support of his latest album, The Following Mountain. The tour starts at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle on September 23 and continues with stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Milwaukee, Chicago, Toronto, DC, and Philadelphia, before culminating with a performance at New York City’s Mercury Lounge on October 10. He has also added new Scandinavian dates on his previously announced European tour.

Sam Amidon plays a free set for Celebrate Brooklyn … Fleet Foxes tour Toronto, Detroit … Rhiannon Giddens is at Newport Jazz Festival … Emmylou Harris performs in Norway … Randy Newman plays benefit in Aspen … Conor Oberst launches European tour in Germany, Poland … Punch Brothers continue American Acoustic tour in upstate New York … Joshua Redman brings Still Dreaming to UK, Sweden … 

Conor Oberst, with the Felice Brothers as his backing band, begins a European summer tour of music from his new album, Salutations, with a festival set at A Summer’s Tale in Germany on Friday. The tour continues with festival sets and concerts in Germany, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK, including O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in London, and culminating in Glasgow on August 22.