Conor Oberst has announced several intimate solo performances in the fall, beginning at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on November 6 and including a show at Massey Hall in Toronto and two nights at Chicago's Thalia Hall. Oberst will also make stops in New York at Carnegie Hall on November 23 and in Los Angeles at The Cathedral Sanctuary at Immanuel Presbyterian Church on December 10.

Chris Thile launches a week-long US tour with banjoist Béla Fleck at the Holland Performing Arts Center in Omaha Tuesday. The tour continues with a stop at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan; two in upstate New York, at Smith Opera House in Geneva and Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival; and two concerts in California, at the Fox Theater in Oakland and the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles.

Brad Mehldau, Pat Metheny play Gent, North Sea jazz festivals … Timo Andres's new piano concerto gets NY premiere … Tyondai Braxton performs at Nuit New York festival in Paris … Emmylou Harris kicks off co-headlining tour with Lyle Lovett in California … Robert Plant is in Spain … Joshua Redman Quartet plays festivals in Croatia, Germany … The Staves play Winnipeg Folk Festival … and more …

Emmylou Harris kicks off a nine-city co-headlining tour with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band with two concerts in California this weekend: at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Friday and the Greek Theatre in LA on Saturday. The tour continues through the middle of August, with shows in Park City, Denver, Ravinia, Cincinnati, and upstate New York, culminating with two shows in Virginia, at the Sprint Pavilion in Charlottesville and at Wolf Trap outside DC. Harris also leads three of her own shows between dates with Lovett during that time, stopping in Wisconsin, Montana, and Idaho.

Robert Plant launches month-long tour of Europe and the UK … Devendra Banhart is at the Guadalupe Valley Festival in Mexico … Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass perform Dracula in Romania … Brad Mehldau plays Love Supreme, Montreux Jazz Festivals with Mark Guiliana, John Scofield … Pat Metheny is in London, Copenhagen … Joshua Redman Quartet concludes Blue Note residency in NYC … and more …

Allen Toussaint’s band, Irma Thomas, and Cyril Neville pay tribute to the late New Orleans legend in NYC … Laurie Anderson is guest artistic director of Metamorphosis festival in Athens … The Black Keys' Austin City Limits set re-airs on PBS … Kronos Quartet is artist-in-residence at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam … Lake Street Dive tours Texas … Pat Metheny is in Eastern Europe … Joshua Redman Quartet plays Indiana, Massachusetts … The Staves close out headline tour … Chris Thile leads American Acoustic festival in DC … Rokia Traoré performs at Glatsonbury … and more …

American Acoustic, a Chris Thile–curated festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, gets under way this evening and runs through Saturday. The performances feature collaborations between Thile and performers including Punch Brothers, Michael Daves, Edgar Meyer, and others. "One of the thesis statements of the week is going to be to look beyond genre and examine and celebrate the similarities between great instances of music making, rather than the differences," Thile tells the Washington Post.

Punch Brothers and Emmylou Harris return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival … Tyondai Braxton headlines Switchboard Music Festival in San Francisco … Olivia Chaney tours England with Ben Folds … Lake Street Dive heads South … Pat Metheny tours Italy … Joshua Redman Quartet plays Seattle … The Staves play Brooklyn, Firefly Festival … Rokia Traoré peforms in France … and more …

Olivia Chaney plays six shows as special guest of Ben Folds on his UK tour with the yMusic ensemble, starting this Friday. She performs songs from her debut album, The Longest River, in shows at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Sage Gateshead, Brighton Dome, and Cambridge Corn Exchange, as well as two nights at the London Palladium. You can hear Chaney perform songs from the album on WXPN's Folkadelphia here.

The SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco has announced its 2016–17 concert season and featured among the performers taking the Miner Auditorium stage in the venue's fifth anniversary season are Pat Metheny with his new quartet; Brad Mehldau, revisiting his acclaimed 2010 album Highway Rider with his Trio, Joshua Redman, Mark Guiliana, and a chamber orchestra; and Emmylou Harris, who joins Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams in concert. Tickets go on sale to members on Saturday, June 25, and to the general public on Wednesday, July 13.

Lake Street Dive—which took some time from its ongoing US tour to perform at a special event at The White House yesterday!—has announced a North American tour for this September and October. In addition to previously announced shows at Wang Theatre in Boston and Radio City Music Hall in NYC, the tour includes stops in Nashville, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Knoxville, Madison, Providence, and more, culminating in two nights at Union Transfer in Philadelphia.

Joshua Redman kicks off a tour with his Quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, drummer Gregory Hutchinson—at Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz tonight, followed by multiple-set stops in Portland, Seattle, and Denver. The tour moves east for sets at the Elkhart Jazz Festival in Indiana and in the Berkshires. Larry Grenadier swaps in for Rogers as the Quartet holds a six-night residency at the Blue Note in NYC for the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Redman and a different Quartet—pianist Kevin Hays, bassist Joe Sanders, drummer Jorge Rossy—tour Europe in July, stopping in Croatia, Germany, Czech Republic, and Spain.