The Arcs have confirmed eight European tour dates in November as part of their first tour in support of Yours, Dreamily, their debut album. They will be joined on stage by Mariachi Flor de Toloache. The European leg comprises concerts in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Holland, France, and Italy.  Tickets go on sale on Friday, September 11. The Arcs make their live concert debut via NPR Music’s First Listen Live series in NYC this Wednesday and perform at Bowery Ballroom in NYC later this month.

Pat Metheny is Artist-in-Residence at the free Detroit Jazz Festival this Labor Day weekend ... Sam Amidon performs at End of the Road Festival ... Tyondai Braxton goes solo in Philadelphia ... Ken Burns's The Civil War airs anew on PBS ... Olivia Chaney plays UK's Moseley Folk Festival ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell help celebrate St. Augustine, Florida's 450th anniversary... Punch Brothers head to Pacific Northwest ... and more ...

Punch Brothers take their North American tour south, performing in Mississippi and Oklahoma, headlining Fayetteville Roots Fest in Arkansas ... Tyondai Braxton celebrates Terry Riley's 80th in Germany ... David Byrne closes out Meltdown in London ... Jeremy Denk joins San Francisco Symphony for BBC Proms ... Rhiannon Giddens plays Aarhus Fest in Denmark ... Randy Newman is in Washington state ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club takes "Adios" tour to Virginia and Pennsylvania ... IFC Center launches Wim Wenders retrospective ... and more ...

The Arcs will perform music from their forthcoming debut album, Yours, Dreamily, due Friday, September 4, at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe on Wednesday, September 9, in New York City as the first concert of the season in NPR Music's First Listen Live series. Tickets to this extremely intimate show will be available exclusively through a trivia contest on NPR Music's Twitter on Monday, August 31, and Tuesday, September 1. Follow @NPRMusic, @TheArcs, and @HousingWorksBKS on Twitter for details.

As the David Byrne–curated Meltdown festival continues at the Southbank Centre in London, BBC Radio 6 Music hosts a weekend-long series of programs featuring Byrne ... Timo Andres joins Gabriel Kahane at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC ... Ry Cooder, Sharon White, Ricky Skaggs take tour to Virginia, Tennessee ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club "Adios" tour is in Denver ... and more ...

Conor Oberst, while on tour for his Nonesuch Records debut album, Upside Down Mountain, performed at the House of Blues in Boston this past June. The WGBH program Front Row Boston was there to capture the event. You can now watch the full set, including several songs from Upside Down Mountain, Bright Eyes tunes, and more, here. Oberst tours the West Coast with M. Ward and The Felice Brothers this fall.

The David Byrne–curated Meltdown festival gets under way at the Southbank Centre in London tonight, continuing through Sunday, August 30. Among Meltdown's many special events, Byrne and band celebrate African funk master William Onyeabor, he joins Young Jean Lee for the London debut of We’re Gonna Die, and Jonny Greenwood and LCO perform his score to There Will Be Blood at a screening of the film. BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates with a series of programs featuring Byrne, including his debut as a 6 Music presenter. "It’s a lot of fun when you do these kind of things you can introduce music," says Byrne, "and people will give you the benefit of the doubt and give it a listen which is a little bit of what’s it’s about."

Jeremy Denk performs Beethoven and Scriabin sonatas in the Northeast ... Rhiannon Giddens heads from Colorado to Canada ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Sweden's Way Out West fest ... Randy Newman is in Northern California ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club takes "Adios" tour to California ... Punch Brothers play Hot August Music Fest in Maryland ... and more ...

Following the recent release of Buena Vista Social Club’s Lost and Found—a new collection of previously unreleased tracks—Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians, kicks off a North American farewell "Adios" tour at the Ravinia Festival outside Chicago on Wednesday. The "Adios" tour includes extensive dates in the US and Canada, culminating in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on November 7.

Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley, Laurie Anderson, more at Cabrillo Festival in Santa Cruz ... Louis Andriessen’s La Commedia is featured on BBC Radio 3’s Hear & Now ... The Arcs play first show in LA ... The Black Keys headline Outside Lands in San Francisco ... Tyondai Braxton, Deerhoof play Portsmouth, NH ... Donnacha Dennehy’s new chamber opera premieres at Edinburgh International Festival ... Rhiannon Giddens plays Mountain Stage ... James Farm is in Richmond ... Robert Plant tours Europe ... and more ...

Randy Newman, Emmylou Harris, and Rodney Crowell will take part in two intimate evenings of music in truly special settings as only New Orleans could offer. As part of the tenth-anniversary commemoration of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Nonesuch Records, Warner Bros. Records, and New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity (NOAHH) will present an evening with Newman on August 24 and an evening with Harris and Crowell on August 26 to help NOAHH build homes for and with those who need them. Each event will offer music in a spectacular private residence, memorable food and good company. 

Rhiannon Giddens, Punch Brothers, and Olivia Chaney all performed at the Cambridge Folk Festival this weekend, and judging by the Guardian review, all went well, to say the least. "Giddens was a revelation" and "Chaney showed how it should be sung," says the Guardian's Robin Denselow of their Saturday sets, and "the finest performance of the night came from one of the most inventive acoustic bands on the planet," says Denselow of Punch Brothers' "magnificent" Sunday set. Giddens and Chaney also performed for BBC Radio 2's coverage from Cambridge, which can be heard at bbc.co.uk.