The Black Keys resume their Turn Blue world tour with a performance at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain, next Thursday, May 28. The tour continues into August with festival sets in Greece, United Kingdom, Denmark, Canada, and United States, including Governors Ball, Isle of Wight, Outside Lands, and many more. 

Olivia Chaney kicks off her spring tour with performances in Manchester, Edinburgh ... Devendra Banhart, Andy Cabic tour Spain, Portugal ... Rhiannon Giddens plays a weekend of sold-out shows at SFJAZZ ... Kronos Quartet performs in Wisconsin ... Audra McDonald sings in Virginia ... Joshua Redman quartet headlines the SLO Jazz Festival in San Luis Obispo ... and more ...

Guitarist Ry Cooder, country music songbird Sharon White, and country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs are combining forces for a national road show. The three music vets have announced the "Cooder-White-Skaggs" tour, their maiden voyage as a musical trio. The tour kicks off in Salt Lake City on June 16 and continues with scheduled performances in Denver, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, New York City, and more. "You are going to hear four-part singing from the heart," says Cooder, "the finest and best instrumental activity in the land, songs you know and love and to top it off, the indomitable Buck White on piano who will turn your money green. Now who's happy? That's the way we're gonna stay so knock on wood!"

Rhiannon Giddens takes her tour to California with shows in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles ... John Adams conducts Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ... Sam Amidon closes out European tour in Oslo and London ... Laurie Anderson performs in Buenos Aires ... Timo Andres plays Beethoven in Brooklyn for WQXR marathon ... Jeremy Denk performs with Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell perform in Napa and Chicago ... Kronos Quartet celebrates Mother's Day at SFJAZZ ... Audra McDonald sings in the Northeast ... Brad Mehldau Trio continues its sold-out residency at NYC's Village Vanguard ... and more ...

Lianne La Havas, whose new album, Blood, is due out later this year, will perform three shows in the US in July: a set at the Essence Festival in New Orleans on July 5, and headline shows at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on July 7 and Bowery Ballroom in New York City on July 9. Essence Festival tickets are on sale now; tickets for the LA and NYC shows go on sale this Friday, May 8.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA has announced its 2015–16 season, and featured among the artists performing this season are several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Randy Newman, Sam Amidon, Richard Goode, and Rokia Traoré. The season also includes works by Steve Reich, as part of a celebration of choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker, and the West Coast premiere of a new work by Timo Andres.

Sam Amidon kicks off European solo tour with three shows in the Netherlands ... Laurie Anderson performs at Princeton ... Devendra Banhart plays solo in Taos ... Jeremy Denk performs Ligeti/Beethoven with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in NYC ... Rhiannon Giddens heads from Colorado to Alaska ... Richard Goode performs in Virginia ... Audra McDonald is in Virginia too ... Natalie Merchant has two shows in Toronto ... Joshua Redman performs with Cornell University's Wind Ensemble ... Steve Reich takes part in Glasgow festival ... and more ...

Celebrate Brooklyn!—one of New York City's longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals—has announced the complete line-up for this summer's concert series in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Among the featured performers this year are Nonesuch artists Punch Brothers, Rhiannon Giddens, and Sam Amidon with Bill Frisell. You can see the complete line-up in the highly-recommended announcement video posted here.

Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet collaborate on Landfall in Paris ... Sam Amidon joins Sharon Van Etten in Leeds, England ... Timo Andres, David Kaplan perform piano four-hands in Brooklyn and DC ... Olivia Chaney plays in London ... Jeremy Denk makes Cleveland Orchestra debut ... Rhiannon Giddens tours Midwest ... Richard Goode performs at Carnegie Hall  ... Robert Plant pays tribute to Lead Belly at Kennedy Center ... Steve Reich's Three Tales is performed in London ... Wilco plays New Orleans JazzFest ... and more ...

Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced its 2015–16 concert season, the organization's 110th, which will feature performances from artists and works by composers familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Kronos Quartet, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, Youssou N'Dour, John Adams, Timo Andres, and Jacob Cooper.

John Adams conducts his Scheherezade.2 with Cincinnati Symphony ... Sam Amidon tours Europe ... Laurie Anderson curates Live Ideas Festival in NYC ... Timo Andres plays in NYC ... Jacob Cooper performs his Silver Threads in Portland ... Jeremy Denk tours with Florida Symphony ... Fatoumata Diawara tours US ... Rhiannon Giddens tours Northeast ... Richard Goode plays Beethoven and more in Baltimore ... Kronos Quartet is in France ... Audra McDonald tours New Jersey ... Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman trios tour Europe, separately ... and more ...

Rhiannon Giddens was the subject of a feature on PBS NewsHour, looking at her solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn. "Her debut celebrates women who influenced her, some famous like Dolly Parton and Patsy Cline, others, like Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Libba Cotten, much less so," says NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown. "The album also showcases Giddens’ range through gospel, blues, country, and jazz." Watch the NewsHour piece here. Forbes, reviewing her recent NYC tour stop, exclaims: "Besides a thrilling voice, she comes at you with a barrage of sounds and sights and movements from an arsenal of talents that will positively floor you ... She’s a musician’s musician, and, moreover, a people’s musician, one of the best ever."