This long weekend, Olivia Chaney continues her US tour with shows in Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles ...Chris Thile guests hosts A Prairie Home Companion with musical guest Rhiannon Giddens ...Richard Linklater, Patricia Arquette talk Boyhood with James Corden in LA ... Jeremy Denk plays Bartók in North Carolina ... Tigran Hamasyan kicks off US tour in Chicago ... Emmylou Harris is on Austin City Limits ... Steve Reich celebrated in London ... and more ...

Tickets are on sale now for Rhiannon Giddens' spring solo tour, featuring music from her debut solo album Tomorrow Is My Turn. The shows begin at the Big Ears Festival in March and continue through June, with stops in cities and at festivals along the way, including NYC, Chicago, LA, and the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Giddens’ bandmates from Carolina Chocolate Drops are part of her touring band. They perform on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend.

Tigran Hamasyan, whose Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot, is due out on Tuesday, kicks off a tour of the US with a performance at the University of Chicago's Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts—his Chicago debut—on Friday. The tour continues through the month, with stops in Oakland, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, and Cambridge, two nights in New York City, and two sets in College Park, Maryland.

David Byrne will curate 2015’s Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre in London, August 17–28. Previous directors include Laurie Anderson, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, Ray Davies, and Ornette Coleman. "This is going to be exciting," says Byrne. "I plan to invite performers I've seen—and I do get out—and others I've missed or have dreamed of seeing." The line-up will be announced in the coming months. 

This Grammy weekend, Chris Thile, whose work is up for five awards, guests hosts A Prairie Home Companion with special musical guests Punch Brothers ... Alarm Will Sound joins Medeski, Martin & Wood in Boulder ... Timo Andres piece for Orpheus gets Carnegie Hall premiere ... Olivia Chaney kicks US tour in Cambridge ... Kronos Quartet is in Iowa ... Audra McDonald tours North Carolina ... Brad Mehldau tours France ... Sara Watkins, Rodney Crowell join Patty Griffin in London ... and more ...

Rhiannon Giddens has announced her first solo tour for the spring. The shows begin March 28 at the Big Ears Festival and continue through June, with stops in cities and at festivals along the way, including NYC, Chicago, LA, and the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Giddens makes her solo television debut performing “Waterboy” from her new album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, on CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman on the album's release day, February 10.

Steve Reich, Stephen Sondheim take part in an evening of conversation and performance for Lincoln Center's American Songbook ... The Black Keys are on PBS's Austin City Limits ... Jeremy Denk takes a winter trip from Goldberg Variations in Florida to Winterreise in NYC ... Richard Goode joins LA Phil for Mozart ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica play La Folle Journée in France ... Audra McDonald makes her Spanish debut at Madrid's Teatro Real ... Brad Mehldau tours France ... Conor Oberst plays Mexico City ... Sara Watkins, Rodney Crowell join Patty Griffin for Celtic Connections' Transatlantic Sessions in Glasgow ...

Punch Brothers take their new album, The Phosphorescent Blues, to the UK, with shows in Glasgow and London ... Olivia Chaney performs in London too ... Rhiannon Giddens is on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends ... Richard Goode plays Mozart with Milwaukee Symphony ... Gidon Kremer closes out US tour at Carnegie Hall ... Audra McDonald joins Naples Philharmonic in Florida ... Brad Mehldau plays solo in Lisbon ... Conor Oberst plays Todos Santos Music Festival in Mexico ... Joshua Redman tours Germany with WDR Big Band ... 

Due to a serious shoulder injury to Patrick Carney, The Black Keys’ forthcoming European concerts, part of their Turn Blue World Tour, have been cancelled up until March 10. Regrettably, due to prior scheduled commitments and venue availability, efforts to reschedule the original dates were unsuccessful; therefore all tickets will be refunded in full at their point of purchase. At this time, it is not expected that any dates after March 10 will be cancelled.

John Adams's Second Quartet receives its world premiere with the St. Lawrence String Quartet at Stanford ... Devendra Banhart begins dublab radio show ... Boyhood returns to theaters ... Richard Goode joins St. Louis Symphony for Mozart ... Gidon Kremer performs Mozart and more in Detroit, Baltimore ... Kronos Quartet, Wu Man perform Terry Riley in Berkeley ... Audra McDonald sings with Rochester Philharmonic ... Randy Newman joins Louisiana Philharmonic in New Orleans ... Joshua Redman joins Umphrey's McGee in New York ... and more ... 

The line-up for the 2015 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has been announced, and included are three artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Robert Plant, Punch Brothers, and Rhiannon Giddens. The four-day festival takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, and runs June 11–14. Tickets go on sale this Saturday, January 17, at noon ET.

Emmylou Harris is being honored in concert in Washington, DC, by musicians including Rodney Crowell, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins, and many more ... Timo Andres performs with North Carolina Symphony and plays solo in DC ... Olivia Chaney continues Australia tour with Sydney Festival set ... Jacob Cooper music is in Carmina Slovenica choir show in Brooklyn ... Paul Thomas Anderson's film Inherent Vice opens across US ... Gidon Kremer joins the Naples Philharmonic in Florida ...