Punch Brothers follow Tonight Show appearance with return to Telluride ... I Am Love, with music by John Adams, opens ... Tony Allen heads West ... Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed lead the Mermaid Parade ... David Byrne talks bikes in Chicago ... Carolina Chocolate Drops head from Texas to Telluride ... Shawn Colvin, Sara Watkins play Clearwater Fest ... Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau duo in Germany ... Youssou N’Dour's Paris Grand Ball turns ten ... Joshua Redman's James Farm plays Seattle ... Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury give final performances in A Little Night Music ... and more ...

The Carolina Chocolate Drops made their Bonnaroo debut and were included among SPIN's 30 Must-Hear Artists there. Photographer Andrew Pearson was there, capturing all the action both onstage and behind the scenes with the band in photos now available at nonesuch.com/media. The band also played the culminating event of the Spoleto Festival, drawing more than 3,000 people to their set.

Tony Allen's North American tour returns to New York City for a two-day stretch featuring two free outdoor performances plus the late-night Jump 'n' Funk at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Allen's recent show in Chicago was a critic's choice for Chicago Reader, which says: "Allen merges James Brown funk with jazz, highlife, and traditional West African rhythms, and his calling card is a doubled-up kick-drum accent that's weighted like a heartbeat, pinning his grooves solidly to the earth no matter how intricate his syncopations and permutations get up top."

The Punch Brothers new album, Antifogmatic, is out tomorrow and is streaming in full all week at Spinner. Their Bonnaroo set is now online via NPR. The Wall Street Journal calls them "across-the-board excellent." New York Times counted their take on Radiohead among the festival's standout covers. The Star-Tribune, reviewing their opening set for Steve Martin in Minneapolis, raves: "Punch Brothers were creative, exciting and wow-inducing." The Independent calls the new album "coolly fascinating."

Emmylou Harris performs in "A Celebration of Kate McGarrigle" in London, where The Low Anthem picked up a MOJO Honours for Breakthrough Act ... Tony Allen kicks off tour at Toronto's Luminato Festival ... Timothy Andres, Philip Glass are at Yale ... The Black Keys, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Punch Brothers play Bonnaroo ... Pat Metheny concludes Orchestrion Asia tour in Tokyo ... Joshua Redman's James Farm plays SFJAZZ ... Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music is up for four Tony Awards ... Allen Toussaint helps Celebrate Brooklyn! ... and more ...

Musicians and music fans from around the world have begun to converge on Manchester, Tennessee, for the 2010 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Among them are three Nonesuch artists: Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and The Black Keys. For those unable to attend, many of the musical performances will be streaming on NPR.org and webcast on Bonnaroo's YouTube channel.

Tune in to watch legendary drummer Tony Allen on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight, sitting in with the show's house band, The Roots. He kicks off a week-long North American tour this weekend. The A.V. Club says Allen's new album, Secret Agent, "expertly blends jazz, funk, and rock into earthbound extraterrestrial jams." It is "an undisputed fact of science that Allen," insists Time Out, "ranks among the globe’s funkiest residents."

Natalie Merchant's US summer tour is still a month away, but a select few will enjoy a performance of songs from her recent album, Leave Your Sleep, this weekend, as she performs at the West Chester Poetry Conference. The Philadelphia Inquirer calls the album "an ambitious work that embraces fun, story, and sadness." Conference co-founder Dana Gioa calls it "unprecedented" and tells the Inquirer: "She's the Franz Schubert of folk-rock."

Following the June 22 release of her new album, Homeland, Laurie Anderson will bring an intimate live show, Another Day in America: Songs from the Album "Homeland" and Other Stories, to New York’s Le Poisson Rouge, Philadelphia’s World Café Live, and Alexandria, Virginia's The Birchmere, in addition to performing on The Late Show with David Letterman. You can watch "Victory," an installment in the weekly series of videos featuring her male alter ego, Fenway Bergamot, here at Nonesuch.com.

The Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed-curated festival Vivid LIVE at the Sydney Opera House culminated this weekend with a number of events, including one that captured the hearts of Sydney's canine community and the attention of news media across the globe: Music for Dogs, a 20-minute piece Anderson wrote and performed for an audience of purebreds and mutts alike. Anderson called it "a highlight of my life."

Stephin Merritt is in Seattle this week for screenings of two projects at the Seattle International Film Festival: Strange Powers, the new documentary about him and The Magnetic Fields, which Seattle radio station KEXP calls "exquisite," and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the classic film for which he has written and will perform a new score.

Kronos Quartet is in Taiwan for the Traditional Arts Festival ... Laurie Anderson plays the Sydney Opera House for Vivid LIVE ... The Black Keys continue tour in Kansas City and Wakarusa ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica tour Russia ... Brad Mehldau solos in the UK ... Pat Metheny takes Orchestrion to Seoul ... Allen Toussaint, Don Byron play The Bright Mississippi in Vermont ... Sara Watkins guests on A Prairie Home Companion ... and more ...