Punch Brothers, fresh off a successful tour of Ireland and the UK, are back in the States and set to play tonight in downtown New York City as part of the River to River Festival of free summer concerts. After last week's London show, the Financial Times called the group among the "foremost practitioners" of "progressive bluegrass," and their music "Americana played with adventure and accomplishment." Please note: due to tonight's inclement weather forecast, the concert has been moved inside, to Stuyvesant High School, across the street from Rockefeller Park.

Laurie Anderson brings Homeland, her newest performance piece, to New York's Lincoln Center this week for a five-night run as part of the acclaimed Lincoln Center Festival of music, theater, and dance. Her band for the performances, which will be held at Lincoln Center's Rose Theater, includes Joey Baron, Rob Burger, Greg Cohen, and Eyvind Kang.

Also as part of the Festival, Laurie will participate in a symposium in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, prior to Thursday's performance. For the event, she will discuss Homeland with Elizabeth Diller of the prestigious design firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

On the Lincoln Center website, you can find more information on these events and watch a video of "Only an Expert" from the broadcast A Lincoln Center Special Night: A Gala Night at Alice Tully Hall, which originally aired on May 3, 2007. Visit lincolncenter.org.

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this weekend featuring Nonesuch artists ...

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this weekend featuring Nonesuch artists ...

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on
across the globe this long, holiday weekend featuring Nonesuch artists ...

Orchestra Baobab's Made in Dakar tour of the States culminated last night with a concert at the intimate Dakota Cafe in Minneapolis that lead Minneapolis City Pages reviewer Peter S. Scholtes to exclaim: "Orchestra Baobab is the kind of band that makes critics (at least this one) resort to hyperbole and sociology: They sound like God ..."

Orchestra Boabab continues its US tour, bringing music from its latest release, Made in Dakar, to New York City for two free shows, today and tomorrow. This evening at 7 PM ET, the seminal Senegalese band will perform at Rockefeller Park on the Hudson River in downtown Manhattan as part of the summer's River to River Festival of free outdoor performances. Tomorrow, the group will head to Brooklyn's MetroTech center for a noon event as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rhythm & Blues Festival.

Harps and Angels, Randy Newman's first album of new music in nearly a decade, is due out on Nonesuch August 5, and already, CBS Sunday Morning's Bill Flanagan is calling it one of the summer's best.

Tune in to npr.org tonight at 7:30 PM ET to hear Orchestra Boabab, live in concert. After nearly 40 years of making music, Orchestra Baobab, says NPR, "remains one of the world's foremost purveyors of Afro-Cuban pop.

Orchestra Baobab are currently touring the States with songs from their latest release, Made in Dakar, stopping at the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee this past weekend to perform a set that PopMatters calls "the gem of the festival." Tonight they're in Western Massachusetts to play Northampton's Pearl Street Nightclub and head further east at the end of the week for a set at the Somerville Theater, outside Boston, on Saturday. The Boston Globe's Andrew Gilbert says the band is "sounding more soulful than ever" on the new album.

The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival New York got under way earlier this week and continues through June 28 at venues throughout the City, including Carnegie Hall, where the Brad Mehldau Trio will play this Sunday in Zankel Hall in a program titled "A Taste of Genius," and the Greenwich Village club Le Poisson Rouge, where Bill Frisell's new trio will make its New York debut this Thursday.