Vagabon kicks off a North American tour in Chicago, Detroit, and Toronto. Ambrose Akinmusire and his Owl Song Trio—Bill Frisell, Herlin Riley—are in Carmel, IN. Sam Amidon is in Stroud, England. Michelle Branch is in Las Vegas. Richard Goode performs in Perth, Scotland. Mary Halvorson is in North Macedonia and in Germany, where Tigran Hamasyan tours as well. Hurray for the Riff Raff performs in Tulsa for the Bob Dylan Center. Gabriel Kahane and Attacca Quartet are at UCLA. Kronos Quartet performs at the Barbican in London. Mandy Patinkin is in New Brunswick, NJ. Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered is performed in Oslo. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour Colorado. Yasmin Williams is in Hot Springs, VA.

"Sorry I Haven’t Called was worth the wait, and another cool stylistic leap," Talkhouse host Josh Modell says of the new album from Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko), who talks with Jaboukie on the show. “Sorry I Haven’t Called, which was partly produced by former Vampire Weekend guy Rostam, takes things even a step further, with an eye toward something even bigger and bolder. And even though the songs were inspired by a dark time in Tamko’s life, they turned out incredibly buoyant and upbeat.” You can hear the episode here.

Makaya McCraven, whose album In These Times, was released a year ago last month and is currently performing music from the album on tour across the US, has just released a video of him performing the track “This Place That Place” live at Public Records in Brooklyn ahead of the album’s release. McCraven had assembled a unique ensemble with a string quartet to perform special arrangements of songs from his new album for the Brooklyn event captured in the video by director Matthew Edginton. You can watch it here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant continues a weeklong residency at Village Vanguard in NYC through Sunday. Carminho kicks off North American tour in Boston and New Jersey. John Adams's Naive and Sentimental Music is performed by SF Symphony led by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Timo Andres joins Calder Quartet in California and New Mexico. David Byrne chats with Kalefa Sanneh at the New Yorker Festival. Tigran Hamasyan is in South Korea. Makaya McCraven is in Kentucky. Mandy Patinkin performs in Portsmouth, NH. NY Phil premieres Steve Reich's Jacob’s Ladder. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour California and Oregon.

Rhiannon Giddens performs in her home state of North Carolina, at UNC Wilmington, and in Virginia at University of Richmond. Jeremy Denk is at Hertz Hall in San Francisco. Mandy Patinkin and his wife, Kathryn Grody, are in conversation in Reston, Virginia. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Bogotá. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

Rhiannon Giddens brings her new album, You’re the One, to New England. The Black Keys headline Sing Out Loud Festival in Florida. Kronos Quartet is in California. Natalie Merchant tours the Pacific Northwest. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs in Idaho. Chris Thile concludes tour Kentucky with Louisville Orchestra and conductor Teddy Abrams. Molly Tuttle plays Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in Los Angeles.

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society perform Dynamic Maximum Tension at The Jazz Gallery in NYC. Rhiannon Giddens brings her new album, You’re the One, to the Ryman in Nashville and Athenaeum in Chicago. The Black Keys headline Bourbon & Beyond in Louisville. Jeremy Denk joins Danish String Quartet at Wigmore Hall in London. Brad Mehldau performs new solo piano piece at Dublin's National Concert Hall. Chris Thile performs new song cycle with Louisville Orchestra. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play Pickin’ in the Pines in Flagstaff. Vagabon is in Brussels and Berlin with Arlo Parks.

The line-up for the 2024 Big Ears Festival—taking place in downtown Knoxville, TN, March 21–24—has been announced, including more than a dozen Nonesuch artists past, present, and future, in celebration of the label’s 60th anniversary in 2024: Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, Tyondai Braxton, Rhiannon Giddens, Mary Halvorson, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Brad Mehldau, Ringdown (Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee), Davóne Tines, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, and Yasmin Williams.

Rachael & Vilray bring music from their latest album, I Love a Love Song!, released earlier this year on Nonesuch, to the US West Coast and Midwest this fall and winter, beginning in California with two nights at Blue Note Napa, December 15 and 16, and a concert at The Troubadour in West Hollywood on December 18. The shows continue in February 2024 with four dates in Colorado and stops in Grand Rapids, Chicago, and Minneapolis. 

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform at Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington, opening for Dave Matthews, who guests on their new album, City of Gold. Sam Amidon opens for Nickel Creek in Amsterdam. Timo Andres has three concerts in New Mexico. Joachim Cooder is in Sligo, Ireland. Richard Goode plays Mozart and Chopin in Montana. Emmylou Harris performs in Kentucky and at Earl Scruggs Music Festival in North Carolina. Makaya McCraven plays a free Chicago Jazz Festival set in Millennium Park.

Kronos Quartet gives a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park as part of Kronos: Five Decades. Laurie Anderson celebrates John Zorn's 70th with Zorn and Sean Ono Lennon in Brooklyn. Timo Andres plays Moab Music Festival. The Black Keys tour the Midwest. Joachim Cooder is at Tønder Festival in Denmark. Jeremy Denk performs at Music on the Straight festival in Washington. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Massachusetts. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway join Charley Crocket in Texas then head to Kansas.

Portuguese fado singer Carminho's new, self-produced album, Portuguesa, released to critical acclaim earlier this year, is now available in the US on CD and vinyl on Nonesuch, ahead of a fall North American tour. You can take a quick look inside the vinyl here. The sixth album of Carminho’s career, Portuguesa features fourteen compositions: several of her own songs as well as those of other writers, including traditional fado songs, through which she explores various combinations within the canons, reimagining the form.