Hurray for the Riff Raff begins a UK duo acoustic tour with shows in London, Oxford, and Hebden Bridge. Laurie Anderson joins Joan Baez at HamptonsFilm SummerDocs. Julia Bullock joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Mozart's The Magic Flute at Edinburgh International Festival. Rhiannon Giddens talks about her new album, You're the One, at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Brad Mehldau joins drummer Joe Farnsworth and bassist Larry Grenadier at Smoke Jazz Club in NYC. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at Edmonton Folk Festival.

Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade reunite at Newport Jazz Festival. Jeremy Denk plays Bach at Oxford. Kronos Quartet and Sarah Kirkland Snider are at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Rachael & Vilray are in Connecticut and Long Island. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs Ogresse at Edinburgh International Festival with an orchestra led by Darcy James Argue. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway join Dierks Bentley in Tahoe.

Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway have announced a US East Coast "Next Rodeo" tour for November, with stops in Brooklyn, Burlington, Albany, Portland, Boston, DC, and more. These follow their recently announced West Coast "Road to El Dorado" run in October, with stops at Portland, Seattle, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Denver, and more.

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) will tour Europe as special guest of Arlo Parks in September, with shows in Dublin, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and London. Tickets for all but the Dublin, Manchester, and Paris shows have already sold out. Vagabon returns to North America to lead a headline tour in October before heading back to Europe to tour with Weyes Blood, then back to the North America for the next leg of her headline tour in December. 

While on your way to enjoy some live music, stop by your local record store to hear some Nonesuch tunes as part of Tomorrow Is Listening, a 24-hour event from International Anthem in which curated mixes are broadcast live to record stores around the world all day Friday. Kronos Quartet is at MASS MoCA for Bang on a Can’s Loud Weekend. Julia Bullock is at Lake Area Music Festival in Minnesota. Yussef Dayes is in Oakland and Napa. Jeremy Denk joins Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. Richard Goode plays Beethoven in Oxford. Hurray for the Riff Raff is at Calgary Folk Festival. Natalie Merchant joins Anthony Roth Costanzo at Glimmerglass. Chris Thile leads his inaugural Acousticamp on Long Island. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway headline RockyGrass Festival in Colorado.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's new album, City of Gold, is out now. They've also released a new lyric video for album track “Yosemite,” featuring Dave Matthews, which you can watch here. “Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway strike gold on their transportive new album,” exclaims Folk Alley. “Every song on City of Gold is a little gem, every facet sparkling with exquisite instrumentation, stunning songwriting, and heartfelt singing … City of Gold is clearly one of the best albums of the year.” The Bluegrass Situation, which named Tuttle its Artist of the Month, declares: "Turns out it’s been Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway at the end of the rainbow this whole time!”

Hurray for the Riff Raff and Vagabon perform at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, streaming on pitchfork.com. Sam Amidon is in Western MA. Julia Bullock sings Berlioz with Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra and conductor Christian Reif. Jeremy Denk performs Brahms and Beethoven with Brevard Music Center Orchestra and conductor Keith Lockhart. Brad Mehldau Trio close out European tour at Ravello Festival. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Worcester and at Caramoor in upstate NY. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway celebrate their new album, City of Gold, in California and Oregon.

Vagabon, aka Lætitia Tamko, has released “Do Your Worst,” a new song from her upcoming album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, due September 15 on Nonesuch Records, and a video for it directed by Angela Ricciardi. The song, produced by Tamko, Rostam, and Teo Halm (SZA, Rosalía, FKA Twigs), combines dance-floor euphoria, breakneck-paced jungle beats, and a DJ’s sense of pacing through Vagabon’s signature storytelling. You can watch it here.

The Magnetic Fields have announced a fifteen-concert European tour this November. The shows, featuring songs from throughout the band's career, start at Sala Apolo in Barcelona on November 4, followed by dates throughout Spain, France, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Türkiye, Greece, and Austria. They will tour the US with songs from 69 Love Songs next year in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary. The Magnetic Fields' 2004 Nonesuch debut album, i, was released on vinyl for the first time in a limited-edition, gold-colored LP this past spring.

Portuguese fado singer Carminho's new, self-produced album, Portuguesa, released to critical acclaim earlier this year, is due for release in the US on CD and vinyl August 18, ahead of a fall North American tour. The sixth album of Carminho’s career, Portuguesa features fourteen compositions, including 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.

Kronos Quartet’s acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass gets its first-ever vinyl release on November 3, available to pre-order now, to coincide with Kronos Quartet: Five Decades, a year-long celebration of the quartet’s 50th anniversary. The two-LP set, produced by the composer, Judith Sherman, and Kurt Munkacsi, features violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, violist Hank Dutt, and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud performing quartets No. 2 (Company) (1983), No. 3 (Mishima) (1985), No. 4 (Buczak) (1990), and No. 5 (1991), the first piece Glass wrote for Kronos. “It contains some of Glass's best music since Koyaanisqatsi,” said the New York Times. “His ear for sumptuous string sonorities is undeniable.” The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

The Magnetic Fields are at World Café Live in Philadelphia and the new DC venue The Atlantis. Joachim Cooder is at the Vancouver Folk Festival. Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join Christian McBride at Pori Jazz Festival in Finland. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours the Midwest, in Madison, Kalamazoo, and Cleveland. Gabriel Kahane performs in Caroline Shaw's backyard in Portland. Brad Mehldau Trio is in France for Jazz à Juan. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Idaho and at Under the Big Sky in Montana.