Kronos Quartet hosts third-annual hometown festival at SFJAZZ … Sam Amidon tours Australia with ACO … Timo Andres joins Phillip Glass in Virginia, North Carolina … Devendra Banhart is in Colorado … Tyondai Braxton plays solo set in Helsinki … Jeremy Denk joins San Antonio Symphony … Richard Goode, Budapest Festival Orchestra launch Beethoven tour … Audra McDonald is at Vassar … Natalie Merchant plays Winter Hoot in upstate New York … Pat Metheny rounds out tour in Florida … Conor Oberst concludes European tour … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in Nashville … and more ...

Audra McDonald will finally bring her Tony Award–winning portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lanie Robertson's Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill to London's West End with a fourteen-week run at Wyndham's Theatre starting June 17, 2017. The performances were postponed due to the happy arrival of McDonald's newborn daughter last year. Written by Robertson and directed by Lonny Price, the musical play opened on Broadway in 2014 to great acclaim, earning McDonald a record sixth Tony Award, an Outer Circle Critics Award, and a Drama Desk Award.

Richard Goode, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and conductor Iván Fischer tour the US with music from their Nonesuch recording of the complete Beethoven piano concertos for the first time. The all-Beethoven program, which varies from night to night, pairs either concerto No. 2 or 4 with two symphonies per night, from among No. 1, 5, 8, and 9. The concerts begin at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark this Saturday, followed by Lincoln Center in New York City, Chicago Symphony Center, Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium, and Boston Symphony Hall.

Tigran Hamasyan will begin a world tour ahead of the March 31 release of his new album, An Ancient Observer, starting with three nights at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles, February 25–27. The US leg of the tour continues with shows in Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Boston, and NYC. The European tour begins in Italy on March 17, with stops in Switzerland, France, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Norway, Estonia, Switzerland, and Hamasyan's home country of Armenia. He heads to Japan in May and to Australia in June.

The line-up for the 2017 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, aka Jazz Fest, has been announced, and among this year's artists are Rhiannon Giddens and Lake Street Dive, both performing on Friday, May 5. Jazz Fest runs over seven days across two weekends, April 28–30 and May 4–7. Also among the performers at this year's Jazz Fest are Wilco, Dr. John, and several contributors to the 2005 benefit album Our New Orleans.

Timo Andres performs Steve Reich in Miami … John Adams’s Nixon in China returns to Houston Grand Opera … Devendra Banhart tours California … Teresa Cristina is in Brazil … Audra McDonald performs out West … Pat Metheny continues quartet tour in Southeast US … Conor Oberst plays Paris, Utrecht … Joshua Redman joins Umphrey's McGee for three shows in Northeast US … and more …

Devendra Banhart launches a two-month North American tour, featuring music from his 2016 album, Ape in Pink Marble, at The Showbox in Seattle tonight. The tour continues with stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Atlanta, Miami, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, Philadelphia, DC, New York City, and more. The European tour begins in April.

Celebrations of John Adams's 70th birthday, which began in fall 2016, continue through 2017 with major festivities taking place in the composer's native California, organized around his birthday on February 15, and throughout the winter and spring in New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and more.

This inauguration weekend, John Adams’s Nixon in China returns to Houston Grand Opera … Jeremy Denk brings Medieval to Modern to Philadelphia … Emmylou Harris, John Prine play Bonaparte’s Retreat benefit in Nashville … Brad Melhdau concludes solo European run … Pat Metheny continues quartet tour in Northeast US … Conor Oberst plays Switzerland, Germany … Joshua Redman leads SFJAZZ tribute shows … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in California … Caetano Veloso, Teresa Cristina perform in Brazil … 

Conor Oberst begins a non-stop, three-week tour of Europe and the UK, featuring music from his 2016 solo album, Ruminations, in Munich tonight. From there, the tour heads to Stuttgart, Vienna, Zurich, Cologne, Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Paris, Utrecht, Brussels, London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, culminating with a concert at Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin on February 5.

The Barbican Centre in London has announced its 2017–18 Classic Music concert season, in which pianist Jeremy Denk will be Artist in Residence at Milton Court Concert Hall. As such, Denk will lead four concerts throughout the season, with programs ranging from Mozart to Gershwin, from a collaboration with the Britten Sinfonia to a personal meditation on the Variation form. "Jeremy Denk isn't like other pianists," says the Barbican. "He's capable of spectacular musical gymnastics and the most eloquent insights—often in the same breath. In short ... he’s the ideal choice to be Milton Court’s Artist in Residence this season."

This long weekend, Brad Mehldau brings Three Pieces After Bach to Europe … Laurie Anderson joins PEN America event in NYC .. Teresa Cristina performs in Rio de Janeiro … Jeremy Denk joins National Symphony Orchestra at Kennedy Center … Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Earl Scruggs tribute show … Kronos Quartet is in San Francisco … Lake Street Dive plays Sydney Fest, Blue Note Tokyo … Pat Metheny launches quartet tour in New England … Chris Thile hosts A Prairie Home Companion in Chicago … and more …