Brad Mehldau Trio concludes European tour in France and Switzerland … Laurie Anderson is at Moogfest as Heart of a Dog opens in UK … The Bad Plus Joshua Redman plays Brazil … Jeremy Denk performs with Detroit Symphony Orchestra … Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Nashville benefit … Kronos Quartet concludes UK tour … Pat Metheny takes up residency at Blue Note Tokyo … Youssou N’Dour returns to Brooklyn … Conor Oberst performs in his hometown of Omaha … Rokia Traoré is in Morocco … and more …

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) has announced its 2016–17 season, and featured among the artists performing this season are several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Pat Metheny, Kronos Quartet, and The Magnetic Fields. The season also includes a dance performance set to music by Laurie Anderson and more.

Devendra Banhart leads two-day mini-festival at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis … John Adams conducts Baltimore Symphony, Jeremy Denk … Sam Amidon is in Germany … Laurie Anderson brings Language of the Future to Denmark … Tyondai Braxton plays FORM Arcosanti Festival in Phoenix … Olivia Chaney plays Purcell at London Festival of Baroque Music … Emmylou Harris heads benefit show in Nashville … Kronos Quartet continues UK tour … Brad Mehldau Trio tours Europe … Punch Brothers conclude US tour in Chicago … and more …

The 50th Brighton Festival, England's largest annual curated multi-arts festival, has begun and runs through May 29, with Laurie Anderson as Guest Director. Her own events include the UK premiere of her Music for Dogs this evening; a screening of her acclaimed new film Heart of a Dog, also tonight; an exclusive new performance monologue called Slideshow; and Song Conversation, a freewheeling walk through sonic spaces. Heart of a Dog also begins its UK and Irish cinematic run; Anderson takes part in two London screening Q&As and will discuss the film on BBC Radio 6 Music Lauren Laverne show on Wednesday.

Kronos Quartet begins its first UK tour in many years at the Barbican this Monday, May 9. The tour program includes works by Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, and Terry Riley, a world premiere, and three UK premieres from the Kronos Fifty for the Future commissioning project. Kronos will perform on BBC Two's Later... With Jools Holland live show on Tuesday, May 10, and the one-hour episode on lucky Friday the 13th; the line-up includes Corinne Bailey Rae, Bloc Party, and Sir Elton John.

Lianne La Havas, who will open for Leon Bridges on his autumn US tour, has just announced four headlining shows in the fall as well: Webster Hall in NYC, Civic Theatre in New Orleans, Teragram Ballroom in LA, and Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta. Tickets for the newly announced dates go on sale today. La Havas joined Coldplay on its recent Latin American tour and will tour Europe and the UK with the band starting in late May.

Nonesuch Records releases Sleeping In A Car, a three-song EP from the English trio The Staves, on May 13, 2016. The EP was recorded at Justin Vernon's April Base studio in Eau Claire, WI, and at Urchin Studios in London. The Staves will embark on a North American tour beginning June 3, with stops in Minneapolis, Washington, Nashville, New York, and more, along with the Firefly, Newport, and Eaux Claires festivals. Sleeping In A Car is available to pre-order digitally; CDs will be available exclusively at the Staves' shows.

Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley’s Sun Rings in Berkeley … John Adams’s City Noir is performed in Florida with saxophonist Timothy McAllister … Laurie Anderson talks with Marina Abramovic in Brooklyn, talks Red Shirley in NYC … The Arcs conclude spring tour … Jeremy Denk is in New York … Emmylou Harris plays Stagecoach Festival in California … Lake Street Dive concludes European tour in Ireland … Pat Metheny celebrates International Jazz Day at The White House ... Punch Brothers kick off tour in Charleston, New Orleans Jazz Fest … Jazz Fest pays tribute to Allen Toussaint … and more …

Punch Brothers kick off a two-week US tour at the Charleston Music Hall in South Carolina on Friday. The tour will take the band across the South, including a set at the New Orleans Jazz Festival and stops in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, before heading north to Philadelphia and Cambridge, and to the Midwest for a night in Milwaukee and two in Chicago. Gabriel Kahane supports. The band plays several summer festival dates, including a Chris Thile–curated festival at The Kennedy Center, and heads to Japan and Australia in August.

Pat Metheny tours Northeast US with Ron Carter … Laura Anderson takes Heart of a Dog to London … The Arcs, St Germain, Mbongwana Star return to Coachella … The Bad Plus Joshua Redman concludes tour in Buffalo, Ann Arbor … Olivia Chaney performs in London … Jeremy Denk gives solo recital in Indiana … Rhiannon Giddens concludes tour at New Orleans Jazz Fest … Emmylou Harris performs in North Carolina … Kronos Quartet plays Big Star tribute in San Francisco … Lake Street Dive tours Germany, France … Brad Mehldau Trio concludes US tour in Chicago ... and more ...

Lake Street Dive will perform on BBC Two's Later... With Jools Holland live show tonight at 10 PM. Fans in the UK can tune in then to see the band perform from its Nonesuch Records debut album, Side Pony. Then, tune in to BBC Two again this Friday, April 22, at 11:05 PM for the full, one-hour episode of Later for more. The line-up for the show—the first of the new season—also includes Paul Simon, Laura Mvula, Charles Bradley, Kano, and Jason Isbell. Lake Street Dive brings its tour to Frankfurt, Cologne, Paris, Brighton, Paris, Dublin, and Cork.

This Record Store Day weekend, The Arcs, Mbongwana Star, St. Germain play Coachalla … LA Phil performs John Adams's Scheherazade.2 … The Bad Plus Joshua Redman kick off tour in DC, Missouri … Olivia Chaney plays All Tomorrow’s Parties ... Ry Cooder is in New York with Sharon White, Ricky Skaggs … Jeremy Denk plays Carnegie Hall … Kronos Quartet puts on Fifty for the Future program at Carnegie … Lake Street Dive is in Germany … Brad Mehldau Trio launches tour in US Northeast … Chris Thile co-hosts A Prairie Home Companion in NYC … Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil play two shows in Miami … and more …