Live from Here with Chris Thile will kick off its fourth season from its new broadcast home, The Town Hall in NYC, on September 7. The new dates include guest performances from Lake Street Dive's own Rachael Price, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, The Lumineers, Raphael Saadiq, Trey Anastasio, The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Jamila Woods, and more.

Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, Mountain Man, Yola all play Newport Folk Fest … k.d. lang concludes UK Ingénue Redux tour …Natalie Merchant tours New England … Punch Brothers close out RockyGrass Festival in Colorado … Joshua Redman brings Still Dreaming to Spain …

Natalie Merchant begins a two-week, sold-out A Summer Evening With… tour of intimate venues across the US Northeast tonight, visiting towns in which she has never performed. "We're looking forward to seeing the rocky coast of Maine, the green rolling hills of Vermont, the historic village squares and white-steepled churches of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," says Merchant.

Yola visited Relix in New York City to perform three songs from her debut album, Walk Through Fire: "Ride Out in the Country," "Still Gone," and "Shady Grove." You can watch the set here. Yola performs at the Newport Folk Festival this Friday.

Vagabon plays Capitol Hill Block Party, live KEXP session in Seattle … Laurie Anderson gives new VR piece US premiere in NYC … Kronos Quartet is in Romania … k.d. lang continues UK Ingénue Redux tour … Joshua Redman brings Still Dreaming to Italy … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from California with guest Gaby Moreno …

Daughter of Swords, aka Mountain Man's Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, has announced several new summer and fall tour dates featuring songs from her recently released debut album, Dawnbreaker. The tour dates include headline concerts and shows with The Mountain Goats, Molly Tuttle, Hiss Golden Messenger, Molly Sarlé, and Sylvan Esso.

¡Spangled!—a collaboration between Guatemalan-born singer-songwriter Gaby Moreno and American musician, songwriter, arranger, and producer Van Dyke Parks—is due on Nonesuch Records on October 4 (on Metamorfosis in Latin America). The ten-song set spans more than a century, including a bolero from Panama, a bossa nova from Brazil, a song by Moreno, Trinidadian songwriter David Rudder's "The Immigrants," and an elegiac ballad from the Southwest US: Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, and Jim Dickinson’s “Across the Borderline,” performed with Cooder and Jackson Browne. Pre-order to download those two songs now. 

Gaby Moreno headlines free Celebrate Brooklyn! concert … Sam Amidon performs in London … Laurie Anderson brings new VR piece to Manchester … Daughter of Swords is in Virginia … Rhiannon Giddens plays festivals in Ontario, Massachusetts … Emmylou Harris performs in Norway … Kronos Quartet is in Poland … k.d. lang launches UK Ingénue Redux tour … Robert Plant performs in UK … Punch Brothers tour Japan, Australia … Joshua Redman brings Still Dreaming to Europe … Yola tours Wisconsin with I’m With Her …

k.d. lang launches a thirteen-show tour of the UK and Ireland as part of her ongoing world tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of her acclaimed album Ingénue. Following sold-out runs in North America and Australia, the latest leg of the Ingénue Redux Tour begins in Hull, ends in Dublin, and includes London's Eventim Apollo. This is her first full UK tour in over a decade. Watch lang perform the song "Sleeping Alone" live on the US tour here.

Yola performed at the Glastonbury Festival, showcasing songs from her debut album, Walk Through Fire. "She has the most phenomenal voice and amazing, great songs as well ... Fabulous," said BBC Radio 2's Jo Whiley introducing the set live on air. You can watch Yola's Glastonbury performance of the album track "Shady Grove" here, and see her on tour in the US.

This July 4 extra long weekend, Lake Street Dive tours US West, including Red Rocks with The Avett Brothers … Laurie Anderson is in Milan for Terraforma festival … Gabriel, Jeffrey Kahane join Grant Park Orchestra in Chicago ... Kronos Quartet gives free concert in Portugal … Lianne La Havas joins Lionel Richie, Corinne Bailey Rae for Stevie Wonder celebration in London … Gaby Moreno plays High Sierra Music Festival in California … Robert Plant brings Carry Fire to Roskilde Festival …

Joshua Redman Quartet plays Saratoga Jazz Fest in upstate New York … Sam Amidon concludes US tour with Bruce Hornsby … Lake Street Dive plays Minneapolis, Milwaukee … Gaby Moreno concludes tour with David Gray out West … Robert Plant returns to Norway … Caroline Shaw performs with Roomful of Teeth at Caramoor in upstate New York … Yola opens for The Killers in Cardiff, plays Glastonbury Fest …