Brad Mehldau Quintet leads Village Vanguard residency in NYC … Sam Amidon plays solo set in Brooklyn, tours with Bruce Hornsby … Daughter of Swords supports Mandolin Orange … Emmylou Harris is in Colonial Williamsburg … Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers back to NYC … Kronos Quartet live-scores documentary in East Hampton ... Lake Street Dive, Punch Brothers play Telluride Bluegrass … Gaby Moreno continues tour with David Gray … Robert Plant tours Scandinavia ... Yola is in Spain …

Robert Plant and Yola are at Bergenfest in Norway … Sam Amidon performs in Quebec … Jeremy Denk tours South Korea … Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza receives London premiere … Lake Street Dive tours US Midwest … Gaby Moreno continues tour with David Gray … Joshua Redman Quartet plays DC JazzFest … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Tanglewood …

Mountain Man concludes Magic Ship spring tour in New England … Devendra Banhart performs in Germany … Tyondai Braxton is in New Hampshire … David Byrne presents at the Tony Awards ... Olivia Chaney is at the Barbican in London … Jeremy Denk plays Mainly Mozart in San Diego … Lake Street Dive's US tour under way … Stephin Merritt takes part in NYC variety show … Gaby Moreno continues tour with David Gray … Joshua Redman joins WDR Big Band in Germany … Caroline Shaw performs with Roomful of Teeth at BAM … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Louisville … Yola performs on BBC Radio 2's Good Morning Sunday ...

The SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco has announced its 2019–20 concert season, and among the performers taking the Miner Auditorium stage are several Nonesuch artists: Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman, Rhiannon Giddens, Kronos Quartet, and Laurie Anderson, who is an SFJAZZ Resident Artist Director for the season.

Lake Street Dive kicks off a months-long spring and summer tour of the US in Ponte Vedra, Florida, tonight. The tour continues with double bills with The Wood Brothers, supporting spots with The Avett Brothers, and headline shows across the country, some with Yola as special guest. The band released a wiidope remix of "I Can Change," a song from their album Free Yourself Up, as a thank-you to fans helping to raise funds for the organization SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW. 

Kronos Quartet hosts its fifth hometown festival at SFJAZZ; Sam Amidon performs … John Adams conducts LA Phil New Music Group … Jeremy Denk performs with Toronto Symphony … Emmylou Harris joins Brandi Carlilie at The Gorge … Brad Mehldau Trio is in Tokyo … Gaby Moreno tours Northeast with David Gray … Mountain Man is in New York State … Joshua Redman tours Europe with Reis Demuth Wiltgen Trio … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Wolf Trap … Yola concludes UK tour … and more ...

Devendra Banhart has announced a 23-city North American tour for autumn 2019, beginning October 15 in Ventura, CA, and continuing through December 8 in Philadelphia, with stops in Chicago, Austin, Brooklyn, Washington, DC, and more. Banhart has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every US ticket sold (excluding Austin) will go to World Central Kitchen, an organization founded by José Andrés to fight hunger around the world. With every ticket bought in Canada, $1 will go to support Rainbow Railroad to help LGBTI people around the world escape persecution and violence.

This Memorial Day weekend, Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from St. Louis with guests Gabriel Kahane, Rachael Price … Rhiannon Giddens continues Boston Pops residency performances … Brad Mehldau Trio plays South Korea … Gaby Moreno tours Texas with David Gray … Yola takes Walk Through Fire tour to Milan, Nottingham …

Rhiannon Giddens, who begins her four-night residency with the Boston Pops titled Redefining American Music tonight, stopped by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to perform a few tunes in the museum's Musical Instruments Gallery. She takes a look at the MFA's historical banjo collection and plays one of the banjos and sings, with Carolina Chocolate Drops' Hubby Jenkins on bones and Jason Sypher on bass. You can watch it here.

After a sold-out, year-long critically acclaimed international tour, David Byrne’s American Utopia will play a strictly limited engagement on Broadway at the intimate Hudson Theatre, October 4, 2019, through January 18, 2020, with the official opening set for October 20. Pre-Broadway, it will play eighteen performances at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre, September 11–28, 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

Stephin Merritt live scores Tod Browning's The Unholy Three at The Town Hall in NYC … Nonesuch returns to Brooklyn Flea Record Fair … Laurie Anderson joins Terry Riley, John Zorn in San Francisco … Rhiannon Giddens delivers Ursinus College commencement address in Pennsylvania, performs in North Carolina … Kronos Quartet is at Exploratorium in San Francisco … Brad Mehldau Trio continues European tour … Gaby Moreno celebrates Bowie in Biloxi … Joshua Redman is in Brazil … Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth join Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra … Yola continues UK tour …

The lineup for the 2019 Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival has been announced, and featuring among the performers taking the stage of the Damrosch Park Bandshell for the free series this summer are Rhiannon Giddens and Yola. Rhiannon Giddens will take part in NPR Music’s multi-artist Turning the Tables Live: The Motherlode on Wednesday, July 31, and Yola will help close out the season in The Roots of American Music Weekend: Americanafest NYC, performing on Saturday, August 10, ahead of Patty Griffin.