Offa Rex launches The Queen of Hearts tour in Portland … Jeremy Denk is in Santa Barbara … Rhiannon Giddens tours with Tim McGraw, Faith Hill … Tigran Hamasyan, Pat Metheny play Molde Jazz Fest in Norway … Emmylou Harris performs in Annapolis, Caramoor … Lianne La Havas plays London festival … Lake Street Dive sells out Chicago … k.d. lang tours Australia … Natalie Merchant concludes tour in Pacific Northwest … Conor Oberst brings Salutations east … Rokia Traoré plays Festival d'Avignon in France … 

k.d. lang, whose Ingénue: 25th Anniversary Edition two-CD set was released last week (with vinyl due August 18), further celebrates the Grammy and Juno Award–winning album's silver anniversary with the Ingénue Redux Tour, beginning with three shows in Melbourne, Australia, this week. The tour continues with shows in Perth and Sydney next week, followed by concerts across the singer’s home country of Canada, stopping in all ten provinces, in August and September.

Fleet Foxes play in Dublin and at Latitude Festival … Devendra Banhart tours Vienna, Munich … Tyondai Braxton is in Chicago … Michael Daves plays Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest … Rhiannon Giddens performs in the Northwest … Tigran Hamasyan tours Italy … Emmylou Harris performs in Vancouver … Lake Street Dive plays US festivals in the East … Natalie Merchant is in California … Conor Oberst heads South … Joshua Redman joins Ornette Coleman tribute in NYC … and more ...

Randy Newman plays Lowell Summer Music Series, Tarrytown Music Hall … Sam Amidon joins Crash Ensemble in Ireland … Devendra Banhart is in France, Italy … Jeremy Denk joins Bellingham Festival Orchestra … Fleet Foxes play festivals in Italy, Portugal … Tigran Hamasyan performs at North Sea Jazz … Emmylou Harris tours upstate New York … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express conclude Junun tour in Istanbul … Lake Street Dive tour US east coast … Natalie Merchant plays Midwest … Joshua Redman is in Greece …

Natalie Merchant begins a career retrospective tour of the United States, entitled Natalie Merchant: 3 Decades of Song, with a sold-out performance at The Bardavon in Poughkeepsie, New York, tonight. The concerts, which coincide with the forthcoming The Natalie Merchant Collection, continue with dates in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, and more.

Conor Oberst resumes Salutations tour in Colorado … Devendra Banhart is in Spain … Fleet Foxes play Spain, Italy, Switzerland … Tigran Hamasyan plays Montréal Jazz Fest ... Emmylou Harris tours US East coast … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express perform Junun in Manchester … Natalie Merchant launches 3 Decades of Song tour in upstate New York … Rokia Traoré performs in Netherlands … and more …

Fleet Foxes launch Crack-Up European tour … Devendra Banhart is in Rome … Rhiannon Giddens, Lake Street Dive, The Staves perform at Funhouse Fest … Emmylou Harris is in Florida … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express perform Junun in Leeds … Punch Brothers conclude tour in Kentucky, Tennessee … Joshua Redman plays Twin Cities Jazz Festival … Rokia Traoré performs in Poland … and more …

Devendra Banhart begins a European summer tour, featuring music from his new album, Ape in Pink Marble, at Columbiahalle in Berlin tonight. The tour continues with shows in Copenhagen, Milan, Brussels, Rome, Vienna, Munich, London, and Paris, and festival sets in Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, and Finland.

Sam Amidon, The Staves are artists in residence at Eaux Claires Festival … Timo Andres performs Shy and Mighty in Brooklyn … Emmylou Harris is in California … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express, Jonny Greenwood perform Junun at Best Kept Secret … Lake Street Dive tour US Northeast … Audra McDonald takes Lady Day to London ... Punch Brothers close out Telluride Bluegrass Festival … and more …

Pat Metheny takes quartet tour to NYC, Boston … Rhiannon Giddens plays Spoleto, Chicago fests … Tigran Hamasyan concludes world tour in Germany … Shye Ben Tzur, Rajasthan Express perform Junun in Stockholm, London … Kronos Quartet is in California … Lake Street Dive opens for Jack Johnson … Randy Newman performs at Riverfest … Punch Brothers play across Midwest … Joshua Redman performs in Germany … The Staves close out tour in London … 

Punch Brothers begin a US tour with a performance at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin tonight. The two-week tour includes concerts in Dallas, Kansas City, Boulder, Denver, and Nashville, as well as festival sets at Blue Ox, Telluride Bluegrass, and more. The band will join forces with I'm With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan) and guitarist Julian Lage for the American Acoustic tour in July and August.

Conor Oberst will extend his Salutations tour into the fall with a month of concerts in the US West and South. The newly added dates start at the Eccles Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on October 1 and include stops in Nashville, Athens, Charlotte, Charleston; five cities in Florida; and shows in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Oberst, backed by The Felice Brothers, begins the summer tour in Denver on June 30, plays across the US through July, heads to Europe in August, and returns to the States to play in September and October.