Iron and Wine, whose Nonesuch debut album, Ghost on Ghost, was released this past spring to critical acclaim, kicks off the first leg of its North American fall tour with a sold-out show at First Avenue in Minneapolis tonight. Singer-songwriter Sam Beam and his 12-piece band head next to Canada for five shows in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, before returning to the States to play Fargo, Des Moines, Madison, and Chicago, and back up to Toronto. The tour picks up again on the West Coast at the end of October.

Lucky Friday the 13th: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club kicks off US tour on The Tonight Show tonight, then two stops in Arizona ... Bombino tours Europe ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play late-summer US festivals ... Jeremy Denk launches US fall tour performing Bach in Boston ... Donnacha Dennehy has Fort Worth residency ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play in Texas too ... Kronos Quartet makes Bogotá debut  ... k.d. lang joins Sarah McLachlan for Edmonton benefit ... Lianne La Havas plays Welsh fest ... Audra McDonald is in Ann Arbor ... Allen Toussaint is in Niagara Falls ... and more ...

Devendra Banhart and his band will tour Latin America in November. The tour kicks off with two previously announced nights at El Plaza Condesa in Mexico City November 8 (sold out) and 9, followed by four nights in Brazil, shows in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Peru, and a set at the Primavera Fauna festival in Chile. Banhart has also unveiled a remix of "Golden Girls," the opening track off of his Nonesuch Records debut album, Mala, by German pianist/composer Hauschka. The track premiered on Pitchfork earlier today. You can hear it and download it for free here.

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Sam Amidon, Carolina Chocolate Drops all perform at the Ottawa Folk Festival ... John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives its Midwest premiere at Ravinia ... Laurie Anderson performs Dirtday! in Poland ... Björk headlines Berlin Festival ... Bombino tours Europe ... Dr. John plays three sets in the South ... Audra McDonald is in Utah ... Punch Brothers perform at Virginia's Interlocken Music Festival ... Dawn Upshaw celebrates Joan Tower's 75th birthday at Bard ... Sara Watkins is in San Diego ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell, who released their collaborative album, Old Yellow Moon, on Nonesuch Records earlier this year, kick off the next leg of their North American tour with a headlining set at the Ottawa Folk Festival this evening. The tour makes stops throughout Canada and the US, including several shows in Texas and along the West Coast. Starting in November, Harris and Crowell welcome Richard Thompson to the bill, as they did for an earlier leg of the tour. 

Sam Amidon kicks off a five-week tour of North America featuring music from his Nonesuch debut album, Bright Sunny South, at Hugh's Room in Toronto tonight and the Ottawa Folk Festival this weekend before heading to the States and his home state of Vermont for a show at Higher Ground in South Burlington. The tour continues through mid-October, making stops throughout the Northeast—including headline shows in Philadelphia and Washington, DC, two nights at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Bill Frisell, four shows supporting Josh Ritter—into the Midwest in Minneapolis and Chicago, and drawing to a close in Santa Monica on October 11. Bright Sunny South will be released on vinyl with a bonus 7” disc featuring two previously unreleased recordings September 24.

Audra McDonald—whose first solo album in seven years, Go Back Home, was released earlier this year on Nonesuch Records—kicks off a four-month North American tour in the Opening Night Gala of the San Francisco Symphony’s 2013–14 Season. She and the orchestra, led by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas, perform an all-American program at Davies Symphony Hall tonight. McDonald’s tour continues through December and includes performances in Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Kansas City, Toronto, and more. 

Joshua Redman Quartet and an orchestra perform songs from his new album, Walking Shadows, at Detroit Jazz Fest ... John Adams conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in his Violin Concerto and the Australian premiere of City Noir ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour New England ... Emmylou Harris celebrates local farming at Ontario's Greenbelt Harvest Picnic ... Lianne La Havas performs at Jamie Oliver and Alex James’s Big Feastival in the UK ... Audra McDonald's Live From Lincoln Center special airs in an expanded edition on PBS ... Youssou N’Dour is the subject of a new documentary on BBC Four ... and more ...

Audra McDonald joins Boston Pops, John Williams, and David Newman for Film Night at Tanglewood ... John Adams continues Australia tour at Sydney Opera House ... Devendra Banhart plays LA's FYF Fest ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour Denmark and UK ... Jeremy Denk concludes Sydney residency ... Lianne La Havas is at Helsinki Festival ... Joshua Redman plays Festival de Jazz de Chihuahua ... Chris Thile closes out Goat Rodeo tour in California ... Sara Watkins is at Clear Mountain View Music Fest in North Carolina ... and more ...

John Adams makes his first-ever Australian concert appearances with programs titled Adams Conducts Adams in Sydney and Melbourne. Marking his Sydney Opera House debut as conductor, Adams leads the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and saxophonist Timothy McAllister in the world premiere of his Saxophone Concerto on Thursday and Friday. Also on the program are Adams’s Violin Concerto performed by Leila Josefowicz and works by Beethoven and Respighi. Adams heads next to Melbourne to conduct the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in an all-Adams program at Hamer Hall August 29 and 31 featuring the Australian premiere of City Noir and performances of his Violin Concerto and Short Ride in a Fast Machine.

Joel and Ethan Coen, T Bone Burnett, and Scott Rudin announced today a benefit concert entitled Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which will take place at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday, September 29. The concert is inspired by music from the upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, Inside Llewyn Davis, which is set in the 1960’s Greenwich Village folk music scene. A portion of the proceeds from the concert will benefit the National Recording Preservation Foundation. Artists performing at the concert include The Avett Brothers, Joan Baez, Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops, Lake Street Dive, Colin Meloy of The Decemberists, Milk Carton Kids, Marcus Mumford, Conor Oberst, Punch Brothers, Secret Sisters, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, Willie Watson, and Jack White. Stars of the film will also perform at the event, including Oscar Isaac (who plays the title role in the film), Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Stark Sands. Tickets to the concert will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 12 PM EDT at Ticketmaster.com.

Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble perform Donnacha Dennehy's That the Night Come at Kilkenny Arts Festival ... Sam Amidon, Bombino play Lowlands Festival in Netherlands ... Laurie Anderson performs in East Hampton ... Kremerata Baltica closes out Costa Rica festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Pennsylvania ... Dr. John performs in his hometown of New Orleans ... Jeremy Denk joins Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney ... Fatoumata Diawara concludes North American tour ... Lianne La Havas plays UK's V Festival ... Joshua Redman is in Reykjavik ... Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo goes to Bethel Woods and Ravinia ... and more ...