Fatoumata Diawara performs a free set at Central Park SummerStage in NYC ... Diawara, Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell play GrassRoots Fest in upsatate NY ... Sam Amidon supports Martha Wainwright in UK, Glen Hansard in Ireland ... Devendra Banhart, Rokia Traoré play Czech festival ... Björk headlines Pitchfork Fest in Chicago ... Bombino supports Robert Plant ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Chris Thile & Michael Daves play Grey Fox Fest in upstate NY ... Dr. John performs at Minnesota Zoo ... Lianne La Havas concludes European tour in UK ... Audra McDonald is in Provincetown ... Natalie Merchant joins Hudson Valley Philharmonic ... Allen Toussaint wows Wyoming ... Sara Watkins plays Vancouver Folk Fest ... and more ...

The Royal Conservatory's Koerner Hall in Toronto has announced its 2013–14 concert season, the organization's fifth anniversary season, which will feature performances from several artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Audra McDonald, performing the season's sold-out opening gala concert, Chris Thile, Shawn Colvin, Rokia Traoré, and Fatoumata Diawara. Tickets are on sale now.

The Nonesuch Journal is taking a bit of a break for the Fourth of July holiday and the week that follows, ready to return with all the latest Nonesuch news on Monday, July 15. Till then, the summer concert season remains in full swing, of course, and with plenty of great music being made around the world, here's a look at some of the many events featuring Nonesuch artists in the coming days, hopefully reaching wherever your summer travels may take you.

Devendra Banhart, Rokia Traoré, Fatoumata Diawara, and Lianne La Havas all perform at Glastonbury ... Amadou & Mariam are in the Midwest ... Sam Amidon kicks off a tour of Japan ... Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet debut Landfall at the Barbican ... Bombino plays three French festivals ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers are at ROMP ... Jeremy Denk guests with Westchester Philharmonic ... Dr. John hits Milwaukee's Summerfest ... Adam Guettel concludes Australia tour ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica host Latvian festival ... Joshua Redman plays Walking Shadows songs at Montreal Jazz Fest ... Sara Watkins tours with Jackson Browne ... 

Devendra Banhart kicks off a five-week tour of Europe this week with a performance at The Button Factory in Dublin on Wednesday night, followed by two stops in the UK: at The Old Market in Brighton on Friday and the famed Glastonbury Festival on Saturday. In the weeks that follow, Banhart and his band will play headlining shows and summer festivals sets in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, as well as a return to the UK to perform at The Ritz in Manchester and at Barbican Hall in London.

The 40th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival runs through the weekend and includes multiple performances from Punch Brothers and Sara Watkins ... Amadou & Mariam and Bombino perform a free show for Celebrate Brooklyn! ... Sam Amidon closes out New England tour at Wilco's Solid Sound Festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in the Midwest ... Fatoumata Diawara tours California ... Dr. John is at Toronto Jazz Fest ... Adam Guettel takes Australia tour to Adelaide ... Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell join She & Him in California ... Iron and Wine is in LA ... Steve Reich performs at All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK ... and more ...

Kronos Quartet celebrates its 40th anniversary and launches a fifth decade with an array of projects and special events during its 2013–14 season. The milestone will be marked by a weeklong residency at Lincoln Center, coast-to-coast birthday concerts, a host of premieres, a Nonesuch CD boxed set, and performances around the globe. The Quartet will unveil more than a dozen commissioned works, plus two film scores and a volume of commissioned works published by Boosey & Hawkes. The anniversary season opens with a free outdoor concert this Saturday in New Haven that introduces the group's new cellist, Sunny Yang.

Iron and Wine has added a number of new tour dates to the previously announced fall tour of the US and Canada featuring music from its Nonesuch debut album, Ghost on Ghost. This new leg of the tour, which begins October 31 at the Orpheum in LA, includes stops in Oakland, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Missoula, Salt Lake City, Denver, and Kansas City, with still more to be announced. Fan pre-sale begins today; general on-sale begins on Friday, June 21. Iron and Wine performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC this Monday, June 24.

Laurie Anderson began a week of special performances when she was joined by artist and activist Ai Weiwei, via Skype from Beijing, for the premiere of Greetings to the Motherland at Toronto's Luminato Festival last night; watch it in full here. Anderson leads two free concerts in New York City this week for the annual River to River Festival, featuring stories from United States Parts 1-4 with special guests Steve Buscemi and Young Jean Lee on Tuesday and a night of improvisation with longtime musical collaborators on Wednesday.

Bombino, Fatoumata Diawara, Amadou & Mariam, Björk perform at Bonnaroo ... Amadou & Mariam, Bombino, Laurie Anderson give free performances at Luminato ... Alarm Will Sound kicks off Bang on a Can Marathon, previews Steve Reich's Radio Rewrite at the Guggenheim with the composer on hand ... Sam Amidon plays Philadelphia ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Virginia ... Jeremy Denk performs at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell kick off North American tour in Santa Fe ... Audra McDonald performs in the Berkshires ... Randy Newman celebrates film music in New Jersey ... and more ...

Fatoumata Diawara returns to North America for a summer-long tour of the US and Canada. This leg of her tour begins in New Hampshire tonight, then heads to Bonnaroo on Friday. The two-month tour takes Diawara and her band to cities throughout California, into Canada, the US Midwest, and the East Coast, including headline shows, summer festivals sets, and a concert in New York's Central Park for SummerStage. 

Bombino, who is currently touring the US with his "electrifying" show (A.V. Club), has made NPR Music's list of its 25 Favorite Albums of the Year (So Far) for his Nonesuch debut album, Nomad. "Full of undeniably hypnotic trance-guitar music, and produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, Nomad rocks like no other record this year," writes NPR Music's Bob Boilen. "Hearing Bombino in any American nightclub, the reaction is ecstasy and complete connection ... It's blues, it's trance and it's psychedelic in its repetition. Oh, and did I mention it rocks?" Bombino tells New York magazine: "There are two kinds of music in the desert. If it makes you want to listen to it, it’s the blues. If it makes you want to move, it’s rock.”