Kronos Quartet bids farewell to longtime members John Sherba and Hank Dutt at Kronos Festival in San Francisco. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Chris Thile, and Punch Brothers return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Colorado, where Emmylou Harris is in Steamboat Springs. Illinoise cast members sign CDs at Barnes & Noble in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Ambrose Akinmusire, Bill Frisell, and Herlin Riley, perform Owl Song in California. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society performs Dynamic Maximum Tension at Ottawa Jazz Fest. Yussef Dayes plays SummerStage in NYC. Jeremy Denk gives a masterclass in Santa Barbara. Brad Mehldau goes solo in France and Belgium. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Cleveland.

The Tony Awards broadcast live on CBS—with multiple nominations for Illinoise, Days of Wine and Roses, and Here Lies Love—from Lincoln Center on Sunday, where Kronos Quartet live-scores Sam Green’s A Thousand Thoughts Saturday. Yasmin Williams performs at NY and VA guitar fests. Ringdown is in Brooklyn. Natalie Merchant leads a sing-along at Library of Congress in DC. Jeremy Denk gives a master class in Santa Barbara. Chris Thile joins Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Virginia Beach and Newport News. Davóne Tines is in a new opera at MOCA in LA. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are San Luis Obispo then join Old Crow Medicine Show in Oakland and Oregon.

Brad Mehldau continues a sold-out Trios residency at Village Vanguard in NYC through the weekend. Sam Amidon is at Fire in the Mountain Fest in the UK. The Magnetic Fields performs 69 Love Songs in Atlanta. Natalie Merchant concludes her California tour at Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, where Cécile McLorin Salvant performs as well before heading to Phoenix. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Costa Mesa, CA. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway hit three of the Four Corners states—Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. Yasmin Williams is in Charlottesville and Norfolk, VA.

Natalie Merchant performs two nights in San Diego, where Jeremy Denk joins the San Diego Symphony for Beethoven. Richard Goode plays Mozart with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mary Halvorson plays with Tomeka Reid in Chicago. Emmylou Harris is in Virginia. Hurray for the Riff Raff concludes a European tour in Spain and Italy. Kronos Quartet live-scores Sam Green’s A Thousand Thoughts in Amsterdam. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Atlanta and Houston, where Davóne Tines joins Houston Symphony in John Adams's El Niño. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway conclude their Texas tour in New Braunfels and Cedar Park.

Brad Mehldau is in Bochum, Germany, both with Bochum Symphony Orchestra and solo. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in London and Paris. John Adams' El Niño concludes at The Met Opera in NYC with Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines. Sam Amidon tours Ireland. Jeremy Denk joins New Jersey Symphony. Kronos Quartet is in Zurich. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at FreshGrass Bentonville, then start a five-city Texas tour. Yasmin Williams is in Raleigh.

Molly Tuttle performed a set of two songs from her and her band Golden Highway’s album City of Gold—“Alice in the Bluegrass” and “Evergreen, OK”—plus a cover of Jefferson Airplane's “White Rabbit," for Paste from MerleFest 2024. You can watch it here.

Hurray for the Riff Raff kicks off a European tour in Dublin, Manchester, and Glasgow. The Black Keys take Ohio Players to Paris. John Adams' El Niño is at The Met Opera in NYC with Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines. Timo Andres performs in New Jersey. Jeremy Denk joins Antwerp Symphony Orchestra in Belgium. Gabriel Kahane and Pekka Kuusisto perform at 92Y in NYC. Kronos Quartet is in Dublin. Brad Mehldau is in Hamburg and Frankfurt. Cécile McLorin Salvant concludes French tour in Lyon. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Indianapolis and Detroit.

Mary Halvorson joins pianist Sylvie Courvoisier at Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival in Brooklyn; several Steve Reich pieces are performed throughout the festival. John Adams’ El Niño continues at the Met with Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines. The Black Keys are in Dublin and Amsterdam. Joachim Cooder tours Ireland. Rhiannon Giddens performs at New Orleans Jazz Fest. Gabriel Kahane and Pekka Kuusisto's West Coast tour is in San Francisco and Beaverton. The Magnetic Fields play 69 Love Songs at MASS MoCA. Brad Mehldau Trio's European tour starts at UK's Cheltenham Jazz Festival and Milan. Cécile McLorin Salvant's orchestral French tour is in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, Avignon, and Martigues. Yasmin Williams is at UVM.

John Adams's El Niño gets Met premiere in NYC with Julia Bullock and Davóne Tines. Sam Amidon and Nico Muhly are in London. Joachim Cooder tours Ireland. Rhiannon Giddens tours Arizona. Hurray for the Riff Raff performs at New Orleans Jazz Fest, as do Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, who also play in Alabama and Memphis. Nathalie Joachim joins Silkroad Ensemble at Oberlin. Kronos Quartet is at UCSB and UCLA. The Magnetic Fields perform 69 Love Songs in San Francisco. Mandy Patinkin is in Charlottesville, VA. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours France with orchestral arrangements by Darcy James Argue. Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered is performed in Austin.

Vagabon (aka Laetitia Tamko) will support the band Crumb on tour this October. The shows begin in California—Santa Cruz, Oakland, and Sacramento—then head to Salt Lake City and Denver and on to Texas—Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso—and Albuquerque and back to California to close out the tour in Santa Ana, San Diego, and Los Angeles.

Composer/guitarist Yasmin Williams—whose first song on Nonesuch, "Dawning," was released late last year ahead of her label debut album, due later this year—will support Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka on their North American fall tour. The shows begin at The Met in Philadelphia on September 29, and include stops in Boston, New York, Saint Paul, Denver, Boise, Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and more.

Rhiannon Giddens takes her You're the One tour to Seattle and San Francisco, while The Martha Graham Dance Company dances to songs from the album in NYC. Richard Goode performs Beethoven in Toronto. The Magnetic Fields play 69 Love Songs in Chicago. Mandy Patinkin is in St. Paul. Cécile McLorin Salvant and orchestra perform at Cité de la musique in Paris. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Chicago ahead of Earth Day. The Staves launch West Coast tour in Seattle and Portland. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.