Ahead of the Playwrights Horizons production of Gabriel Kahane’s Magnificent Bird / Book of Travelers comes a new recording of "Red Letter Days," out now. Kahane wrote the song in October 2020, during the final month of a year spent off the internet, at the height of the pandemic. The previously unreleased track, along with others from his October 2020 song-a-day project, will be performed by Kahane as part of the NYC theater’s staged presentation of music from the Nonesuch albums Magnificent Bird and Book of Travelers September 24–October 6, 2024.

Laurie Anderson leads an Amelia listening party and conversation at Guild Hall in Easthampton, NY. Ambrose Akinmusire gives West Coast premiere of new work at Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco. Julia Bullock sings Converse, Simone, Weill, Dylan, Odetta, Cage, and more in London, where Vagabon plays All Points East. The Magnetic Fields perform 69 Love Songs in Edinburgh. Davóne Tines joins BSO for Beethoven's Ninth at Tanglewood. Yasmin Williams performs in Charlottesville and Asheville.

The Staves have released a new song, "Waiting for the Joy," and have announced a US acoustic tour for this fall, celebrating their spring 2024 album, All Now. Dates begin November 6 in Philadelphia and continue into Thanksgiving week, with stops in Brooklyn, Nashville, Austin, and more. "The song began in the throes of the first lockdown when the feeling of isolation was so prominent," the Staves' Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor say of the new song, which was recorded during the All Now sessions with producer John Congleton. "Everyone seemed so inspired, and we were worried that we weren't inspired by music in general anymore."

Lianne La Havas, Makaya McCraven, and Jeff Parker perform at Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, while Richard Goode, Rhiannon Giddens, and Jeremy Denk perform at Caramoor outside NYC. Giddens is also in upstate NY and PA. Hurray for the Riff Raff's tour with Norah Jones concludes in San Francisco, while Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's tour with The Infamous Stringdusters begins in Seattle and Montana.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway's new six-song EP, Into the Wild, is due September 20 on Nonesuch. The EP, a follow-up to their acclaimed Grammy-winning album City of Gold, features three new songs—including the title track, available now—as well as previously released covers of Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “good 4 u,” and an alternate version of the City of Gold track “Stranger Things.” They have announced new US dates in November, with stops in North Carolina, Virginia, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and more.

Chris Thile joined the National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Eric Jacobsen in concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, to perform his narrative song cycle ATTENTION!, and more this past April. Also on the program were works by Bach, Beethoven, Dvořàk, and Ellington, and Caroline Shaw. You can watch them perform "Julep," from Punch Brothers' 2015 album, The Phosphorescent Blues; the Allegro from Bach's Concerto for Two Violins in D minor; and "The Rooftop," from ATTENTION!, here.

Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway perform at Newport Folk Festival and tour the Northeast. Makaya McCraven leads NYC Blue Note residency. Ambrose Akinmusire concludes Asia tour in Hong Kong and Seoul. Jeremy Denk and Joshua Bell perform Mozart and Beethoven in Rockport, MA. Hurray for the Riff Raff joins Norah Jones on tour in Boise and Walla Walla. Lianne La Havas is in DC. Davóne Tines joins Minnesota Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth in Brainerd, MN. Yasmin Williams is in Ohio.

Ambrose Akinmusire kicks off a weeklong Asia tour at Blue Note Tokyo. Hurray for the Riff Raff is at GRRRL Camp in Nebraska. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Souillac, France. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion perform Rectangles and Circumstance at Newport Classical Music Fest. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play Grey Fox Bluegrass Fest and join Old Crow Medicine Show in Boston. Yasmin Williams tours New England with The Crane Wives.

Ambrose Akinmusire, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, and Cécile McLorin Salvant all play North Sea Jazz Fest in Rotterdam, and Salvant has shows in Montpellier and Toulon. Ringdown—Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—plays a free show for Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City in NYC. Timo Andres gives a masterclass in Santa Barbara. Jeremy Denk is at the Aspen Music Fest. Emmylou Harris is at the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Fest. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours the Midwest, in Marquette and Indianapolis.

Laurie Anderson will give the world premiere of ARK: United States Part 5, a new live stage work, at Aviva Studios in Manchester, England, November 12–24, 2024. "For a long time I’ve wanted to make a new large-scale work about the United States—a collection of songs and stories about what has shaped this country in the 21st century," she says. "I plan to tell these stories moving through myth, journalism, fable, and TikTok, conjuring alternate realities and stories from my own life. Part ruminations, part long-form poems, ARK will also be a kind of 3D movie."

Davóne Tines and his band THE TRUTH perform ROBESOИ on Little Island in NYC; he can be heard on the Met Opera's NYC Pride March float. Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara play at the Met Museum and MASS MoCA. Ambrose Akinmusire is at Montreal Jazz Fest. Yussef Dayes is in Saratoga Springs and at Ottawa Jazz Fest. Jeremy Denk joins Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Vail. Brad Mehldau goes solo in Kraków. Natalie Merchant is in Boone, NC. Cécile McLorin Salvant sings French songs at UK's Grange Festival. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Singapore and Oregon. Chris Thile goes solo in Big Sky, MT. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play from Kentucky to Wisconsin.

The 92nd Street Y in New York City (92NY) has announced its 2024–25 Tisch Music Season, including performances by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion, Jeremy Denk, Julia Bullock, Richard Goode, Brad Mehldau, Gabriel Kahane, and Days of Wine and Roses star Kelli O'Hara.