Rhiannon Giddens, who begins her four-night residency with the Boston Pops titled Redefining American Music tonight, stopped by Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to perform a few tunes in the museum's Musical Instruments Gallery. She takes a look at the MFA's historical banjo collection and plays one of the banjos and sings, with Carolina Chocolate Drops' Hubby Jenkins on bones and Jason Sypher on bass. You can watch it here.

After a sold-out, year-long critically acclaimed international tour, David Byrne’s American Utopia will play a strictly limited engagement on Broadway at the intimate Hudson Theatre, October 4, 2019, through January 18, 2020, with the official opening set for October 20. Pre-Broadway, it will play eighteen performances at Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre, September 11–28, 2019. Tickets are on sale now.

Stephin Merritt live scores Tod Browning's The Unholy Three at The Town Hall in NYC … Nonesuch returns to Brooklyn Flea Record Fair … Laurie Anderson joins Terry Riley, John Zorn in San Francisco … Rhiannon Giddens delivers Ursinus College commencement address in Pennsylvania, performs in North Carolina … Kronos Quartet is at Exploratorium in San Francisco … Brad Mehldau Trio continues European tour … Gaby Moreno celebrates Bowie in Biloxi … Joshua Redman is in Brazil … Caroline Shaw, Roomful of Teeth join Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra … Yola continues UK tour …

The lineup for the 2019 Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival has been announced, and featuring among the performers taking the stage of the Damrosch Park Bandshell for the free series this summer are Rhiannon Giddens and Yola. Rhiannon Giddens will take part in NPR Music’s multi-artist Turning the Tables Live: The Motherlode on Wednesday, July 31, and Yola will help close out the season in The Roots of American Music Weekend: Americanafest NYC, performing on Saturday, August 10, ahead of Patty Griffin.

Yola begins a three-week UK tour in Glasgow tonight. The tour, which features music from her debut album, Walk Through Fire, continues in Perth, Aberdeen, Gateshead, Shipley, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, London, and Brighton, culminating in her hometown of Bristol on June 1. She also announces new autumn tour dates in Europe, in Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, and Paris, and a return to Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, and London.

Nico Muhly leads a Los Angeles concert with Thomas Bartlett, Caroline Shaw … Sam Amidon plays The Anthology of American Folk Music in Brussels … Jeremy Denk concludes tour with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis in San Francisco … Brad Mehldau Trio continues European tour … Gaby Moreno celebrates Bowie in Australia … Yola launches tour in Ireland …

Yola, who begins a tour of the UK and Ireland this weekend, will support Kacey Musgraves on tour in North America this September. The seven-show run starts in Kansas City on September 4, followed by sold-out shows in St. Louis, Cleveland, Vienna (Virginia), and Toronto, culminating in two nights in New Orleans, September 27 and 28. The dates follow Yola's Newport Folk Festival set and US tour with Lake Street Dive this summer and come ahead of the Austin City Limits festival and shows with Andrew Bird in October. 

Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters will return to North America to tour this fall. The new dates, which follow a previously announced Scandinavian summer tour, start with a set at the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in New Brunswick on September 13 and continue in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and Utah, culminating at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, Oregon, on October 3. 

Caroline Shaw performs with Roomful of Teeth in London … Sam Amidon is at Oberlin … Jeremy Denk continues tour with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis in New Jersey … Brad Mehldau Trio begins European tour in France … Gaby Moreno celebrates Bowie in New Zealand … Joshua Redman, Yola perform at Cheltenham Jazz Festival … Rokia Traoré is Guest Director at Brighton Festival …

Rhiannon Giddens, Emmylou Harris join Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis for music from Ken Burns’s Country Music in NYC … Sam Amidon tours Midwest … Tyondai Braxton performs in Austria … David Byrne is on Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony on HBO ... Jeremy Denk begins tour with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis … Gabriel Kahane, Lake Street Dive conclude European tours … Gaby Moreno performs in San Diego … Joshua Redman Trio tours Europe … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from the Ryman in Nashville …

Lianne La Havas, who was recently named to the Afropunk Festival lineup in Brooklyn this August, has announced three US shows in August ahead of the festival: Terminal West in Atlanta, Bijou Theatre in Knoxville, and Baltimore Soundstage.

Stephin Merritt will perform original music he has written to score a screening of Tod Browning's 1925 silent film The Unholy Three, starring Lon Cheney, at The Town Hall in NYC on May 18, 2019. The Magnetic Fields front man will be joined by accordionist and novelist Daniel Handler (A Series of Unfortunate Events) and violist Pinky Weitzman for the one-night-only event. This is Merritt's first live silent-film scoring event on the East Coast, following his successful live score to two other Tod Browning films at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2010 and 2014.