Lincoln Center has announced its 2019 American Songbook lineup, and among the performers taking the stage at The Appel Room in New York City for the series early next year are Rostam, Gaby Moreno, Lake Street Dive's Rachael Price, and others. Tickets for the series go on sale to members starting November 7 and to the public on November 15. 

Mountain Man performs from Magic Ship in Massachusetts … Sam Amidon, David Byrne continue UK tours … Rhiannon Giddens is in Ireland … Emmylou Harris brings Lantern Tour to US Northeast … Gabriel Kahane joins Andrew Bird, NSO at Kennedy Center … Lake Street Dive tours US Midwest … Mandy Patinkin concludes NYC residency … Robert Plant plays London, Dublin … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Nebraska … Rokia Traoré begins NYU artist residency … 

Mountain Man launches its first tour in six years in Washington, DC, tonight. The tour, featuring music from the trio's first album in eight years, Magic Ship, continues in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, culminating with two nights in Saxaphaw, North Carolina.

Gabriel Kahane joins Chris Thile on Live From Here … Sam Amidon begins UK tour in Birmingham … Laurie Anderson brings The Language of the Future to Lithuania … Timo Andres plays New Sounds Live in NYC … David Byrne launches American Utopia UK tour in Leeds … Tigran Hamasyan is in California … James Farm concludes European tour in Germany … Kronos Quartet premieres new program at Stanford … Natalie Merchant headlines Hudson Valley Votes benefit … Mandy Patinkin continues Diaries 2018 NYC residency … and more …

David Byrne brings the American Utopia tour back to the UK and to Ireland for eight arena shows starting at the First Direct Arena in Leeds this Sunday and including concerts at the O2 Arena in London, Manchester Arena, Hydro in Glasgow, 3Arena in Dublin, and more. Benjamin Clementine will be Byrne’s special guest for the UK and Irish dates. The tour will then make stops in Amsterdam and Paris before heading to Hong Kong, New Zealand (where Kimbra will be special guest), and Australia. "If you only go to one gig this autumn [or spring, depending]," says the Independent's i, "make it this: David Byrne’s imaginative, breathtaking show is a work of art."

Sam Amidon begins an autumn tour of the UK, featuring music from his new album, The Following Mountain, and more, in Birmingham this Saturday, following a concert in Cologne on Friday. The UK tour includes performances in Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and Newcastle, culminating with a show at Cadogan Hall in London as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival on November 19.

Lake Street Dive has announced a tour of Europe and the UK next April. The two-week tour starts in Vienna on April 13, followed by shows in Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Paris, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leuven, Heidelberg, Copenhagen, Hamburg, and Amsterdam. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, October 17. The band, while in London to perform at O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire last week, performed "Shame Shame Shame" from their album Free Yourself Up, on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends and BBC London's Robert Elms show.

David Byrne brings American Utopia to Austin City Limits Fest … Rhiannon Giddens joins Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra … Tigran Hamasyan plays Seattle, LA … Emmylou Harris tours Midwest … James Farm tours France … Kronos Quartet concludes ballet residency in San Francisco … Mandy Patinkin performs Diaries 2018 in NYC … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from St. Paul … and more ...

Mandy Patinkin begins his Diaries 2018 tour with a sold-out, ten-performance residency presented by New York Theatre Workshop at The Connelly Theater in NYC, starting Wednesday and continuing through October 28. (A limited number of tickets are available via a daily TodayTix lottery.) He will bring the tour to California, Hawaii, and Australia in November.

Tigran Hamasyan launches an eight-city US tour in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday. The tour, featuring music from his latest releases, For Gyumri and An Ancient Observer, continues with shows in Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver, Fresno, and San Francisco, culminating in New York City on October 24.

Rokia Traoré will be the artist in residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs this semester. Through three programs curated by Traoré, she will share her work, ideas, and philosophy. The events, taking place at NYU October 26–30, including two lecture-performances and a culminating concert, are free and open to the public.

Chris Thile, Emmylou Harris play free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass fest in San Francisco … Laurie Anderson is in London … David Byrne takes American Utopia to Texas … Jeremy Denk joins BBC Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven … James Farm continues European tour in Brussels, Netherlands … Kronos Quartet begins ballet residency in San Francisco … Conor Oberst tours California … and more …