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.

The BBC Proms 2019 season includes Jonny Greenwood, who leads a late-night concert, Prom 70, at Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday, September 10. He has curated a program of pieces by Biber and Krzysztof Penderecki, Steve Reich's Pulse, and Greenwood's own works, including the world premiere of his new piece, Horror vacui. Greenwood will perform with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The concert will be broadcast on BBC Four on Friday, September 13. General booking begins on May 11.

Sam Amidon, who begins a North American tour next week, stopped by Fretboard Journal to perform "Juma Mountain," from his album The Following Mountain, with saxophonist Sam Gendel. Watch it here. Amidon also spoke with the site's podcast about his music, touring, and more. The tour starts in Minneapolis on April 25, with stops in Davenport, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Toronto, and Hamilton, Ontario. He returns to North America in June for a concert with Kronos Quartet and a tour as special guest of Bruce Hornsby.

Attacca Quartet performs Caroline Shaw’s Orange in live-streamed NYC event … Sam Amidon, Gabriel Kahane play Little Waves in Belgium … Tyondai Braxton is at Duke … Kronos Quartet live-scores documentary in Detroit … Lake Street Dive begins European tour in Vienna, Munich … Brad Mehldau Trio is in St. Louis … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … Caetano Veloso continues US tour in Brooklyn … Yola plays Ramblin' Roots Revue in UK …

Lake Street Dive begins a two-week European tour in Vienna on Saturday. The twelve-city tour, featuring music from the band's latest album, Free Yourself Up, continues with shows in Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK. 

Stanford Live has announced its 2019–20 concert season, and featured among the performers taking the stage at Bing Concert Hall in Stanford, California, are several Nonesuch artists: Brad Mehldau, Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, and Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi.

Natalie Merchant has announced A Summer Evening With… tour of intimate venues across the US Northeast. The eleven-concert tour begins in Brownfield, ME, on July 25 and features towns in which she has never performed. "We're looking forward to seeing the rocky coast of Maine, the green rolling hills of Vermont, the historic village squares and white-steepled churches of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," says Merchant. "I imagine we will meet many locals and visitors seeking the same sort of experience that we are, and I expect the audiences and the settings will inspire us."