Brad Mehldau Trio tours US Northeast … Laurie Anderson is in LA … David Byrne, Fleet Foxes play Coachella … Olivia Chaney is in Amsterdam … Jeremy Denk performs Ives in NYC … Richard Goode gives recital in Berkeley … Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, Rajasthan Express bring Junun to Brazil … Kronos Quartet plays New Mexico … Audra McDonald is on Long Island … Joshua Redman joins Antwerp Jazz Orchestra … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … and more ...

Pat Metheny has announced several new North American tour dates this fall. He and his quartet—drummer Antonio Sánchez, bassist Linda Oh, and pianist Gwilym Simcock—will perform across the continent starting in the US Northeast in late September and making their way to the Midwest and Toronto, across to Colorado, the Pacific Northwest, Vancouver, and California. The month-long tour culminates at Royce Hall in LA on October 26. Metheny was celebrated as a 2018 NEA Jazz Master in a tribute concert at the Kennedy Center on Monday.

David Byrne, Fleet Foxes play Coachella … Shye Ben-Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, Rajasthan Express bring Junun to Buenos Aires … Olivia Chaney tours Benelux … Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode play solo in upstate New York … Rhiannon Giddens begins spring tour … Kronos Quartet is at Wesleyan … Brad Mehldau Trio is in Texas, Colorado … Joshua Redman performs in Switzerland … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from NYC … and more …

Rhiannon Giddens begins a spring North American tour at the Savannah Music Festival tonight. She has shows in the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia over the next few weeks, closing out the month with a set at MerleFest. The tour resumes in mid-May, with shows in upstate New York, Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New England, Kentucky, and more. There are more shows scheduled for the summer as well.

David Byrne has begun his North American American Utopia tour, with shows in San Diego, Arizona, and Las Vegas and sets at Coachella in the week ahead, and across the US and Canada in the months ahead. The tour includes songs from the new album as well as classics from his solo career and Talking Heads. A twelve-piece band joins Byrne on stage for an Annie-B Parson–choreographed concert that he has called "the most ambitious show I’ve done since Stop Making Sense."

The Brad Mehldau Trio launches a tour ahead of the release of the new album Seymour Reads the Constitution!, due May 18. The tour begins in Baton Rouge, followed by shows in Texas, Colorado, Utah, New York, and Massachusetts, including a three-night residency at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston. The group heads to Europe in May for shows in Berlin, Dublin, Amsterdam, Rome, Prague, and more.

Fleet Foxes launch their spring US Crack-Up tour at McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon, tonight, making multiple stops in California—including sets at Coachella—and across the country, from Albuquerque to Atlanta, San Antonio, TX, to South Burlington, VT. There are summer dates on the books in the US and Europe as well.

Laurie Anderson is the Artist in Focus at Rewire Fest in The Hague … David Byrne brings American Utopia to Mexico … Michael Daves & Chris Eldridge play guitar at Brooklyn Folk Fest ... Richard Goode plays solo in St. Paul … Kronos Quartet is in Stanford … Audra McDonald performs at Savannah Music Fest … Robert Plant closes Australia tour in Perth … Rostam concludes spring Half-Light tour in Texas … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Minneapolis …

Lake Street Dive has shared an intimate video for the emotionally charged new song "I Can Change" from their forthcoming album, Free Yourself Up, due May 4. The video was created by Claire Marie Vogel. The band also announced more North American stops on their international tour of now more than fifty additional performances, included newly added shows in Cleveland, Portland, Atlanta, Austin, Memphis, Chicago, and more. Tickets go on sale on Friday, April 6.

John Adams conducts New World Symphony, pianist Timo Andres in Miami … Sam Amidon continues tour in Boston, Montreal, Toronto … Dan Auerbach brings Easy Eye Revue to Cleveland … Jeremy Denk joins Seattle Symphony … Richard Goode performs with LA Phil … Tigran Hamasyan is in Germany … Brad Mehldau plays solo in France … Robert Plant continues Australia tour … Rostam brings his music to Missouri …

The Magnetic Fields will bring 50 Song Memoir back on the road in June, performing at the Apollo Theater in NYC on June 15 and 16, Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh on June 19 and 20, and the Luminato Festival in Toronto on June 22 and 23.

Natalie Merchant has announced A Summer Evening With… summer tour of intimate, historic venues across the UK. The tour, from St Ives on July 13 to Oxford on July 30, is her most far-reaching of the country to date and includes songs from throughout her career. "There's so much of Britain I've never seen," says Merchant. "I expect this summer's tour will satisfy my desire to explore those historic and scenic regions while meeting up with my fans who live there."