Punch Brothers, who are hard at work on a new album, have announced a US summer tour, starting at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival just after the summer solstice and winding its way throughout the country and returning to Colorado for a set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Gillian Welch just ahead of the vernal equinox. The tour also includes a few dates with Andrew Bird.

David Byrne has announced openers for his upcoming world tour in support of his new solo album American Utopia, out March 9. Each act was handpicked by Byrne, who has long championed younger, innovative artists from varied backgrounds. Support includes Lisandro Aristimuño in Argentina; Juana Molina in Uruguay; Karina Zeviani in Brazil; Mexican Institute of Sound in Mexico; Perfume Genius, Benjamin Clementine, and Ibeyi in the United States; and Laura Mvula in Europe. 

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of her Grammy-winning, critically acclaimed album Ingénue, k.d. lang launches a twenty-city concert tour that will bring a live performance of the platinum-selling record to venues across the US, starting in the Pacific Northwest this weekend. Fans in cities such as Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, and NYC can experience the album live, performed in its entirety. The tour follows the release of a re-mastered, two-disc Anniversary Edition of Ingénue on Nonesuch last year.

Rostam concludes winter leg of Half-Light tour in California … Dan Auerbach brings Easy Eye Revue down South … Rhiannon Giddens is at the Apollo … k.d. lang launches US leg of Ingénue Redux Tour in Washington state … Audra McDonald joins Cincinnati Pops Orchestra … Robert Plant continues sold-out tour in Denver … The Staves perform in Australia … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here on the radio via Saint Paul …

The 2018 Tanglewood season has been announced, and among the artists slated to perform at the Lenox, MA, venue this summer are Emmylou Harris and Ry Cooder on a double bill, Chris Thile with Live From Here, Jeremy Denk in a solo recital, and Audra McDonald with the Boston Pops.

Brad Mehldau brings Three Pieces After Bach to Italy … Laurie Anderson is in East Hampton … Dan Auerbach brings Easy Eye Revue to California … Rhiannon Giddens plays free concert at Mississippi Museum of Art … Tigran Hamasyan performs in Vancouver, Portland … Gabriel Kahane brings new work to New York … Kronos Quartet is in Abu Dhabi … Robert Plant continues sold-out tour in Boston, Toronto … Rostam takes Half-Light tour out West …

Robert Plant, who begins a sold-out US tour with his band the Sensational Space Shifters tonight, has released a video of their performance of "Carry Fire," the title song to his new album, at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, England, on their sold-out UK tour last November. You can watch it here.

Rhiannon Giddens plays three nights of sold-out shows with Dirk Powell in NYC … Sam Amidon tours Italy … Laurie Anderson brings The Language of the Future to Wisconsin … Dan Auerbach begins Easy Eye Revue tour ... Audra McDonald joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra … Robert Plant begins sold-out US tour … Joshua Redman plays in Miami … Rostam takes Half-Light tour to Midwest … and more …

Kronos Quartet, Timo Andres perform works by Philip Glass in San Francisco … Sam Amidon is in Glasgow … Jeremy Denk performs Ives in Texas … Gabriel Kahane brings 8980: Book of Travelers to Ann Arbor … Rostam takes Half-Light tour to Philadelphia, Boston … and Phantom Thread opens in cinemas in the UK, Europe, Australia ...

Rostam, who kicked off a month-long North American tour with a sold-out show in Atlanta last night, has added new dates on the flip side of the tour in late March. The spring shows include stops across the US, Europe, and the UK. Also today comes the release of a new, official video for "Bike Dream," from his album Half-Light, directed by Rostam and filmed in Paris, Berlin, and Copenhagen. You can watch it here.

Rhiannon Giddens has announced sixteen new headlining dates on her Freedom Highway tour. The new tour stops include shows in Baltimore, Tampa, and Cincinnati and are part of several months of touring across the US. Tickets for the new dates go on sale this Friday, February 2.

Emmylou Harris, Olivia Chaney are in NYC for the Grammy Awards, at which Harris will perform … David Byrne brings Reasons to be Cheerful to Milan, Amsterdam … Timo Andres is in San Francisco … Jeremy Denk performs Ives in Boston and Stanford … Nico Muhly, Teitur perform Confessions in Hamburg … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here on the radio via Austin … and more ...