Rhiannon Giddens concludes her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, then talks at Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Gabriel Kahane tour France. Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis Sextet is in the Netherlands, as is Julia Bullock, who is Joséphine Baker at Dutch National Opera. Sam Amidon joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra, violinist Pekka Kuusisto in Glasgow. Jeremy Denk plays Mozart with Westchester Philharmonic. Hurray for the Riff Raff plays their hometown of New Orleans. Kronos Quartet takes Australian tour to WOMADelaide. 

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2023–24 concert season, and among the performers taking the esteemed hall's stages are Timo Andres, Julia Bullock, Gabriel Kahane, Kronos Quartet (joined by Laurie Anderson, Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, and others), Brad Mehldau, and Chris Thile.

Rachael & Vilray celebrate the release of their new album, I Love a Love Song!, with a sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight. John Adams’ Nixon in China opens at Dortmund Opera House in Germany. Laurie Anderson is honored at Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Gala, then joins John Zorn and Sean Ono Lennon at Roulette in Brooklyn for Türkiye and Syria benefit. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' opera Omar gets Chapel Hill premiere. Richard Goode plays Beethoven at 92Y in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant premieres Ogresse: Envisioned at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain. Chris Thile joins Orlando Philharmonic. Molly Tuttle joins Old Crow Medicine Show in Georgia and Virginia.

Jeremy Denk takes part in three performances for the Laguna Beach Music Festival this weekend. John Adams can be heard from Miami, Madrid, and Melbourne to Tallinn, Riga, and Berlin. Laurie Anderson performs her piece Songs for Amelia Earhart with the Filharmonie Brno in Kansas City. Rhiannon Giddens headlines Fort Mose Jazz and Blues in St. Augustine, FL. Emmylou Harris is in The Villages, FL. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain, starting in Sevilla. Mandy Patinkin concludes his Being Alive winter tour in New Jersey. Joshua Redman is in Cincinnati.

Laurie Anderson performs with John Zorn and Mary Halvorson with Marc Ribot in A Concert for Ukraine at The New School in NYC to benefit Razom. Timo Andres celebrates Philip Glass' birthday in Santa Monica. Jeremy Denk gives a sold-out solo recital at Hertz Hall in Berkeley. Kronos Quartet performs in Iowa City. Mandy Patinkin is in Tarrytown. Caroline Shaw sings at Merkin Hall in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Texas.

This Grammy Awards weekend, in which Nonesuch recordings are nominated for 15 awards, Best New Artist nominee Molly Tuttle performs at the MusiCares Persons of the Year tribute and The Black Keys DJ in LA. Sam Amidon joins Bonny Light Horseman in Leeds. Julia Bullock is in Miami. Jeremy Denk performs in NYC. Gabriel Kahane joins SF Symphony. Makaya McCraven performs In These Times in Nashville. Brad Mehldau is in Tokyo. Mandy Patinkin is in Wilmington. Joshua Redman joins Ambrose Akinmusire at SFJAZZ. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion perform Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part in Philadelphia and NYC. Chris Thile shares Laysongs in Grand Rapids.

Yo-Yo Ma has partnered with Knoxville-based arts nonprofit Big Ears for the multi-faceted concert “Our Common Nature: An Appalachian Celebration,” with musical guests Rhiannon Giddens, Chris Thile, and Edgar Meyer, on Friday, May 26, at World’s Fair Park in Knoxville, TN. In addition, Thile and Giddens will each perform a concert, May 25 and May 27, respectively, at Knoxville's Bijou Theatre. Conceived and curated by Ma, the World’s Fair Park celebration will include musicians, storytellers, and poets from throughout the Appalachian region, and will be the culmination of a week-long series of cultural experiences and conversations that lift the myriad voices of Appalachia—Indigenous, European, Latinx, Black, and beyond.

John Adams leads the LA Phil, Julia Bullock, and others in performances of his opera Girls of the Golden West at Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. Kronos Quartet performs at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and in Saratoga Springs. Brad Mehldau's quintet is at Village Vanguard in NYC through Sunday. Mandy Patinkin is at Strathmore in Bethesda. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in California, at the Mondavi Center in Davis and Bing Concert Hall in Stanford. The Black Keys DJ in NYC.

Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker perform as part of NYC Winter JazzFest. Laurie Anderson is at SFJAZZ. Julia Bullock joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Jeremy Denk, Rhiannon Giddens are at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Gabriel Kahane performs from Magnificent Bird in NYC. Brad Mehldau, Cécile McLorin Salvant join Blue Note at Sea. Mandy Patinkin kicks off tour in Pennsylvania. Joshua Redman is at Tucson Jazz Festival. Chris Thile is solo in Paducah.

The Black Keys have announced initial details of the European leg of their Dropout Boogie Tour starting in June. Following shows in Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the band will be joined by special guests Spoon for concerts in Paris, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cologne, and Hamburg. The Black Keys will play festival sets in Italy, Portugal, and Spain in July. Pre-sale tickets for the June dates will be open to the band’s fan club, The Lonely Boys & Girls Club, on December 13; general on-sale begins December 16. This marks The Black Keys’ first European tour since 2015. 

Rhiannon Giddens will tour the UK this spring, joined by multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi. The tour starts in Aberdeen on April 27, with shows in Edinburgh, Gateshead, Perth, London, Norwich, Birmingham, and Essex. They follow the last two concerts of Giddens' Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall and bookend the Boston Lyric Opera run of Omar, her opera with Michael Abels, in May. They precede the 2023 Ojai Festival, of which she is Music Director, in June, and a trip to Italy for festival sets in Spoleto and Umbria in July.

Keep Your Courage, Natalie Merchant’s tenth solo studio album and the first of new material since her 2014 self-titled record, is due April 14. An eclectic album, produced by Merchant, it features lush orchestrations throughout, two duets sung with vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis of Resistance Revival Chorus, contributions from the Celtic folk group Lúnasa and Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, and horn arrangements by jazz trombonist Steve Davis. There are nine original songs by Merchant and an interpretation of a song by Ian Lynch of the Irish band Lankum. The vinyl LP edition includes four bonus tracks from earlier albums, previously unreleased on vinyl. Merchant will tour the US in the spring and fall.