Kronos Quartet’s annual Kronos Festival is at SFJAZZ Center, celebrating its Fifty for the Future–commissioned works, with Attacca Quartet and others. Laurie Anderson celebrates Mikhail Baryshnikov's 75th in upstate NY. The Black Keys are in Glasgow and London. Richard Goode performs Beethoven in Portland, ME. Adam Guettel's The Light in the Piazza is at NY City Center starring Ruthie Ann Miles; Miles starred in the original 2014 off-Broadway production of David Byrne & Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love, which is in previews on Broadway. Makaya McCraven is at the Getty Center in LA. Natalie Merchant is joined by Orchestra of St. Luke’s at NJPAC in Newark. Mandy Patinkin performs on Long Island. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Hong Kong. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour Wisconsin and Missouri with Outlaw Music Festival.

"This was the first song we recorded together in the studio, and it was the one that set the tone for the rest of the week," Rhiannon Giddens says of "You Louisiana Man," a newly released song from her upcoming album, You're the One. "Like kids on the first day of school, we were feeling out everyone in the room musically, and in that moment it all clicked.” You can watch the video, filmed in the studio while the album was being recorded, here. Giddens has announced a European tour for February 2024 following her previously announced US tour.

This festival-filled weekend, Emmylou Harris, Chris Thile, Punch Brothers, and Nickel Creek return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival for its 50th. Makaya McCraven plays Bonnaroo. Molly Tuttle continues a childhood tradition at the Father’s Day Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, CA, with her band Golden Highway. The Black Keys are at Pinkpop in the Netherlands and in Paris with guests Spoon. Sam Amidon plays Solas Festival in Scotland. Caroline Shaw is at Louth Contemporary Music Society Festival in Ireland. Laurie Anderson concludes her European tour in Gothenburg, Oslo, and Berlin. Performances of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love begin on Broadway.

Rhiannon Giddens, Music Director for this weekend's Ojai Music Festival in California, takes part in a number of performances streaming live from Ojai at ojaifestival.org. Laurie Anderson is in Madrid and London. Timo Andres performs Chopin and Joplin in Brooklyn. Emmylou Harris is in Denver with Dwight Yoakam. Hurray for the Riff Raff gives theatrical performance of 2017's The Navigator at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Hamburg. Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered gets West Coast premiere in Portland.

The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall in Toronto has announced its 2023–24 concert season—the venue’s fifteenth anniversary season—including performances from Rhiannon Giddens, Brad Mehldau, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, and Richard Goode.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA) has announced its 2023–24 season, including Gabriel Kahane & Attacca Quartet performing from his album Magnificent Bird in the new UCLA Nimoy Theater on October 22 and Kronos Quartet celebrating its fiftieth anniversary season in Royce Hall on April 28, as well as several other artists who can be hear on Nonesuch recordings.

Natalie Merchant performs two sold-out shows at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in NYC backed by The Knights orchestra. John Adams conducts The Death of Klinghoffer in Amsterdam, broadcast on NPO Klassiek. Laurie Anderson launches European tour at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Julia Bullock joins Kansas City Symphony for Mahler and more. Yussef Dayes tours mid-Atlantic. Hurray for the Riff Raff performs at Natural History Museum in LA. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Utrecht. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway open for Dierks Bentley in Michigan and Ohio, then head to Kentucky.

Rhiannon Giddens, Chris Thile, and Edgar Meyer are in Knoxville, TN, this Memorial Day weekend for Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature: An Appalachian Celebration. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in Dante. Sam Amidon celebrates Harry Smith’s centenary at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. Richard Goode plays Beethoven in San Juan. k.d. lang gets Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in Ottawa. Brad Mehldau concludes Netherlands Chamber Orchestra residency in Rotterdam. Jeff Parker performs in California. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Spain. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Maryland.

Molly Tuttle will tour the UK in January 2024 as special guest of fellow guitarist Tommy Emmanuel. The fifteen-city tour begins at the Exeter Corn Exchange January 10 and continues with shows in Bath, London, Bexhill, Southend, Bury St Edmunds, Lytham, Sunderland, Glasgow, Buxton, King's Lynn, Shrewsbury, St Albans, and New Brighton, culminating at Harrogate Royal Hall January 27. 

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs from Mélusine at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC tonight and Saturday; the latter streams live. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in Dante and discusses it with set/costume designer Tacita Dean. Sam Amidon joins Winona Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota. Tyondai Braxton premieres new work in Chicago. Mary Halvorson performs at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Tigran Hamasyan is in São Paulo. Emmylou Harris is in Napa. Hurray for the Riff Raff and First Aid Kit tour Denver and Salt Lake City. Kronos Quartet is in Berlin. Brad Mehldau plays Jonny Greenwood with Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam. Natalie Merchant sings in Chicago and Milwaukee. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri.

Rhiannon Giddens concludes a UK tour with Francesco Turrisi and a banner week at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Birmingham Town Hall, and Saffron Hall in Essex. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in The Dante Project. Sam Amidon is in Galway and Belfast. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Santa Barbara. Kronos Quartet gives French premiere of Terry Riley's Sun Rings at Philharmonie de Paris. Makaya McCraven is in Queens for Outline Festival. Brad Mehldau Trio is in Stockholm. Natalie Merchant sings in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play the North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival.

Rhiannon Giddens’ You’re the One, her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs, is due August 18. This collection of twelve tunes written over the course of her career bursts with life-affirming energy, drawing from the folk music she knows so deeply and its pop descendants. The album was produced by Jack Splash (Kendrick Lamar, Solange, Alicia Keys, Valerie June) and recorded in Miami with a ten- to twelve-person ensemble including Giddens’ closest musical collaborators from the past decade and a horn section. The lone featured guest on the album is Jason Isbell on "Yet to Be." The album's title track is out today; you can watch the lyric video here. Giddens will lead the biggest headlining shows of her career to celebrate the album's release.