The Black Keys begin their week-long South American tour headlining Lollapalooza Brazil ... Shawn Colvin hits the Byron Bay Bluesfest on Australia tour, as does Allen Toussaint ... Nataly Dawn plays Philadelphia and DC ... Fatoumata Diawara kicks off US tour at Berkeley ... Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell are in Maryland and North Carolina ... Lianne La Havas heads from Boulder to Minneapolis ... Brad Mehldau concludes Mehliana tour in Paris ... Sara Watkins plays the mid-Atlantic ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell bring their Old Yellow Moon tour to Toronto and Boston ... John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives its French premiere ... Nataly Dawn plays two nights in Chicago ... Jeremy Denk returns to Carnegie Hall ... Lianne La Havas has sold-out shows in San Francisco and Seattle ... Kronos Quartet performs Sun Rings in Long Beach ... Brad Mehldau takes Mehliana to Scandinavia ... Natalie Merchant sings with Charlotte Symphony ... Joshua Redman plays Puerto Rico JazzFest ... Sara Watkins tours Northeast ... and more ...

Lianne La Havas launches her month-long North American tour in Dallas after SXSW ... Devendra Banhart, Iron and Wine, Nataly Dawn, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell continue the SXSW music-making ... John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives European premiere at the Barbican ... Alarm Will Sound gives US premiere of Steve Reich's Radio Rewrite ... Jeremy Denk plays in Georgia ... Dr. John, Allen Toussaint bring New Orleans to New York's Town Hall ... Audra McDonald is in Florida ... Brad Mehldau tours Europe with Mehliana ... Sara Watkins tours the Midwest ... and more ...

The stage production of John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary, directed by Peter Sellars, premieres with LA Philharmonic; new Adams documentary premieres on BBC4 TV ... Laurie Anderson Domain privé concludes in Paris ... Timothy Andres plays Crumb and Reich in Chicago ... Björk concludes her Parisian Biophilia residency ... Jeremy Denk performs in Santa Barbara ... Lianne La Havas tours the UK ... Kronos Quartet, Wu Man perform at the Auckland Arts Festival ... Brad Mehldau tours Europe with Mehliana ... Audra McDonald performs in the Midwest, guests on CBS's The Good Wife ... Joshua Redman helps inaugurate the SFJAZZ Center ... Steve Reich is in residence at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall ... Sara Watkins tours the South ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell celebrate the release of their album Old Yellow Moon on A Prairie Home Companion ... Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet perform at the Adelaide Festival ... Björk continues her Paris Biophilia residency ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter close out Southern duo tour ... Jeremy Denk plays Beethoven in Boston ... Lianne La Havas tours the UK ... Audra McDonald is in Ohio ... Joshua Redman tours Europe with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra ... Rokia Traore performs at DC climate event, streaming live ... and more ...

Adam Guettel concludes his five-night residency at 54 Below in NYC ... Timothy Andres gives a "coffee concert" at Lincoln Center ... Björk continues her Biophilia Paris residency ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in North Carolina ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter tour the South ... Kronos Quartet celebrates San Francisco's hometown composers ... Lianne La Havas concludes French tour ... Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays closes out European tour of Modern Music ... and more ...

Punch Brothers close out their 2013 touring with three performances in New England ... John Adams celebrates his birthday with St. Louis Symphony performances of his City Noir ... Sérgio & Odair Assad, Carolina Chocolate Drops perform at 7 Days of Opening Nights Festival in Tallahassee ... Shawn Colvin plays NYC Rainforest Action Network hosted by Chris Noth and Whoopie Goldberg ... Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays play Modern Music in Vienna and Zagreb ... Natalie Merchant joins Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra ... and more ...

The Black Keys, nominated for five Grammy Awards, and Dr. John, up for Best Blues Album, perform on the Grammy telecast Sunday night; theirs are among the 14 nominations for Nonesuch artists ... Emmylou Harris honors MusicCares Person of the Year Bruce Springsteen, duets with Rodney Crowell in LA ... Carolina Chocolate Drops welcome Vusi Mahlasela to North Carolina ... Jeremy Denk performs, leads master class at Westminster Choir College ... Punch Brothers play DC, NPR's Mountain Stage ... Joshua Redman Trio leads DC residency ... Allen Toussaint is in Oakland ... and more ...

Nataly Dawn continues her western US tour, opening for Clint Black in Napa, California, and Ben Folds Five in Reno, Nevada ... Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet premiere a new piece in Maryland ... Shawn Colvin plays outside Chicago and in NYC ... Jeremy Denk joins Steven Isserlis for a family concert of Saint-Saëns in NYC ... Dr. John and his new band play four-show run in Seattle ... Punch Brothers set sail from Miami with Mountain Song at Sea ... Steve Reich is celebrated in Winnipeg ... Sara Watkins tours Ireland and teaches the Guardian to fiddle ... and more ...

John Adams conducts the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the London Symphony Orchestra in the UK premiere of his Absolute Jest at Barbican Hall, the last in a series of concerts with LSO ... Shawn Colvin concludes residency at Yoshi's in San Francisco, streaming online ... Devendra Banhart is on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends ... Nataly Dawn tours California with Ben Folds Five ... Jeremy Denk, Richard Goode play Northeast ... Lianne La Havas closes out Australia tour in Melbourne ... Punch Brothers head from St. Louis to Dallas ... Sara Watkins continues UK tour, plays Celtic Connections ... and more ...

Nonesuch Records offers everyone best wishes for this long weekend in the US, celebrating both Martin Luther King Jr. and the inauguration of President Barack Obama. And as always, there's lots of great live music being made around the world ... Lianne La Havas and Rokia Traoré perform multiple shows at the Sydney Festival in Australia ... Jeremy Denk joins the Oberlin Orchestra at Carnegie Hall ... Dr. John plays two Florida festivals ... Richard Goode performs Beethoven in Maryland ... Kronos Quartet plays Reich in Ohio ... Natalie Merchant and orchestra perform in Florida ... and more ...

Cayamo cruises through the Caribbean with Shawn Colvin, Rodney Crowell, and Sara Watkins, who also guests on A Prairie Home Companion ... Jeremy Denk plays Ives in NYC, Bach in Los Alamos ... Fatoumata Diawara performs at Globalfest in NYC ... Einstein on the Beach concludes Amsterdam run ... Emmylou Harris tours the Midwest ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica join Slava's Snow Show in Estonia ... Kronos Quartet opens Napa Valley Opera House classical series ... Rokia Traoré launches Australia tour at Sydney Festival ... and more ...