Alarm Will Sound, Kronos Quartet, Carolina Chocolate Drops all perform in Missouri this weekend ... John Adams leads Yale Philharmonia in New Haven and NYC ... Sam Amidon, Bill Frisell are in Philadelphia, Brooklyn ... Devendra Banhart kicks off California tour with Andy Cabic ... Shawn Colvin tours Northeast ... Jeremy Denk makes NY Phil debut ... Emmylou Harris supports dog adoptions in Nashville ... Pat Metheny makes China debut ... Joshua Redman holds court in DC ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer are in Chicago ... Sara Watkins hosts Family Hour in LA ... and more ...

The New Yorker Festival features talks with Randy Newman, Jeremy Denk, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim ... Anderson and Kronos Quartet perform Landfall in Ohio ... Sam Amidon kicks off Lily-O tour in Seattle ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sara Watkins play LA Bluegrass Situation ... Richard Goode performs at Duke ... Jonny Greenwood joins LCO in Manchester to play his film scores, Reich's Electric Counterpoint; Reich joins Colin Currie Group in London ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica tour the Baltics with Martha Argerich ... Pat Metheny tours Japan ... Conor Oberst is in Mexico ... Robert Plant gives a TimesTalk ... Joshua Redman is in Seattle ...  Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer bring their bass & mandolin to NYC and Boston ... Rokia Traoré talks at Barbican's Observer Ideas Festival ...

Conor Oberst, Shawn Colvin, Emmylou Harris play free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park ... Devendra Banhart art exhibit opens in LA ... Bombino concludes tour in Spain ... Jeremy Denk joins Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for Beethoven ... Kronos Quartet premieres new piece at Stanford ... Brad Mehldau, Mark Guiliana take Mehliana to Kennedy Center ... Pat Metheny Unity Group kicks of Asia tour in Seoul ... Robert Plant plays Denver ... Joshua Redman Trio has trio of shows at SFJAZZ Center ... Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer tour South ... 

Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary festivities at BAM in Brooklyn conclude with performances from Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet, Robert Plant, Olivia Chaney, Caetano Veloso ... Björk's Biophilia Live film opens in NYC ... The Black Keys play two nights in Chicago ... Bombino tours Benelux ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Wisconsin ... Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle are in upstate NY ... Iron and Wine is in Ithaca ... Conor Oberst performs at two Knitting Factories out West ... Rokia Traoré is in LA ... Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer tour Texas ... and more ...

Nonesuch Records at BAM continues with multi-artist concerts from Devendra Banhart, Stephin Merritt, and Iron and Wine and Kronos Quartet with Natalie Merchant, Rhiannon Giddens, Sam Amidon, and Olivia Chaney ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sam Amidon, Emmylou Harris play FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival at MASS MoCA ... The Black Keys tour East Coast ... Jonny Greenwood, Wordless Music Orchestra play There Will Be Blood in NYC ... Gidon Kremer celebrates Schostakovich in Germany ... Youssou N’Dour tours US ... Randy Newman is in Belgium ... Conor Oberst tours Texas ... Joshua Redman plays outside NYC ... Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer are in California, as is Caetano Veloso ... and more ...

Alarm Will Sound performs Adams, Reich, and Dennehy as Youssou N’Dour and Don Byron each play two nights for Nonesuch Records at BAM ... Nonesuch Records on Film continues ... The Black Keys play Detroit, Pittsburgh, Rochester ... Bombino is out West ... Shawn Colvin, Steve Earle are in Cleveland ... Jeremy Denk joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Beethoven ... Iron and Wine tours US ... Kronos Quartet tours Europe ... Natalie Merchant hits NYC ... Conor Oberst kicks off tour in Salt Lake City ... Joshua Redman is in France ... Caetano Veloso launches Abraçaço US tour in Miami ... and more ...

The Black Keys kick off North American Turn Blue tour in their home state of Ohio ... Laurie Anderson performs at Punkt Festival in Norway ... Bombino tours Northeast US ... Shawn Colvin joins Steve Earle in Minnesota ... Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in France ... Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell's Austin City Limits set re-airs on PBS ... Robert Plant performs on BBC One's The One Show ... Steve Reich's Different Trains receives Singapore premiere ... and more ...

Joshua Redman is Detroit Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence, performing three sets this Labor Day long weekend ... Bombino kicks off his latest US tour at Dave Matthews Band Caravan in Washington state, then heads to San Francisco ... Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays, whose duo piano album Modern Music was released in 2010, tour Brazil ... Nickel Creek concludes its US tour in New Mexico and Colorado ... and more ...

Lianne La Havas unveils new music at Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn ... John Adams's I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky gets LA premiere ... Louis Andriessen’s De Materie is performed in Germany ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica play three nights at Switzerland's Sion Music Festival ... k.d. lang performs surrounded by the Rockies in Colorado for the Wake Up Festival ... Nickel Creek tours Texas ... Conor Oberst concludes his European tour in Portugal ... and more ...

Sam Amidon and Bill Frisell close out the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland ... Louis Andriessen’s De Materie gets German premiere ... The Black Keys’ performance on Late Show with David Letterman re-airs ... Bombino tours Italy ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play UK, Netherlands festivals ... Emmylou Harris gives benefit concert in Nashville... Iron and Wine is in Dallas ... Randy Newman plays Rocky Mountain Folks Fest ... Nickel Creek tour mid-Atlantic ... Conor Oberst is in Germany ... Robert Plant plays Summer Sonic Festival in Japan ... and more ...

John Adams’s Saxophone Concerto receives West Coast premiere with saxophonist Timothy McAllister at Cabrillo Festival ... Bombino tours Europe ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play home state of North Carolina ... Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin play benefit in Aspen ... Iron and Wine is at Hollywood Bowl ... Kronos Quartet launches concert season in northern California ... Pat Metheny Unity Group closes out US summer tour ... Nickel Creek tours out West ... Conor Oberst plays European festivals ... Robert Plant headlines at Glastonbury Abbey ... Joshua Redman tours East Coast with The Bad Plus ... and more ...

Steve Reich is special guest at and focus of Bang on a Can's MASS MoCA Summer Music Festival ... Sam Amidon is in Belgium ... Bombino plays festivals in Sweden and Italy ... Shawn Colvin performs in the Bay Area ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica revisit Eight Seasons of Vivaldi plus Piazzolla in France ... Pat Metheny Unity Group, Conor Oberst are in upstate New York ... Nickel Creek kicks off West Coast tour ... and more ...