Tune in to hear Sara Watkins on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor ... Bombino tours Benelux ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter head East ... Dr. John is in the South ... Iron and Wine plays upstate NY ... Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass in Vancouver ... Audra McDonald tours Texas ... Brad Mehldau's Mehliana is at Largo in LA ... Natalie Merchant joins the Alabama Symphony Orchestra ... Randy Newman goes to Galveston ... Joshua Redman is in Rome ... Chris Thile brings Bach to Boston ... and more ...

Jeremy Denk performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations at The Kennedy Center and Chicago Symphony Center ... Alarm Will Sound kicks off Metropolitan Museum of Art residency ... Sam Amidon rounds out US tour in LA ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter tour the US ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell take tour to Texas ... Gidon Kremer is in Germany ... Kronos Quartet is in Wisconsin ... Audra McDonald sings a Chicago Symphony Center ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club closes out US tour in NYC ... Joshua Redman tours Netherlands ... Chris Thile is in the South ... Rokia Traoré plays Paris ... and more ...

St. Louis Symphony performs John Adams’s new Saxophone Concerto ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter resume duo tour in Midwest ... Jeremy Denk gives solo recitals in upstates New York ... Richard Goode is in Copenhagen ... Emmylou Harris returns to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with Rodney Crowell and in Kate McGarrigle tribute ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica perform in Germany ... k.d. lang sings at LA's Hammer Museum gala ... Audra McDonald sings in Queens ... Brad Mehldau, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra give US premiere of new Mehldau piece ... Natalie Merchant joins New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club is in Atlanta ... Joshua Redman tours Europe ... Chris Thile performs solo out West ... Rokia Traoré brings Beautiful Africa to Réunion ... Sara Watkins plays in Southern California ... and more ...

The one-night only benefit concert inspired by music from the upcoming Coen Brothers’ film, Inside Llewyn Davis, takes place at The Town Hall in New York City Sunday; Showtime will air the concert December 13 ... Sam Amidon tours Northeast with Josh Ritter ... Laurie Anderson exhibition opens in Austin ... Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club tour Midwest ... Jeremy Denk joins Colorado University Symphony in Boulder ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell kick off California leg of US tour ... Iron and Wine hits Chicago and Toronto ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica join Slava's Snow Show in Russia ... Audra McDonald opens Koerner Hall season in Toronto ... Punch Brothers play Wide Open Bluegrass in Raleigh ... Joshua Redman is in Iowa ... Rokia Traoré plays the Düsseldorf fest ... and more ...

Chris Thile joins Garrison Keillor for a live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion from Minnesota, then hits Brooklyn's Bluegrass Bash with guitarist Michael Daves ... John Adams's Saxophone Concerto receives US premiere in Baltimore ... Sam Amidon joins Bill Frisell at Jazz at Lincoln Center ... Laurie Anderson performs in Ithaca ... Jeremy Denk joins Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra ... Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Orquest Buena Vista Social Club tour California ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play Petty Fest in Nashville ... Iron and Wine tours Canada ... Lianne La Havas is in Tokyo ... Audra McDonald plays Midwest universities ... Kate McGarrigle concert film screens in LA ... Joshua Redman inaugurates Wigmore Hall jazz season ... Dawn Upshaw is guest of honor at MATA gala benefit in NYC ... 

Lucky Friday the 13th: Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club kicks off US tour on The Tonight Show tonight, then two stops in Arizona ... Bombino tours Europe ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play late-summer US festivals ... Jeremy Denk launches US fall tour performing Bach in Boston ... Donnacha Dennehy has Fort Worth residency ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell play in Texas too ... Kronos Quartet makes Bogotá debut  ... k.d. lang joins Sarah McLachlan for Edmonton benefit ... Lianne La Havas plays Welsh fest ... Audra McDonald is in Ann Arbor ... Allen Toussaint is in Niagara Falls ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell, Sam Amidon, Carolina Chocolate Drops all perform at the Ottawa Folk Festival ... John Adams's The Gospel According to the Other Mary receives its Midwest premiere at Ravinia ... Laurie Anderson performs Dirtday! in Poland ... Björk headlines Berlin Festival ... Bombino tours Europe ... Dr. John plays three sets in the South ... Audra McDonald is in Utah ... Punch Brothers perform at Virginia's Interlocken Music Festival ... Dawn Upshaw celebrates Joan Tower's 75th birthday at Bard ... Sara Watkins is in San Diego ... and more ...

Joshua Redman Quartet and an orchestra perform songs from his new album, Walking Shadows, at Detroit Jazz Fest ... John Adams conducts the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in his Violin Concerto and the Australian premiere of City Noir ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour New England ... Emmylou Harris celebrates local farming at Ontario's Greenbelt Harvest Picnic ... Lianne La Havas performs at Jamie Oliver and Alex James’s Big Feastival in the UK ... Audra McDonald's Live From Lincoln Center special airs in an expanded edition on PBS ... Youssou N’Dour is the subject of a new documentary on BBC Four ... and more ...

Audra McDonald joins Boston Pops, John Williams, and David Newman for Film Night at Tanglewood ... John Adams continues Australia tour at Sydney Opera House ... Devendra Banhart plays LA's FYF Fest ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour Denmark and UK ... Jeremy Denk concludes Sydney residency ... Lianne La Havas is at Helsinki Festival ... Joshua Redman plays Festival de Jazz de Chihuahua ... Chris Thile closes out Goat Rodeo tour in California ... Sara Watkins is at Clear Mountain View Music Fest in North Carolina ... and more ...

Dawn Upshaw and Crash Ensemble perform Donnacha Dennehy's That the Night Come at Kilkenny Arts Festival ... Sam Amidon, Bombino play Lowlands Festival in Netherlands ... Laurie Anderson performs in East Hampton ... Kremerata Baltica closes out Costa Rica festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Pennsylvania ... Dr. John performs in his hometown of New Orleans ... Jeremy Denk joins Australian Chamber Orchestra in Sydney ... Fatoumata Diawara concludes North American tour ... Lianne La Havas plays UK's V Festival ... Joshua Redman is in Reykjavik ... Chris Thile and the Goat Rodeo goes to Bethel Woods and Ravinia ... and more ...

Kronos Quartet joins The National and Bombino plays his own set at Outside Lands festival in San Francisco ... Sam Amidon plays Haldern Pop Fest ... Laurie Anderson brings Dirtday! to Oslo ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Fatoumata Diawara, Sara Watkins play Edmonton Folk Fest ... Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter tour South, as does Dr. John ... Kremerata Baltica tours Costa Rica ... Randy Newman performs in Kentucky ... Joshua Redman, Rokia Traoré perform at Festival Au Grès du Jazz in France ... Chris Thile celebrates Elliott Smith in NYC ... Allen Toussaint closes out Lincoln Center Out of Doors ... and more ...

Devendra Banhart closes out his five-week European summer tour with two performances in Portugal ... Sam Amidon plays in Poland ... Jeremy Denk is at Grand Teton Music Festival ... Kronos Quartet performs two nights at the Cabrillo Festival ... Lianne La Havas concludes North American tour at Osheaga and Lollapalooza ... Audra McDonald comes to Caramoor ... Joshua Redman returns to Newport Jazz Fest ... Allen Toussaint celebrates Satchmo in the Big Easy ... Rokia Traoré continues French festival tour ... Sara Watkins joins Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion tour ... and more ...