Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Philadelphia and Woodstsock. John Adams’ Frenzy gets world premiere at the Barbican in London. Sam Amidon tours New England with This Is The Kit. Jeremy Denk joins Danish String Quartet in Denmark. Kronos Quartet is in Berkeley. Mandy Patinkin is in California and Colorado. Cécile McLorin Salvant joins Jon Batiste at Montreux Jazz Festival Miami. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play WinterWonderGrass Steamboat in Colorado.

Timo Andres makes his Carnegie Hall solo debut in Zankel Hall. Ambrose Akinmusire is at The JAI in La Jolla. Sam Amidon tours Pennsylvania with This Is the Kit. Laurie Anderson talks with Tom McCarthy at the Rubin Museum in NYC. Jeremy Denk performs the Bach Partitas at Wigmore Hall in London. Rhiannon Giddens concludes her European tour in Glasgow and Dublin. Mary Halvorson and the Tomeka Reid Quartet tour New England. Hurray for the Riff Raff kicks off a tour at Tipitina's in New Orleans. Kronos Quartet is in Scottsdale. Makaya McCraven is in North Bethesda and Durham. Mandy Patinkin performs in Montclair, NJ. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Towson, MD.

This President's Day weekend in the United States, Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Georgia and Florida. Jeremy Denk performs Bach in Burlington. Rhiannon Giddens tours Germany, with shows in Hamburg, Berlin, and Cologne. Richard Goode performs Beethoven in Fresno. Mary Halvorson is at Roulette in Brooklyn. Makaya McCraven is in Saratoga Springs and Brattleboro. Mandy Patinkin is in Arizona, performing in Mesa and Tucson. The Staves join Nickel Creek in Indiana, Kentucky, and North Carolina.

Steve Reich is the focus of Radio France's Festival Présences in Paris; Caroline Shaw performs. The Staves tour with Nickel Creek in Des Moines and Indianapolis. Laurie Anderson joins poet Jane Hirshfield in conversation at the Rubin Museum in NYC. Timo Andres performs The Blind Banister with the Oregon Symphony in Salem and Portland. Rhiannon Giddens kicks off a European tour in France and the Netherlands. Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet are in Maryland and at 92Y in NYC. Brad Mehldau is solo at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the University at Buffalo.

This GRAMMY Awards weekend—in which Nonesuch recordings are nominated for eleven GRAMMYs and Laurie Anderson will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award—there’s lots of great live music ahead around the world, including three shows in Cambridge, MA, from Cécile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, and Mary Halvorson. Salvant then heads to Philadelphia, Mehldau to Georgia. Ambrose Akinmusire tours the Netherlands. Attacca Quartet performs Caroline Shaw in Berkeley. Jeremy Denk plays Bach in St. Louis, Richard Goode in Philadelphia. Jonny Greenwood performs Steve Reich in Manchester. Rachael & Vilray tour Colorado.

Jeff Parker and the New Breed, including Makaya McCraven, perform in Chicago and Iowa City. Ambrose Akinmusire, Bil Frisell, and Gregory Hutchinson bring Owl Song to Budapest and Helsinki. Jeremy Denk is in Utah. Mary Halvorson's sextet takes Cloudward to Germany and Austria. Emmylou Harris headlines Ann Arbor Folk Fest. Gabriel Kahane, Attacca Quartet, and Roomful of Teeth premiere his new work in San Francisco. Kronos Quartet celebrates 50 in Stanford. Brad Mehldau is in Canada and Connecticut. Natalie Merchant leads Fondazione Prada workshop/concert in Milan. Punch Brothers host Kacey Musgraves and Tiny Habits at their NYC variety hour. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Milwaukee and Minneapolis. Molly Tuttle concludes UK tour with Tommy Emmanuel in New Brighton and Harrogate.

Julia Bullock sings Samuel Barber, Bob Dylan, Connie Converse, and more in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. John Adams conducts the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony in an all-Adams program. Jeremy Denk performs in Key West. Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet bring their new album, Cloudward, to France and the Netherlands. Kronos Quartet celebrates its 50th in France. Makaya McCraven and Meshell Ndegeocello perform in Chicago's Symphony Center. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Arizona and California. Molly Tuttle joins Tommy Emmanuel at Glasgow's Celtic Connections and in Buxton.

This long weekend, NYC hosts performances by Ambrose Akinmusire and Mary Halvorson, part of NYC Winter Jazzfest, and Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. The Black Keys take their new single to Anaheim for ALTer EGO. Julia Bullock brings songs by Barber, Bob Dylan, and more to Baltimore. Jeremy Denk performs Fauré in the Canary Islands. Emmylou Harris performs at Opry at the Ryman with Rodney Crowell and others. Cécile McLorin Salvant sings nearby, at Vanderbilt. Kronos Quartet celebrates its 50th with two concerts at Cité de la musique in Paris. Molly Tuttle tours UK with Tommy Emmanuel.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway close out the year's touring in her home state of California with three-sold out shows at The Guild Theatre, in Menlo Park. Rachael & Vilray are in California as well for two nights at Blue Note Napa. Sam Amidon opens for Beth Orton at Café de la Danse in Paris. Julia Bullock joins her fellow American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) members in John Adams's El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered at Yale. Yussef Dayes concludes his US tour in Dallas and Minneapolis. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the Library of Congress in DC and in Montclair, New Jersey.

Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins pianist Sylvie Courvoisier at Jazz Gallery in NYC, where downtown, Punch Brothers continue their variety show at the Minetta Lane Theatre, with special guests Sylvan Esso and The A's (both of which include members of Mountain Man). Yasmin Williams in Tarrytown, NY, supporting Watchhouse, and Philadelphia, supporting Aoife O'Donovan. Yussef Dayes performs Black Classical Music in Miami. Jeremy Denk is in Boston. Vagabon takes West Coast tour to Seattle, Vancouver, and Portland.

Brad Mehldau concludes his four-night residency at Smoke Jazz Club in NYC, where Punch Brothers continue their acoustic variety show at Minetta Lane Theater with guests James Taylor and Gaby Moreno, and Makaya McCraven plays Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. In Florida, The Black Keys headline Riptide Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at Orange Blossom Revue in Lake Wales. Shara Nova performs The Blue Hour in Ann Arbor. In California, Yussef Dayes is at The UC Theatre in Berkeley and Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, where Alarm Will Sound is joined by Nathalie Joachim and Alyssa Pyper at The Nimoy.

As the US celebrates Thanksgiving, there’s great live music being made around the world: Julia Bullock joins Philharmonia Orchestra in the UK to perform Knoxville: Summer of 1915 at Bedford Corn Exchange and George Gershwin and Langston Hughes songs at Southbank Centre in London. Yussef Dayes performs Black Classical Music in Chicago, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville. Tigran Hamasyan performs StandArt to conclude three-night residency in Yerevan, Armenia. Gabriel Kahane joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and his father, conductor/pianist Jeffrey Kahane. The Magnetic Fields conclude European tour in Athens and Austria. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours France and Spain.