The Newport Folk Festival features sets from Emmylou Harris, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Wanda Jackson, Chris Thile, Michael Daves, plus Sara Watkins with The Decemberists and a special Low Anthem benefit performance ... Kronos Quartet performs Steve Reich's WTC 9/11 at Northern Ireland's Walled City Music Fest ... k.d. lang has three shows in California ... Jessica Lea Mayfield heads South ... Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman close out duo tour at Marciac Jazz Fest ... Randy Newman continues Australian tour in Melbourne ... Donnacha Dennehy's Grá agus Bás closes out Cork's Reich festival ... Oumou Sangare plays free Brooklyn show ... Dawn Upshaw continues at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Fest ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris, Ben Folds play the XPoNential Music Fest, broadcast live via XPN ... Bang on a Can pays tribute to John Adams at MASS MoCA ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in NY and PA ... Shawn Colvin hits Strings Music Fest ... Kronos Quartet plays Poland and Germany ... k.d. lang, Punch Brothers play Calgary Folk Music Fest ... Jessica Lea Mayfield headlines out West ... Randy Newman kicks off Australia tour ... Oumou Sangare launches North American tour ... Philip Selway plays Truck Fest ... Dawn Upshaw sings in Santa Fe ... and more ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops, Wanda Jackson, Emmylou Harris celebrate the Green River Festival's 25th ... Cleveland Orchestra pairs John Adams with Bruckner at Lincoln Center Festival ... Björk closes out Manchester Biophilia residency ... Ben Folds plays Vegas ... Kronos Quartet, Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman are in France ... k.d. lang hits the Appalachian Summer Fest ... Jessica Lea Mayfield goes Northwest with the Avett Brothers ... Punch Brothers perform in Winter Park ... Allen Toussaint celebrates Louisiana in Denver ... Sara Watkins joins the Paul F. Tompkins Show in LA ... and more ...

Canada's summer festival season is in full swing with The Low Anthem, Wanda Jackson, and The Black Keys at Quebec Summer Fest; Jackson and the Keys at Ottawa Blues Fest; Emmylou Harris at Mariposa Folk Festival; k.d. lang at Winnipeg Folk Fest; Audra McDonald at BlackCreek Summer Music Fest; Randy Newman at Vancouver Island MusicFest ... Afrocubism plays in Portland, San Francisco ... Björk continues Manchester Fest Biophilia residency ... Carolina Chocolate Drops join Béla Fleck at Wolf Trap ... Ben Folds, Emmylou Harris play Chicago's DMB Caravan ... Jessica Lea Mayfield joins the Avetts in Salt Lake City ... Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman duo in Denmark, Netherlands ... Natalie Merchant and orchestra are at Chautauqua ... and more ...

Chris Thile and Sara Watkins are guests on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor, live from Tanglewood ... Cincinnati Opera performs Adams's A Flowering Tree ... Björk continues Manchester Biophilia residency ... The Black Keys tours Canada, Midwest ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play free set in Dayton ... Wanda Jackson rocks the Montreal Jazz Fest ... k.d. lang celebrates both Canada Day and July 4 in concert ... Jessica Lea Mayfield tours the Midwest ... and more ...

The Opera Theatre of Saint Louis concludes its production of John Adams's "gripping and eerily beautiful" (AP) The Death of Klinghoffer ... Punch Brothers, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Emmylou Harris perform at the ROMP festival in Kentucky ... Punch Brothers and Chocolate Drops play DMB Caravan in Atlantic City ... Laurie Anderson brings Transitory Life to the Cork Midsummer Fest ... Wanda Jackson performs on NPR's Mountain Stage ... k.d. lang plays the Ottawa Jazz Fest ... The Low Anthem hits the European festival circuit ... Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman duo at Montreal Jazz ... Allen Toussaint plays Stanford Jazz Fest ... and more ...

The Black Keys' Saturday Night Live performance re-airs; band plays Canada's MMVA ... Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer staged in St. Louis ... Laurie Anderson is in Israel ... Timothy Andres, Philip Glass perform at NYC's Bang on a Can Marathon ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play Chattanooga ... Richard Goode leads Marlboro Music Festival ... Emmylou Harris, Chris Thile & Michael Daves, Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins play Telluride Bluegrass Festival ... Wanda Jackson takes the Mountain Stage ... James Farm sets up at NYC's Jazz Standard ... k.d. lang offers free show to Toronto ... The Low Anthem plays Clearwater Festival ... Dawn Upshaw performs at Ojai North! ... and more ...

Bonnaroo is under way all weekend in Manchester, Tennessee, and includes sets from Jessica Lea Mayfield, Wanda Jackson, The Low Anthem, The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach, and Allen Toussaint ... Laurie Anderson brings Delusion to Amsterdam ... Christina Courtin celebrates LPR's anniversary in NYC ... Philip Glass performs at the Met ... Gidon Kremer receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Istanbul ... Kronos Quartet launches Luminato residency ... Joshua Redman Trio plays São Paulo ... Dawn Upshaw performs at Ojai ... and more ...

Ben Folds continues his Lonely Avenue tour of Asia in Japan ... Amadou & Mariam are in NYC ... Laurie Anderson performs Delusion in Spain and Portugal ... Shawn Colvin plays in Virginia and Pennsylvania ... Emmylou Harris's European tour heads to Amsterdam ... k.d. lang continues UK tour in London, Nottingham ... Kronos Quartet performs A Chinese Home close to home in San Francisco ... The Low Anthem launches US tour ... Jessica Lea Mayfield concludes her European tour in Amsterdam ... Pat Metheny talks music and science in NYC ... Allen Toussaint plays in Oregon ... and more ...

This Memorial Day weekend, Jessica Lea Mayfield kicks off a week-long European tour ... Laurie Anderson brings Delusion to Germany ... James Farm continues its European tour in France, Netherlands ... Ben Folds launches Japan tour ... Emmylou Harris plays Ireland, UK ... Wanda Jackson is in Knoxville ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica are in Germany ... Natalie Merchant celebrates Levon Helm's 71st birthday in NY ... Randy Newman performs in Phoenix ... Punch Brothers play two festival sets ... and more ...

John Adams received an honorary doctorate from the Juilliard School, gave the commencement address ... Laurie Anderson performs Delusion in Germany ... The Black Keys, up for Billboard Music Awards, play the Hang Out Music Fest ... James Farm tours Europe ... Ben Folds tours Australia ... Wanda Jackson hits Houston, New Orleans ... Kronos Quartet performs in Phoenix ... The Low Anthem talks to Marketplace ... Philip Selway plays a set at Liverpool Sound City ... Chris Thile and Michael Daves are in Annapolis ... and more ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops play WMNF’s Tropical Heatwave and choose new logo ... James Farm launches tour in Tel Aviv ... Ben Folds plays two nights in Sydney ... Emmylou Harris celebrates Kate McGarrigle in NYC and baseball in Nashville ... Wanda Jackson opens Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's Women Who Rock exhibit ... Kronos Quartet holds Kronos in Glasgow festival ... The Low Anthem plays Pacific Northwest ... Jessica Lea Mayfield closes out tour in Chicago ... Chris Thile, Michael Daves head South ... Dawn Upshaw joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall ... and more ...