Rokia Traoré, whose new album, Beautiful Africa will be released in April 2013 in Europea and Canada by Nonesuch Records, with a US release to follow, has unveiled the video for the album track "Mélancolie." The video, directed by Romain Carciofo, premiered on Slate Afrique and can now be seen here. Beautiful Africa is available for pre-order now in the Nonesuch Store and includes an instant download of the title track. Traoré has already announced several European spring tour dates and summer festivals, including Roskilde and Glastonbury.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have announced a series of European tour dates in May in support of their forthcoming duets album Old Yellow Moon. These special "An Evening With Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell" shows will feature the acclaimed artists (and longtime friends) performing material spanning their vast catalogues, backed by a distinguished group of musicians including Steve Fishell, Jedd Hughes, Byron House, Gerry Roe, and Chris Tuttle. The tour begins in Manchester, UK, on May 8 and concludes in Hamburg, Germany, on May 31.  

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 ...

Nataly Dawn has announced a number of headlining US tour dates this spring featuring music from her just-released Nonesuch debut album, How I Knew Her. The three-week, 14-city tour kicks off with a performance at The Walnut Room in Denver, Colorado, on March 18, and includes two nights each in New York City and Chicago and stops in Minneapolis, Madison, Toronto, Philadelphia, Arlington, Charlottesville, Durham, Atlanta, Nashville, Fort Worth, and Austin. Dawn will be in Austin before the tour launch to perform at SXSW.

Lianne La Havas performed a sold-out show at Le Trianon in Paris this past Tuesday night that streamed live via Arte Live Web. You can now watch the complete concert here. La Havas's European tour continues through mid-March, at which point she makes her way to the North America for a stop at SXSW in Austin and an 18-city tour starting in Dallas. The tour includes shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Montreal, and more. 

Shawn Colvin and Mary Chapin Carpenter launch a North American tour together with a performance in Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight. These longtime friends will share the stage as an intimate duo, performing material spanning their vast catalogs as well as some of their favorite songs. This first leg of the tour includes an additonal stop in North Carolina and shows through the South. Following Colvin's residency at the Dakota in Minneapolis and a tour of Australia, the duo tour picks up again in April, making stops across the Pacific Northwest, into Canada, and down to the US Northeast.

Iron and Wine, the pen name of singer-songwriter Sam Beam, has announced a series of US tour dates this spring, performing at the BottleRock Festival in Napa, California, on May 11, followed by a run along the East Coast in support of the new album Ghost on Ghost, due out April 16 in the US on Nonesuch Records. Tickets are on sale this week. 

The line-up for the 2013 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival has been announced, and included among this year's performers are four artists familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Björk, Amadou & Mariam, Bombino, and Fatoumata Diawara. The four-day festival takes place in Manchester, Tennessee, and runs June 13–16. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 23, at noon EST.

Lianne La Havas has released a two-part video for songs from her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?: "Elusive," which premiered earlier today on Noisey.com, and "Gone," which premiere via Essence. Both videos were directed by Colin Solal Cardo of La Blogothèque. Watch them both here. Lianne La Havas, currently on tour in Europe, launches her US tour March 17 in Dallas.

Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have sat down for a chat about their new collaborative album, Old Yellow Moon. In the video, the duo partners discuss the roots of the album, their first official collaboration together since Crowell joined Harris's Hot Band in 1975, and offer a few intimate acoustic takes on some album tracks. “Rodney and I have been talking about doing a project together probably almost since we met," Harris says in the video. "It seemed like it was inevitable that we would do it. But as the years went by, one day I just thought," she laughs: "It’s getting late.” Watch it here.

Devendra Banhart recently spoke with France’s arts and culture website PUREchannel about his forthcoming album, Mala, and performed intimate, solo acoustic takes of two songs off the album, “Golden Girls” and "Never Seen Such Good Things." You can watch the PUREchannel interview and two song performance videos here. Banhart is set to perform at KCRW's Official SXSW Day Showcase in Austin on March 13. 

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 ...