Kronos Quartet and Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA) will present its fifth-annual, three-day hometown music festival, Kronos Festival 2019, at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, May 30–June 1. This year, the festival highlights the voices of singers, storytellers, and activists over three evening concerts—including one with Nonesuch label mate Sam Amidon—a Saturday morning family concert, and Kronos Labs, free public events that are new this year.

Yola will be at SXSW Music Festival in Austin to perform from her album Walk Through Fire in an official showcase on March 13 at Central Presbyterian Church and at Luck Reunion on March 14. She will also perform at a number of SXSW radio sessions, showcases, and parties. Yola is on NPR Music's list of "a hundred handpicked highlights from among the thousands of acts playing SXSW 2019."

Gaby Moreno begins a six-city tour of Australia with two performances at The Fyrefly in St Kilda, Victoria, on Thursday and Friday. The tour continues with three sets at the Port Fairy Folk Festival in Victoria and concerts in Adelaide, Sydney, Gold Coast, and Brisbane.

Nonesuch Records returns to Come Together, a music festival and market presented by MoMA PS1 and Other Music, at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, NYC, over two days, Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24, 2019. Stop by the Nonesuch table to say hello and pick up copies of your favorite Nonesuch vinyl, limited-edition prints, tote bags, and more.

Rhiannon Giddens begins a duo tour of Ireland with Italian percussionist/accordionist Francesco Turrisi at The Sugar Club in Dublin tonight, followed by stops in Dún Laoghaire, Wexford, Tinahely, Limerick, Tralee, Clifden, Ennis, Letterkenny, Belfast, and Newbridge. "The ties that bind, and the bridges that unite us. These recurring themes form the basis of the musical alchemy that Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi revel in these days," says the Irish Times. "At the heart of the duo’s music is an intention to break down the othering that leads to walls being built, and tolls (both monetary and emotional) being taken."

Mountain Man, which resumes its first US tour in six years next week, has shared a video featuring a performance of the songs "Window" and "Moon"—both from the trio's Nonesuch debut album, Magic Ship—from a sold-out hometown show at the Haw River Ballroom in North Carolina from late last year. You can watch it here.

Yola was on NPR's Morning Edition to discuss her Dan Auerbach-produced debut album, Walk Through Fire, out now on Easy Eye Sound. "The way that [Yola] taps into the softer, more theatrical side of classic country and soul along with the grit isn't the expected approach in the Americana world she now calls home," says NPR's Jewly Hight. "But she's at the place in her career where she's not about to be boxed in." Listen again here.

Mountain Man plays the Ryman in Nashville with Kacey Musgraves … John Adams’s new opera gets European premiere … Sam Amidon is in California … Timo Andres performs in Brooklyn … Olivia Chaney kicks off UK tour … Jeremy Denk is in the Midwest … Kronos Quartet performs in Washington, DC … Brad Mehldau plays in London … Gaby Moreno is in Annapolis … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Minneapolis … Yola plays in-store in Dublin …

Olivia Chaney begins a tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland with a sold-out Whitstable Sessions Music Club set on Sunday. The tour includes concerts in London, Southampton, Cambridge, Bristol, Manchester, and Dublin, culminating in Belfast on March 29. Chaney performs on BBC Radio 3’s In Tune on Monday, March 4.

Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, is Saturday, April 13, 2019, and included among the special releases on that day is Emmylou Harris's The Studio Albums, 1980–83, a new vinyl collection featuring five classic titles—Roses in the Snow, Evangeline, Cimarron, Last Date, and White Shoes—plus a bonus 45 RPM of "That Lovin' Feeling Again” with Roy Orbison b/w "Mr. Sandman." The collection will receive a limited release of 1,100.

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records release Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Orange, performed by Attacca Quartet, on April 19, 2019. Orange, which features six of Shaw’s pieces for string quartet, is the first full-length album to exclusively feature her works and is the first release in a new partnership between the two record labels. The string quartet form "has existed for hundreds of years, but there's something, for me, beautiful and ritualistic about coming back to that form," says Shaw. "This album is a celebration of the simple, immediate, unadorned beauty of a natural, everyday, familiar thing." Nonesuch Store pre-orders include an instant download of the track "Plan & Elevation: IV. The Orangery" (a video for which may be seen here) and an exclusive print of a painting created and signed by Shaw and Attacca Quartet.

Mountain Man has released its take on two John Denver tunes: "Take Me Home, Country Roads" and "Around and Around." "We love John Denver so much we gave Alex his haircut, and recorded a few of his legendary tunes too," says the trio. "Have a listen! They are so sooooothing, we promise." Mountain Man Sings John Denver is available to download now and can be heard here; a 7" vinyl is due June 7 and may be pre-ordered now. The group tours the US starting in March.