This President's Day weekend, Punch Brothers kick off their North American tour at Appalachian State University’s Farthing Auditorium in Boone, North Carolina, tonight, following the release of their new album, Who’s Feeling Young Now?, earlier this week. The band takes the stage at the Brooklyn Arts Center in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday and then proceeds on to play a sold-out show at the Jefferson Center's Shaftman Performance Hall in Roanoke, Virginia, on Sunday. The band will also play an intimate invite-only show for winners of the album pre-order contest at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City Monday night.

Speaking of New York City, Punch Brothers appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday night to perform the song, a track off their new album. You can watch it here.
And Chris Thile spoke with Spinner about the album for an interview you can read at spinner.com.

Who’s Feeling Young Now? was released to critical acclaim, with the Guardian, in a four-star review, calling them "a remarkable band," Paste suggesting they “may have just crafted a masterpiece," and the New York Times describing their take on Radiohead's "Kid A" as "mind-boggling."

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Sérgio & Odair Assad perform tonight at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley, California. Their performance last week at Jordan Hall featured a full Brazilian program, described by the Boston Classical Review as a historical survey with "an elegant mix of musical insight and the understated power of the classical guitar."

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Björk concludes the first leg of her New York Biophilia residency at the New York Hall of Science in Queens tomorrow night. Next week, she begins the Manhattan leg of the residency with the first of five shows at Roseland Ballroom.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops continue their US tour, featuring music from their forthcoming album, Leaving Eden, this weekend, playing at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre in West Long Branch, New Jersey, tonight. Fittingly for this President's Day weekend, the group heads to Washington, DC, for a free performance/workshop at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium on Saturday afternoon and then to Tallahassee, Florida, for a show at Florida State University's Ruby Diamond Auditorium on Sunday for the Seven Days of Opening Nights festival.

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Emmylou Harris performs as the closing act in a Warren Hellman tribute concert this Sunday. This free, all-day event will take place on the Great Highway by Ocean Beach in San Francisco, California, and will also be streamed live online at strictlybluegrass.com starting at 11 AM PT. Among the day's other performers are John Doe, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, The Wronglers with Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gillian Welch, Boz Scaggs, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Robert Earl Keen.

The show honors Warren Hellman, the late founder and sponsor of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, who died last December. Harris has performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free, annual music festival held each fall in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, since it began in 2001. She also performed at Hellman's memorial service last December, which you can watch at strictlybluegrass.com.

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Dr. John plays tonight and Saturday at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre with his band, The Lower 911, for the last two nights of his East Asia tour. Dr. John will lead a three-weekend residency at the Brooklyn Academy of Music starting March 29. The BAM performances will include three shows with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, who produced Dr. John’s new album, Locked Down, due out April 3.

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Kronos Quartet performs with the Alim Qasimov Ensemble—the Azeribaijani group featured on Kronos’ 2009 album Floodplain—at Emory University’s Concert Hall in Atlanta, Georgia, tonight, and at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, Maryland, on Saturday. Kronos opens tonight’s show with their own set, including the Philip Glass arrangement of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” (which they perform on the new Amnesty International benefit album Chimes of Freedom), followed by a set from the ensemble. After the intermission, the two groups will join for a set of works arranged by Alim Qasimov, with string quartet parts arranged for Kronos by Jacob Garchik.

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The Low Anthem continues its North American tour with City and Colour with a concert tonight at Métropolis in Montreal, Saturday at the Grand Théâtre de Québec in Quebec City, and Monday at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in Halifax.

The Low Anthem recently spoke with NEA Arts magazine, which describes them as "one of the most innovative bands working today." Listen to the interview and see a slideshow of live performance shots at arts.gov.

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Joshua Redman continues his tour through Europe with his Trio, featuring bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, playing at Salon in Istanbul, Turkey, both tonight and Saturday. On Sunday, Redman takes the Trio to Tbilisi, Georgia, to play a show at the Tbilisi Event Hall.

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Allen Toussaint performs at Florida State University’s Ruby Diamond Concert Hall in Tallahassee tonight as a part of the Seven Days of Opening Nights festival series. Tonight’s performance will also feature Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue as guests.

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Dawn Upshaw joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra again for another performance at the Ordway Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday. The French-themed program features Upshaw on Ravel’s Five Greek Folk Songs, and Debussy’s Le Livre de Baudelaire, arranged for orchestra by John Adams.