Pat Metheny launches a tour of East Asia with bassist Larry Grenadier at the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, South Korea, tonight. They head next to Japan for three nights at the Blue Note in Nagoya starting Tuesday, followed by a week-long residency at the Blue Note in Tokyo starting next weekend. Last fall, Metheny and Grenadier toured the US as a duo and toured Europe as a trio with drummer Bill Stewart, which All About Jazz included among the Best Live Shows of 2011.

Grenadier just finished up a week-long residency with the Brad Mehldau Trio at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He can be heard on the recently released seven-disc box set with the Mehldau Trio, The Art of the Trio Recordings: 1996–2001.

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Laurie Anderson concludes her four-night residency at Theatre Junction Grand in Calgary, Albert, with performances of her new show, Another Day in America, tonight and tomorrow night. It's part of High Performance Rodeo, Calgary’s international festival of the arts, where she is artist-in-residence. On Sunday, Laurie Anderson stops by the Cantos Music Foundation and invites 15 people to join her on an interactive tour of the foundation's collection of more than 700 musical artifacts.

Earlier today, Laurie Anderson presented a lecture at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Four students from the school also began a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work alongside Anderson as part of a special two-day studio experience organized in partnership with Calgary’s one Yellow Rabbit Theatre and the High Performance Rodeo. These four students, selected from dozens of applicants, are acting as assistants in the development of Anderson’s upcoming exhibition The Gray Rabbit, which opens at Calgary's Glenbow Museum on Wednesday. Anderson will sit down with Glenbow Vice President Melanie Kjorlien on Tuesday for a public discussion at the museum and a preview of the exhibition.

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The Black Keys documentary This is a Concert by The Black Keys will air in high-definition on Palladia, MTV Network's channel for HD programming, tonight at 9 PM EST. The documentary was shot by MTV Hive during The Black Keys' concert at New York's Webster Hall last month celebrating the release of their new album, El Camino. The band beings their European tour a week from Monday.

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Shawn Colvin joins fellow Texan Lyle Lovett for a special concert at Austin's Paramount Theatre tonight to benefit Marathon Kids, which provides free running/walking, nutrition and schoolyard gardening programs for over 250,000 Texas children.

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Norwegian Wood, director Tran Anh Hung’s film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s bestselling novel, featuring a "hypnotic" (Wired) score by guitarist/composer Jonny Greenwood, continues its US theatrical debut, following last weekend's openings in New York City and Washington, DC, with new showings at the Indiescreen in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, this weekend. Additional openings for the film are scheduled in the coming weeks in Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, and more. The soundtrack is out now on Nonesuch Records.

Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver, material from which is included in Greenwood's score to the Paul Thomas Anderson film There Will Be Blood, is being performed by the South Carolina Philharmonic Saturday night in a concert at Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia, South Carolina. Also on the program are works by Brahms and Sibelius.

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Kronos Quartet is in Poland, to give that country's premiere of Steve Reich's WTC 9/11 at the Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdansk on Sunday. Also on the program is Clint Mansell's Requiem for a Dream Suite as well as additional Polish premieres of works by Bryce Dessner, Omar Souleyman, and more. The Quartet will give the French premiere of WTC 9/11 at Cité de la musique in Paris on Wednesday.

The latest Kronos album, Music of Vladimir Martynov, released earlier this week on Nonesuch, is now streaming in full on the group's website, kronosquartet.org.

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The Low Anthem launches its six-week tour supporting City and Colour across Canada and the northern US with a show at Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, on Monday.

Tune in to hear The Low Anthem perform on NPR's Mountain Stage, when an encore broadcast of band's set on the show airs on public radio stations across the US this weekend. Also on the show are Lucinda Williams, Red Horse (John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, and Eliza Gilkyson), Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, and Ivan & Alyosha.

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Audra McDonald continues her run as Bess in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, which officially began its Broadway run last night at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City.

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Natalie Merchant gives a special benefit concert at the Colonial Theatre in picturesque Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday to benefit NPR member station WAMC and the region's public radio network. Merchant performs with the Coriolan String Quartet. Ida band members Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton open the show and join Natalie on stage during her set as well.

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Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone give the final Broadway performance of their duo show An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin tonight at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, after which they will take the show back on the road, performing all next week at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Chris Thile, following his stellar performance with guitarist Michael Daves at The Allen Room in New York City last night as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, joins up with his fellow Punch Brothers for a week of tour dates in Europe, starting with two nights of sold-out shows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam Monday and Tuesday, supporting Amos Lee. The week's run includes additional shows with Lee in Paris and London, a headlining show at London's Bush Hall, and a set at Celtic Connections in Glasgow with label mates Carolina Chocolate Drops.