Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, and John Zorn perform in the Concert for Japan, presented by Japan Society in New York City on Saturday. The 12-hour marathon event will also feature performances by Lou Reed, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hal Willner, and others, with 100% of the proceeds going to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund, which will benefit organizations that directly help people affected by the earthquake and tsunamis that struck Japan.

Additional activities will be available for all ages, including making paper cranes and washi lanterns for good luck, basic Japanese language classes, and access to the new Japan Society exhibit, Bye Bye Kitty!!!.

Tickets are sold out for Anderson's concert but remain available for other events that day. For more information, visit japansociety.org. The Concert for Japan will be streaming live in its entirety at ustream.tv/japansociety.

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The Carolina Chocolate Drops can be seen on the latest episode of Wisconsin Public Television's 30 Minute Music Hour, hosted by "Colonel" Andy Moore, on Saturday afternoon. The show will be streamed live online at wpt.org about 2:15 ET.

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Ben Folds performs at Appalachian State University's Farthing Auditorium in Boone, North Carolina, his home state, on Sunday, followed by two shows in Virginia next week.

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Emmylou Harris performs at the Blue Jean Gala, an annual benefit for Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, where the show takes place on Saturday. Proceeds from this event provide support for the Old Town School's outreach initiatives, student financial aid, and an array of education and performance programs.

The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot selects it as a Top Weekend Show. Says Kot: "The marvelous Nashville-based singer has forged a career that has skirted the edges of country convention while carrying forward the maverick soul of her ‘70s collaborator Gram Parsons."

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Kronos Quartet performs an all-American program at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Dekelboum Concert Hall in College Park, Maryland, on Sunday. Featured on the program is Steve Reich's latest piece, WTC 9/11, which Kronos gave its West Coast premiere in what the Los Angeles Times calls a "gripping performance" earlier this week. Also on the program are Laurie Anderson's "Flow," off her latest Nonesuch album, Homeland, and Harry Partch's U.S. Highball, among others.

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The Low Anthem is wrapping up its European tour, with support from The Head and the Heart, at shows at the St. Phillip’s Church in Manchester tonight, Vicar Street in Dublin on Sunday, and a sold-out tour closer at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London on Monday. As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, the video for "Boeing 737," off The Low Anthem's new album, Smart Flesh, premiered on spin.com.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield follows last night's performance in Newport, Kentucky, with two more stops in the state this weekend: at Cosmic Charlie's in Lexington tonight and at Headliners in Louisville on Saturday. Kentucky is home to singer-songwriter Daniel Martin Moore, who's supporting Mayfield on the tour. While in Louisville, Mayfield will give a free in-store performance at ear X-tacy record store Saturday afternoon.

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The Brad Mehldau Trio continues its Midwest tour with performances at Missouri's University of Columbia tonight, as part of the “We Always Swing” jazz series, and at the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Sunday. After tour stops in Evanston and Bloomington next week, the Trio heads to the West Coast for shows at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle and at Largo in Los Angeles, which has just added a second set from the group Thursday night.

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Dawn Upshaw joins the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Christoph Eschenbach, in performances of Osvaldo Golijov's She Was Here and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 at The Kennedy Center on Friday and Saturday nights. The shows follow last night's premiere of the program at The Kennedy Center. The Washington Post, in its review of last night's show, says the program was "filled with music that was at once attractive, impressive and full of content, both coordinating and contrasting."

Upshaw heads next to New York City, where she and composer Donnacha Dennehy lead a Professional Training Workshop presented by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in partnership with The Bard College Conservatory of Music. The two will mentor four composers and ten singers in creating new vocal music. The participants will premiere their new works in Zankel Hall, led by conductor Alan Pierson. Nonesuch releases its first recording of music by Dennehy, Grá agus Bás, on May 3, featuring the title piece and the song cycle That the Night Come, the latter sung by Upshaw.