Nickel Creek—Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins—is a guest on CBS This Morning on Saturday and, later that afternoon, joins Garrison Keillor and the folks from A Prairie Home Companion for a live broadcast performance from The Town Hall in New York City on Saturday. The Grammy Award–winning, multi-platinum selling trio, which performed on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, continues to celebrate the release of its new album, A Dotted Line. 

In addition to Thile and the Watkins siblings, all of whom are frequent guests on A Prairie Home Companion (Sara having been its first-ever guest host), the show includes regular favorites the Royal Academy of Radio Actors, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Fred Newman, the duo Pharis and Jason Romero, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. Tune in to the broadcast on public radio stations across the US and streaming live online at prairiehome.org.

Nickel Creek soon takes its music on the road, launching a US tour on April 16 that includes shows in New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, and more.

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As noted earlier today in the Nonesuch Journal, Bombino kicks off a North American tour at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia, tonight, on a double bill with Fatoumata Diawara. The singer/guitarists co-headline two sets in the North Garden of the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, closing out the penultimate night of the festival, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. On Saturday, Bombino and his band head south to the TransAtlantic Festival, offering a set at the North Beach Bandshell in Miami Beach. His tour continues out West in the weeks ahead.

Fatoumata Diawara, meanwhile, brings the music of her debut album, Fatou, up north to the Apollo Theater in New York City on Saturday, celebrating the contemporary African music scene as part of the four-day festival Africa Now!.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops continue the Northeastern leg of their US tour at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday and at the Carnegie Library Music Hall of Homestead in Munhall, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

Following a stop in Washington, DC, and one more in Pennsylvania, the Chocolate Drops perform at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City on Thursday. In addition to music from their two Nonesuch albums, the show features the world premiere of “Cornbread Duet,” a dance work by the iconic choreographer Twyla Tharp, set to a suite of songs by the band and featuring New York City Ballet principals Tiler Peck and Robert Fairchild. This performance serves as a precursor to BAM’s larger celebration of Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary to come.

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Shawn Colvin offers a two-night run at SPACE in Evanston, Illinois, tonight and Saturday. Bringing with her the music of her latest Nonesuch album, All Fall Down, and songs from throughout her storied career, Colvin continues her solo tour through the end of the month, and she rejoins fellow singer-songwriter Steve Earle for a new round of duo dates out West on May 17.

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Jeremy Denk makes his Tucson Symphony Orchestra debut when he joins the TSO and conductor George Hanson for the orchestra premiere performance of Mozart’s Piano concert No. 25 at the Tucson Music Hall in Arizona tonight and on Sunday afternoon, as a part of the orchestra’s Classic Series. "It's a very special piece for me," Denk tells the Arizona Daily Star. "It has a kind of uncanny beauty."

Also on the program are selections from Wagner’s operas: the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin and The Ring Without Words, an instrumental distillation of Wagner’s emblematic Ring Cycle themes. Denk and Hanson discuss the pieces in a pre-concert talk.

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Emmylou Harris, who had a birthday this past Wednesday, launched her international Wrecking Ball tour with Daniel Lanois, along with Jim Wilson on guitar and Steven Nistor on drums, at The Wiltern in Los Angeles last night. The tour, which takes the band up to San Francisco for an all-ages show at The Warfield on Saturday, celebrates the reissue of Harris’s groundbreaking, Lanois-produced album, due out on Tuesday on Nonesuch Records. The new three-disc set features the remastered original album, a bonus CD of previously unreleased material, and a DVD of the documentary Building the Wrecking Ball.

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Kronos Quartet offers a meditation on World War I at the University of California’s Hertz Hall in Berkeley on Sunday, continuing its exploration into works centered on war and its consequences. As part of the Cal Performances 2013–14 concert season, in which Kronos is Artist-in-Resident, the program features the world premiere of Beyond Zero: 1914–1918, a multimedia commission from Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov, filmmaker Bill Morrison, and Iraq War veteran-turned-visual artist Drew Cameron of the Combat Paper Project. The piece commemorates the centennial of the outbreak of The Great War and includes rare sonic and visual footage from the Library of Congress. The preceding half of the concert comprises “Prelude to a Black Hole,” a quilt of works from that same time period by composers Webern, Ives, Wiley, Stravinsky, Ravel, and Rachmaninov, as well as a Byzantine chant, a traditional Greek song, and Cemil Bey’s “Evic Taksim,” which is featured on Kronos’s forthcoming album, A Thousand Thoughts. In conjunction with the premiere of Beyond Zero, Kronos works with UC Berkeley to provide lecture-demonstrations, symposia, forums, master classes, and more for the university.

Nonesuch celebrates the group’s 40th anniversary year with the release of A Thousand Thoughts and the Kronos Explorer Series box set, which comprises five classic albums from five different parts of the world, a testament to the Quartet’s “extraordinarily fertile globe-trotting vein,” as recently described by the New York Times. Both albums will be available on Tuesday.

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The Brad Mehldau Trio follows a special concert with labelmate and friend Joshua Redman at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Wednesday night with two more California concerts this weekend: at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz tonight and the SF JAZZ Center in San Francisco on Saturday. The Trio, which kicked off its North American tour earlier this week, performs at the Boulder Theatre in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday, before travelling to the Midwest and the South in the weeks ahead.

“Amid sparkling Fender Rhodes, burbling synthesizers and restless electronic rhythms, Mehliana is a strange and shifty venture into starry-eyed space-funk,” writes the Los Angeles Times of Mehldau’s electric duo with Mark Guiliana, which recently released its debut album, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, on Nonesuch.

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Joshua Redman Quartet—Aaron Goldberg on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Gregory Hutchinson on drums—rounds out the current leg of its tour with two sold-out sets at Outpost Performance Space in Albuquerque tonight.

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Rokia Traoré continues her tour of France with a performance at Le Rocher de Palmer in Cenon outside Bordeaux tonight.