Devendra Banhart, who recently made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his latest album, Mala, in March, closes out his five-week European summer tour with two performances in Portugal this weekend. He and his band—Noah Georgeson on guitar, Fabrizio Moretti on drums, Todd Dahlhoff on bass, and Joe Steinbrick and Rodrigo Amarante on guitars—perform a sold-out show at Casa Da Música in Porto tonight and a final set at the Belém Cultural Center (CCB) in Lisbon on Saturday. The European tour was preceded by a spring tour of the United States. Banhart is slated to perform next at the FYF Fest in Los Angeles on August 24.

Mala, Banhart’s eighth studio album, has been called a "triumph" by the Guardian, which gives it four stars, as does Q which calls this "enthralling" album a "career best." The New Yorker calls it a "thought-provoking joy."

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Sam Amidon resumes his European summer tour with a set at the OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland, on Sunday. The tour, featuring music from his recently released Nonesuch debut album, Bright Sunny South, continues in Europe through the end of the month then heads to the States in September.

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Jeremy Denk begins his two-day residency at the rustic Walk Festival Hall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, with a recital tonight and gives an encore performance on Saturday, as part of the Grand Teton Music Festival. Conducted by Ludovic Morlot, the program consists of overtures from Rossini’s William Tell and Schumann’s Manfred, as well as Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 (“Drum Roll”).

Denk makes his Australian debut later this month on a two-week tour of the country with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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Kronos Quartet, which recently completed five-day Kronos at 40 “festival within a festival” at Lincoln Center Out of Doors in New York City, is back in its home-state of California and for a two-night run at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in the Santa Cruz Civil Auditorium this weekend. On Saturday, Kronos joins the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra to perform film composer Thomas Newman’s It Got Dark, led by conductor Marin Alsop. On Sunday, the group’s eclectic program includes works by Michael Gordon, Pamela Z, and Yuri Boguinia, as well as Wagner’s Prelude from Tristan und Isolde, arranged for Kronos by Aleksandra Vrebalov; special guest Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ accompanies Kronos for three works on traditional Vietnamese instruments.

NPR’s Anastasia Tsioulcas, reviewing the opening-night event of Kronos at 40, describes the “fascination … in watching the four slip in and out of styles as easily as other people would change coats.” You can hear part of the performance from that Fela Kuti-inspired evening and read the full review at npr.org.

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Lianne La Havas concludes her brief North American tour with two festival sets this weekend: at the Osheaga Music and Arts Festival in Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau tonight and Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Sunday afternoon. Following her set on Lollapalooza’s Lake Shore stage, La Havas will autograph copies of her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, at the f.y.e. Autograph Tent.

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Audra McDonald performs a sold-out show at the Caramoor Venetian Theater in Katonah, New York, on Saturday. Joined by a jazz ensemble, she offers an intimate evening of favorite show tunes, classic standards, and original pieces, including songs from her latest Nonesuch album, Go Back Home. McDonald made a memorable guest turn on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, which you can watch here.

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Joshua Redman and his quartet, featuring Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers, and Gregory Hutchinson, travel to Newport, Rhode Island, for a Sunday afternoon set at the Newport Jazz Festival in Fort Adams State Park. For fans who can't make it to Newport, NPR Music will be streaming live from the festival, including the Redman Quartet set. 

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Allen Toussaint is in his hometown of New Orleans to help celebrate another native son, Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Toussaint performs at the Louisiana State Museum’s Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter tonight as part of the 13th-annual Satchmo SummerFest. He heads to New York next weekend to join Bobby Rush and others to close out the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival.

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Rokia Traoré performs a late-night set at Festival les Nuits Secrètes in Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, on Saturday, followed by a set at Festival Espéranzah in Floreffe, Belgium, on Sunday. Her new album, Beautiful Africa, was released internationally on Nonesuch Records to critical acclaim earlier this year and will be released in the US on September 24.

Reviewing her festival set at a rain-soaked WOMAD last weekend, the Guardian’s Caspar Smith reports “braving the elements again for Rokia Traoré,” who “ triumphed here with her band, encouraging the brave audience to shake their brollies in appreciation.”

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Sara Watkins continues the Radio Romance tour with Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion with three performances this weekend: at the Chautauqua Institution Ampitheater in Chautauqua, New York, tonight; the Community Arts Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on Saturday; and the Wharton Center for Performing Arts in East Lansing, Michigan, on Sunday. They round out the Radio Romance run with two more dates in Michigan next week.