The Edinburgh International Festival, which opened with a performance of John Adams’s El Niño last weekend, continues, with Kronos Quartet performing at The Usher Hall in in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Saturday. The program features Aleksandra Vrebalov’s ... hold me, neighbor, in this storm ..., which can be heard on the group's latest Nonesuch album, Floodplain, and two works integral to their rich repertoire: Steve Reich’s Different Trains and George Crumb’s Black Angels. The List, previewing the show, explains: "Suffice to say, Kronos are no ordinary string quartet." Earlier in the day, Kronos will participate in a discussion of their music, also part of the festival, taking place at The Hub.

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Shawn Colvin performs at the Denver Botanic Gardens as part of the Gardens' York Street concert series tonight, along with Loudon Wainwright III. 

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Richard Goode is in London to perform at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms on Sunday. Goode joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor David Robertson for Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The Boston Globe recently wrote of Goode’s performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and conductor Christoph von Dohnányi at Tanglewood, describing the pianist as “providing a characteristically lucid and tasteful take on one of the composer’s less frequently performed concertos.” 

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The Low Anthem continues its European tour this weekend. The group plays at Restaurant Viadukt in Zurich, Switzerland, tonight, followed by two festival appearances: Saturday they play to a sold-out crowd at Pukkelpop in Keiwit Hasselt, Belgium, and Sunday they perform at the Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands.

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Natalie Merchant's US tour makes two stops in Texas this weekend: at the Paramount Theatre in Austin tonight and the Verizon Wireless Theater in Houston on Saturday. As noted earlier in the Nonesuch Journal, her performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival earlier this month will be featured on Sky Arts TV's first program covering the festival, airing Saturday night in the UK. The program also includes performances by Carolina Chocolate Drops and Rokia Traoré, and an interview with the former. The Arizona Republic, reviewing Merchant's recent show in Phoenix, says: "Her ambitious touring and recording project shows an artist who continues to evolve and push herself."

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Wilco front man Jeff Tweedy headlines the Philadelphia Folk Festival at Old Pool Farm in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Last weekend, Tweedy and the rest of the band curated their inaugural Solid Sound Festival, which featured each of the band members’ side projects, at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams. New York Times critic Nate Chinen said the festival “had a strong center of gravity, a spirit of communion between the band and its fans.” You can read more and see a slideshow of photos from the event at nytimes.com.

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Dawn Upshaw performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, led by Ludovic Morlot, tonight at the Tanglewood Music Festival's Koussevitzky Music Shed. On the program are works by Mozart, Canteloube, Golijov, and Ravel. 

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Sara Watkins and her tour mates on the Summer Love tour—Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion—head southwest this weekend. They perform at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, tonight; the Pine Mountain Amphitheater in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Saturday; and the Red Butte Garden Amphitheater in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Sunday.