Shawn Colvin and Emmylou Harris conclude the Three Girls and Their Buddy tour with Patty Griffin and Buddy Miller tonight at the Britt Pavillion in Jackson, Oregon. Tonight's show follows two nights at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo this week. "The term 'hootenanny' was put out to pasture long ago," wrote Seattle Times arts critic Misha Berson in her review of the show, "but the four musicians who beguiled a meadow full of listeners at Woodland Park Zoo Wednesday night may want to revive it." Says Berson, "it was a delight, with all the charms of a good ol', between-friends song circle—led by some of our best troubadours, with fine odes to impart."

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Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe have wound their way through Continental Europe and head back up north for the final, UK leg of their tour together. Their first of two London gigs is on Sunday at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The tour continues through July 11 in Liverpool.

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Bill Frisell and his Quartet, featuring Tony Scherr, Rudy Royston, and Ron Miles, are on the road, stopping in Iowa City Sunday evening for the Iowa City Jazz Festival. As part of the free festival, the Quartet performs on the Main Stage at the Old Capitol Building.

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Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica close out the two-week Sigulda Festival in Sigulda, Latvia, with a Gala Concert at the Riga Dome Cathedral tonight. Next week, as festival season continues, the group takes up residence at the Lockenhaus Festival, a two-week affair in the Austrian Alps with Gidon at the helm.

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Kronos Quartet is in Duisburg, Germany, this weekend for the Traumzeit (Dreamtime) Festival at the Hochofen in the city's Landschaftspark. The group performs at the Kraftzentrale on Sunday. On the program are songs from Kronos's latest Nonesuch release, Floodplain, as well as works by Café Tacuba, Sigur Rós, and Bryce Dessner, the front man for The National.

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The Low Anthem returns to the UK after last weekend's Glastonbury performances, this time for the Wireless Festival in London's Hyde Park on Sunday. The Rhode Island band won't be in Britain for Independence Day, though, with a concert scheduled at Tivoli in Utrecht, Netherlands, on Saturday, opening for M. Ward.

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Brad Mehldau is traversing northern Italy solo for a few days before making his way south with the Trio at the start of next week. He plays the Rocca del Municipio in Busseto tonight, the Teatro in Bolzano on the Fourth, and Parco della Musica in Rome on Sunday.

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Joshua Redman is in residence at the Montreal International Jazz Festival with three concerts over three days, Saturday through Monday, starting with a sold-out Quartet show with Aaron Parks, Eric Harland, and Matt Penman at Gesù in the Centre de créativité. On Sunday, it's another sold-out performance at the venue, this time with the Quintet of Joe Lovano, Greg Hutchinson, Reuben Rogers, and Sam Yahel. Monday brings things to a close with a performance of the Compass double trio of Hutchinson, Rogers, Brian Blade, and Larry Grenadier at the Théâtre Maisonneuve.

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Oumou Sangare began a two-week tour of North America last night in Chicago's Millennium Park, performing songs from her latest album, Seya. Tonight, she joins Béla Fleck and his Africa Project at the Caramoor Festival's Venetian Theater in Katonah, New York, for the first of several performances together. On Saturday the Fourth, the group plays a free, outdoor show for the Cityfolk Festival at RiverScape MetroPark in Dayton, Ohio. On Sunday afternoon, it's another free, outdoor event at SummerStage in New York's Central Park, where the French-Chad group Les Nubians and Nigerian singer Asa will peform as well. Time Out New York calls Sangare "Africa's answer to Aretha Franklin—silky smooth one moment, and capable of soaring power the next. Her current album, Seya, translates as 'joy,' a perfect summation of her music."

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Allen Toussaint closes out his set of Sunday shows at Joe's Pub in New York City with a noon performance there this weekend.

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Wilco celebrates the Fourth of July with a couple of days off the road on their tour of the US. Tonight's concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, marks the last with opener Okkervil River. Next week's show at Wolf Trap outside DC begins a string of dates with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band opening.