The 2011 Green River Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend, and three Nonesuch artists will be there to perform on the festival's main stage: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Wanda Jackson, and Emmylou Harris. The festival, which takes place on the grounds of Greenfield Community College off the, yes, Green River in Greenfield, Massachusetts, is said to be the area's biggest outdoor event of the summer.

Carolina Chocolate Drops are the first of the three artists to perform, with a 4:10 PM set on Saturday. Wanda Jackson hits the stage at 2:40 PM on Sunday, before Emmylou Harris closes out the festival with a 6:25 PM headlining performance Sunday.

For more information, visit greenriverfestival.com.

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As part of the Lincoln Center Festival's Bruckner (R)evolution series in New York, the Cleveland Orchestra has "audaciously coupled" (New York Times) John Adams's orchestral works with four of Anton Bruckner's symphonies. The series began earlier this week, with performances of Guide to Strange Places on Wednesday and Violin Concerto, with violinist Leila Josefowicz, on Thursday. The final performance takes place this Sunday, when the orchestra performs what the New Yorker calls two "two mercurial and fascinating works": Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony and Bruckner's final, unfinished symphony, No. 9.

Adams appeared on WNYC's Soundcheck yesterday to discuss the series. You can listen to the segment here:

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Björk closes out her three-week residency at the Manchester International Festival with the last of six sold-out performances of music from Biophilia, her forthcoming Nonesuch release. She takes the stage at the Museum of Science and Industry's Campfield Market Hall in Manchester, England, Saturday night. Björk returns to the UK to perform at the Bestival on the Isle of Wight in September and begins her next Biophilia residency in her hometown of Reykjavik in October as part of the Iceland Airwaves festival.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops have a full weekend ahead, beginning with their show tonight at Oneonta Theatre in Oneonta, New York, with special guests Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton. Following their aforementioned Green River Festival set on Saturday, the band heads to the opposite end of Massachusetts on Sunday for a performance on Cape Cod at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in Truro.

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Ben Folds's US summer tour takes him to the Southwest this weekend, with a performance at The Cosmopolitan's Boulevard Pool in Las Vegas tonight and at the Rialto Theater in Tuscon, Arizona, on Saturday. He is joined each night by opener Kenton Chen, the music director of The Backbeats, former contestants on NBC's The Sing-Off, of which Folds is a judge.

Beatweek's Dana Feldman, in a preview of tonight's show, says of the songs on Folds's 2010 Nonesuch release, Lonely Avenue, featuring lyrics by Nick Hornby: "Each is intelligent, funny, heartbreaking and relatable. Accompanied with Folds’ perfect virtuosity at the piano, this album is ever-inventive alternative-rock with depth to the lyrics that are rare in pop songs." Feldman says it's "simply smart, profane, poignant, insightful prose set to impeccable music."

Tulsa Today praises Folds's recent performance at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa: "If you missed the show, you really missed a unique experience." Those in attendance "were treated to a one-of-kind experience that could only be brought to you by Ben Folds and company."

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Richard Goode has returned to the Marlboro Music Festival as its co-artistic director with fellow pianist Mitsuko Uchida. At Marlboro Music, which began one month ago, exceptional young professional musicians learn by playing together with master artists. Marlboro's 60th anniversary season includes five weekends of public concerts beginning this Saturday and concluding on Sunday, August 14. For information and tickets, visit marlboromusic.com.

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Emmylou Harris performs at Greek Peak in Cortland, New York, tonight, before her Green River Festival headlining slot on Sunday. Of her set at last weekend's Dave Matthews Band Caravan, the Chicago Tribune writes: "Achy, sympathetic and warm, Harris' quivering whippoorwill voice was the most effortlessly beautiful sound heard at the festival." Time Out Chicago reports that with "one of the most affecting, magical, clear and true voices in popular music," according to , Harris "proved the perfect act for a mellow festival afternoon."

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Wanda Jackson has a UK performance tonight at Henham Park in Southwold, Suffolk, as a part of this year's Latitude Festival, before heading back to the states for the Green River Festival on Sunday. The Ottawa Citizen says Jackson's recent Quebec Summer Festival set "proves she's still loud, clamorous and amorous."

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Kronos Quartet is in France this weekend for the Festivale de Saint Riquier, performing at the Saint-Riquier Abbatiale Saturday night. On the program are works by Laurie Anderson, Bryce Dessner, Michael Gordon, Café Tacuba, Sigur Rós, and more.

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k.d. lang and the Siss Boom Bang hit the 2011 Appalachian Summer Festival tonight with a performance at Appalachian State University's Farthing Auditorium in Boone, North Carolina. The Belle Brigade opens.

The Boston Globe's Jonathan Perry found last weekend's performance at the South Shore Music Circus "utterly riveting." He writes: "At the heart of it all, of course, was lang’s crystalline voice. Smooth as glass, sweet as nectar, and purer than most people’s intentions, the embracing instrument was equally adept at plumbing the choked emotional depths of the new 'Perfect Word,' as well as scaling the rarified peaks of 'Heaven,' the Talking Heads tune gorgeously reimagined as a blissful country hymn replete with [band member Fred] Eltringham’s brushed drums and Daniel Clark’s after-hours keyboards." Read the complete review at boston.com.

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Jessica Lea Mayfield continues her tour with the Avett Brothers with a full weekend on the West Coast: at Comcast Arena in Everett, Washington, tonight; LB Day Comcast Amphitheatre in Salem, Oregon, on Saturday; and Britt Pavilion in Jacksonville, Oregon, on Sunday.

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Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman continue their European duo tour with two performances in France this weekend: at the Théâtre de la Mer in Sète tonight for the Jazz à Sète Festival tonight and the Grand Théâtre Romain de Fourviere in Lyon on Saturday.

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Punch Brothers give a free performance on Saturday at the SolShine Music Festival in Winter Park, Colorado. They hit the stage in Hideaway Park at 4 PM.

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Allen Toussaint is joined by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Buckwheat Zydeco for An Evening with Louisiana's Finest at the Denver Botanic Gardens tonight.

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Sara Watkins joins the Paul F. Tompkins Show at the Largo at the Coronet in West Hollywood, California, on Saturday. The show is billed as a 21st-century update of the classic variety show, featuring musical and comedy talents. Also performing is her fellow Nickel Creek alum and brother, Sean Watkins.