Lianne La Havas launches a brief, six-city North American summer tour on the East Coast this weekend with an all-ages set at Baltimore’s Soundstage tonight. She then makes her way to New York City to headline a free show at Central Park SummerStage Saturday night. The show also includes performances from LP and Quadron, and a set from DJ Center. The New York Times recommends the SummerStage show, citing La Havas's “silky vibrato and rich, husky timbre.”

Fans across the country can catch La Havas bright and early Saturday morning as she performs songs from her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, on CBS This Morning. Tune in then to see her perform the album’s title track and the song “Age” live in the CBS studio.

On Sunday, Lianne La Havas heads to Camden, New Jersey, to perform an afternoon set in Wiggins Park, as part of the XPoNential Music Festival, presented by Philadelphia NPR member station WXPN. The tour continues in the week ahead with a show in Northampton, Massachusetts, and sets at the Osheaga Festival in Montreal and, finally, Lollapalooza in Chicago.

As part of the Summer Music Series from the online retailer The Cools, La Havas has curated her own fashion boutique on the site, where she also shares some thoughts on her music and style. Elle magazine, covering the collaboration, says her “infectious folk tracks, soulful voice, and flair for avant-garde onstage ensembles make her a fitting first pick for The Cools.”

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Devendra Banhart, following last night’s concert supporting Neil Young at Piazza Napoleone in Lucca, Italy, joins the iconic rocker for another open-air concert in Italy, at Ippodromo delle Capannelle in Rome tonight, as part of Rock in Roma. Banhart stays on in Italy to perform at CarroPonte in Milan on Saturday before rounding out his European summer tour with dates in Spain and Portugal next weekend. The tour features music from Banhart’s recently released Nonesuch debut album, Mala.

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Björk ventures high up in the mountains to perform at the Naeba Ski Resort in Yuzawa, Japan, on Saturday, as part of the Fuji Rock Festival, billed as the largest outdoor music event in Japan.

Björk’s latest album, Biophilia, is the impetus behind the new documentary When Björk Met Attenborough, which will premiere on Channel 4 in the UK on Saturday. In the film, Björk and broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough explore their mutual passion for music and nature, the intersection of which is at the heart of Biophilia. Neurologist Oliver Sacks joins the two to discuss the beneficial effects that music has on the brain. Attenborough can be heard on the suite of apps Björk has released as part of the Biophilia project.

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Bombino plays three festival sets this weekend: two at FloydFest Music & Arts Festival in Floyd, Virginia—on the Dreaming Creek Main Stage this afternoon, and the Streamline Stage at Hill Holler on Saturday—followed by the Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, on Sunday. Bombino concludes the East Coast leg of his tour in Brooklyn on Tuesday before closing out his US tour in California with shows in Los Angeles and San Francisco in August.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops stay on in Colorado for two shows this weekend: a free set on the Gondola Square Stage in Steamboat Springs early this evening, and in Lyons on Saturday as part of the RockyGrass Festival.

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Dr. John also offers two outdoor sets this weekend: a free set at Copley Square in Boston tonight, as part of the Boston Summer Arts Weekend, and at Wiggins Park on the Camden waterfront in New Jersey on Saturday afternoon, for the XPoNential Music Festival.

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Emmylou Harris joins Joan Baez and Jackson Browne at San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California, on Saturday for an acoustic evening to benefit Downtown Streets Team, a non-profit organization aimed at eliminating homelessness. Harris and Rodney Crowell launch the next leg of their Old Yellow Moon tour in September.

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Iron and Wine’s Sam Beam celebrates his birthday today presenting a screening of the Cassavetes film A Woman Under the Influence at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas, The following night, Iron and Wine returns to the Paramount to perform his annual benefit concert for the Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA); Austin artist Girl Pilot begins the evening with a short set. Beam and the band kick off the next leg of their North American tour, featuring music from their Nonesuch debut album, Ghost on Ghost, in September.

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Kronos at 40, a five-day series of free events co-curated by Kronos Quartet as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival in New York City, began on Wednesday and continues through the weekend with performances across the Lincoln Center campus.

Found Sound Nation, a “mobile production team” of musicians and artists stationed at Josie Robertson Plaza, kick things off this afternoon, followed by the Chinese American Arts Council’s presentation of the musical theater piece Romance of the Iron Bow on Hearst Plaza, after which Kronos joins Magda Giannikou, Vân-Ánh Võ, and Irish string quartet The Gloaming to perform on the Damrosch Park Bandshell.

Saturday is Family Day, featuring a performance from The Brooklyn Youth Chorus; a play-along concert with Kronos and Craig Woodson; Face the Music’s young Pannonia Quartet performing pieces originally composed for the Quartet, including Steve Reich’s Different Trains; the New York debut of Ozomatli’s family-friendly off-shoot OzoKidz; and a tribute to Lead Belly from kids music superstar Dan Zanes. That night, Ozomatli retakes the stage for a border-crossing set of hip-hop and rock, funk, salsa, cumbia, and more

On Sunday, following simultaneous parades from Jacob Garchik's “atheist trombone shout choir” and Bang on a Can’s mobile ensemble Asphalt Orchestra, Asphalt performs The Pixies’ seminal album Surfer Rosa and Kronos Quartet gives a full set with special guests Dan Deacon and Jherek Bischoff.

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Randy Newman, recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performs at the Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre in Portland tonight as part of the zoo’s summer concert series.

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Argentine composer and pianist Fernando Otero and his trio, featuring Gabriell Fink on violin and Adam Fisher on viola, perform the music of his 2008 Nonesuch album Pagina de Buenos Aires at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City on Sunday.

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Rokia Traoré performs two festival sets this weekend: at WOMAD in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, UK, on Saturday, and the Paléo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland, on Sunday. (Unfortunately, her set at the Nuits Atypiques festival in Langon, France, tonight was canceled due to weather concerns.) Traoré’s new album, Beautiful Africa, released internationally earlier this year to critical acclaim, will be released in the US on September 24 and is available to pre-order now.

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Sara Watkins performs one last summer festival set of her own, at the Ossippee Valley Music Festival tonight, before hitting the road with Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion for their Radio Romance tour. First up is the Bangor Waterfront Pavilion in Bangor, Maine, on Saturday, followed by the Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, on Sunday.

Fans across the US can hear Sara Watkins perform on this week’s broadcast of NPR’s Mountain Stage, featuring songs from her latest Nonesuch album, Sun Midnight Sun, and her self-titled debut. On the same program are Rodney Crowell, Lucero, and The Lost Brothers.