Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell and their band continue on their North American tour celebrating the release of their new duets album, Old Yellow Moon, released late last month on Nonesuch Records. The tour, which also features co-headliner Richard Thompson with his Electric Trio, began earlier this week and continues into April. This weekend brings the musicians north of the 49th parallel for a performance at Massey Hall in Toronto, followed by a return to the States for shows at Boston's Orpheum Theatre on Saturday and at The Paramount in Huntington, New York, on Sunday. The Northeastern leg continues into next week with stops in Philadelphia and at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

Harris spoke with the New York Times in advance of the New York-area concert, in a conversation about the collaboration with Crowell and much more. Read the interview at nytimes.com.

Old Yellow Moon marks the first official collaboration of Harris and Crowell since Crowell joined Harris’ Hot Band in 1975. Uncut calls it "a collaboration at once overdue, and worth the wait." The Chicago Tribune says it's "an album that's smart from top to bottom. Harris and Crowell are hard-wired for good taste and seem constitutionally incapable of making a weak record."

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The staged production of John Adams's new oratorio, The Gospel According to the Other Mary, receives its French premiere at Salle Pleyel in Paris Saturday night in a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The production was direct by Adams's frequent collaborator Peter Sellars.

The Times of London gives a perfect five stars to last weekend's European premiere of the piece at the Barbican, lauding the "richness and variety of Adams's masterly score." The Guardian, in its four-star review, concludes that "everything about the performance under Dudamel was vivid and immaculate; musically it was a remarkable occasion."

The Los Angeles Philharmonic brings The Gospel According to the Other Mary production back to the States next week for its New York premiere at Lincoln Center on Wednesday.

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Nataly Dawn continues her spring headline tour with a two-night residency at the Wise Fools Pub in Chicago tonight and Saturday. The tour features music from Dawn's just-released Nonesuch debut album, How I Knew Her, as well as some duo collaborations with Lauren O’Connell.

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Jeremy Denk's solo recital tour takes him back home to New York City for a performance in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium tonight; Denk made his Stern Auditorium solo debut in 2011. The program features Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111—which he performs on his 2012 Nonesuch debut Ligeti/Beethoven—as well as works by Liszt, Bartók, and Bach. The tour continues with two performances in Virginia: at VCU's Sonia Vlahcevic Concert Hall in Richmond on Sunday and the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg on Sunday. Denk is featured in the April issue of Vanity Fair, which dubs him a musical "frontiersman."

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Following last night's performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Lianne La Havas continues the West Coast leg of her month-long North American tour with two-sold out shows this weekend: at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall and at the Crocodile Café in Seattle. The tour features music from La Havas's debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?

On Monday, fans around the world can catch La Havas perform live from the Bing Lounge in Portland, Oregon, at noon PST streaming online at alphabroadcasting.com/binglive.

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Kronos Quartet returns to the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts in Long Beach, California, on Saturday to perform Terry Riley’s Sun Rings, a multi-media piece originally commissioned by NASA. Kronos will be joined for the performance by the CSULB University Choir, led by conductor Dr. Jonathan Talberg. The Long Beach Post, in a preview of Saturday's concert, declares: "The history of Kronos Quartet is the history of modern music."

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Brad Mehldau continues his Mehliana duo tour with drummer Mark Guiliana in two Scandinavian shows this weekend: at the Park Hotel Vossevangen in Voss, Norway, tonight, and the Jazzclub Fashing in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday. The tour continues through next week. Mehldau returns to the States for a duo tour with label mate Chris Thile in April.

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Natalie Merchant joins the Charlotte Symphony for a performance at the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday. The show features favorites from throughout Merchant’s career, including selections from her Nonesuch debut album, Leave Your Sleep.

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Punch Brothers may not be on tour right now, but fans across the United States can catch an encore presentation of their performance on Austin City Limits airing on PBS stations this weekend.

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Joshua Redman and his quartet, featuring Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers, and Kendrick Scott, travel to San Juan for the Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest on Saturday.

Redman’s forthcoming album, Walking Shadows, produced by friend and collaborator Brad Mehldau, will be released on Nonesuch in May and is now available to pre-order in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the Redman-penned track “Final Hour."

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Allen Toussaint returns to his Crescent City hometown to join fellow soul musicians like Irma Thomas and Ellis Marsalis for the Wessell “Warmdaddy” Anderson Benefit Concert at the Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans on Saturday. Toussaint made his Nonesuch album debut with the 2009 release of The Bright Mississippi, a salute to his New Orleans forebears.

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Sara Watkins continues her US tour with two shows in the Northeast this weekend: at the New Hope Winery just across the Delaware River from New Jersey border in New Hope, Pennsylvania, tonight, and at The Egg's Sawyer Theatre in Albany, New York, on Saturday.