Carolina Chocolate Drops have arrived in Tampa, Florida, where they perform two shows for area radio station WMNF’s Tropical Heatwave, an annual music event now in its 30th year, with more than 50 bands on nine stages. The Chocolate Drops’ Tropical Heatwave set takes place on Saturday in El Pesaje Plaza, with a special preview show to come tonight at Skipper’s Smokehouse in the Heatwave Warm-Up Party.

The band heads next to Oklahoma City for a Sunday night performance at the Rose State College Performing Arts Theatre, as part of the OK Mozart Festival. The festival continues with a show at the Bartlesville Community Center in Bartlesville on Monday.

After launching a worldwide search, fans on Facebook and the band's site have chosen the winning entry in the contest to find the perfect Carolina Chocolate Drops logo. The image, designed by Erica Braun, will be featured on new band merchandise available soon. "From the bottom of our hearts," the Drops say, "thank you designers for your submissions, fans for your votes, and everyone involved for making this contest so successful!"

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Timothy Andres joins the Red Light new-music ensemble for the world premiere performances of Christopher Cerrone’s opera Invisible Cities at the Italian Academy at Columbia University in New York City tonight and Saturday. This is the first staged operatic adaptation of the Italo Calvino novel.

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Shawn Colvin performs at the Horseshow Bay Resort in Horseshoe Bay, Texas Saturday evening on the closing night of the Cherokee Creek Music Festival.

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James Farm launches its world tour with two shows at Reading 3 in Tel Aviv, Israel, this weekend, Saturday and Sunday nights.

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Ben Folds kicked off his tour of Australia earlier this week with a performance at the Royal Theatre in Sydney. There's more music making in Sydney with two shows at the State Theatre tonight and tomorrow. Australian singer/songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke supports.

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Philip Glass, who was recently celebrated at The Kitchen's 40th anniversary gala benefit, performs with violinist Tim Fain at the Zeeuwse Concertzaal in Middelburg, Netherlands, Saturday and Sunday.

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Emmylou Harris joins family and fellow friends of Kate McGarrigle for the second of two nights' celebration of the late singer-songwriter's music at New York’s Town Hall. Also performing are Kate's children Martha and Rufus Wainwright, her sister Anna, Antony, Norah Jones, Teddy Thompson, and others. Harris's song "Darlin' Kate," off her new album, Hard Bargain, is a remembrance of their friendship.

Harris then heads home to Nashville to sing to sing the national anthem at Greer Stadium on Sunday before the Nashville Sounds take on the Sacramento River Cats; she’ll also be introducing adoptable dogs throughout the game. For more information, visit tennessean.com.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Wanda Jackson helps kick off the opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's new exhibit, Women Who Rock: Vision, Passion, Power, in a performance at the Museum's annual Spring Benefit Concert at the Public Hall Cleveland on Saturday. The new exhibit, which opens today, illustrates the important roles women have played in rock and roll and includes an acoustic guitar of Jackson's from 1958. "Women rock," she says in a new video for the exhibit, "and they rock very well."

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Kronos Quartet continues a month of major events—which included their winning the Avery Fisher Prize and the Polar Music Prize, and the European premiere of Steve Reich's WTC 9/11 at the Barbican—with Kronos in Glasgow, a mini-festival in which Kronos Quartet is joined by special guest collaborators, hand-picked by Kronos, for an international program of events taking place all weekend across Glasgow's Concert Halls, including the Scottish premiere of WTC 9/11.

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The Low Anthem takes their tour to the Pacific Northwest with shows at Doug Fir Lounge in Portland, Oregon, tonight, and The Red Room in Kennewick, Washington, on Saturday. Former band member Daniel Lefkowitz supports.

During a tour stop in Los Angeles earlier this week, the band stopped by the KCRW studio to perform on Morning Becomes Eclectic. You can see their whole session at kcrw.com and watch their Morning Becomes Eclectic performance of the song "Boeing 737," off their latest Nonesuch album, Smart Flesh, here:

Jessica Lea Mayfield closes out the current leg of her US tour this weekend with shows a show at Off Broadway in St. Louis tonight and, finally, at Schuba's Tavern in Chicago on Saturday. Nathaniel Rateliff opens both nights. Mayfield heads to Europe later this month for a short tour before returning home to play Bonnaroo in June.

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Fernando Otero joins the daylong festivities of Wall to Wall Sonidos at Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York City. The free, annual event explores the breadth and depth of Latino cultures and will include new works by Otero performed by the Otero Quintet.

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Chris Thile and Michael Daves take the music of their just-released debut album, Sleep with One Eye Open, outside of New York City for the first time, as they launch their month-long US tour. The first stop: Roanoake, Virginia, for the Down by the River Festival tonight.

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Allen Toussaint performs at City Winery in New York City tonight. A special Allen Toussaint Commemorative Wine—a blend of 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, from the North Coast AVA of California with dash of Syrah and a drizzle of Merlot—is available at the venue.

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Dawn Upshaw joins the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, led by conductor Maria Schneider, at Carnegie Hall in New York tonight to perform Schneider's Carlos Drummond de Andrade Stories and Bartók's Hungarian Folk Songs. Also on the program are works by Stravinsky and Haydn.

Tonight's event is part of Spring for Music, a festival of seven concerts by North American orchestras and chamber orchestras at Carnegie Hall, performing creative, stimulating, and adventurous programs. All the box office receipts for the seven concerts are divided equally among the participating orchestras at the end of the festival. Spring for Music provides a laboratory, free of the usual marketing and financial constraints, for an orchestra to be creative with interesting, provocative and stimulating programs reflecting its beliefs, its standards, and vision.