The Black Keys and Punch Brothers play the sold-out Austin City Limits Festival, celebrating its 11th run this weekend. Also among the more than 130 artists performing in Austin’s 46-acre Zilker Park for this year's festival are Neil Young and Crazy Horse—with whom The Black Keys recently headlined the Global Festival concert in New York’s Central Park—Jack White, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Iggy & The Stooges.

The Black Keys are tonight's headliners, closing out the first night of the festival on the Bud Light stage, starting at 8:30 PM. “With more than a decade of touring under their belts," says the Hollywood Reporter in a review of a recent show by the band, "the Black Keys have solidified their reputation as a force on stage.” Following the ACL Festival, the Keys head down to Mexico City to perform at the Corona Capital Festival on Sunday, joining Florence and the Machine, New Order, Snow Patrol, and more.

Punch Brothers have two Austin sets this weekend. First up is a show at La Zona Rosa with Trampled By Turtles tonight as a part of ACL Festival's Late Night Show series. Punch Brothers play their ACL Festival set at the Austin Ventures stage back in Zilker Park Saturday evening at 5:45 PM, after which the band heads to the Waterloo Autograph Tent at 7 PM to sign their latest album, Who's Feeling Young Now?. Fans at the tent will be treated to a free ice cream sandwich from Coolhaus named after the album and featuring pistachio black truffle ice cream in an oatmeal cookie.

Punch Brothers pick up their US tour from there and head to New Orleans on Sunday to play the Parish House of Blues with current tour-mate Tom Brosseau.

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Laurie Anderson performs her piece Dirtday! at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center in Garden City, New York, tonight. The piece is the third and final element of Anderson’s triptych of solo story works, which also includes Happiness and The End of the Moon.

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Billy Bragg launches a tour of New Zealand and Australia this weekend in celebration of the life and legacy of Woody Guthrie, on the 100th anniversary of the folk legend’s birth. The shows feature songs from the Mermaid Avenue albums, in which Bragg and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy set Guthrie's words to music, as well as songs from throughout Bragg's career. The tour kicks off with three New Zealand shows this weekend: at Auckland Town Hall tonight, the Opera House in Wellington on Saturday, and the Otago Girls Auditorium in Dunedin on Sunday.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops close out the UK leg of their European tour with a sold-out show at the Sage Gateshead tonight with an opening set from David Wax Museum. The Chocolate Drops then head to France to play the Nancy Jazz Pulsations festival in Parc de la Pépinière in Nancy on Saturday and L’Estal in Le Mans on Sunday. David Wax Museum joins the band for additional sets on the tour next week. Carolina Chocolate Drops will meet up with Punch Brothers for three shows in Germany later in the month.

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Ry Cooder—whom Uncut has called "a modern-day Woody Guthrie"—is set to take stage at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on Sunday for This Land Is Your Land, a sold-out concert celebrating the life and work of Woody Guthrie during this, the folk legend's centennial year. Also performing are Jackson Browne, Rosanne Cash, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Morello, Old Crow Medicine Show, and many others.

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Jeremy Denk has joined the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for a run of dates this week, including two this weekend, at the Barns at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, tonight, and at the Folly Theatre in Kansas City on Saturday. The program includes Bruch’s Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83; Brahms’ Trio in E flat Major for Horn, Violin, and Piano, Op. 40; and Dohnányi’s Sextet in C Major for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano, Op. 37.

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Dr. John has hit the road with a four-piece band and The Blind Boys of Alabama for the Spirituals to Funk tour, which makes a stop at San Diego's Balboa Theater on Saturday as part of its California run. Based on the legendary Carnegie Hall Spirituals to Swing concerts of the 1930s, Spirituals to Funk explores the connections between jazz, blues, and gospel, all under Dr. John's musical direction. "Musical pairings don’t come much more inspired," says the San Diego Union-Tribune.

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Pat Metheny and his Unity Band—featuring Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, Antonio Sanchez on drums, and Ben Williams on bass—close out their US fall tour with three shows on the East Coast this weekend: at The Town Hall in New York City tonight, the University of Connecticut's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts in Storrs on Saturday, and, finally, the Berklee Performance Center in Boston on Sunday.

Tonight's show is a Critics' Pick from Time Out New York, which says: "Expect a strong dose of Metheny's trademark aesthetic: melody-forward and passionately virtuosic."

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Sara Watkins plays at the Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia, tonight as part of the Live at the Lyric series. She then heads to Ohio for two shows: at the St. Xavier Performance Center in Cincinnati on Saturday and the Ohio University's Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens on Sunday. The latter will be recorded for future broadcast on NPR's Mountain Stage.

On Monday, Sara Watkins joins up with Jackson Browne once more for the next leg in their US tour. Browne, who made a guest appearance on Watkins' latest album, Sun Midnight Sun, welcomes her as special guest on his tour.