Allen Toussaint launched a five-night residency, titled New Orleans on Parade, at the Southern Theatre in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday. The shows, part of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra's Swingin' at the Southern series, continue through Sunday, with multiple sets on the final day.

Tune in to Ohio public radio station WOSU, 89.7 FM, or listen online at wosu.org, for a live broadcast from the Southern Saturday night at 8 PM EDT. On his 2009 Nonesuch debut album, The Bright Mississippi, Toussaint explores the work of his New Orleans forebears for the first time in his storied career.

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Just in time for Halloween eve, Alarm Will Sound participates in the Madness and Music Festival at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Davis, on Saturday. On the program are five works, including Harrison Birtwistle's Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum, from Alarm Will Sound's 2009 Nonesuch release, a/rhythmia.
     
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Laurie Anderson gives an encore performance of her latest theater piece, Delusion, at the Clarice Smith Performing Art Center's Ina and Jack Kay Theatre tonight at the University of Maryland in College Park, following last night's performance there. Recent performances of Delusion in California led the Los Angeles Times to call it a "powerful, moving, incredibly rich work." 

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The Black Keys kicked off their UK tour this week with a performance on BBC Two's Late Live ... with Jools Holland Tuesday night. Also on the show were Sir Paul McCartney, Neil Diamond, and Elvis Costello. There's more from the performances on Later ... With Jools Holland, tonight at 11:50 PM on BBC Two.

The UK tour continues with two sold-out show this weekend: at the 02 Academy in Newcastle on Saturday and the O2 Academy in Leeds on Sunday.

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Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica begin a two-week North American tour, featuring music from their latest Nonesuch release, De Profundis, at Seattle's Benaroya Hall tonight. De Profundis was featured on NPR's All Things Considered last weekend. The album "plays through like a fascinating mix tape, with a surprise around every corner," says NPR classical producer Tom Huizenga. "It's fantastic ... a very heady but very listenable and terrific mix of music and politics." The tour continues with an afternoon performance at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, California, on Halloween Sunday.

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As noted yesterday in the Nonesuch Journal, Kronos Quartet launched a three-year partnership with San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with last night's concert at YBCA's Novellus Theater. The group offers an encore performance of the program tonight, featuring George Crumb's Black Angels, Bob Ostertag's All the Rage, Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes II, and new works by Aleksandra Vrebalov and Sahba Aminikia.

Ticket holders for tonight's show are invited to a pre-concert party in the YBCA galleries to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions there.

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Strange Powers, the new documentary feature that follows Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields over a decade of music making, received its North American theatrical release at the Film Forum in New York City on Wednesday and continues with screenings there through the weekend. As on Opening Night, the band will attend tonight's 8:10 PM screening, along with the filmmakers.

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Brad Mehldau closes out his European tour this weekend with a solo set at the Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg, Austria, on Saturday, an a performance of his Love Songs with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter at the Kölner Philharmonie in Köln, Germany, on Sunday. Mehldau returns to the States for the world premiere of his Highway Rider at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis next weekend.

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Randy Newman participates in a fundraiser for 826 National—the nonprofit tutoring, writing and publishing organization for students 6-18 headed by writer Dave Eggers—at the Writer's Guild Theatre in Beverly Hills tonight. Eggers and director Judd Apatow host the night's festivities, which also feature performances from Ryan Adams, Lindsay Buckingham, Garry Shandling, and Aziz Ansari. The event is titled I Found This Funny, after Apatow's new book of the same name, which benefits 826 National as well.

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Punch Brothers continue their fall tour with two sets at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine, tonight: the first at 6:30 PM, the second at 9:30 PM. Next up, the band opens for Dave Matthews Band in Albany and Philadelphia next weekend.

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Sara Watkins performs at Erskine College in Due West, South Carolina, tonight for the school's Fall Fest.