Rhiannon Giddens kicked off her spring tour of North America last weekend with performances at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, followed by stops in Kentucky and her home state of North Carolina this week. This Easter and Passover weekend, the tour, featuring songs from her debut solo album, Tomorrow is My Turn, continues in the South with performances at Atlanta’s Buckhead Theatre tonight and Nashville’s famed Grand Ole Opry Saturday night. Fans around the world can tune in to the Opry show, her solo debut, which also includes performances from Casey James, Mo Pitney, the Gatlin Brothers, Charles Esten, Chris Janson, and more, as it’s broadcast live online at opry.com starting at 7 PM CT. Giddens will be on hand after the performance to sign copies of the new album in the Opry Shop.

The Tennessean, in a feature article previewing Saturday's big show, says of Tomorrow Is My Turn: "It's one of the strongest roots music records of 2015, as Giddens' powerful soprano rattles the rafters on [Sister Rosetta] Tharpe's joyful gospel song 'Up Above My Head,' smolders through Hank Cochran's 'She's Got You,' which Patsy Cline took to the top of the charts in 1962, and delivers a tender, lilting take on [Dolly] Parton's 'Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind.'" Earlier this week, the Telegraph named Tomorrow Is My Turn one of the Best Albums of 2015 so far.

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Laurie Anderson visits Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, for a conversation about fiction vs. autobiography and other topics with author Neil Gaiman, a Bard professor in the arts, tonight. The Nashville Scene, reviewing Anderson’s recent performances there, says she was “mesmerizing” and left her audience “transfixed.”

The event is part of the Bard series Neil Geiman in Conversation, and given the multimedia nature of past events, "it makes perfect sense that an artist long commanding the stellar heights of multimedia performance, superinnovative composer/musician/director/inventor Laurie Anderson, should be the next invited to Bard for some onstage interplay," writes the Hudson Valley Almanac Weekly's Frances Marion Platt in a feature previewing tonight's gathering. "Where does one even begin talking about Anderson’s incredibly prolific career, the ground that she has broken so many times, the awards and accolades heaped upon her, the legends with whom she has worked? ... If it’s a creative field, her questing mind wants to go there and see what she can do."

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Jeremy Denk makes his German debut at Thüringer Bachwochen (Thüringer Bach Festival) at Weimarhalle in Weimar, Germany, on Saturday. He marks the occasion with a performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which he recorded for his latest Nonesuch Records release.

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, reviewing Denk’s performance with The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields last weekend, says “Denk has cemented his position as one of the most thoughtful, inquisitive musicians of his generation,” noting for its “poetic lyricism” his take on one of the Goldberg variations.

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Natalie Merchant follows last night’s performance in Boulder, Colorado, with the second of two shows in the state with a concert at Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek on Saturday night. Next up on her spring tour: a sold-out show in Roanoke, Virginia, next weekend.

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Punch Brothers continue their North American tour, featuring music from their new album, The Phosphorescent Blues, with two consecutive nights at The Fillmore in San Francisco, starting with a sold-out show tonight. Gabriel Kahane supports on both nights, as well as the rest of their spring tour, which continues through on April 14