Rhiannon Giddens kicked off a three-week UK tour with Francesco Turrisi last night, continuing with three performances this weekend: at Assembly Room in Edinburgh tonight, Sage Gateshead on Saturday and Perth Concert Hall on Sunday. They perform songs from their Grammy-winning 2021 album, They’re Calling Me Home, and more.

My Music with Rhiannon Giddens, a new series hosted by Giddens, premieres on PBS stations across the US this Monday. Celebrating the United States’ rich and varied musical traditions and its modern offshoots, the series is produced by the creative force behind the long-running PBS series David Holt’s State of Music. In seven half-hour weekly episodes, Giddens hosts musical performances and conversations with guest artists filmed on location around the South.

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The Spanish premiere performances of John Adams’s 1987 opera, Nixon in China, made by Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid led by Ivor Bolton, continue at Teatro Real in Madrid tonight and Sunday. The original cast recording of Nixon in China was released on Nonesuch thirty-five years ago on Saturday and went on to win the Grammy Award. It is included in the forty-disc John Adams box set Collected Works, along with a Blu-ray of the Metropolitan Opera's production. 

The INSeries Opera production of John Adams’s 1995 songplay, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, directed by Timothy Nelson, concludes its run at Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Lang Theatre in Washington, DC, with performances on Saturday and Sunday. The piece uses the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake as a starting point to explores race, gender, and immigration issues. Nonesuch released its first recording in 1998.

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Emmylou Harris joins Willie Nelson and countless other artists in celebration of Nelson's 90th birthday at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Saturday and Sunday. Among the other performers are Allison Russell, Beck, Billy Strings, Bobby Weir, Charley Crockett, Chris Stapleton, Edie Brickell, Kacey Musgraves, Leon Bridges, Lukas Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Margo Price, Miranda Lambert, Nathaniel Rateliff, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Orville Peck, Particle Kid, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Snoop Dogg, Sturgill Simpson, The Avett Brothers, The Chicks, The Lumineers, Tom Jones, Tyler Childers, Warren Haynes, and Ziggy Marley.

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Natalie Merchant brings music from her new album, Keep Your Courage, to the US Southeast this weekend, performing at Saint Augustine Amphitheatre in Florida tonight, followed by a sold-out show with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Sunday. Mojo gives the new album four stars, calling it "her most beautiful in decades." "Welcome the return of a unique voice,” says Uncut. “An album contemplating what it is that keeps us plodding forwards despite everything. Merchant’s conclusion is, as always, wittily expressed and beautifully sung.”

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Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the Anne and Ellen Fife Theatre at Virginia Tech's Moss Arts Center in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday. She is joined by guitarist Marvin Sewell, flutist Alexa Tarantino, and percussionist Keita Ogawa—all of whom perform on her Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song—as well as pianist Glenn Zaleski and bassist Emma Dayhuff.

Salvant’s new album, Mélusine, released last month on Nonesuch, features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the twelfth century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl. "Anyone who thinks they already know the full extent of Cécile McLorin Salvant's artistry should listen to Mélusine without further delay," exclaims Jazzwise. "It's a remarkable recording in several respects. Beautifully recorded, Salvant continues to confound and delight at every turn."

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Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider takes part in a number of free public events in Maine this weekend as part of her residency with Oratorio Chorale and Bowdoin College. She leads an informal coffee hour at Ugly Duckling in Portland this afternoon, designed for working artists and musicians. The Chorale then gives two performances of Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world, with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellow: at Williston-Immanuel United Church in Portland on Saturday and Bowdoin’s Studzinski Hall in Brunswick on Sunday. Both performances are preceded by pre-concert talks and environmental fairs. New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records released the first recording of Mass for the Endangered, performed by the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch, in 2020.

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Richard Goode performs an all-Beethoven program at Washington Irving High School in New York City on Saturday as the surprise pianist in the People’s Symphony Concerts series. On the program are the Sonata in E Major, Op. 109; Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110; and Sonata in c minor, Op. 111—all of which can be heard on Goode’s Grammy-nominated, ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven sonatas released on Nonesuch in 1993—and a selection from Bagatelles, Op. 119. "An outstanding set," the New York Times exclaimed of the box set. "It is hard to think of any other artist at once technically, temperamentally and intellectually as suited to the challenges of these sonatas." Gramophone calls it "one of the finest interpretations ever put on record."

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Mandy Patinkin brings his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—to the Garde Arts Center in New London, Connecticut, on Sunday. Patinkin's latest album, Children and Art, was released on Nonesuch in 2019.