Laurie Anderson is the Artist in Focus at the Rewire Festival in The Hague in the Netherlands this weekend. Her program begins with a screening of her film Heart of a Dog at Korzo tonight. The Times of London says it's “a work of mastery: thought-provoking, smart, and incredibly moving”; Nonesuch released the complete film soundtrack recording. Saturday afternoon, Anderson joins The Wire’s deputy editor, Emily Bick, for an artist talk at Korzo, followed by a performance of her 1977 piece “Quartet for Sol” by the Dutch ensemble Ragazze Quartet. Anderson closes out the weekend with a multimedia presentation of her new book, All the Things I Lost in the Flood, at Grote Kerk Sunday night.

Both the new book and Landfall, Anderson's recently released album with Kronos Quartet, were inspired by her experience of Hurricane Sandy. "With a dream-like blend of electronics, acoustic instruments, high-tech software and voice overs," says NPR in a review of the album, "she searches for meaning in the mystery of it all."

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David Byrne closes out the weeklong Mexican leg of his American Utopia world tour with a set at Centro Cultural Universitario’s Foro Alterno in Guadalajara on Saturday afternoon, as part of the Corona Capital Guadalajara festival. He begins the North American leg of the tour in California next week. Released last month, American Utopia debuted at No. 1 on the Top Album Chart and No. 3 on the Billboard Top 200, the highest chart positions of Byrne’s career. “American Utopia is an album full of pulsating beats and rich textures,” says Stereogum. “The new album isn't a throwback; it feels like it could only exist right now.” Q says: “Byrne remains as playful and brilliant as ever.”

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Olivia Chaney gave a special surprise performance of Nick Drake's "River Man" at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in Belfast on Wednesday. Highlights from the ceremony, which may include Chaney's performance. will be broadcast on BBC Two in Northern Ireland this Sunday at 5:30pm, and BBC Four will do so from 9pm BST. And highlights will also be available on the BBC iPlayer from 10pm BST on Sunday.

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Michael Daves and Punch Brothers' own Chris "Critter" Eldridge will bring their guitars to St. Ann’s Church in Brooklyn on Sunday night for an evening of bluegrass duets as part of the closing night of the weekend-long Brooklyn Folk Festival, celebrating its tenth year. Daves's 2016 double album, Orchids and Violence, was called "a roots-music master class" by the New York Times.

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Pianist Richard Goode gives a sold-out solo recital at The Frederic Chopin Society in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday afternoon, performing works by Byrd, Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy. The Los Angeles Times calls Goode’s approach to Bach “a small miracle of sensitivity, expression and nuance,” while the New York Times describes his Beethoven performances as “remarkable” and “surprisingly intimate,” praising his playing both for its “organic naturalness” and “unerringly lyric sensibility.”

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Kronos Quartet is at Bing Concert Hall in Stanford tonight, performing works by John Oswald, Nicole Lizée, and Tanya Tagaq, as well as composer Jacob Garchik's score to filmmaker Guy Maddin’s visual collage, The Green Fog. The program also includes a pre-show talk with Maddin.

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Audra McDonald gives a sold-out performance at Trustees Theater in Savannah, Georgia, on Saturday afternoon, as part of Savannah Music Festival.

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Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters conclude their tour of Australia, bringing music from his new album, Carry Fire, to Riverside Theatre in Perth on Sunday. The Sydney Morning Herald, in its four-star review of the band’s show at the State Theatre last month, says “it's a pleasure to spend a couple of hours with [Plant] and his band.”

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Rostam concludes the spring leg of his US Half-Light tour in Texas this weekend, playing a sold-out show at Three Links in Dallas tonight, followed by a concert at White Oak Music Hall in Houston on Saturday. The New Yorker calls Half-Light “a wondrous album, full of coy dreams and quiet yearning.”

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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show Live From Here at the State Theatre in Minneapolis on Saturday, with special guests Shakey Graves, Dessa, and comedian Rachel Feinstein. Madison Cunningham joins Thile as his duet partner. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans around the world can watch live online at livefromhere.org starting at 4:45 PM CT.