Steve Reich continues on as a special guest to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) in North Adams on Saturday, to close out “Bang on a Can Plays Art,” a culmination of Bang on a Can’s annual Summer Music Festival and Residency at the museum. The new-music ensemble, which performed Reich’s Electric Counterpoint last night, offers three more works by Reich during this six-hour finale performance: Music for Pieces of Wood; Variations for Vibes, Pianos, Strings (recorded for Nonesuch in 2006); and his newest composition, Radio Rewrite, inspired by two songs from Radiohead. The evening also features music by composers familiar to readers of the Nonesuch Journal: Michael Gordon, Donnacha Dennehy, and Glenn Kotche, the festival's other special guest, whose Mobile is on the program. Concert tickets include admission to the museum.

Steve Reich and Musicians join The Philip Glass Ensemble next month to perform at Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary festivities at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)—Nonesuch Records at BAM: Celebrating a Label Without Labels, a wide-ranging series of concerts, September 9–28, in New York City. For details and tickets, visit bam.org/nonesuch. Also in September, Alarm Will Sound performs Radio Rewrite as part of an all-Reich program at the Sacrum Profanum festival in Kraków, Poland.

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Sam Amidon offers a set at the Dranouter Folk Festival in the village of Dranouter, Belgium, tonight. He rounds out his European tour with two dates at the Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland in the weeks ahead.

“Sam Amidon’s folk songs transport you back to a past era, with tales of heartbreak and hardship,” writes The List about Amidon’s recent set on the Isle of Eigg in the UK. “He gets the (rather tuneful) audience to sing part of the chorus of the gorgeously delicate ‘Way Go Lily’ and interrupts ‘Groundhog’ with a playful ‘jazz solo,’ his tribute of sorts to the recent death of Charlie Haden.”

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Bombino continues his European festival tour with a midnight set at the Urkult Folk Fest in Näsåker, Sweden, tonight, and a free set at the Trasimeno Blues Festival at Viale Icilio Vanni in Città della Pieve, Italy, on Sunday. His performances feature selections from his Dan Auerbach-produced debut album, Nomad, released last year on Nonesuch Records.

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Shawn Colvin performs on both ends of the San Francisco Bay this weekend: at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall on Saturday and Yoshi’s in Oakland on Sunday. She continues offering solo sets out West in Oregon and Colorado, before rejoining fellow singer-songwriter Steve Earle for a new round of duo dates in the Midwest in September.

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Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra perform works inspired by the four seasons at the Parvis de la Basilique Saint-Michel Archange in Menton, France, tonight, as part of the Menton Festival de Musique. The program—aptly entitled “The Seasons”—features music from Kremer and the orchestra’s 2000 Nonesuch album, Eight Seasons: Vivaldi’s “L’estate” (“Summer”) Concerto No. 2 from The Four Seasons and Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, arranged by Leonid Desyatnikov. Also on the program is Philip Glass’s own The American Four Seasons.

The Kremerata Baltica orchestra stays on in France to kick off a three-night residency at Parc du Château de Florans in La Roque-d’Anthéron on Sunday, for the International Piano Festival. They join pianist Marc-André Hamelin to perform works by Haydn and Schnittke.

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Pat Metheny Unity Group—Chris Potter on sax and bass clarinet, Antonio Sanchez on drums, Ben Williams on bass, and multi-instrumentalist Giulio Carmassi—brings the music of its Nonesuch debut album, Kin (←→), to New York State this weekend: at the Chautauqua Amphitheater in Chautauqua tonight; the Caramoor Venetian Theater in Katonah on Saturday; and the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center in Westhampton Beach on Sunday. The band is joined for the first two of these dates by special guest and platinum-selling artist Bruce Hornsby with Sonny Emory for what they've dubbed the Campfire Tour 2014; Hornsby shares the bill at stops throughout the tour. The Unity Group next brings its US summer tour down South for two performances in Virginia in the week ahead.

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Nickel Creek—Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins—resumes its US summer tour on the West Coast this weekend: at Chateau Ste. Michelle Amphitheatre in Woodinville, Washington, tonight; Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, on Saturday, as part of the Pickathon Festival; and Mondavi Center for Performing Arts in Davis, California, on Sunday. The Secret Sisters join the band in Washington and California.

The trio stopped by Newport's Fort Adams State Park for a set at the famed Newport Folk Festival last weekend, which is streaming in full on NPR Music. The band’s new album, A Dotted Line, which was released this past spring on Nonesuch Records, “naturally reflects its members’ creatively ambitious recent pursuits,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson. “As with everything the band does, it blends playful lightness with remarkable musical chops.” Read more and hear Nickel Creek's complete Newport Folk Festival set at npr.org.

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Conor Oberst, who offered a rousing set at Central Park’s SummerStage in New York City earlier this week, takes the music upstate to close out the current leg of his US tour with an all-ages performance at Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown tonight. Oberst, with special guest and backing band Dawes, heads to Denmark on Tuesday to kick off the next leg of his Europe tour in Scandinavia.

NPR’s Stephen Thompson also reviewed Oberst’s set at the Newport Folk Festival last weekend. “Conor Oberst has settled into his 30s as a wise and wizened elder statesman,” writes Thompson. “He’s come to channel his youthful intensity into real showmanship, especially onstage, while continuing to mine powerful emotions and a sort of fearless poignancy in his songwriting.” You can hear Oberst’s full Newport set at npr.org.

Oberst was the musical guest on Late Show with David Letterman this past Monday, performing “Hundreds of Ways,” off his new album, Upside Down Mountain, released this past spring on Nonesuch Records.