Punch Brothers have returned to the road, having resumed their North American tour at the Civic Theatre in New Orleans on Thursday. The tour, featuring music from the band's recently release album, The Phosphorescent Blues, continues in the South with shows at The Lyric Oxford in Oxford, Mississippi, tonight, and Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Sunday, both with opening sets from Gabriel Kahane. (Kahane, who welcomed Timo Andres at his own show in New York City last weekend, continues to tour with Punch Brothers through September.)

Between those two shows this weekend, Punch Brothers give the headlining set at the Fayetteville Roots Festival in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday. Also performing at the festival this weekend are Chris Thile's Nickel Creek bandmates Sean and Sara Watkins, as part of their Watkins Family Hour and more.

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Tyondai Braxton joins in the celebrations of composer Terry Riley's 80th birthday with a performance at Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum, Germany, on Saturday as part of the Ruhrtriennale. Also on the bill are Mouse On Mars, Sonic Robots, Afrika Express, and Koreless.

(Kronos Quartet celebrated Riley's birthday earlier this year with the release of a box set and new recording of the composer's music. The New Yorker's Alex Ross has just added the latter, Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector, to his list of Recommended New CDs.)

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The David Byrne–curated Meltdown festival in London, which began early last week, draws to a close with performances each night this weekend of Young Jean Lee's We're Gonna Die at Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Byrne joins Lee and her band Future Wife for the performances.

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Jeremy Denk, who made his BBC Proms debut with a solo recital on Monday, returns to the Proms this Sunday, joining the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas for a performance of Cowell's Piano Concerto at Royal Albert Hall. Also on the program, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, is Mahler's First Symphony and Schoenberg’s Theme and Variations. Denk's Proms recital, featuring piano sonatas by Bartók, Scriabin, and Beethoven, can be heard again at bbc.co.uk.

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Rhiannon Giddens performs at Atlas in Aarhus, Denmark, on Sunday as part of the Aarhus Festival. She shares a double bill with Joe Henry, who produced Carolina Chocolate Drops' Grammy-winning debut album, Genuine Negro Jig. Giddens resumes the US leg of her tour at the National Folk Festival in her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, on September 12 and 13.

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Randy Newman, having performed a sold-out house concert in New Orleans to benefit Habitat for Humanity earlier this week, has returned to the West Coast, where he performs at Chateau Ste Michelle Winery in Woodinville, Washington, on Saturday.

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians from Buena Vista Social Club, continues its "Adios" tour of North America with two performances on the East Coast this weekend: at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia, outside of Washington, DC, on Saturday, and a sold-out show at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.

Speaking of Buena Vista Social Club, Wim Wenders's 1999 documentary of the same name, about the musicians and the making of the original album, is part of Wim Wenders: Portraits Along the Road, a career-spanning retrospective on the director that opens at the IFC Center in New York City tonight and runs through September 24. The first of seven screenings of Buena Vista Social Club takes place on Tuesday, September 1, with the director in person for a post-show Q&A.

Also among the films in the series is Wings of Desire (1987), Wenders's first German film after eight years in America. The film's soundtrack, which includes performances by Laurie Anderson, among others, was released on Nonesuch Records. Wenders takes part in a Q&A about the film after a screening at the IFC Center this Saturday afternoon, the first of seven screenings of the film in the series.