Fleet Foxes conclude the current leg of their European and UK tour with the second of two sold-out shows at Iveagh Gardens in Dublin tonight, followed by a set at Henham Park in Southwold, England, on Sunday, as part of Latitude Festival. The band, touring behind their critically acclaimed new album, Crack-Up, is back in the North America later this month and returns to Europe this fall.

Crack-Up was released last month on Nonesuch to widespread praise. "Likely to be the most remarkable album you will hear this year," exclaims the Times of London. "The return of one of the most original bands of this century." The New York Times calls it "a defiant artistic statement, an album that dares to feel important," while Pitchfork says it's the band's "most complex and compelling album to date." Uncut calls Crack-Up “astonishing.” “Ambitious, mature, meticulous … A recipe for total entertainment forever.”

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John Adams’s 1980 piece Harmonium helps open the 2017 BBC Proms season in a performance by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Edward Gardner, and the Symphony Chorus at Royal Albert Hall this evening. Adams regards Harmonium as a breakthrough work; the Boston Globe calls the Nonesuch recording “a glorious swirl of sound.” Also on tonight’s program is Beethoven’s Piano Concert No. 3 in C minor, with Igor Levit on piano. Prom 1 can be seen on BBC Four from 8 PM and BBC Two at 9 PM and can be heard around the world via Radio 3 at bbc.co.uk/radio3.

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Devendra Banhart brings his tour, featuring music from his new album, Ape in Pink Marble, to WUK in Vienna on Saturday and Muffathalle in Munich on Sunday. The European summer tour concludes next week with shows in London and Paris. The Washington Post says the new album "feels as mysterious and inviting as a strange dream. The tempo dips to a reggae lull midway through while guitar solos delicately fill in spaces with carefully chosen notes."

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Tyondai Braxton, following a set with Dirty Projectors at Pitchfork Music Festival tonight, plays a headlining show at Constellation in Chicago on Saturday. HIVE1, Braxton's Nonesuch debut album, was released in 2015, with Q magazine calling it "a sonically absorbing experience." NPR says: "[W]hat sets this album apart is its playfulness—the feeling that experimenting with sound is a joyful game."

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Guitarist Michael Daves performs at Walsh Farm in Oak Hill, New York, on Saturday afternoon, as part of Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. Later in the day, he gives an Artist Works vocal workshop at the festival’s Grass Roots stage.

Daves released his double album, Orchids and Violence, on Nonesuch last year, pairing straightforward interpretations of bluegrass tunes with experimental rock versions of the songs. The New York Times calls it "a roots-music master class, a brilliant example of old modes reinhabited with flair."

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Rhiannon Giddens, currently touring North America in support of her new album, Freedom Highway, plays two sets at Jericho Beach Park in Vancouver today, as part of Vancouver Folk Festival, followed by a performance at the Oregon Zoo Amphitheatre in Portland on Sunday, sharing a double bill with Aimee Mann. Giddens recently spoke with the San Francisco Classical Voice ahead of her performance with the San Francisco Symphony next week; you can read the interview here.

Freedom Highway was released on Nonesuch in February to critical acclaim. The Guardian calls it a “powerful and timely set,” while Pitchfork exclaims: "Rhiannon Giddens emerges as a peerless and powerful voice in roots music.” The Wall Street Journal concludes: "Detailed, strongly conceived and powerful in its music, singing and songs, Rhiannon Giddens’ Freedom Highway will get to you, and stick with you."

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Tigran Hamasyan continues his July run of European dates with a performance at Posto Unico in Ostuni, Italy, tonight. Hamasyan released his latest album, An Ancient Observer, earlier this year. DownBeat calls it "simply breathtaking," while NPR writes, "As a pianist and composer, [Hamasyan] draws inspiration from jazz, folkloric and classical sources, in ways that feel both hypermodern and practically ageless."

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Emmylou Harris performs at Comox Valley Fairgrounds in Vancouver Island tonight, as part of MusicFest. Harris, whom the New York Times calls “the reigning queen of Americana,” was the musical guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week. You can watch her performance of Steve Earle’s “Pilgrim” here.

Nonesuch released the first-ever vinyl edition of Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' Grammy Award–winning 1992 album, At the Ryman, in May and released a five-LP box set of Harris’s first five studio albums, Queen of the Silver Dollar, for Record Store Day in April.

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Lake Street Dive continues its extensive US summer tour with two festival sets this weekend: the band plays Natural Chimneys Park in Mt. Solon, Virginia, tonight, as part of Red Wing Roots Music Festival, and Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts, on Saturday, as part of Green River Festival. Lead singer Rachael Price spoke to the Amherst Bulletin ahead of the group’s Green River set; you can read the interview here.

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Natalie Merchant continuers her career retrospective tour of the United States—Natalie Merchant: 3 Decades of Song—in California this weekend: performing at Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday. “There’s a heightened state of awareness and emotion when you are onstage,” Merchant recently told the San Diego Tribune, ahead of her performance at Copley Symphony Hall next week. “That’s what you can provide with art, with music—a place where people can come together to share those expressions of emotion.” You can read what else she had to say here.

The Natalie Merchant Collection—a deluxe ten-CD box set compiled by Merchant—is out now on Nonesuch. Mojo gives the set five stars, calling it “magnificent ... a definitive and absorbing celebration of an artist with a singular voice and vision.”

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Conor Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, resumes his US Salutations tour with a show at Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, tonight, followed by festival sets at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark in Birmingham on Saturday, as part of Sloss Music and Arts Fest, and Waterfront Park in Louisville on Sunday, as part of Forecastle Festival. The Independent gives Salutations five stars, calling it "the best work of the singer’s career."

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman plays as special guest of Prime Time, in a reunion performance of Ornette Coleman’s electric band, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York City tonight. The show is a part of Lincoln Center Festival and its Ornette Coleman: Tomorrow is the Question series.

Next month, Redman takes Still Dreaming, his Ornette Coleman tribute band, on the road for a handful of European dates. The group, which the Boston Globe calls an “all-star unit in its own right,” was formed in homage to the late Dewey Redman, Joshua’s father, and his role in the classic Ornette Coleman alumni quartet Old and New Dreams. The New Yorker says that Joshua Redman has “convened a quartet in honor of the former band, combining three players equally attuned to controlled free improvisation.”