The Magnetic Fields perform at World Café Live in Philadelphia tonight ahead of sold-out shows at The Atlantis in Washington, DC, on Saturday and Sunday, part of the new venue's inaugural season. The band performs songs from throughout their career, from 69 Love Songs to the autobiographical 50 Song Memoir and their most recent album, Quickies. Their 2004 Nonesuch debut, i, released on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day 2023 earlier this year, is now available in the Nonesuch Store. “[Stephin] Merritt is an incomparable lyricist capable of balancing arch wit with painfully acute observation,” the Guardian wrote in its review of i. “The most exciting dissector of modern love around.” The Magnetic Fields will celebrate the 25th anniversary of 69 Love Songs on tour next year.

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Joachim Cooder performs on the South Stage at Jericho Beach Park in Vancouver on Saturday afternoon, for the Vancouver Folk Festival, before joining Las Cafeteras, Melón Jiménez & Lara Wong Flamenco-World Trio, and Namgar on the festival’s East Stage for a special set titled Groove Will Keep Us Together on Sunday afternoon. Cooder released his Nonesuch debut album, Over That Road I'm Bound, in 2020, using the plain-spoken songs of country-music progenitor and banjo player Uncle Dave Macon as a jumping off point, tinkering with the lyrics and reworking melodies for electric mbira. “Warm, uplifting, and quietly spectacular,” says Uncut. “A buoyant and joyful long-player,” says Mojo.

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Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join bassist Christian McBride for a set in Kirjurinluoto Concert Park in Pori, Finland, on Saturday afternoon, as part of the Pori Jazz Festival. Last week, Giddens topped the DownBeat Critics Poll in the Beyond Artist or Group category. Earlier this year, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Omar, her opera with Michael Abels. You’re the One, her third solo studio album and her first of all original songs, is due August 18.

Christian McBride, who was named Bassist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll, was recently nominated with Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, and Brian Blade for the Edison Jazz Award for International Instrumental for their 2022 Grammy-nominated album, LongGone. The quartet reunites to perform music from LongGone and their previous album, Moodswing and RoundAgain, at Newport Jazz Festival next month.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, who began a two-week, full-band tour earlier this week, is in the Midwest this weekend, for a set at McPike Park in Madison tonight, as part of La Fête de Marquette, and shows at Bell’s Eccentric Café in Kalamazoo on Saturday and Grog Shop in Cleveland on Sunday. To commemorate Earth Day earlier this year, Hurray for the Riff Raff released a digital deluxe version of their acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH. Among other accolades, the album was on many media outlets’ year’s best lists, including those of NPR, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Uncut, and Brooklyn Vegan.

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Gabriel Kahane inaugurates the new live music series in the backyard of Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan’s home in Portland, Oregon, with a performance on Saturday night. Shaw contributes guest vocals and violin on Kahane's 2022 album, Magnificent Bird, which chronicles the final month of a year spent off the internet. "Deft, prose poem-like songs: an illuminating humanity is absolutely key," says Mojo. "A most eloquent exploration of our current lot." The San Francisco Chronicle calls it "a gorgeous, intimate collection ... glistening and magical."

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Pianist Brad Mehldau and his Trio—drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier—continue their European tour with a set at Pinède Gould in Juan-les-pins, France, on Saturday for the Jazz à Juan festival this Bastille Day weekend. The trio closes out this run of dates in Italy next week.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play The Coop in Columbia, Montana, tonight, for an Under the Big Sky Official After Party, before playing the festival proper on the Big Mountain Stage at Big MTN Ranch in Whitefish on Saturday afternoon. The band then heads to Idaho for a concert at Whiskeys’ in Ketchum on Sunday. The Bluegrass Situation, where Tuttle is Artist of the Month, just named their new album, City of Gold, due next week, one of its 2023 Favorites So Far and “the most buzzed about bluegrass album of the year.” It follows their acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut, Crooked Tree, which won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. You can watch two videos for the new album track “San Joaquin” here. You can watch their recent Holler session, filmed live at the Railbird Festival in Kentucky last month, here.