Punch Brothers continue their big US summer tour, featuring music from their new album, All Ashore, with performances at State Theatre in Portland, Maine, tonight and the Beacon Theatre in New York City on Saturday. The Boston Globe calls All Ashore a “deeply meaningful and downright gorgeous record,” while the Independent, in its four-star review, calls it “an album of rich instrumentation and understated beauty that reveals deeper nuances on each and every listen.”

The band also stops by the CBS This Morning studio in New York for a Saturday Sessions set and a conversation about the new album. Tune in to watch on your local CBS station Saturday morning.

“It’s important to allow people to affect you,” Chris Thile tells Rolling Stone Country. “If we kept that at the forefront of our minds, maybe we wouldn’t be as divided as we are.” You can read more and watch the just-released video of Punch Brothers performing the album track “It’s All Part of the Plan” at rollingstone.com.

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John Adams's Doctor Atomic is given its third of six summer performances at the Santa Fe Opera, conducted by Matthew Aucoin, tonight. The production, directed by librettist Peter Sellars and starring Ryan McKinny as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Julia Bullock as Kitty Oppenheimer, continues through August 16.

Bullock reprises a role she performs on the first recording of Doctor Atomic, which Nonesuch released last month. On the album, Adams conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, and a cast led by Gerald Finley and Bullock. "Doctor Atomic is arguably John Adams's finest operatic achievement to date," exclaims Gramophone. "This recording is a revelation ... Absolutely gripping ... Highly recommended.”

Four hundred miles north, Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony—an instrumental piece drawn from the opera—is performed by the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, led by Peter Oundjian, at Boulder’s Chautauqua Auditorium tonight.

Nonesuch released the premiere recording of Doctor Atomic Symphony, with David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, in 2009. The Guardian calls it “one of Adams's most impressive achievements of the last decade.”

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David Byrne brings his American Utopia world tour back to the States this weekend, with the headlining set at the XPoNential Music Festival in Camden, New Jersey, tonight, followed by a performance at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, on Saturday, and a set at Panorama NYC Music Festival on Randall’s Island in New York City on Sunday.

Fleet Foxes are at Panorama in New York City on Sunday as well, performing songs from their critically-acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Crack-Up, after having played Artpark in Lewiston, New York, on the Canadian border near Niagara Falls tonight.

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Olivia Chaney began a three-week tour of North America, in support of her new album, Shelter, earlier this week, continuing with concerts at Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday, and Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, New York, on Sunday, the latter as special guest of Patty Griffin.

Chaney will be a guest on The Village Folk Show on SiriusXM's The Bridge, channel 32, performing from and discussing the new album, on Sunday night, starting at 10pm ET, and re-broadcast on The Village, channel 741, throughout the week ahead.

Shelter is the Guardian's Folk Album of the Month. “As soon as Shelter begins, you fall into its warmly drawn, welcoming world,” writes Jude Rodgers in the four-star review. “Chaney’s voice is effortless, clear and bright.” You can watch a new video for the album’s title track here.

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Rhiannon Giddens performs music from her latest album, Freedom Highway, and more at Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, on Saturday.

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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express perform songs from their 2015 album, Junun, continuing their North American tour as special guests of Radiohead, with sold-out shows at TD Garden in Boston on Saturday and Sunday.

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Brad Mehldau and his trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—conclude their European summer tour in support of their new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution!, this weekend, with sets at Auditorio Kursaal in San Sebastian, Spain, tonight, and at the Jazz in Marciac festival in France on Sunday.

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Natalie Merchant continues her sold-out A Summer Evening With... tour of intimate and historic venues across the UK at St George’s Church in Brighton tonight and Emmanuel United Reformed Church in Cambridge on Saturday. The tour concludes on Monday with a performance at St John The Evangelist in Oxford, after which Merchant heads to Ireland for a four-city tour as special guest of Lúnasa.

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Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters continue the current leg of their European Carry Fire tour with festival sets at Snai Racecourse at San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, tonight, as part of Milano Summer Festival, and Marktplatz Lörrach in Lörrach, Germany, on Sunday, as part of Stimmen Festival.

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman plays three unique sets at Castel Pont à Lesse in Dinant, Belgium, this weekend, for Dinant Jazz Festival. He concludes his run of shows with the Billy Hart Quartet tonight, plays with his trio of Reuben Rogers on bass and Gregory Hutchinson on drums on Saturday, and performs with the Philip Catherine Quartet on Sunday.

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Rostam joins The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser on the Harbor Stage at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, on Saturday, for a set at the sold-out Newport Folk Festival.

Rostam released his debut album, Half-Light, last year on Nonesuch. NPR calls it “stunning … one of the year's most arresting albums.” The New Yorker says it’s “a wondrous album, full of coy dreams and quiet yearning.”