Nonesuch artists Fleet Foxes, Rhiannon Giddens, Offa Rex, and Punch Brothers all head to Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island, this weekend for the sold-out Newport Folk Festival.

Punch Brothers join forces with I'm With Her (Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O'Donovan) and guitarist Julian Lage for the American Acoustic tour, which arrives at Newport’s Quad Stage on Sunday evening. The tour begins with a sold-out show at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, on Saturday and continues through mid-August.

Fleet Foxes, who launched a North American Crack-Up tour yesterday (also in Portland, Maine), headline Newport’s Fort Stage tonight, then go to Baltimore for a show at the Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday.

Rhiannon Giddens, currently touring North America in support of her new album, Freedom Highway, hits the Newport’s Fort Stage on Sunday afternoon. She also plays a show at Chautauqua Amphitheater in Chautauqua, New York, tonight, before giving a set at Camden Waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, on Saturday, as part of XPoNential Music Fest.

Offa Rex, the new project from English singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney and The Decemberists, kicked off a North American tour in support of its debut album, The Queen of Hearts, last weekend, continuing with a set at XPoNential Music Fest tonight, before heading to Newport for a set on the Fort Stage on Saturday afternoon.

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Laurie Anderson joins actress Isabelle Huppert in being honored at the Watermill Center’s annual Summer Benefit & Auction in Watermill, New York, on Saturday. Proceeds from the event, held in tribute this year to Anderson’s late husband, Lou Reed, go to support the Center’s year-round Artist Residency and Education Programs for young and emerging artists to explore and develop new work.

Anderson's debut album, Big Science, first released on Warner Bros. in 1982 and reissued in a re-mastered and expanded 25th anniversary edition on Nonesuch in 2007, was included on NPR Music’s list of The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women, published earlier this week.

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Devendra Banhart performs at The Broad in Los Angeles on Saturday, as part of the museum’s late-night summer performance series, Summer Happenings at The Broad. Saturday’s program, Strange Forest, explores Japanese pop and traditional music’s influence on American culture.

Banhart has said his new album, Ape in Pink Marble, released earlier this year, is meant to evoke the music one might hear in an old, dilapidated Japanese hotel. “The Japanese eye is generally less concerned with the object itself, and more interested in what’s behind the object,” Banhart told Colorado Public Radio’s Open Air last year. “What the object emanates. The attention to detail is so sophisticated and so sensitive that it leaves one bewildered.”

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Jeremy Denk joins the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner, at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall in New York City tonight and Saturday, as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival. On the program is Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, and Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major.

New York magazine includes the concert on its To Do list for the twenty-five things to see, hear, watch, and read in the coming weeks. “If you’re eager to slip into the warmest pool of 19th-century classical repertoire,” writes New York’s Justin Davidson, “you could do worse than hearing Denk open Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto with that murmured G-major exhalation, while the orchestra bates its breath.”

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Pianist Richard Goode gives a solo recital, performing works by Mozart, Debussy, Beethoven, and Janáček, at the Church of Verbier in Switzerland on Saturday morning, as part of Verbier Festival.

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Tigran Hamasyan concludes his July run of European dates, in support of his new album, An Ancient Observer, with a set at Dances Pond Park Vittoriale in Gardone Riviera, Italy, tonight, as part of Tener-a-mente. Hamasyan hits the road again in October, beginning with a performance at the Stockholm Jazz Festival. DownBeat calls his new album "simply breathtaking."

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Emmylou Harris begins a four-city run of European dates with a set at Festival Country Rendez-Vous in Craponne-sur-Arzon, France, on Saturday. Harris heads to Sweden next week, for shows in Rattvik and Gothenburg, and concludes the run in Oslo next Friday.

Harris's groundbreaking 1995 album, Wrecking Ball, is also on NPR Music’s list of The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women. WYEP's Cindy Howes exclaims: "With her haunting, soaring voice and [Daniel] Lanois's sultry and experimental production, the result was no less than magic from the first listen ... It's no wonder that Wrecking Ball won the Grammy for best Contemporary Folk Album."

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Composer Shye Ben Tzur and the Rajasthan Express, having recently toured Europe and the United Kingdom with music from their 2015 album, Junun, are back in the UK for a performance at Charlton Park in Malmesbury tonight, as part of WOMAD Festival.

Ben Tzur, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood, and the group of Indian musicians known as the Rajasthan Express first reunited to play Junun at Barbican Hall in London last year. The Financial Times gave the show four stars, praising the music’s “uncomplicated exuberance … this was music that transported the listener, not just to the state of Rajasthan but to a state of mesmeric bliss.”

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Lake Street Dive continues its extensive US summer tour in the East this weekend, playing at Stage AE in Pittsburgh tonight as special guest of Amos Lee, followed by a headlining show at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York, on Saturday.

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Conor Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, concludes his current US tour with a set at the Camden Waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, tonight, as part of XPoNential Music Fest. Oberst heads to WNYC’s The Green Space in Manhattan on Monday for a short performance and interview, before bringing the tour with music from his new album, Salutations, to Europe next weekend. The next leg of the US tour begins September 1.