Festival season has begun, and many Nonesuch artists will be performing on festival stages across the world in the coming months. This festival-packed weekend includes Governors Ball on New York City’s Randall’s Island, Cincinnati’s Bunbury Music Festival, and Mountain Jam in Hunter, New York. What’s more, the Mountain Jam festival fun is streaming live all weekend at tourpedo.com, with proceeds from the pay-what-you-want stream going to support Teen Cancer America.

The Black Keys, who resumed their Turn Blue world tour last week with two festival sets in Europe, headline all three of the aforementioned festivals this weekend: Bunbury in their home state of Ohio tonight, Mountain Jam Saturday, and Governors Ball Sunday. They continue to perform throughout the summer at North American and European festivals.

Conor Oberst, who kicked off his spring US tour on Wednesday, performs at House of Blues Boston before two Governors Ball-related performances on Saturday: an evening set at the Honda Stage on Randall’s Island and a sold-out After Dark late-night set at Music Hall of Williamsburg. He then has three sold-out shows with the Felice Brothers in the Midwest, wrapping up his tour at Rock the Garden in Minneapolis on June 20. Björk also performs at Governors Ball on Saturday.

Robert Plant and The Sensational Space Shifters precede The Black Keys at Mountain Jam with a headlining set tonight. They then perform at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre Sunday with special guests the Pixies. [Update: Sunday's show in Toronto has been rescheduled to September 15 due to illness. Unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts, The Pixies will not be appearing on the rescheduled date of September 15th. A replacement support artist will be named at a future date.] Plant and the band continue to tour the States in support of his most recent release, lullaby and… The Ceaseless Roar, through mid-June before heading to Europe for a summer tour.

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John Adams is at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles tonight for a new production of Available Light, the 1983 collaboration among the composer, choreographer Lucinda Childs, and architect Frank Gehry. Following tonight’s program, a post-performance discussion reunites the creators in a conversation about the evolution of the piece since its premiere in Los Angeles 32 year ago. Tonight’s performance, and a second performance Saturday, features Adams’ original music with some additions to the score plus re-imagined choreography by Childs and a set newly designed by Gehry.

All three creators spoke with the Los Angeles Times about the original piece and the 2015 version for an article titled "'Available Light,' a performance art landmark, makes the leap from 1983 to 2015." You can read it at latimes.com.

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Tyondai Braxton continues his three-night residency at The Kitchen in New York City with two performances of his piece HIVE tonight and Saturday. The piece, which has not been performed in New York since its Guggenheim premiere in 2013, inspired Braxton’s just-released Nonesuch Records debut album, HIVE1. “What sets this album apart is its playfulness,” says NPR of the album. The New Yorker calls it “transfixing.”

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Olivia Chaney continues her North American spring tour, which began earlier this week, with performances at Philadelphia’s Tin Angel tonight and The Living Room in Brooklyn Saturday. “With an earthiness to her expressive soprano,” wrote the New Yorker in a preview of her Brooklyn show, “Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century.” Chaney’s debut album, The Longest River, was released earlier this year on Nonesuch.

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Jeremy Denk joins Garrison Keillor as a musical guest on A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast live from the Performing Arts Center in Canandaigua, New York, on Saturday. Tune in on NPR stations across the United States, streaming online at prairiehome.org, to hear Denk, as well as fellow musical guests Heather Masse and The DiGiallonardo Sisters, not to mention the latest News from Lake Wobegon and much more.

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Lianne La Havas will be featured on BBC Radio 2's Dermot O'Leary show on Saturday for a Saturday Sessions. Tune in at 3 pm to hear it or listen again at bbc.co.uk. La Havas recently posted a short video in which she tells the story behind "Unstoppable," the first song off her forthcoming album, Blood. You can watch it here. The song remains on the BBC Radio 1 playlist.

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Brad Mehldau performs a solo set at Teatro Rosalía de Castro in A Coruña, Spain, Sunday. Following another solo set in Sevilla on Monday, Mehldau and his trio tour Europe early next month.

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Randy Newman kicks off a set of summer concerts this weekend, joining the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Leonard Slatkin, a former Los Angeles schoolmate of Newman's, for a performance at Detroit’s Orchestra Hall on Saturday. He performs with the Kansas City Orchestra next week and closes out the month with two performances in Northern California.

Newman spoke with the Oakland Press about this weekend's concert and his personal connection to Slatkin for an article you can read at theoaklandpress.com.