The 43rd annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival is under way in Colorado, and among the weekend’s performers are two frequent participants at the festival: Punch Brothers and Emmylou Harris.

Punch Brothers make their ninth appearance at the festival, which is always scheduled to coincide with the weekend nearest the summer solstice. Following Chris Thile’s festival-opening solo set on the main stage yesterday morning and a Happy Hour set from the full band on the Elks Park stage yesterday afternoon, the group has a prime spot on the main stage this evening, playing its final notes not long before the sun goes down in the San Juan Mountains. As has been the tradition, Punch Brothers will also close out the late-night NightGrass festivities with a sold-out set at the Sheridan Opera House Sunday night,

Shortly before Sunday’s NightGrass show, Emmylou Harris takes the main stage, returning for her 14th appearance at Telluride. Joined by fellow singer-songwriters Mary Ann Kennedy and Pam Rose, she plays the penultimate set of the festival, before the Telluride House Band closes things out for another year.

Fans around the world can tune in to all of the music-making as it happens, streaming at koto.org.

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John Adams’s The Wound-Dresser, which sets Walt Whitman's Civil War poetry to music, is performed by the San Francisco Symphony and baritone Thomas Hamspon, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, at Davies Symphony Hall tonight, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon. The New York Times calls it “a triumphant, near-perfectly proportioned work of art.” Nonesuch released the first recording, featuring Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Sanford Sylvan conducted by the composer, in 1989.

As noted in the Nonesuch Journal earlier this week, Adams will be premiering a new opera with his frequent collaborator Peter Sellars, Girls of the Golden West, with the San Francisco Opera in late 2017.

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Louis Andriessen's new work Theatre of the World concludes its European premiere performances by the Dutch National Opera and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw at Theater Carré in Amsterdam tonight and Sunday. The multimedia production, directed by Pierre Audi, explores the life of 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher.

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Tyondai Braxton headlines the Switchboard Music Festival in San Francisco with a solo electronic set at the Brava Theater Center on Saturday. Following his recent performance at Moogfest, Braxton spoke with The Atlantic about his creative process, “generative music,” picking the guitar back up, and much more. 

Braxton released his Nonesuch debut album, Hive 1, last year. Q calls it "a sonically absorbing experience," and the Washington Post has called him "one of the most acclaimed experimental musicians of the last decade."

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Olivia Chaney begins a six-show run as special guest of Ben Folds on his tour of England with the New York City–based yMusic ensemble, starting at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester tonight and Sage Gateshead in Gateshead on Saturday. Her set features songs from her debut album, The Longest River, released on Nonesuch last year. The Observer calls it "an enchanting, stately creation." PopMatters exclaims: "It's pretty much perfect."

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Lake Street Dive plays two shows with special guests The Lone Bellow this weekend: at the Fillmore in Charlotte, North Carolina, tonight, and the Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta on Saturday. The band made its Nonesuch debut with the release of its new album, Side Pony, in February. The Boston Globe praised it as an "exuberant, harmony-rich blend of pop, soul, and jazz,” and Paste said the band’s “experimentation reaps triumphant results.”

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Pat Metheny, currently touring Europe and the UK with his new quartet—drummer Antonio Sanchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh—performs twice in Italy this weekend: at Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine in Udine on Saturday and the sold-out GruVillage Festival in Grugliasco on Sunday. “Metheny’s melodic skill is extraordinary,” exclaims Haaretz in a review of the quartet’s concerts earlier this week in Israel. “He has an incredible ability to instantly compose the most memorable tunes.

Metheny released two albums on Nonesuch last month—The Unity Sessions, which the Guardian calls The Unity Sessions “polished and sophisticated” and “just plain elegant,” and Cuong Vuo Trio Meets Pat Metheny, a collaboration with a trio led by Pat Metheny Group trumpeter Cuong Vu, which All About Jazz calls “a beautiful marriage of musical exactitude and punk attitude that knows few equals.”

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Joshua Redman launched a tour with his Quartet, featuring pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, earlier this week; they play two sets each night, tonight and Saturday, at Jazz Alley in Seattle, and one on Sunday. “Redman has consistently raised his own creative bar,” says the Denver Post in a preview of the tour. “Expect smart and melodic contemporary music from these performances.”

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The Staves, currently touring North America with music from their new EP, Sleeping In A Car, and 2015 Nonesuch debut album, If I Was, play a sold-out show at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn tonight, followed by two sets at the Firefly Festival, in The Woodlands of Dover, Delaware, on Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. The Sun gives Sleeping In A Car opening track “Outlaw” four stars, writing that it is a “masterclass of arrangement and harmony. Bewitching stuff...”

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Rokia Traoré plays a set at Parvis de la Défense in Paris tonight, as part of the La Défense Jazz Festival. Traoré released her sixth album, Né So, on Nonesuch earlier this year. NPR calls it a "gorgeous new album" from a "fantastically gifted" artist. The Times says: "Traoré has made the album of her career ... This accessible yet sophisticated album offers its own defiance against hard times." Uncut exclaims: "Brave, challenging and arrestingly original, Traoré may just have gone and made the finest indie-rock album to emerge from arguably the world's most musical continent."