Chris Thile, Punch Brothers, Lake Street Dive, Emmylou Harris, and Ry Cooder all perform at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in Lenox, Massachusetts, this weekend.

Chris Thile hosts a live broadcast of the season finale of his public radio show, Live From Here, from Tanglewood’s Koussevitzky Music Shed, on Saturday, joined as guests by his fellow Punch Brothers, Lake Street Dive, and comedian Gary Gulman. Aoife O'Donovan joins Thile as his duet partner. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans around the world can watch live online at livefromhere.org starting at 5:45 PM ET.

Punch Brothers release a new album, All Ashore, on July 20. “It's a meditation on committed relationships in the present day,” says Thile, “particularly in the present climate.” Lake Street Dive, currently touring North America in support of its new album, Free Yourself Up, plays a headlining concert at Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey, tonight.

Emmylou Harris and Ry Cooder come together on a special double bill at Tanglewood for a Sunday afternoon performance.

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David Byrne continues his American Utopia world tour with a set at De Groene Heuvels in Ewijk, Netherlands, on Saturday, as part of Down the Rabbit Hole. NME declares that the concert “may just be the best live show of all time.” Rolling Stone includes American Utopia in its list of 50 Best Albums of 2018 So Far, calling it “some of the most exciting music Byrne has made in years." Newsday has just named it the No. 1 Best Music of 2018 So Far.

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Rhiannon Giddens brings her Freedom Highway tour to Yellow Creek Park in Owensboro, Kentucky, tonight, for a set at ROMP festival.

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Kronos Quartet performs at the Spanish Courtyard at Caramoor in Katonah, New York, tonight. The program includes works from Laurie Anderson, Rhiannon Giddens, Steve Reich, Geeshie Wiley, Terry Riley, and others, as well as a pre-concert conversation with Kronos’s David Harrington. WNYC's New Sounds selects the show as today's Gig Alert, playing the Quartet's recent recording with Anderson, Landfall, in its recommendation.

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Audra McDonald will take part in a special Concert for America taking place at The Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City on Saturday to raise funds for four organizations working at the front lines to protect the human and civil rights of families at our southern border: Al Otro Lado, Texas Civil Rights Project, the ACLU Foundation of Texas, and the Florence Project. Hosted by Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley, the concert is an evening of entertainment with stars from Broadway, film, and television, including Tina Fey, Norm Lewis, Andrea Martin, Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Andrew Rannells, Chita Rivera, and Patrick Wilson.

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Pat Metheny began a month-long European tour with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh in Portugal yesterday, continuing this weekend with shows at Altice Arena in Lisbon tonight, Cine-Teatro Avenida in Castelo Branco on Saturday, and the Coliseu in Porto on Sunday.

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Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters conclude the current leg of their North American Carry Fire tour at Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Vancouver tonight, as part of Vancouver International Jazz Fest. Plant was a guest on CBC's Q last week; you can watch his conversation with host Tom Power here. Plant and the band tour Europe this summer and return to the United States in September.

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Saxophonist/composer Joshua Redman, drummer Brian Blade, bassist Scott Colley, and trumpeter Ron Miles perform songs from their new album, Still Dreaming, this weekend, beginning with a show at The Ohio Theatre in Cleveland tonight. From there, the quartet heads to Minneapolis for two sets at the Dakota Jazz Club on Saturday, followed by a set on the main stage at the Iowa City Jazz Festival on Sunday.

Still Dreaming, released last month on Nonesuch, is inspired by Redman’s father Dewey Redman's band Old and New Dreams, which featured an all-star lineup of Ornette Coleman collaborators. “It all makes for a jazz adventure that begs for repeated listening,” says the Lexington Herald-Leader. “The more you tune in, the more you hear the present day curators of a sublime jazz legacy forging its music into something unmistakably new.”

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Rokia Traoré performs at Chapiteau de Blainville in Blainville Crevon, France, on Saturday, as part of Archeo Jazz festival. “Traoré has made the album of her career,” exclaimed the Times of her 2016 Nonesuch album, Né So. “This accessible yet sophisticated album offers its own defiance against hard times.”