Emmylou Harris, whom the New York Times has called "the reigning queen of Americana," performs at the international Country to Country festival of country and Americana music in the UK and Ireland this weekend, with sets at SSE Hydro in Glasgow tonight, 3 Arena in Dublin on Saturday, and the O2 Arena in London on Sunday. The line-up for Harris’s shows also includes Little Big Town, Margo Price, and Midland; headliners on the festival’s other schedules are Faith Hill and Tim McGraw and Kacey Musgrave.

Harris returns to the States to take part in another multi-artist event, Love Rocks NYC!, to benefit God’s Love We Deliver, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, next Thursday.

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Composer/pianist Timo Andres gives a solo recital at Bargemusic in Brooklyn tonight, performing his piece How Can I Live In Your World Of Ideas?, as well as works by Caroline Shaw, Chris Cerrone, Eric Shanfield, and Janáček. The New York Times selects the show as a Classical Music Concert to See this weekend.

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David Byrne gives a preview of his forthcoming world tour, featuring music from his just-released album, American Utopia, with sold-out shows at Palace Theater in Waterbury, Connecticut, tonight, and Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, on Saturday. Folks across the US can see Byrne perform from and discuss the new album on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

Stereogum calls the new album “f*cking amazing … Shocking just how good American Utopia is.” Mojo writes that “Byrne filters grace, wonder and apocalyptic portent through his fractured worldview. He remains a fine guide through life’s disruptions and disturbances.”

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Fleet Foxes continue their US Crack-Up tour in the South this weekend, playing shows at Thalia Maria in Jackson, Mississippi, tonight; Cannon Center in Memphis on Saturday; and Soul Kitchen in Mobile, Alabama, on Sunday.

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Rhiannon Giddens joins Toshi Reagon, Young Paris, Carrie Compere, Ro James, and a group of emerging artists for A Time Like This: Music for Change at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City on Sunday. The concert—part of Carnegie Hall’s six-week festival The ’60s: The Years that Changed America—features music by Stephen Stills, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, and more.

Giddens's 2016 debut performance on Austin City Limits receives an encore broadcast on PBS stations this weekend. The set includes "Waterboy," from her debut solo album Tomorrow Is My Turn; "At the Purchaser's Option," from her album Freedom Highway; and more.

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Richard Goode gives a solo recital at Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, on Sunday, performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Byrd, and Debussy. The New York Times has praised Goode for his “fastidious musicianship, infallible fingers, warming spirit and vital connection to the living traditions set down by his predecessors.”

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Kronos Quartet, vocalist Rinde Eckert, and percussionist Vân-Ánh Võ perform Jonathan Berger’s My Lai at UCLA’s Royce Hall tonight. A collaboration between Kronos’s David Harrington and Võ, the piece is informed by events of the Vietnam War, with a libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman. The New York Times, reviewing a performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last year, declared: "It was a gripping affair, beginning to end."

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k.d. lang continues her US Ingénue Redux Tour with a sold-out show at The Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe tonight, followed by a performance at the Paramount Theatre in Denver on Sunday. The Portland Mercury praises “this brilliant performer’s unwavering moxie and the supernatural voice she commands with bewildering, effortless, and heart-wrenching precision.” "Ingénue sounds as great today as it did upon its release," says the Los Angeles Times in a review of Monday’s concert. "And what a rich experience it remains."

You can hear lang’s interview with KCRW from earlier this week here.

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Audra McDonald performs at the Au-Rene Theater at The Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Sunday. New York Magazine raves: “It’s entirely possible that Audra McDonald is the greatest singer alive.”

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman is in Germany this weekend, performing as a special guest of Reis Demuth Wiltgen Trio, at Neue Geblasehalle in Neunkirchen tonight and Theaterstubchen in Kassel on Saturday.

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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show Live From Here at Arizona State University’s Gammage Auditorium on Saturday, with special guests The Wood Brothers, Phoebe Bridgers, and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait. Madison Cunningham 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 3:45 PM MT.

Tickets for Thile and his fellow Punch Brothers’ summer tour are on sale now.

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Rokia Traoré brings her project The Dream Mandé – Bamanan Djourou to Carre Belle Feuille in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, tonight. The show, comprising five musicians and six female singers led by Traoré, is based on classical Mandinka music and features covers of traditional Bambara songs and adaptations of French songs.

“The Dream Mandé project concerns traditional Malian music,” says Traoré, “but it is also proof that modernity is bringing us to inevitable changes, sometimes giving the possibility to offer a vigor and a sense to the past through contemporary concepts that go against established customs.”