Nonesuch label mates Lake Street Dive and Rhiannon Giddens are at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival today, with Lake Street Dive playing the Gentilly Stage this afternoon and Giddens performing in the Blues Tent this evening.

Lake Street Dive stays in town to play a headlining show at Civic Theatre on Saturday. The Boston Globe calls the band’s 2016 Nonesuch debut album, Side Pony, an “exuberant, harmony-rich blend of pop, soul, and jazz.”

Giddens continues her US tour, bringing music from her new album, Freedom Highway, to Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Saturday and Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill on Sunday. The Guardian calls Freedom Highway a “powerful and timely set.” Pitchfork exclaims: "Rhiannon Giddens emerges as a peerless and powerful voice in roots music.”

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Composer John Adams’s 70th birthday celebrations continue, as he conducts the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, with Timothy McAllister on saxophone, in the Dutch premiere of his Saxophone Concerto at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on Saturday. Also on the program is Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, and Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements. The concert will be broadcast live on NPO Broadcast Music Radio 4, as part of the NTR Saturday Matinee series.

Nonesuch released the debut recording of Saxophone Concerto, performed by the St. Louis Symphony, conducted by David Robertson with McAllister on alto saxophone, paired with Adams’s City Noir, in 2014. The album went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance.

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Laurie Anderson brings The Language of the Future to Chicago for a sold-out, three-night residency at the Old Town School of Folk Music tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. The piece is Anderson’s ongoing exploration of the American narrative, a collection of songs and stories about contemporary culture that crosses borders between dreams, reality, and the world of information. The DC Metro Theater Arts calls the project “profoundly provocative,” adding that Anderson “delivers her stories in a simple, arresting style, sincere and seemingly without polish.”

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Olivia Chaney performs an opening set for British folk legend Shirley Collins at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall on Saturday. “Live, Chaney has a casual yet commanding presence,” says the New Yorker. “[I]t’s as if a mystical spirit has entered the room. With an earthiness to her expressive soprano, Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century.”

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Pianist Richard Goode gives a solo recital, at Weill Hall in Rohnert Park, California, tonight, performing works from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin. 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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Tigran Hamasyan returns home this weekend, bringing his world tour with music from his new album, An Ancient Observer, to Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall in Yerevan, Armenia, on Sunday. DownBeat calls the album “simply breathtaking."

Hamasyan, who lives in Armenia, describes how his daily life inspired the new pieces on the album: "I gaze out of my window and see the biblical mountain Ararat with perpetual snow on its peak, with electrical towers with wires in the foreground cutting the picture, and satellite dishes melted onto old and modern houses—ancestral smoke coming out of their chimneys—and birds hovering above the trees along with occasional airplane trails in the vast sky. It is a dialogue, this interaction of God-given ancient nature with our modern human achievements. For me it is an awakening."

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Kronos Quartet performs at Uppsala Konsert & Kongress in Sweden tonight. On the program are several works from Kronos’s Fifty for the Future commissioning project, including the world premiere of Karin Rehnqvist’s The Riddle, as well as Terry Riley’s “One Earth, One People, One Love” from Sun Rings, and George Crumb’s Black Angels, the piece that inspired the founding of Kronos in 1973. The Evening Standard included the 1990 Nonesuch recording of Black Angels among the “100 Definitive Classical CDs of the 20th Century.”

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The Magnetic Fields conclude the US leg of the 50 Song Memoir concert tour in Seattle this weekend. They bring the stage extravaganza, directed by José Zayas, to the Moore Theatre on Saturday (songs 1–25) and Sunday (songs 26–50). The band performs the album at Primavera Sound in Barcelona in June, before taking the show overseas to the UK and Ireland in August.

Pitchfork calls 50 Song Memoir "an immersive, incisive listen ... It suggests that our deepest wisdom can be located in our most personal thoughts." The Wall Street Journal calls it "a highly entertaining summary of pop culture of the past half-century … 50 Song Memoir is a treat." You can watch several music videos for the album, originally created for the tour, here.

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Pat Metheny is back on the road for a month-long tour of Europe with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh, with the quartet playing three shows in Italy this weekend: at Teatroteam in Bari tonight, Teatro Augusteo in Naples on Saturday, and Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna on Sunday.

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American composer Nico Muhly and Faroese singer/songwriter Teitur perform their new album, Confessions, released late last year on Nonesuch, at Musikhuset, as part of the sold-out Spot Festival, in Aarhus, Denmark, on Saturday. For the festival performance, they will be joined by a baroque quartet of musicians from Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. Gramophone calls Confessions "brilliantly witty, strangely compelling ... subtly affecting." The Line of Best Fit calls it “bright, lively and youthful … a record of bottomless charm.”

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Caetano Veloso and Brazilian samba singer Teresa Cristina continue their month-long tour of Europe, performing at Gran Teatro Geox in Padua, Italy, on Sunday. The Times of London gave their tour-opening show at the Barbican earlier this month four stars, writing that Veloso’s performance “glowed in the dark,” while praising Cristina as “vivacious and witty.”

Veloso and fellow legendary Brazilian musician Gilberto Gil’s live double album, Dois Amigos, Um Século de Música: Multishow Live, was released on Nonesuch last year, as was Cristina’s live album and DVD, Canta Cartola.