Brad Mehldau and his trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—round out their tour of the UK this weekend with a sold-out show at Barbican Hall in London tonight and a performance at the Assembly Rooms in Bath on Saturday. The two-week European tour concludes with a sold-out set at the Theater Bonn Opernhaus in Germany as part of JazzFest Bonn on Monday.

“Few musicians have made quite the same impact on the course of contemporary jazz as Brad Mehldau,” writes the Yorkshire Post, in an interview with the pianist ahead of the trio’s concert in Leeds earlier this week. You can read what he had to say here.

The Brad Mehldau Trio’s latest album, Blues and Ballads, was released last year on Nonesuch to critical acclaim. The New York Times called it "beautiful," while MOJO, in its four-star review, called the album a “spellbinding set whose salient features are subtlety and understatement. Sublime stuff."

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Laurie Anderson joins Philip Glass in bringing their unique and collaborative program, American Style, to Norwich Theatre Royal in England for a sold-out performance tonight. The duo brought the program to the Barbican in London for its British premiere on Wednesday, concluding the venue’s Reich, Glass, Adams: The Sounds that Changed America series, and gave a second London performance at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall last night. The Guardian calls the artists “two of the most dynamic avant-garde New Yorkers still working today.”

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Jeremy Denk gives a solo recital as part of the Bath Festival at Assembly Rooms on Sunday. Included on the program are works by Bach, Stravisnky, Ives, Schubert, Bolcom, and more. The pianist performed live on BBC Radio 3 – In Tune this afternoon; you can listen here.

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Fleet Foxes, whose highly anticipated new album, Crack-Up, is due June 16, conclude their four-city run of intimate venues in the Pacific Northwest—the band's first US shows in six years—with a sold-out performance at The Showbox in their hometown of Seattle tonight. The band begins an extensive international tour next weekend with a four-night residency at Sydney Opera House.

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Tigran Hamasyan continues his world tour, featuring music from his new album, An Ancient Observer, with a performance at CDX in Moscow on Sunday.

DownBeat says the new album is “simply breathtaking." London Jazz News writes: “It’s a rare work of art that can transport you four thousand years back in time and show you the present … [Hamasyan’s] synthesis of styles and forms is breathtaking.”

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Emmylou Harris joins Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams for the three remaining concerts of a sold-out four-night run at SFJAZZ in San Francisco each night this weekend, as part of Cash’s residency as artistic director for the venue’s 2016–17 concert season. Harris performs at the Nelsonville Music Festival in Ohio and heads out on a US tour as special guest of John Mellencamp in June.

Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers' Grammy Award–winning 1992 album, At the Ryman, is now available on vinyl for the first time, from Nonesuch Records. The New York Times declared at the time: "This record is her finest moment." A limited number of Harris's Queen of the Silver Dollar: The Studio Albums, 1975-79, a five-vinyl set of her first studio albums, released for Record Store Day last month, are now available in the Nonesuch Store as well.

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Kronos Quartet performs at Teatro Cinema in Chiasso, Switzerland, on Saturday, and at Auditorium Giovanni Arvedi in Cremona, Italy, as part of Cremona Jazz, on Sunday. On the weekend’s programs are works by Laurie Anderson, Rhiannon Giddens, Sigur Rós, Omar Souleyman, Café Tacvba, Vladimir Martynov, and others.

Kronos joins forces with label mates Sam Amidon, Olivia Chaney, Rhiannon Giddens, and Natalie Merchant for Folk Songs, an album of mostly traditional songs with contemporary arrangements, due June 9 on Nonesuch. Folk Songs is available to pre-order from iTunes and the Nonesuch Store, where the album track "The Butcher's Boy," featuring Merchant, may be downloaded instantly.

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Audra McDonald and her husband, fellow Broadway star Will Swenson, co-host the 83rd Annual Drama League Awards ceremony at the Marriott Marquis Times Square in New York City this morning. McDonald brings her Tony Award–winning performance of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill to Wyndham’s Theatre in London on June 17.

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Pat Metheny continues his month-long tour of Europe with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh, performing three shows in Scandinavia this weekend: at Stockholm Concert Hall tonight, Oslo Konserthus on Saturday, and Slagthuset in Malmö on Sunday.

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Conor Oberst, with The Felice Brothers as his backing band, continues his US Salutations tour in Texas this weekend. The Lone-Star State sets begin with a free in-store performance at Waterloo Records in Austin this afternoon, followed by a show at ACL Live at the Moody Theater in Austin tonight. They then bring the music to Dallas, where Oberst gives a mini acoustic set at Good Records Saturday afternoon and is joined by the band for a show at the Granada Theater that night. They close out their Texas weekend with a concert at Cine El Ray in McCallen on Sunday.

Salutations, a companion piece to 2016's lauded Ruminations, was released in March to great acclaim. The Independent gives the album a perfect five stars, calling it "probably the best work of the singer’s career."

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman is currently touring Europe with the Jorge Rossy Vibes Quintet, performing twice in Germany this weekend—at Jazzkeller Esslingen tonight and Birdland Neuburg on Saturday—followed by a show at AMR Geneva in Switzerland on Sunday. The tour concludes in Barcelona next week, after which Redman reunites with his trio for a tour of Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

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Chris Thile concludes his inaugural season as host of A Prairie Home Companion with a show at the program’s home base, Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on Saturday. Joining Thile as special guests for the episode are Jim James, Aimee Mann, and comedian Hari Kondabolu. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans around the world can watch the live broadcast online at prairiehome.org starting at 4:45 PM CT.

Thile embarks on a short run of dates with banjoist Béla Fleck next week, followed by a summer tour with his fellow Punch Brothers.

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Caetano Veloso and Brazilian samba singer Teresa Cristina conclude their month-long tour of Europe at Grote Zaal in Amsterdam tonight.

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.