Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) completes a trifecta of hometown shows in New York City this weekend. Following last night’s Noisey Nights event at Villain in Brooklyn, she’s back in the borough to perform a sold-out show at Brooklyn Steel tonight, part of her tour as special guest of Angel Olsen. On Saturday, Vagabon is on Live From Here, hosted by Chris Thile from The Town Hall in New York City. Also on the show this weekend are Paul Simon, Anaïs Mitchell, Ryan Hamilton, and Holly Laurent. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend and around the world via livefromhere.org, starting at 5:45 PM ET.

Vagabon’s self-titled sophomore album, released last month on Nonesuch, has received widespread critical acclaim. “Each song on Vagabon feels like a small world,” writes the New Yorker. NPR Music says the album showcases “Tamko's growth and versatility as a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, poet and all-around icon-in-the-making.”

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Turning from public radio to public television, a tune-in alert: Rhiannon Giddens and Yola are among the artists to be featured on Austin City Limits special presentation of performances from the Americana Music Association’s Americana Honors & Awards held at the historic Ryman Auditorium in September. Giddens took home the inaugural Legacy of Americana Award that night. Tune in on your local PBS station starting on Saturday and streaming online at pbs.org from Sunday.

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Sam Amidon concludes his UK tour at The Folk House in Bristol tonight and The Silk Mill in Frome on Saturday. He begins a US run next week, including an appearance at the 39th annual John Lennon Tribute in New York City. Amidon’s Fatal Flower Garden EP (A Tribute to Harry Smith), released last week on Nonesuch, features his take on four songs from Anthology of American Folk Music, Smith’s beloved and influential 1920s and ’30s folk music recordings.

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Devendra Banhart brings music from his new album, Ma, to Autodromo de León in León, Mexico, on Saturday, for Tecate Bajío Festival. “Banhart's singular world remains as intoxicating as ever on the earthly, analogue-sounding Ma,” says Q in its four-star album review. “It feels as if all of human life is here.”

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The Black Keys round out their "Let's Rock" tour on the West Coast this weekend: at Moda Center in Portland tonight, Tacoma Dome in Washington state on Saturday, and Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada, on Sunday. "Let's Rock" was released in June via Easy Eye Sound / Nonesuch Records. The band played two tracks from the album—“Lo/Hi” and “Go”—on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this week; you can watch the performances here.

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Composer William Brittelle and Metropolis Ensemble, which performed Spiritual America, Brittelle’s genre-defying electro-acoustic song cycle, on this year’s New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records album, come together again to perform new music at Pablo Center at the Confluence in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, tonight and Saturday, as part of the inaugural Eaux Claires Hiver, a wintry offshoot of Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s Eaux Claires festival.

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Jeremy Denk joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, led by Gustavo Gimeno, at Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England, on Saturday. On the program are Stravinsky’s Petrushka and two works by Beethoven: his Egmont Overture and Piano Concerto No. 3. Denk performs works by both composers and many others on his new album, c. 1300–c. 2000, which the Telegraph calls “exhilarating.”

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Rhiannon Giddens and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi perform at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in London tonight, as part of EFG London Jazz Festival. They continue their UK tour at St Georges Church in Bristol on Saturday, The Anvil in Basingstoke on Sunday, and more in the week ahead.

Giddens’s new album with Turrisi, there is no Other, has just earned a Grammy Award nomination, for Best American Roots Performance for the song "I'm on My Way." The album has been included in Uncut’s list of the Best New Releases of 2019.

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Pianist Tigran Hamasyan, double bassist Jeremy Bruyère, and drummer Arthur Hnatek join Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, led by Teddy Abrams, at Philharmonie in Luxembourg tonight and La Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on Saturday. They perform music from Hamasyan’s Nonesuch releases An Ancient Observer and Mockroot, as well as Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto and Darius Milhaud’s The Creation of the World.

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Emmylou Harris joins The Band’s Robbie Robertson, along with Warren Haynes, Margo Price, Cyril Neville, Vince Gill, Nathaniel Rateliff, Lukas Nelson, John Medeski, and others for The Last Waltz Nashville: An All-Star Celebration of the Band’s Historic Farewell Concert at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville on Saturday.

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Gabriel Kahane is joined by the chamber group Frequency to perform music from his Nonesuch debut album, Book of Travelers, at University of Washington’s Meany Hall in Seattle on Saturday. Rolling Stone calls the album a “stunning portrait of a singular moment in America.”

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Kronos Quartet is in the Netherlands this weekend, performing works by Philip Glass, Terry Riley, Michael Gordon, John Coltrane, Steve Reich, and more at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht tonight. Following that, the quartet heads to Amsterdam to receive the prestigious Ouevreprijs—career achievement prize—at the Edison Klassiek Awards ceremony and concert at De Hallen on Sunday. Kronos previously received Edisons for the albums Black Angels in 1991 and Kronos Caravan in 2001. Kronos Quartet's latest album, the first full recording of Terry Riley's Sun Rings, has just been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.

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The Low Anthem marks the tenth anniversary of its celebrated album Oh My God, Charlie Darwin with a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge in New York City tonight. The band performs at London’s Union Chapel next weekend and tours Europe in the coming weeks. On the album, the band creates what Paste called "gorgeous chamber folk." Mojo called the group "truly startling songwriters and instrumentalists. Theirs is a gloriously romantic vision of America that sits somewhere between Dylan and Waits."

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Pianist Brad Mehldau gives solo recitals in France this weekend, performing at Opéra de Limoges tonight and Opéra de Nice on Saturday. His new album, Finding Gabriel, has just been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. It's “magnificent,” says Mojo, “an immersive series of storytelling tone poems enhanced by horns, strings, and choir-like vocals.”

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Pat Metheny and his Side Eye trio—pianist James Francies and drummer Marcus Gilmore—continue their five-night run in Italy at Teatro Comunale in Mogoro tonight, after which Metheny joins the Chamber Orchestra of Sardinia for a performance there on Sunday.

Metheny's new album, From This Place, will be released on Nonesuch Records on February 21. Album preorders are available now in the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the opening track, "America Undefined.”

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Gaby Moreno concludes a two-week Roots Rising! tour with Liz Vice and Matt Andersen with concerts at Taos Center for the Arts in New Mexico tonight, and Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado, on Saturday. ¡Spangled!, Moreno’s new album with Van Dyke Parks, is a "life-affirming collaboration,” says Metro. "Its very existence is a political statement ... joy as an act of resistance.”

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Mandy Patinkin, accompanied by pianist Adam Ben David, performs music from his new album, Children and Art, and more at Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco tonight and Chapman University’s Musco Center for the Arts in Los Angeles on Sunday.

"These are songs that educate me, make me smile or laugh, or long or remember," Patinkin tells the Bay Area Reporter of his new album and tour. “I love sharing them with other people.” You can read what else he had to say here.

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The Joshua Redman Quartet—pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—plays music from Come What May, its first album in nearly two decades, in California, with concerts at Raven Theater in Healdsburg tonight and Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Half Moon Bay on Sunday. Come What May has just been nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album.

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Yola continues her sold-out European tour as special guest of Greta Van Fleet at Alcatraz in Milan, Italy, on Sunday, following a headlining show at Santeria Toscana 31 in Milan tonight. Yola was recently nominated for two UK Americana Awards: UK Artist of the Year and UK Album of the Year, for her solo debut album, Walk Through Fire.

Yola has also been nominated for four Grammy Awards: Best New Artist, Best Americana Album for Walk Through Fire, and Best American Roots Performance and Best American Roots Song for the album track "Faraway Look."