Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) kicks off a North American headlining tour, featuring music from her new album, Sorry I Haven’t Called, at Lincoln Hall in Chicago tonight, followed by shows at El Club in Detroit on Saturday and Velvet Underground in Toronto on Sunday. “An album that chases joy at every turn, Sorry I Haven't Called cycles through urgent dance, fiery indie, and feel good pop with a resilient sense of euphoria underpinning every joyous moment,” says Dork in its four-star review. “To unspool Tamko’s music is a bountiful reward,” says Paste. “Especially on Sorry I Haven’t Called, the work is dazzling and stirring.” Vagabon spoke with Jaboukie on the Talkhouse Podcast last week; host Josh Modell says the new album “was worth the wait, and another cool stylistic leap.” You can listen to the episode here.

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Composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and his Owl Song Trio—guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Herlin Riley—bring music from their forthcoming album Owl Song, Akinmusire’s Nonesuch debut, due December 15, to the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, on Saturday. The first music from the new album, “Owl Song 1,” was released last week and can be heard here. The New York Times says: "Akinmusire has been making some of the most intimate, spellbinding music of his career." Pitchfork has called his work "music that seeks peace not just despite a world of unrest, but within it."

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Sam Amidon performs at The Goods Shed in Stroud, England, on Sunday. He performed live from West Kerry, Ireland, for Other Voices’ Anam: Songs for Hearts and Minds earlier this year; you can watch that performance of "Spanish Merchant's Daughter," a song from his 2020 self-titled album, here.

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Michelle Branch brings music from her 2022 album, The Trouble with Fever, and more to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds this weekend, as part of the sold-out When We Were Young Festival. “The Trouble With Fever is Branch’s most lush album to date,” says American Songwriter, “with buoyant, string-laden instrumentation and candid lyrics.”

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Pianist Richard Goode gives a solo recital at Perth Theatre and Concert Hall in Scotland on Sunday afternoon, performing works by Bach, Chopin, and Fauré. The Los Angeles Times calls Goode’s approach to Bach “a small miracle of sensitivity, expression and nuance,” while the San Francisco Examiner applauds the "exploratory, spontaneous charge" the pianist brings to Chopin’s music.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins pianist Sylvie Courvoisier for a duo set at National Opera and Ballet in Skopje, North Macedonia, tonight, as part of Skopje Jazz Festival. Following that, Halvorson heads to Germany to join the German State Philharmonic Orchestra and Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, conducted by Ernst Theis, for Denardo Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come – A Tribute to Ornette Coleman at BASF Feierabendhaus in Ludwigshafen on Saturday, as part of the Enjoy Jazz Festival. She joins back up with Courvoisier for a duo set at Betriebswerk in Heidelberg on Sunday, also for Enjoy Jazz.

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Pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan and his Trio—bassist Marc Karapetian, and drummer Arthur Hnatek—head to Germany for a concert at Heimathafen Neukolln in Berlin tonight, followed by a set at Oper Leipzig on Saturday, for the Leipzig Jazz Festival. The Trio plays music from Hamasyan’s 2020 album, The Call Within, which Jazzwise calls “an exceptional recording for exceptional times” and Hamasyan’s “strongest artistic statement yet.” Hamasyan followed that album with last year’s StandArt, his first album of American standards which led Jazziz to call him “one of today’s most revered and distinctive voices in jazz and creative music.”

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Hurray for the Riff Raff, aka Alynda Segarra, performs at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, in celebration of the release of the book Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine and the opening of the accompanying exhibit at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. Hurray for the Riff Raff's acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut, LIFE ON EARTH, made year's best lists from NPR, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Uncut, Brooklyn Vegan, and others.

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Gabriel Kahane and Attacca Quartet perform songs from Kahane's 2022 album, Magnificent Bird, at UCLA’s Nimoy Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday. The San Francisco Chronicle calls the album, on which Kahane explores quiet, domestic concerns, coupled with losses personal and collective, against the backdrop of a nation and planet in crisis, “a gorgeous, intimate collection ... glistening and magical.” Attacca Quartet has won Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for both of its Nonesuch recordings with Caroline Shaw (a guest on Magnificent Bird): Orange (2019) and Evergreen (2022).

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Kronos Quartet brings its Five Decades: A 50th Anniversary Celebration concert tour to Barbican Hall in London on Saturday to perform Steve Reich’s Triple Quartet, which Kronos commissioned, premiered, and recorded, as well as selections from Pieces of Africa, Nuevo, Philip Glass’s Mishima, George Crumb’s Black Angels, and more. Mishima can be heard on the acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass, which gets its first-ever vinyl release on November 3. Earlier this month, Kronos founder and violinist David Harrington released the first of five decade-spanning playlists in honor of the group’s 50th anniversary. You can hear the playlist, featuring music Kronos performed in its first decade, 1973–1982, including works the quartet would later record on Nonesuch by Crumb and many others, here.

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Mandy Patinkin brings his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—to the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, tonight, accompanied by pianist Adam Ben David. Patinkin's latest album, Children and Art, was released on Nonesuch in 2019.

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Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed by Schola Cantorum and an ensemble of musicians at the Universitetets Aula in Oslo on Sunday. Mass for the Endangered is a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world—animals, plants, insects, the planet itself—an appeal for greater awareness, urgency, and action. Originally commissioned by Trinity Church Wall Street, the first recording, released on New Amsterdam / Nonesuch Records in 2020, features the English vocal ensemble Gallicantus conducted by Gabriel Crouch. CandyStations created the music videos for all of the tracks on the album, which you can watch here.

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Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway conclude the Western leg of their US tour, featuring music from their critically acclaimed new album, City of Gold, in Colorado this weekend, with shows at the Aggie Theatre in Fort Collins tonight and Cervantes Other Side in Denver on Saturday. Rolling Stone has just named Tuttle one of "The 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time," saying: "Even before they started sweeping awards ceremonies, California-raised, Nashville-based bluegrass innovator Molly Tuttle and her crack band Golden Highway were writing their name into the history of roots music."

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Composer and guitarist Yasmin Williams performs at the Garth Newel Music Center in Hot Springs, Virginia, on Sunday. Last month, Williams released her first song on Nonesuch, “Dawning.” The track—featuring Aoife O’Donovan on vocals, Kafari on rhythm bones, and Nic Gareiss’ percussive dancing—provides an early peek at her Nonesuch debut album, due early 2024 (details to come). You can hear the song and watch the video for it here. “Williams … is one of the country’s most imaginative young solo guitarists,” says the New York Times. “[Her] radiant sound and adventitious origins have made her a key figure in a diverse dawn for the solo guitar.”