Mountain Man continues its first tour in six years, which launched earlier this week, with a concert at The Sinclair in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday. 

The trio was on NPR’s World Cafe discussing and performing songs from its new album, Magic Ship. "Something truly magical happens when Amelia Meath, Molly Erin Sarlé, and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig are in the same room, huddled around the same mic, breathing and harmonizing together," says host Talia Schlanger. You can listen to the session here. The group also stopped by WFUV in New York City for an FUV Live set of Magic Ship songs, which you can hear here, and recorded an Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Session of covers of songs by Kacey Musgraves, Neil Young, and Fiona Apple, heard here.

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Sam Amidon continues his UK tour with music from his latest album, The Following Mountain, and more, at Brudenell Social Club in Leeds tonight and Pleasance Cabaret Bar in Edinburgh on Saturday.

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David Byrne, touring UK arenas with songs from his critically acclaimed new album, American Utopia, plays Motorpoint Arena in Cardiff on Saturday. The Yorkshire Evening Post, reviewing a concert in Leeds earlier this week, writes: “Byrne’s brilliant and endlessly inventive current live show certainly indicates an artist at the peak of his creative powers as he enters his fifth decade in music. Byrne and his exceptional cast of collaborators are surely redefining the possibilities of what an arena concert can be. And we are all the better for that.”

Byrne was a guest on BBC Newsnight last weekend, speaking with host Kirsty Wark about the American Utopia album and tour, the forthcoming release of the complete True Stories soundtrack, and more. You can watch the interview here.

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Rhiannon Giddens is in Ireland for two festivals this weekend. She presents a “song talk” at Murray’s Bar and a concert at St. Patrick’s Church in Knockroghery on Saturday for the South Roscommon Singers Festival, then heads north to Sligo for a set at Hawk’s Well Theatre on Sunday as part of Sligo Live Festival.

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Emmylou Harris joins Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin, Lila Downs, and Steve Earle for The Lantern Tour: Concerts for Migrant and Refugee Families at Scottish Rite Auditorium in Collingswood, New Jersey, tonight. She, Browne, Downs, and Earle then take the tour to the Orpheum Theatre in Boston with Jerry Douglas on Saturday. The tour culminates at The Town Hall in New York City on Sunday with all of the artists above plus Graham Nash, Joan Osborne, and additional special guests. The performances support families seeking safety at the United States–Mexico border, with proceeds going to the Women's Refugee Commission.

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Gabriel Kahane joins Andrew Bird and the National Symphony Orchestra, led by Steven Reineke, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, tonight and Saturday. Kahane joins the NSO for his Ambassador Suite, and has reimagined Andrew Bird’s material for Bird’s own performance with the orchestra. Both artists give solo performances as well.

Kahane was a guest on the public radio show Live From Here with Chris Thile last weekend. You can watch his performance of three songs from his new album, Book of Travelers—“November,” “Baltimore,” and “Little Love,” the last with Thile—from the show here.

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Lake Street Dive resumed its North American Free Yourself Up tour in Louisville yesterday, and continues in the Midwest with shows at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee tonight and the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on Saturday.

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Mandy Patinkin concludes his ten-performance New York Theatre Workshop residency at The Connelly Theater in New York City with shows tonight and Sunday. Joined by pianist Adam Ben David, he performs music from Diary: January 27, 2018 and Diary: April/May 2018, the first two in a series of musical installments with pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett released on Nonesuch earlier this year. A limited number of tickets are available here via a daily TodayTix lottery.

Patinkin brings his Diaries 2018 tour to Palo Alto, Honolulu, and Australia in November. “It is a reflection of everything that I am experiencing right now, politically and personally,” Patinkin tells the Jewish News of Northern California about the tour.

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Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters bring music from his latest album, Carry Fire, to The O2 in London tonight and 3Arena in Dublin on Sunday; Van Morrison performs both nights as well. The Evening Standard exclaims: “Inventive and exotic, Carry Fire proves Plant’s creative spark is still burning bright.”

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Chris Thile hosts his public radio show Live From Here at Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Saturday, with special guests Jeff Tweedy, Diana Gordon, and comedian Todd Barry. 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 4:45 PM CT.

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Rokia Traoré, the artist in residence at New York University's Institute of African American Affairs this semester, brings the first of three residency programs to Tishman Auditorium at NYU Law School's Vanderbilt Hall tonight. The lecture, with musical interludes, focuses on her professional artistic experience in Mali and the need for cultural-artistic public spaces to reinforce education and community building in Africa. The residency includes another lecture on Monday and a concert at NYU Skirball Center on Tuesday. All programs are free and open to the public.

“Traoré has made the album of her career,” the Times exclaimed of Traoré’s latest album, Né So, released on Nonesuch in 2016. “This accessible yet sophisticated album offers its own defiance against hard times.”