Chris Thile and Emmylou Harris return to San Francisco's Golden Gate Park for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, the free, annual outdoor music festival, now in its eighteenth year.

Thile hosts the season premiere of his public radio show, Live From Here, from the park’s Towers of Gold Stage this afternoon. He is joined by special guests Lindsey Buckingham, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and comedian Erin Foley. Gaby Moreno joins Thile as his duet partner. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend.

Emmylou Harris is a Hardly Strictly Bluegrass mainstay, having performed at the festival every year. She headlines the Banjo Stage on Sunday afternoon, following a sold-out concert at Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea tonight, and a performance at Bummer's Ball at Haight Street Art Center in San Francisco on Saturday, to benefit Rocket Dog Rescue.

Elsewhere, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s major new Emmylou Harris exhibition, Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight, opens in Nashville today. “From my first album release in 1975, country music has embraced me with open arms,” says Harris. “This exhibit at the Hall of Fame makes me realize once more how grateful and honored I am to be part of such a remarkable musical family.”

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John Adams’s The Dharma at Big Sur is performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Rountree, with Tracy Silverman on electric violin, at Music Hall in Cincinnati this morning and Saturday night. The program opens with Adams’s The Chairman Dances and includes Copland’s Suite from the Ballet Billy the Kid and Barber’s Essay No. 1. There is also a pre-concert talk with Rountree and the CSO’s artistic director, Nate Bachhuber.

Nonesuch released of the first recording of The Dharma at Big Sur in 2006, with Adams conducting Silverman and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. The piece was composed for the opening of Los Angeles’s Frank Gehry–designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with the Los Angeles Times calling it “the most daring, radical and enrapturing piece” written for the venue. The Chairman Dances, performed by the San Francisco Symphony, was released on Nonesuch in 1987 and was named one of the 50 essential classical CDs by NPR’s Performance Today.

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Laurie Anderson gives a multimedia performance and speaks with chief curator, Lydia Yee, at Frieze London this afternoon, as part of Frieze Talks.

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David Byrne has brought his American Utopia world tour to Texas, performing a set at Zilker Park in Austin this afternoon for the first weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival. From there, he and his band head to Dallas for a concert at Verizon Theater at Grand Prairie on Saturday. They return to Austin next week for a headline show and the second weekend of Austin City Limits.

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Jeremy Denk joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru, for a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor, at Barbican Hall in London tonight. The program also includes the Overture to Beethoven’s The Creatures of Prometheus, Mason Bates’s Anthology of Fantastic Zoology, and a pre-concert, family-friendly interactive event.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune, reviewing Denk’s performance of the Concerto with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra last month, called his playing “exquisite” and “outrageously enjoyable.”

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James Farm—saxophonist Joshua Redman, pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland—began a three week tour of Europe this week, and continue with a performance at Bozar in Brussels tonight, before heading to the Netherlands for shows at Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht on Saturday and De Doelen in Rotterdam on Sunday.

Nonesuch released James Farm’s self-titled debut in 2011 and their sophomore album, City Folk, in 2014. The Evening Standard praises the band as “four crack musicians and improvisers whose fierce grooves and synergy make for spine-tingling listening.”

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Kronos Quartet begins an eight-show residency with the Alonzo King LINES Ballet at YCBA Theater in San Francisco this weekend, with performances tonight, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon. The program includes the world premiere of a new collaboration between Kronos and the Ballet, as well as a performance of King’s own Handel, and selections from the quartet’s Fifty for the Future commissioning project. Sunday’s program also includes a pre-concert LINES Ballet Family Experience.

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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band are in California this weekend, playing Cocoanut Grove Ballroom in Santa Cruz tonight, The Fillmore in San Francisco on Saturday, and Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma on Sunday. Phoebe Bridgers joins as special guest for tonight and Sunday’s concerts.

Oberst is the guest on the latest two episodes of the LSQ podcast with host Jenny Eliscu, in a special two-part interview. You can listen to both episodes here.