Rhiannon Giddens, touring behind her recently released solo debut album, Tomorrow Is My Turn, returns for the second weekend of Austin City Limits, with a set at the Tito’s Handmade Vodka Stage in Zilker Park tonight, followed by her first of four shows with special guest Bhi Bhiman, at the Folly Theater in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday.

The Austin Chronicle, in its review of Giddens’ set from last week’s Austin City Limits, says she and her band “threaded the strands of musical traditions into an overall tapestry that transcended genre and era,” adding that Giddens has “emerged as one of the most essential contemporary emissaries of American music.”

NPR recently premiered the music video for "Black Is the Color," a traditional tune arranged by Giddens for Tomorrow Is My Turn. You can watch the video, filmed on the campus of Fisk University, a Nashville HBCU that dates back to 1866, here.

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Jeremy Denk gives two performances at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the first of which is a pairing with Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz and fellow pianist Jason Moran, tonight, followed by an afternoon solo recital, featuring works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, and others, on Sunday.

The Telegraph, reviewing Denk’s recent collaboration with the Britten Sinfonia in Cambridge, England, praised his “jaw-dropping virtuosity,” adding that, in Denk’s hands, “the piano always seems a musical time-machine, capable of transmitting any style and period.”

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Emmylou Harris joins photographer Peter Nash in conversation at Two Old Hippies Guitar Shop in Nashville tonight. The event is free, but a collection of Nash’s latest work, showcasing dogs, will be available for sale with a percentage of sales going to Harris’s Bonaparte’s Retreat Dog Rescue.

Additionally, Shelter Me: Partners for Life, a documentary hosted by Jon Hamm and featuring Harris and her efforts to help at-risk youth and homeless pets in her community, airs on PBS stations across the United States this month. Check local listings at ShelterMe.tv.

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Kronos Quartet is at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall on Saturday, joined by tenor Rinde Eckert and Vietnamese multi-instrumental Vân Ánh Vanessa Võ. They perform My Lai, a new work written by Stanford faculty composer Jonathan Berger, inspired by the infamous 1968 massacre of Vietnamese villagers by American soldiers in the Sơn Mỹ village of South Vietnam.

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Lianne La Havas continues her North American tour with shows at the University of Calgary’s MacEwan Hall tonight and at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver on Sunday. She performs songs from her new album, Blood, and her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?.

"The planets—or something—aligned," says the Minneapolis Star Tribune's Jon Bream of her show there earlier this week. "It was the right venue for that artist at the right time. British pop star Lianne La Havas at a crowded Varsity Theater on Tuesday night just felt right. So right."

La Havas was the musical guest on CBS This Morning: Saturday last weekend, performing three songs from Blood. Host Anthony Mason called her "remarkable." You can watch the performances here.

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Audra McDonald takes her US tour to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on Sunday.

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Brad Mehldau continues his European solo tour with two shows in France, the first at Salle Poirel, in Nancy, tonight, and then at Théâtre de l'archipel, in Perpignan Cedex, on Saturday.

Nonesuch releases Brad Mehldau's 10 Years Solo Live eight-LP vinyl box set, culled from live recordings made over a decade of the pianist's European solo concerts, next Friday, with the four-CD set to follow next month.

Record Collector gives the upcoming release a glowing, five-star review, with the magazine’s Charles Waring calling Mehldau a “magician” and likening the experience of the box set to “dying and going to jazz heaven.”

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Pat Metheny is at the Uppsala International Guitar Festival in Sweden, performing at the Uppsala Konsert & Kongress, on Saturday, and leading a workshop there Sunday morning.

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Randy Newman embarks on a month-long tour of Europe and the UK, beginning with two shows in the Netherlands. He plays Eindhoven Muziekgebouw on Saturday and Concertgebouw De Vereeniging, in Nijmegen, on Sunday.

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Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club, a core band featuring several of the original musicians from Buena Vista Social Club, takes its "Adios" tour to California, with a sold-out show at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Auditorium tonight and at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa on Sunday. Musicians from the original Grammy Award–winning album perform, including band leader and trombonist Jesús “Aguaje” Ramos, trumpeter Guajiro Mirabal, laúd virtuoso Barbarito Torres, vocalist and guitarist Eliades Ochoa, and vocalist Omara Portuondo, along with a younger generation of Cuban musicians, such as vocalist Carlos Calunga and pianist Rolando Luna.

The Guardian caught a recent show in Vancouver and called the performance “transcendent, heartfelt and a whole lot of fun.” They added, “While one hopes that it’s not really adiós and only hasta luego, do see the farewell tour before it too becomes sepia-toned nostalgia. You will have no regrets, only pure delight.”

The original Buena Vista Social Club album, which became a cultural phenomenon and helped introduce Cuba's rich musical heritage and pre-revolutionary past to the world, will be reissued on vinyl by World Circuit Records on October 30 and is available to pre-order in North America in the Nonesuch Store.

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Steve Reich’s 2005 piece Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings, is the musical setting for New York City Ballet resident choreographer Justin Peck’s new work New Blood, which received its world premiere at Lincoln Center last week and continues with a performance tonight.

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Rokia Traoré continues her four-night residency at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, performing music and playing the role of Barbary in the Othello-inspired Desdemona, a theatrical collaboration between Traoré, Toni Morrison, and director Peter Sellars. With performances tonight, Saturday, and Sunday, this marks the first time Desdemona has been performed in two years, when it was staged in Jamaica in 2013, following its 2011 international premiere. Later this month, Traoré and company take the production to Australia, for four nights in Melbourne’s Southbank Theatre, as part of the Melbourne Festival, and three nights in Sydney’s Roslyn Packer Theatre, presented by the Sydney Festival.

As noted yesterday in the Nonesuch Journal, Traoré's sixth album will be released on Nonesuch in early 2016. Further details will be announced shortly, as will upcoming tour dates.