Nonesuch Records at BAM, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM)’s series celebrating the label's 50th anniversary, continues with a triple bill of Devendra Banhart, Stephin Merritt, and Iron and Wine performing at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in Brooklyn tonight. Banhart and Iron and Wine made their Nonesuch debuts last year with the release of the albums Mala and Ghost on Ghost, respectively; Merritt has released several albums on Nonesuch, including three with his band The Magnetic Fields.

Iron and Wine heads next to Ohio to play the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus on Saturday, as part of the Big Block Party, and returns to New York state for a set at Alfred University upstate on Sunday; Banhart joins Andrew Bird and fellow label mate Caetano Veloso for a triple bill at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday.

On Saturday at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, also part of Nonesuch Records at BAM, Kronos Quartet shares the stage with Natalie Merchant, Rhiannon Giddens, Sam Amidon, and Olivia Chaney for a special collaborative set. Delving deep into the American and international songbook, they create new arrangements of classic folk songs. Next week, Kronos joins Laurie Anderson for a five-night run performing her piece Landfall, September 23–27.

Nonesuch Records on Film, BAMcinématek's salute to the label’s rich catalogue of movie soundtracks, continues this weekend with a screening of Spartacus on Sunday, featuring the music of Alex North.

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Bombino, who kicked off a European tour last night, performs in three different European countries this weekend: at Union Chapel in London tonight; Cafe de Zwerver in Leffinge, Belgium, on Saturday; and Dudok in Tilburg, the Netherlands, on Sunday, as part of the Incubate Festival.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops, who performed at Nonesuch Records BAM last night, head to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, tonight for the all-ages FreshGrass Bluegrass Festival, which kicks off today and continues through Sunday. Tickets for the festival, which takes place on and around the museum’s stages, exterior courtyards, and concert meadow, include admission to the MASS MoCA galleries.

Sam Amidon offers a set at FreshGrass on Sunday. His new album of reimagined folks songs, Lily-O, is due out on Nonesuch on September 30; he begins a US and European tour on October 11. He spoke with Northeast Public Radio’s WAMC about the new album and the FreshGrass festival yesterday; you can listen to the conversation at wamc.org.

Emmylou Harris performs at the FreshGrass festival on Sunday, having launched a fall tour at the Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, Tennessee, tonight and performed at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo on Saturday. Her tour continues in the Northeast before heading out west in October.

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The Black Keys continue their North American tour at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Saturday and the TD Garden in Boston on Sunday. The band heads next to New York City for two shows at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn in the week ahead, as part of Nonesuch Records’ 50th anniversary celebrations, and special guest Cage The Elephant offers opening sets along the way. The Keys have been nominated for an MTV EMA in the Best Rock category; voting is now open via MTV’s website at tv.mtvema.com.

“You can look at these records as a snapshot of a moment in time for ourselves,” The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach tells the Ottawa Citizen about their new album, Turn Blue. The paper writes that “the music on Turn Blue is by turns restless and sinuous blues-driven psychedelia with a nod to southern American gospel. Similarly, Auerbach’s delivery is laid back, but his lyrics and fuzzedout solos (as on seven-minute opener ‘Bullet in the Brain’) feel so fresh one can practically taste the salt sting from his emotional wounds.”

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Shawn Colvin joins Lisa Fischer, Becca Stevens, and Quartet San Francisco as a special guest in Billy Childs’ set—titled Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro—at the Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, California, on Saturday. She rejoins fellow singer-songwriter Steve Earle to continue their “Songs and Stories, Together Onstage” duo tour in the US Northeast next weekend.

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Jonny Greenwood joins forces with over 50 members of the Wordless Music Orchestra, including label mate Timo Andres, and conductor Ryan McAdams for the US premiere performance of his score to Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood as the film is screened, at the majestic United Palace Theatre in New York City tonight and Saturday. Greenwood plays the ondes martenot part in both performances.

“The collaboration between Anderson and the composer Jonny Greenwood,” writes the New Yorker’s Alex Ross in advance of the concerts, “is among the strongest creative alliances in contemporary Hollywood.”

The Radiohead guitarist recorded Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint on Reich’s forthcoming album, Radio Rewrite, the title piece of which was inspired by two Radiohead songs. The album is set for release on September 30.

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Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica chamber orchestra offer three sets at the International Shostakovich Days in Gohrisch, Germany, this weekend: at Stadtkirche Konigstein on Saturday afternoon, and Konzertzelt Gohrisch on Saturday and Sunday evenings. The performances feature works by Schostakovich, Bach, Weinberg, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Giya Kancheli.

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Youssou N’Dour concludes a brief US tour with three performances this weekend: at Winspear Opera House in Dallas tonight; The Vic Theatre in Chicago on Saturday; and Lifestyle Communities Pavilion in Columbus, Ohio, on Sunday.

N’Dour kicked off the tour with two shows for Nonesuch Records at BAM last weekend. His “incessantly danceable music rides hurtling four-against-six grooves,” writes the New York Times’ Jon Pareles in his review. “The music offers its physical joys with a clear conscience. Mr. N’Dour extends Senegal’s griot tradition of social conscience and praise singing into pop aimed worldwide. In all its intricate momentum, the band only complements Mr. N’Dour’s kindly clarion of a voice, which is equally sweet, lithe and resolute. His songs are exhortations, history lessons and messages.”

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Randy Newman heads to Belgium for performances at De Spil in Roeselare tonight and the De Warande in Turnhout on Saturday.

Newman is set to receive the Max Steiner Award in a special two-concert Hollywood in Vienna event with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, led by his cousin and fellow film composer David Newman, at the Wiener Konzerthaus on Wednesday and Thursday.

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Conor Oberst performs in three different Texas cities this weekend: at the House of Blues in Houston tonight; the Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheatre in Austin on Saturday; and Annette Strauss Square in Dallas on Sunday. The tour features supporting sets by special guest Jonathan Wilson, who co-produced Oberst’s Nonesuch debut album, Upside Down Mountain. Oberst stays on in Texas for a set in El Paso on Monday before continuing the tour in New Mexico and Colorado in the week ahead.

“The songs sort of come from more of a subconscious space in my mind,” Oberst tells the Salt Lake Tribune of his songwriting process. “Every experience I have, and the things I absorb—like little observations I make in daily life—get filed back in my head and end up blending together in a way that I don’t fully understand. That’s the mystery of creativity.”

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Joshua Redman Quartet—Aaron Goldberg on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Gregory Hutchinson on drums—joins The Knights chamber orchestra at the Caramoor Center’s Venetian Theater in Katonah, New York, on Saturday, as part of Caramoor’s Fall Festival. The evening features music based on Redman’s orchestral album Walking Shadows, released on Nonesuch Records in 2013, as well as Brazilian music and original songs by Knights violinist Christina Courtin, who released a self-titled solo album on Nonesuch in 2009. Redman’s latest album, Trios Live, was released on Nonesuch in June.

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Chris Thile and Edgar Meyer continue their month-long North American duo tour featuring music from their new album, Bass & Mandolin, with shows in three Californian cities this weekend: at Sonoma State University’s Green Music Center in Rohnert Park tonight; Royce Hall in Los Angeles on Saturday; and Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall in Stanford on Sunday. The tour continues in Colorado, Kansas, and Missouri in the week ahead.

You can watch Thile and Meyer perform the album track “Big Top” in a new video here.

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Caetano Veloso continues his Abraçaço world tour with a performance at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland, California, tonight. He heads down the state to join Devendra Banhart and Andrew Bird for a triple bill at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Sunday, before concluding his US tour with two nights at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) next week for Nonesuch Records at BAM.

Banhart, who performs with Stephin Merritt and Iron and Wine at BAM tonight, joins longtime friend, musical collaborator, and fellow singer-songwriter Andy Cabic for a duo tour of California in October, performing both individually and together in a casual mix of older and newer material.