Rhiannon Giddens performs her score for Nashville Ballet’s Attitude: Lucy Negro Redux premiere … Sam Amidon continues UK tour with Laura Veirs … Robert Ashley's Improvement is performed in NYC ... Emmylou Harris performs on Cayamo cruise … Kronos Quartet brings Music for Change: The Banned Countries to Carnegie Hall … k.d. lang performs on Americana Honors & Awards highlights show on PBS ...

Yola stopped by the Paste Studios in NYC for a live session ahead of her concert at Rockwood Music Hall yesterday. She performed the three songs that are out now from her forthcoming album, Walk Through Fire: “Ride Out in the Country,” “Love All Night (Work All Day),” and “Faraway Look.” You can watch the session here.

The singer Sanford Sylvan passed away at his home in New York City at the age of 65 last week. Nonesuch Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz, who was the label's longtime president, brought Sandy to Nonesuch and served as executive producer on his recordings. He offers this remembrance.

Mountain Man will resume its first US tour in six years with performances throughout next month and into the summer. For a preview of what’s to come, the trio has shared a new video of a performance of Fiona Apple's "Hot Knife" from a sold-out hometown show at the Haw River Ballroom in North Carolina from late last year, which you can watch here.

Chris Thile had a few familiar faces—and voices—join him as guests on Live From Here broadcast from Los Angeles last weekend. Nickel Creek—Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins—reunited to perform "21st of May" and Sam Phillips's "Where Is Love Now?" from their album A Dotted Line, plus the instrumental "Scotch and Chocolate." You can watch all three performances here.

Sam Amidon begins a tour of England, as special guest of singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, at the Norwich Arts Center tonight. The tour continues in Nottingham, York, Liverpool, Birmingham, and Winchester, culminating at The Bullingdom in Oxford on February 11.

Yola's video for her single "Love All Night (Work All Day)" has premiered via Relix, which says: "The song showcases the warm, soulful vocals that continue to engage new audiences across the globe." The track is the third pre-release song from her forthcoming, Dan Auerbach–produced debut solo album, Walk Through Fire, due February 22 on his Easy Eye Sound label. You can watch the video, directed by Dan Teef, here.

John Adams leads Dallas Symphony Orchestra in his Violin Concerto, Short Ride in a Fast Machine … Jeremy Denk performs solo at Carnegie Hall … Kronos Quartet performs live to film screening in Indiana … Joshua Redman Quartet plays Chicago, Boulder … Chris Thile hosts Live From Here from Los Angeles with Nickel Creek, Sara Watkins … 

Joshua Redman Quartet’s new album, Come What May, is due March 29 on Nonesuch Records. This is the first recording in almost two decades for this group of musicians—the recently Grammy-nominated saxophonist and his longtime friends and colleagues pianist Aaron Goldberg, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson—and features seven Redman tunes. The Quartet tours internationally throughout this year. Pre-order in the Nonesuch Store to download the album track "How We Do" now and get an exclusive, limited-edition print autographed by the group while supplies last.

Pianist Jeremy Denk's new album, c. 1300–c. 2000, out next Friday, February 8, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen. The new album presents a centuries-long story of musical expression, an evolution drawn in a single arc by the music of twenty-four different composers, from Guillaume de Machaut to György Ligeti. "Life, of course, runs in cycles," NPR's Tom Huizenga concludes in his First Listen review, "and Denk's c.1300–c.2000 lets us know that music—with its special powers of creation, expiration and restoration—does, too."

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2019–20 concert season, and featured among the performers taking the esteemed hall's stages are Brad Mehldau, Kronos Quartet, Jeremy Denk, Timo Andres, and Ry Cooder, as well as the New York premiere of a new work by John Adams.

New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records will join forces to release about three albums a year over an initial three-year period. The two labels, each committed to supporting the work of several generations of American composers, will combine resources to share newly-recorded music with a wider audience. The first three releases will be by composers Caroline Shaw, William Brittelle, and Daniel Wohl.