Congratulations to Yola, Rhiannon Giddens, and Punch Brothers guitarist Chris Eldridge on their Americana Honors & Awards nominations. Yola has been nominated as Emerging Act of the Year, and her Dan Auerbach-produced debut album, Walk Through Fire, has been nominated for Album of the Year. Rhiannon Giddens has been nominated for Artist of the Year, and her group Our Native Daughters has been nominated for Duo/Group of the Year. Chris "Critter" Eldridge has been nominated as Instrumentalist of the Year. Winners will be announced during the Americana Honors & Awards at the Ryman Auditorium in September.

We've pressed a limited number of a white-label vinyl sampler of songs from recent and upcoming Nonesuch releases, and we're giving them away free with orders of $30 or more in the Nonesuch Store while supplies last. The sampler includes songs from Punch Brothers, Yola, Brad Mehldau, Rhiannon Giddens, The Staves, David Byrne, Lake Street Dive, Mountain Man, Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, and Joshua Redman Quartet, most of which are vinyl exclusives.

The lineup for the 2019 Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival has been announced, and featuring among the performers taking the stage of the Damrosch Park Bandshell for the free series this summer are Rhiannon Giddens and Yola. Rhiannon Giddens will take part in NPR Music’s multi-artist Turning the Tables Live: The Motherlode on Wednesday, July 31, and Yola will help close out the season in The Roots of American Music Weekend: Americanafest NYC, performing on Saturday, August 10, ahead of Patty Griffin.

Yola begins a three-week UK tour in Glasgow tonight. The tour, which features music from her debut album, Walk Through Fire, continues in Perth, Aberdeen, Gateshead, Shipley, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, London, and Brighton, culminating in her hometown of Bristol on June 1. She also announces new autumn tour dates in Europe, in Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, and Paris, and a return to Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, and London.

The Black Keys have made history as their song "Lo/Hi," off the forthcoming album "Let's Rock," tops Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs, Adult Alternative Songs, Rock Airplay, and Alternative Songs charts—the first time any song has reached No. 1 on all four formats at once.

Nico Muhly leads a Los Angeles concert with Thomas Bartlett, Caroline Shaw … Sam Amidon plays The Anthology of American Folk Music in Brussels … Jeremy Denk concludes tour with Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis in San Francisco … Brad Mehldau Trio continues European tour … Gaby Moreno celebrates Bowie in Australia … Yola launches tour in Ireland …

Yola, who begins a tour of the UK and Ireland this weekend, will support Kacey Musgraves on tour in North America this September. The seven-show run starts in Kansas City on September 4, followed by sold-out shows in St. Louis, Cleveland, Vienna (Virginia), and Toronto, culminating in two nights in New Orleans, September 27 and 28. The dates follow Yola's Newport Folk Festival set and US tour with Lake Street Dive this summer and come ahead of the Austin City Limits festival and shows with Andrew Bird in October. 

Brad Mehldau's new album, Finding Gabriel, out next Friday, May 17, is streaming in full till then as an NPR First Listen. It's "a swing-for-the-fences opus," says NPR's Nate Chinen. "When you spend some time with Finding Gabriel, you begin to understand how much faith Mehldau has placed here in human vocalization, as a call to communion in troubled times." The album "feels both impeccably crafted and wildly out on a limb," says Chinen, "rooted in both breath and spirit, and a force that moves in mysterious ways."

Robert Plant and his band the Sensational Space Shifters will return to North America to tour this fall. The new dates, which follow a previously announced Scandinavian summer tour, start with a set at the Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival in New Brunswick on September 13 and continue in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, and Utah, culminating at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend, Oregon, on October 3. 

Brad Mehldau has released "O Ephraim," a song from his new album, Finding Gabriel, which is out next Friday, May 17, on Nonesuch. On the song, Mehldau performs on OB-6 Polyphonic synthesizer, vocals, Steinway C grand piano, drums, Fender Rhodes, Musser Ampli-Celeste, and Morfbeats gamelan strips. A video for the song, featuring artwork by Dima Drjuchin animated by Robert Edridge-Waks, premiered on WBGO this morning. You can watch it here.

Rhiannon Giddens is a guest on the latest episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour. She and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi talk with New Yorker editor David Remnick about their new album, there is no Other, and perform songs from it live. You can hear the conversation and performance here.

Composer William Brittelle's album Spiritual America is out now on New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. The album features acclaimed American rock duo Wye Oak, Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and Grammy-nominated chamber orchestra Metropolis Ensemble, performing a genre-fluid electro-acoustic song cycle written by Brittelle, plus one piece composed by Wye Oak and re-imagined by Brittelle. To coincide with the album's release, Brittelle has released a new video for the title track, which you can watch here.