Happy Labor Day weekend! While it may signal the unofficial end of summer here, it also brings with it lots of great live music around the world, including the final nights of Brad Mehldau’s weeklong residency at the Village Vanguard in NYC ... The Magnetic Fields and Hurray for the Riff Raff at the End of the Road Festival and on tour in the UK ... Attacca Quartet on tour in Japan ... The Black Keys in Cincinnati ... Tigran Hamasyan in Armenia ... Emmylou Harris at Ravinia Festival ... Cécile McLorin Salvant at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island ... Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway on tour in North Carolina and Virginia ...

Nonesuch Records looks forward to returning to The Brooklyn Flea Record Fair when it returns to Smorgasburg in Williamsburg's Marsha P. Johnson State Park, next Saturday, September 10, from 11am to 6pm. The event, last held in 2019, is free and includes a record label and independent record store market situated next to Smorgasburg and its delicious food and drink options. Stop by the Nonesuch table then to say hi and pick up copies of your favorite Nonesuch vinyl releases, limited-edition prints, tote bags, and more.

Caroline Shaw and Attacca Quartet have released “And So,” from their upcoming album together, Evergreen, due September 23. “And So” is part of Shaw’s Is a Rose trilogy. You can watch a video for the song here. Evergreen comprises five original works by Shaw: three pieces written for string quartet and two songs written for string quartet and voice. It also includes an interpretation of a twelfth century French poem, which the Quartet performs with Shaw on vocals. Shaw and Attacca Quartet perform music from Evergreen at Public Records in Brooklyn September 27. 

Cécile McLorin Salvant was on BBC World Service’s Music Life with fellow musicians Otura Mun, Matthew Halsall, and Maria Chiara Argiró to discuss how the weight of history can alter their own creations and the role of competitiveness in the creative process. You can hear it here. Salvant and her Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song, have just been nominated for the Edison Jazz Award in the Netherlands for Best International Vocals. 

Emmylou Harris is the inaugural guest on Margo Price’s new podcast Runaway Horses from Sonos, featuring guests who've "made music that says something raw and beautiful and cathartic about the human experience." Harris is "one of my biggest inspirations, one of my favorite musicians of all time," says Price, "a true living legend … She has never been afraid to follow her creative instinct, embrace risks, and pursue the unexpected.” You can hear their conversation here.

Punch Brothers and Molly Tuttle are at Sacred Rose festival outside Chicago ... Punch Brothers are also in Wisconsin, and Tuttle is in Chicago ... Emmylou Harris and Wilco are in Martha's Vineyard ... Harris is also at Wolf Trap, while Wilco is in New Haven ... The Black Keys are in Georgia and Alabama ... Hurray for the Riff Raff launches EU/UK tour in Turin and London ...

Molly Tuttle is the guest on the latest episode of The Bluegrass Situation's Basic Folk podcast hosted by Cindy Howes and Lizzie No. She talks with No about her career in music, not least Crooked Tree, her new album with her band Golden Highway. “I am such a huge fan of Molly Tuttle,” says No. “I feel like what I love most about her is her songwriting, even though for many people her dazzling guitar playing is the star of the show … Her new record is a study of bluegrass sensitively executed by one of the genre’s stars. Molly’s interpretations of bluegrass traditions like the murder ballad, shiny stacked vocal harmonies, and lightning fast guitar playing are something to behold.” You can hear their conversation here.

Hurray for the Riff Raff kicks off a tour of Europe and the UK featuring songs from their Nonesuch debut album, LIFE ON EARTH, this weekend with sets at Todays Festival in Turin and All Points East in London. The tour continues with concerts in Northampton, Dublin, Glasgow, Leeds, Wiltshire, Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Brighton, and Paris. 

Vagabon (aka Laetitia Tamko) is a guest on the new Talkhouse podcast series Listening. On the show, curated by Elia Einhorn, artists are invited to share their perspective on how they listen to the world and how that informs the music they make. They also create a new composition for the episode and discuss the creative process behind it. In this episode, Tamko shares, says Einhorn, “the sounds she cherishes from growing up in Cameroon and how weaving together motion and our stream of consciousness can open us up to big ideas.” You can hear their conversation and the composition she wrote for the show here. Vagabon will perform at Venus Fest in Toronto and with Jason Isbell at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville in October.

The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt is on the new Talkhouse podcast series Listening. On the show, curated by Elia Einhorn, artists are invited to share their perspective on how they listen to the world and how that informs the music they make. They also create a new composition for the episode and discuss the creative process behind it. “Witty, guarded, cynical, loving, heartsick, and tender—this is Stephin Merritt, or at least what we hear in the songs he pens for his acclaimed band The Magnetic Fields,” says Einhorn. You can hear their conversation and the song Merritt wrote for the show here. The Magnetic Fields kick off the next leg of their UK and European tour on August 31.

Rhiannon Giddens is on Southern Living's Biscuits & Jam podcast. She talks with Southern Living Editor-in-Chief Sid Evans about her childhood in North Carolina, learning from her mentor Joe Thompson, making music with Carolina Chocolate Drops and in her own solo work, her new opera, Omar, and more, not least her efforts to bake the perfect biscuit. “I feel like I represent what the South is, which is a mixture of things,” Giddens says. “And I think that’s where our strength is.” You can hear their conversation here.

Cécile McLorin Salvant is at Tanglewood  ... Emmylou Harris returns to Blackberry Farm in TN ... Hurray for the Riff Raff plays Pitchfork concert in Queens ... Lake Street Dive, Rachael & Vilray perform in Portland, ME ... Punch Brothers are at Philadelphia Folk Festival and Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots Festival ... Joshua Redman plays Ellington, Monk, and Shorter in Houston ... Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Oak Ridge, TN ... Wilco plays Montreal and Cooperstown ...