Pat Metheny, who celebrates a birthday on Sunday, closes out the current leg of his US tour with the Unity Band with shows in PA and NY ... Amadou & Mariam are at SF's Outside Lands ... Björk, The Black Keys, Billy Bragg play Nordic festivals ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play NYC's Cental Park SummerStage ... Shawn Colvin is in Denver with Loudon Wainwright III ... Dr. John, Emmylou Harris are at Edmonton Folk Festival ... Lianne La Havas plays UK's Wilderness Festival ... k.d. lang has two shows in NY state ... Jessica Lea Mayfield joins Langhorne Slim out West ... Punch Brothers close out Australia tour ... Sara Watkins joins Jackson Browne in Ohio and Kentucky ... and more ... 

The Black Keys continue their North American summer festival run at Lollapalooza in Chicago and Osheaga in Montreal, plus a show with The Shins in Toronto ... Amadou & Mariam play Lollapalooza and Osheaga too, plus NYC's Central Park for SummerStage ... Laurie Anderson is at Antony's Meltdown in London ... Björk, Emmylou Harris play Stockholm Music Fest ... Carolina Chocolate Drops treat New England to two free shows ... Jeremy Denk plays Aspen Music Fest ... Dr. John, Pat Metheny play Newport Jazz Fest ... Lianne La Havas is on Livestream ... k.d. lang, Jessica Lea Mayfield converge in Colorado ... Sara Watkins joins Jackson Browne for two nights at NYC's Beacon Theatre ... and more ...

The Nonesuch Journal is taking a bit of a break, ready to return with all the latest Nonesuch news on Monday, July 30. Till then, the summer concert season remains in full swing, of course, and with plenty of great music being made on all four corners of the globe, here's a look at some of the many events featuring Nonesuch artists this week, hopefully reaching wherever your summer travels may take you.

With the Olympic Games set to begin in two weeks, Kronos Quartet joins in the Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 Festival with a Glasgow performance of Terry Riley's Sun Rings ... Punch Brothers perform at three UK festivals ... Billy Bragg celebrates Woody Guthrie's centennial in NYC ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour the South ... Shawn Colvin is on NPR's World Cafe ... Dr. John tours Europe ... k.d. lang plays Vegas ... Brad Mehldau Trio, Pat Metheny Unity Band, Joshua Redman all tour Italy ... Sara Watkins plays Praire Home Companion, kicks off tour with Jackson Browne ... and more ...

It's the summer festival season across the Northern Hemisphere, with a whole host of Nonesuch artists—Björk, Dr. John, Punch Brothers, The Low Anthem, Joshua Redman, James Farm, Pat Metheny Unity Band, Brad Mehldau Trio, Lianne La Havas, Steve Reich, k.d. lang, Emmylou Harris, Laurie Anderson, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Jeremy Denk—performing at festivals like Roskilde, North Sea Jazz, Copenhagen Jazz, Lugano, Bloc Weekend, Vancouver Island, Winnipeg Folk, Bellingham, Pasadena's Summer Music Festival, and more!

ROMP: Bluegrass Roots & Branches festival in Owensboro, Kentucky, features return performances from Carolina Chocolate Drops, Punch Brothers ... Laurie Anderson joins Angélique Kidjo for Celebrate Brooklyn! ... Billy Bragg, Shawn Colvin each tour the US Northeast ... Dr. John, Lianne La Havas play Hop Farm fest ... Emmylou Harris is in Michigan and on Animal Radio ... k.d. lang plays in her new hometown of Portland ... Pat Metheny Unity Band tours Europe ... Joshua Redman joins The Bad Plus in Minnesota ... Sara Watkins joins her brother Sean for the Watkins Family Hour in LA ... and more ...

The Telluride Bluegrass Festival runs through the weekend with performances from k.d. lang and the Punch Brothers ... Björk brings Biophilia to Spain ... Billy Bragg brings Mermaid Avenue to the Midwest ... David Byrne's Here Lives Love plays at MASS MoCA ... Carolina Chocolate Drops and Shawn Colvin are in Connecticut ... Jeremy Denk plays Liszt with San Francisco Symphony ... Adam Guettel's Floyd Collins is in Chicago ... The Low Anthem and Pat Metheny are in Germany ... Natalie Merchant plays the Pacific Northwest ... Rokia Traoré concludes three-show series in London ... and more ...

Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins perform at the Pete Seeger-inspired Clearwater Festival in upstate NY ... Björk brings Biophilia to Fes Festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play Colorado's Palisade Fest ... Dr. John takes Treme to Oakland ... Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson duet in Brooklyn ... The Low Anthem do Dublin ... Emmylou Harris and others celebrate Kate McGarrigle at Luminato ... Joshua Redman launches four-show Paris residency, including duo set with Brad Mehldau ... and more ...

It's Bonnaroo weekend! AfroCubism, Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins will be there to perform; Punch Brothers' set will be webcast live on YouTube ... John Adams's Nixon in China makes San Francisco Opera debut ... Timothy Andres makes London debut ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play free Pittsburgh festival ... Dr. John joins Gov't Mule in Charlotte, Iron & Wine at Ravinia ... Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach is at Toronto's Luminato Festival ... The Low Anthem heads to the UK ... Audra McDonald performs at the Tonys ... Natalie Merchant joins Cincinnati Pops ... Allen Toussaint celebrates New Orleans at Wolf Trap's Louisiana Swap Romp ... and more ...

The Black Keys perform a special rendition of “Gold on the Ceiling” in honor of Johnny Depp at the MTV Movie Awards ... John Adams's new oratorio continues its premiere with LA Phil ... Laurie Anderson brings Dirtday! to Slovenia ... Timothy Andres hosts the Shaw Concert in NYC ... Billy Bragg, Lianne La Havas play London's Apple Cart Festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Sara Watkins play Appel Farm and Mountain Jam fests ... Jeremy Denk duets in Chicago ... Dr. John launches US tour ... Emmylou Harris is in Texas ... James Farm is at Blue Note Tokyo ... Kronos Quartet plays Reich in Stockholm ... k.d. lang makes Spoleto debut ... The Low Anthem opens for Feist ... Jessica Lea Mayfield, Punch Brothers are at Appalachian Uprising ... and more ...

On this long Memorial Day weekend in the US, Shawn Colvin and Sara Watkins join Garrison Keillor and the cast of A Prairie Home Companion for live shows ... Laurie Anderson brings Dirtday! to Portugal ... Billy Bragg brings Mermaid Avenue to Belgium and Germany ... Carolina Chocolate Drops tour with Dave Matthews Band ... James Farm has three nights in Oakland ... Kronos Quartet joins Philip Glass for Dracula in the UK ... Richard Goode performs in Spain ... k.d. lang is in New Orleans and Orlando ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays Cancun ... and more ...

Jeremy Denk performs in DC on Saturday and celebrates the recent release of his Nonesuch debut album, Ligeti/Beethoven, in NYC on Monday ... The Black Keys close out their North American tour in Atlantic City ... Billy Bragg launches European tour in Germany ... Carolina Chocolate Drops are in Virginia ... Shawn Colvin plays the Cherokee Creek Music Festival ... Michael Daves, Noam Pikelny do the Brooklyn Folk Fest ... Kronos Quartet kicks off European tour in the Netherlands ... k.d. lang continues US tour in Kansas ... Jessica Lea Mayfield plays Nelsonville Music Festival ... Brad Mehldau Trio has a trio of SFJAZZ shows ... Randy Newman plays a set at the Hang Out Music Festival ... and more ...