Steve Reich is composer-in-residence at the Numusic Festival in Stavanger, Norway ... The Black Keys continue tour with Kings of Leon ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play MA and NY ... Rhys Chatham plays Boomslang Fest ... Philip Glass talks at Philadelphia's Live Arts Fest ... Wanda Jackson plays Lexington ... The Low Anthem, Philip Selway, Wilco hit the End of the Road ... Punch Brothers are in Austin ... Sara Watkins closes out the Prairie Home Companion Summer Love Tour ... and more ...

Amadou & Mariam make Daily Candy's Labor Day playlist ... The Black Keys launch tour with Kings of Leon ... Punch Brothers play moe.down festival ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhys Chatham play free outdoor sets ... Bill Frisell joins Paul Motian Trio in NYC ... Richard Goode travels to Toulouse ... The Low Anthem, Philip Selway play Electric Picnic ... Brad Mehldau debuts at Chicago Jazz Fest ... Joshua Redman tours Asia ... Allen Toussaint does Detroit Jazz Fest ... Sara Watkins plays Prairie Home Companion ... and more ... 

Carolina Chocolate Drops tour Midwest ... Bill Frisell joins Paul Motian Trio at Village Vanguard ... Richard Goode plays Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw ... Natalie Merchant brings Leave Your Sleep to Atlanta and Nashville ... Philip Selway plays Osaka ... Chris Thile goes solo in NYC ... Allen Toussaint joins Cyndi Lauper in LA ... Sara Watkins, Garrison Keillor, and A Prairie Home Companion bring Summer Love to Oregon ... and more ...

Kronos Quartet plays the Edinburgh International Festival ... Shawn Colvin plays Denver Botanic Gardens with Loudon Wainwright ... Richard Goode performs a BBC Prom ...  The Low Anthem tours Europe's festivals ... Natalie Merchant does Texas two-stop ... Jeff Tweedy headlines Philadelphia Folk Fest ... Dawn Upshaw joins BSO at Tanglewood ... Sara Watkins continues Summer Love tour with A Prairie Home Companion ... and more ...

Adams's El Niño opens the Edinburgh International Festival ... The Black Keys return to Ohio ... Toumani Diabaté's in residence at Yoshi's ... Glass’ Cello Concerto closes the Cabrillo Festival ... Kronos Quartet plays free show at Lincoln Center Out of Doors ... The Low Anthem tour Europe ... Natalie Merchant heads to Southern California ... Punch Brothers play festivals out West ... Sara Watkins tours with Garrison Keillor ... Wilco throws its first festival ... and more ....

The Black Keys head to Chicago ... Carolina Chocolate Drops finish their European tour ... Christina Courtin plays Maine ... Richard Goode appears with the BSO at Tanglewood ... Gidon Kremer performs in Italy ... Kronos Quartet play at Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music ... The Low Anthem visit Vermont's Northeast Kingdon Music Festival ... Natalie Merchant continues her tour of the west coast ... Punch Brothers play three times at the Pickathon 2010 in Oregon ... Allen Toussaint headlines in Utah ... and more ...

Steve Reich celebrates Drumming's 40th anniversary in Woodstock ... The Black Keys rock the East ... Carolina Chocolate Drops, Natalie Merchant, Rokia Traoré play Cambridge Folk Festival ... Christina Courtin joins NYC Gulf benefit ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica  tour Europe ... Kronos Quartet takes in the BBQ at Rancho Nicasio ... The Low Anthem, Punch Brothers play Newport Folk Festival ... Stephen Sondheim is fêted at Ravinia, BBC Prom ... Sara Watkins opens for Ricky Skaggs in West Virginia ... and more ...

Ben Folds plays Kansas City and Louisville, talks to Australia's Triple J ... John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony receives Australian premiere ... The Black Keys kick off US tour ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica finish at Finnish fest ... The Low Anthem tours East Coast ...  Audra McDonald performs at Aspen benefit ... Natalie Merchant tours Midwest ...  Pat Metheny Group concludes European tour ... Punch Brothers are up in Alaska ... and more ...

Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass perform his Dracula score in Germany ... Alarm Will Sound are in residence at Mizzou New Music Fest ... Laurie Anderson brings Homeland to The Birchmere ...  Ben Folds guests with Utah Symphony ... Marlboro Music opens under Richard Goode's artistic direction ... Gidon Kremer's Lockenhaus Fest concludes ... The Low Anthem, Allen Toussaint play Green River Festival ... Audra McDonald debuts at Tanglewood ... Natalie Merchant continues at Town Hall ... Punch Brothers tour Michigan ... Joshua Redman's Double Trio tours Europe ... and more ...

Emmylou Harris performs at Lilith Fair ... Laurie Anderson live on World Cafe and in NYC ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play the Sugar Grove Festival in NC ... Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Rokia Traore, and Caetano Veloso hit the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam... and more ...

Punch Brothers' recent Tonight Show spot airs again; quintet plays Caramoor ... Laurie Anderson improvises with Lou Reed, John Zorn at Montreal Jazz Fest; Allen Toussaint brings Bright Mississipi there ... The Black Keys hit the European festivals ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play two sets at High Sierra Fest ... Brad Mehldau plays Traumzeit and Montreax Fests ... Pat Metheny Group tours Poland and Germany ... Joshua Redman plays Ottawa Jazz Fest ... Jeff Tweedy solos in Spain ... Sara Watkins tours Midwest with Dar Williams ... and more ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops continue California tour ... Alarm Will Sound joins Dirty Projectors in London ... The Black Keys hit French, Dutch festivals ... Omara Portuondo, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club come to the States ... Bill Frisell, Joshua Redman play Canadian jazz fests ... Philip Glass closes Cork festival ... Emmylou Harris sells out Atlanta Botanical Gardens ... Punch Brothers headline Garden & Gun's Soul of the South Weekend ... Allen Toussaint plays Bayou Boogaloo ... Sara Watkins kicks off tour with Dar Williams ... and more ...