Devendra Banhart puts on a sold-out, two-night mini-festival entitled Wind Grove Mind Alone at the Walker Art Center's McGuire Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota, this weekend, presented as part of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music Series. The program begins tonight, with Banhart performing a solo set of songs, followed by music from Lucky Dragons, Jessica Pratt, Helado Negro, and William Basinski. Saturday’s show begins with Banhart’s full touring band, followed by performances from Rodrigo Amarante, Hecuba, and Harold Budd.

Banhart made his Nonesuch debut in 2013 with Mala, his eighth studio album, which the Guardian called a "triumph," giving it four stars, as did Q which called this "enthralling" album a "career best." The New Yorker called it a "thought-provoking joy."

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John Adams kicked off the first of four nights conducting the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with Jeremy Denk on piano, last night. The program continues through the weekend, with performances of Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto at the Strathmore in North Bethesda tonight, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore on Saturday, and the Strathmore again on Sunday, with that final night including a performance of Adams’s own Harmonielehre.

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Sam Amidon plays the Moers Festival in Moers, Germany, tonight. As recently noted in the Nonesuch Journal, Amidon and guitarist Bill Frisell were the guests on the eTown radio show last week. Following Frisell's set, Amidon made his eTown debut performing three songs from his latest album, Lily-O, and more. You can watch the performances here.

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Laurie Anderson brings her Language of the Future project to the CLICK Festival at the Culture Yard in Helsingør, Denmark, on Saturday. Language of the Future is Anderson’s ongoing exploration of the American narrative and how it is told, a collection of songs and stories about contemporary culture and crosses borders between dreams, reality, and the elusive world of information. Her performance is a pre-event of the CLICK Festival, which officially opens next Friday with a performance from Philip Glass. She brings Language of the Future to Moogfest in Durham, North Carolina, next weekend.

Anderson was a guest on several BBC radio programs this week surrounding her performances at the Brighton Festival, of which she is Guest Director, and the start of the UK and Irish cinematic run of her new film, Heart of a Dog.

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Tyondai Braxton plays the FORM Arcosanti Festival, at the “urban laboratory” Acrosanti, in Phoenix on Sunday, joining fellow experimental artists like Julia Holter, Tortoise, Bill Callahan, Perfume Genius, Lydia Ainsworth, festival curators Hundred Waters, and more. Paste calls FORM “the rare music event where the music actually feels like the most important thing that was going on.”

Braxton released his Nonesuch debut album, Hive 1, last year. Q calls it "a sonically absorbing experience," and the Washington Post has called Braxton "one of the most acclaimed experimental musicians of the last decade."

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Olivia Chaney performs a special set at St John’s Smith Square, as part of the London Festival of Baroque Music, on Sunday. Her performance, which combines her own songs with folk-ballads and the works of Purcell, is the second installment in LFBM’s Words With Purcell series. Chaney stopped by two BBC radio programs earlier this week, performing live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune, and talking with BBC Radio 4's Front Row. She also wrote of her connection to the music of Purcell for an article in the Guardian, which you can read here.

Chaney made her Nonesuch debut last year with her album The Longest River.

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Michael Daves gives an interview and in-studio performance at Heritage Radio Network, a food and sustainability focused internet radio station broadcasting live from Roberta's Pizza in Brooklyn, on Sunday. The session, for the station's music-focused show Snacky Tunes, will be broadcast live from heritageradionetwork.org starting at 4:30 PM EST, and will be made available as a podcast afterwards.

Daves will celebrate the recent release of Violence and Orchids, the vinyl edition of his new album, Orchids and Violence, at Littlefield in Brooklyn next Thursday.

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Emmylou Harris continues her four-night engagement of shows to benefit her dog rescue, Bonaparte’s Retreat, at City Winery in Nashville tonight. The sold-out show features special guest artists Sam Bush and John Randall. The concerts continue next weekend with additional special guests.

The first worldwide vinyl release of Harris's groundbreaking, Grammy Award–winning album Wrecking Ball is now available in the Nonesuch Store. The vinyl edition includes the original Daniel Lanois–produced album, remastered, along with additional bonus material first released on the 2014 three-disc Nonesuch reissue of the album, which Uncut magazine called "a masterpiece."

Harris and Rodney Crowell have just been nominated for Duo/Group of the Year for the Americana Honors & Awards. The duo, which won the award for their first duo album, Old Yellow Moon, released their second album together, The Traveling Kind, on Nonesuch in 2015. Also nominated in the category are label mates Lake Street Dive.

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Kronos Quartet can be seen on BBC 2’s Later… With Jools Holland tonight, following a live performance on the show earlier this week. Kronos continues its UK tour, which features the first UK performances of works commissioned through its Fifty for the Future project, with concerts at Colton Hall in Bristol tonight, Saffron Hall in Saffron Walden on Saturday, and RNCM in Manchester on Sunday. Also on the tour program are Terry Riley’s One Earth, One People, One Love, which lent its name to a recent Nonesuch box set of the composer’s works performed by Kronos, and Laurie Anderson’s "Flow"; Saturday’s performance also includes Steve Reich’s Different Trains.

Kronos began its UK tour, its first there in many years, with a performance at the Barbican in London earlier this week, to which the Guardian gave four stars. You can read the review here.

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The Brad Mehldau Trio kicks off the European leg of its tour at the Teatro Comunale Di Vicenza in Vicenza, Italy, tonight. The tour, which precedes the trio’s new album, Blues and Ballads, due June 3, continues at Le Forum in Liège, Belgium, on Saturday, and at Musikkens Hus in Aalborg, Denmark, on Sunday. The Boston Globe says the trio brought “fire [and] finesse” to a recent performance there, while the Daily Gazette, in review of the Trio's show at The Egg in Albany, reports that Mehldau “crafted/ignited 90-plus minutes of dense, questing or serenely lyrical trio improvisations.”

Mehldau will be given a special prize at the Echo Jazz 2016 Awards later this month for his box set 10 Years Solo Live, released last year on Nonesuch.

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Punch Brothers conclude their two-week US spring tour with two shows at Chicago’s Thalia Hall tonight and Saturday, the latter sold-out. The band hits the road again in the summer for several festival dates, including a return to the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and two shows at the Chris Thile–curated American Acoustic festival at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The group plays a three-night residency at Blue Note Tokyo and a full five-city tour of Australia in August.