Kronos Quartet and Rhiannon Giddens join forces for the culminating concert in Kronos’s week-long residency at the University of Texas at Austin’s Butler School of Music tonight. The second half of the program at the McCullough Theatre concert features Kronos and Giddens performing together. 

Kronos gave the US premiere of Philip Glass’s String Quartet No. 7 in a concert at the venue earlier this week. Today marks the first-ever vinyl release of its acclaimed 1992 album Pieces of Africa.

Rhiannon Giddens spoke with the Austin American-Statesman about what audiences can expect to hear at tonight’s concert and about her having been named the winner of the seventh-annual Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass earlier this month. You can read what she had to say at statesman.com.

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Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass give a rare performance of their program An Evening of Music with Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass at the Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, tonight, as part of the Philip Glass’s Days and Nights Festival. This will mark only the third time Anderson and Glass will have performed this program, having premiered it at the Ravello Festival in Italy last year, and performed it at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, earlier this year. The Monterey County Weekly describes it as a concert of the artists’ “favorite songs, poems and multimedia stuff from their ample repertoires.”

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The Arcs play the Pilgrimage Music Festival at The Park at Harlinsdale in Franklin, Tennessee, outside of Nashville, on Sunday. The live show, featuring songs from the band’s 2015 debut album, Yours, Dreamily, has been described by the New York Times as a "rock and soul revue that can knock out Motown beats, fuzz-toned boogies or slow-grooving R&B."

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Devendra Banhart celebrates today’s release of his new album, Ape in Pink Marble, with a sold-out show at Rough Trade in Brooklyn tonight.

Q gives the new album four stars, and Uncut describes it as “excellent.” Under The Radar writes: “The pearly surfaces of lulled out drum machine, the feathering and fluttering of minimal keystrokes, the unassuming entry of elegant strings, it all speaks to artistry absorbed and fashioned, keen on finding magic in the subtleties.”

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Jeremy Denk continues his two-week tour of the UK by bringing his Medieval to Modern program—a repertoire spanning six centuries of Western music from the Medieval and Renaissance eras through Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms to Stockhausen and Philip Glass—to Wilshire Music Centre in Bradford-on-Avon tonight and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff on Sunday afternoon. Tonight’s program includes a pre-concert talk with the pianist.

The Guardian gives Denk’s performance of the program at Wigmore Hall in London last weekend four stars. “The pianist’s two-hour journey charting the development of musical language was fascinating,” writes reviewer Andrew Clements, “enormously ambitious and unprecedentedly wide-ranging.” The Arts Desk gives the concert a perfect five stars, calling it “a broad and detailed historical panorama in which every one of the works was presented in a new and revealing light,” and noting the performance of a Ligeti étude “the perfect climax.” Denk performed Ligeti études on his 2012 Nonesuch debut album, Ligeti / Beethoven.

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Lianne La Havas continues her tour as special guest of R&B artist and singer, songwriter Leon Bridges with a sold-out concert at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley tonight. La Havas then heads to Los Angeles to give a headline show of her own at the Teragram Ballroom on Saturday.

La Havas's Grammy Award–nominated second album, Blood, was released last year to critical acclaim; Pitchfork called it "dynamic and poignantly self-assured in its introspection … an almost seamless album."

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Lake Street Dive continues its North American Side Pony tour with concerts at the Chicago Theatre tonight and The Vogue in Indianapolis on Saturday, followed by a sold-out show at the Majestic Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday.

Lake Street Dive was a guest on NPR's Mountain Stage, performing four songs from Side Pony—"Godawful Things," "I Don't Care About You," "Side Pony," and "Call Off Your Dogs—and more. You can hear the performance here.

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Pat Metheny concludes his fall tour dates with drummer Antonio Sánchez, pianist Gwilym Simcock, and bassist Linda Oh with a show at the McCain Auditorium at Kansas State University tonight and two shows in Metheny's home state of Missouri: at the Gillioz Theatre in Springfield on Saturday and the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis on Sunday. The musicians will resume their tour in the beginning of next year, with shows on the East Coast.

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Saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau embark on a two-month world tour in support of their just-released duo album, Nearness, beginning with shows at the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, tonight, the Dalton Center Recital Hall at Western Michigan University on Saturday, and the Dakota Jazz Club in Minneapolis on Sunday.

"Magic always seems to happen when saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau play together," exclaims Mojo magazine in a review of Nearness. "They create a special telepathic musical synergy in each other’s company." The Wall Street Journal says: "Few records released this year better define what jazz sounds like today."

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Caetano Veloso and Teresa Cristina continue their world tour close to home with a concert at Theatro NET Rio in Rio de Janeiro tonight. The tour marks the release of Cristina’s new live album and DVD, Canta Cartola, which was recorded at Theatro NET Rio late last year. Veloso, who was at that performance, says: “All Brazilians should see and listen to what happened at Theatro Net Rio that night."