Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson have shared “Going to Raleigh” from their upcoming album What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow. Originally released in 1939 by western North Carolina string band The Carolina Playboys, this version (learned by Robinson from Evelyn Shaw) was recorded at the historic former plantation Mill Prong House & Preservation in Red Springs, NC, where they filmed a video as well. You can watch it here.

Hurray for the Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra), who just closed out a US tour as special guest of Bright Eyes, will join Ani DiFranco on tour for two weeks late this summer. The shows start in Deerfield, MA, on August 27 and continue in upstate New York, Vermont, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Segarra has also added new dates to their previously announced spring and summer headlining tour, with second shows in San Francisco and Chicago and new stops in Healdsburg, Louisville, and St. Louis, all ahead of fall dates with The Head and the Heart. 

Chris Thile, who recently announced a solo US tour in October, has just announced a solo tour of Europe in November. The shows start in Schiltigheim, France, with stops in Rome, Milan, Paris, Chalon-sur-Saône, Montbéliard, London, Brisol, Manchester, Dublin, and Barcelona.

"Bank On," a new song with Portraits of Tracy, from the album Song of the Earth, David Longstreth’s song cycle for orchestra and voices he performs with his band Dirty Projectors and the chamber orchestra s t a r g a z e, is out now, along with a lyric video you can watch here. "Bank On" features a vocal solo from Felicia Douglass, a Longstreth verse inspired by Songs in The Key of Life (but with harpsichord), a signature Dirty Projectors female-harmony chorus, and a thundering Mahler-esque brass fanfare.

Guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams, who continues her US headlining tour in Colorado this weekend, has announced a two-week tour of Europe in June. The tour kicks off with a set at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona on June 6, with shows in Paris, Utrecht, The Hague, London, Leeds, and Bristol, culminating in Copenhagen. on June 19. 

Chris Thile has announced a solo tour starting at Koerner Hall in Toronto on October 15, with stops in upstate New York, North Bethesda, New York City, and Grand Rapids, culminating at Chicago Symphony Center on October 24. This follows previously announced orchestral performances in Philadelphia, Asheville, Detroit, and Katonah; an evening with Cécile McLorin Salvant at Carnegie Hall; and events with his fellow Punch Brothers.

"People have been calling Steve Reich the greatest living composer for more than 25 years," says NPR's Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe in her introduction to Reich's interview with NPR's Tom Huizenga on the release of the 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works. About the collection, the composer says: "It makes me feel very good ... It's another way of saying the music is going to get out there. The music is going to have a life independent of me ... It's a great thing. And I'm very proud that it happened. And now I'm busily working on the next piece." You can hear them on NPR's Weekend Edition here.

The 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works is out now on Nonesuch. It features music recorded during the composer's 40 years on the label—six decades of his compositions, including first recordings of his two latest works, Jacob’s Ladder and Traveler’s Prayer (both also available to stream/download today)—plus two extensive booklets with new essays by Robert Hurwitz, Michael Tilson Thomas, Russell Hartenberger, Judith Sherman, and Nico Muhly, and a comprehensive listener’s guide by Timo Andres. Nonesuch made its first record with Steve Reich in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year. Collected Works includes 24 discs of Nonesuch recordings and three from other labels. You can watch an unboxing video narrated by the composer here.

Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown, featuring Danni Lee Parpan and Pulitzer and Grammy winner Caroline Shaw, will release its debut album, Lady on the Bike, May 9. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. Ringdown will create additional custom sleeves for the first 50 Nonesuch Store vinyl orders. The duo will perform with Sō Percussion and in its own headlining shows this spring and summer.

Caramoor, the cultural arts venue on an 80-plus-acre estate in Katonah, NY, has announced its 2025 summer season—its 80th season!—including performances by Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, and Ringdown on July 10; Molly Tuttle on July 19; Chris Thile with The Knights on July 20; and Timo Andres on July 24.

Congratulations to Cécile McLorin Salvant, who has been nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis in Germany for Live Act of the Year International. She was nominated in the same category last year and won the prize for International Vocal Album for her 2022 Nonesuch debut album, Ghost Song. The awards ceremony will take place in Cologne on June 13. Salvant is currently on tour in Italy and France, then returns to the US to perform at Carnegie Hall in NYC and tour New Jersey, Florida, Texas, Maryland, California, Nevada, South Carolina, Michigan, and more. 

The twenty-seven disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works, out next Friday, March 14, on Nonesuch, includes a chronology of the composer's life and work—his forty years on the label and six decades of compositions heard in the collection, from It’s Gonna Rain (1965) to his two latest works, Traveler’s Prayer (2020) and Jacob’s Ladder (2023). A new video brings that chronology to life; you can watch it here.