Flea and the Honora Band—Josh Johnson, Jeff Parker, Anna Butterss, Deantoni Parks—tour Toronto and Montreal. Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson perform in Carnegie Hall. Mary Halvorson is in Portugal and Switzerland. Brad Mehldau is in Toronto and Iowa City. Natalie Merchant and Chicago Symphony Orchestra members perform Mother Goose & the Cabinet of Wonder. Shara Nova joins National Philharmonic for The Blue Hour in Maryland. Cécile McLorin Salvant and Ambrose Akinmusire play Gilmore International Piano Festival finale in Kalamazoo. Robert Plant and Saving Grace kick off South America tour in Buenos Aires. Molly Tuttle and Maggie Rose are in San Antonio and New Orleans.

Punch Brothers—mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny, and violinist Brittany Haas—begin a sixty-four city North American tour on May 14, performing through the spring, summer, and fall in celebration of their new album, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, due July 24 on Nonesuch Records. They will make stops throughout the East Coast, South, Midwest, Rockies, Southwest, West Coast and Canada, with headlining shows at venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, NY and the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN; and performances at festivals including Newport Folk Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, and Spoleto Festival, among others. It is the band’s most extensive tour since 2019. 

Rhiannon Giddens has announced a European tour for this autumn, starting in Groningen, the Netherlands, on September 22. The first leg of the tour continues with stops in Antwerp, Utrecht, Paris, Luxembourg, Manchester, and Dublin, culminating in Belfast on October 3. Giddens is then the focus of a Reflektor series at Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, November 25–29. The tour concludes December 6-8 in London, Edinburgh, and Gateshead.

Jeff Parker talks Happy Today at Chicago film screening. Rhiannon Giddens tours Texas. Mary Halvorson is in New Haven and at Long Play Festival in Brooklyn. Kronos Quartet is in Santa Barbara. The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt performs and DJs in NYC. Molly Tuttle and Ketch Secor tour California.

Brad Mehldau Trio continue a sold-out residency at NYC's Village Vanguard. John Adams conducts LA Phil. Jeremy Denk is in LA as well. Rhiannon Giddens is in Louisiana and North Carolina. Gabriel Kahane is in Chicago and Pasadena. Kronos Quartet performs in NYC and Massachusetts. Makaya McCraven tours New England. Jeff Parker talks Happy Today at LA film screenings. Molly Tuttle is in North Carolina and Florida.

The 2026 BBC Proms schedule has been announced, including performances by Ambrose Akinmusire and Thomas Adès and music by Adès, John Adams, Gabriel Kahane, Steve Reich, and Caroline Shaw. The 86-concert series takes place in the UK over eight weeks this summer. Every Prom will be broadcast on Radio 3 and BBC Sounds and twenty-four will be broadcast on BBC television and iPlayer.

John Adams conducts Houston Symphony. Timo Andres plays Philip Glass in Ann Arbor. Jeremy Denk plays Ives and more in Austin. Rhiannon Giddens is in Baltimore, Boone, and Louisville. Richard Goode plays Schubert and Beethoven in NYC. Emmylou Harris is in Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, CA. Gabriel Kahane is in Burlington and NYC. Brad Mehldau joins Gilad Hekselman at Village Vanguard in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Georgia and upstate NY. Molly Tuttle is in Memphis and Bloomington. Yasmin Williams is in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform in Brussels and Paris. Mary Halvorson is in Poughkeepsie. Chris Thile performs in Indiana and Arkansas. Davóne Tines performs in Philip Glass's Satyagraha with Opéra national de Paris. Molly Tuttle is in Texas.

This Easter long weekend, Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Halvorson, and Tortoise perform at Stop/Time Festival in Iowa City. Laurie Anderson and Sexmob are in Copenhagen. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Newport News, Virginia, and Philadelphia. Chris Thile brings Bach to New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and New York. Molly Tuttle kicks off her tour with Marty Stuart in New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.

Tortoise, whose first new album since 2016, Touch, was released late last year, has announced several dates in the US and Canada this spring and summer, with festival sets at Stop/Time in Iowa City, Warm Love Cool Dreams in Chicago, Follow the Arrow in Catskill, and Montreal Jazz and shows in Brooklyn, King of Prussia, DC, Boston, Burlington, and Toronto. 

The Big Ears Festival continues in Knoxville, Tennessee, with music by Laurie Anderson, Mary Halvorson, Jeff Parker, Robert Plant, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Caroline Shaw, Sō Percussion, Ringdown, Chris Thile, Yasmin Williams, and others. Ambrose Akinmusire celebrates Bill Frisell's 75th at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC, where Jeremy Denk plays Beethoven with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at 92NY. Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad Ensemble are on Long Island and at Princeton. Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride tour Germany, Czechia, and Poland. The Blue Hour is performed in Antwerp as Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Ontario.

Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad Ensemble are in Berkeley and Fairfax, VA. Mary Halvorson tours Europe with Ches Smith. Emmylou Harris is in Georgia and Florida. Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride are in France and Luxembourg. Shara Nova performs The Blue Hour with Wheeling Symphony Orchestra. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Austin and New Orleans. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Indianapolis. Davóne Tines joins NY Phil. Molly Tuttle ends European tour with Tyler Childers in Amsterdam.