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.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace kick off their US tour in Albuquerque. Sérgio and Odair Assad conclude their farewell tour at 92NY in NYC, where Jeremy Denk performs at The Town Hall. Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad Ensemble are in Chicago. Mary Halvorson joins Ches Smith in Hungary and Spain. Gabriel Kahane plays in Portland, OR. Brad Mehldau is at Elbphilharmonie all weekend. Chris Thile is in Germany and Austria. Molly Tuttle joins Tyler Childers in Paris.

Brad Mehldau has announced four live performances of music from Ride into the Sun, his 2025 songbook record of music by Elliott Smith, this summer: three in California in late August, in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Oakland, followed by the Groton Hill Music Center in Massachusetts on September 2. All four performances include singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassist John Davis, and drummer Matt Chamberlain, who perform on the album, plus singer/guitarist Blake Mills and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, reprising his album role, here with USC Thornton Chamber Virtuosi in California and A Far Cry chamber orchestra in Groton.

Ambrose Akinmusire joins Bill Frisell's 75th birthday bash in San Francisco. Sérgio and Odair Assad, Jeremy Denk, and Yasmin Williams perform in Baltimore. Julia Bullock is at Auckland Arts Festival. Mary Halvorson and Sexmob are in Brooklyn. Brad Mehldau joins hr-Bigband and Darcy James Argue in Frankfurt. SLSO performs Carolina Shaw is in Nova Scotia. Sarah Kirkland Snider is performed in St. Louis. Chris Thile plays Bach in Stockholm and Copenhagen. Tortoise is in Vancouver. Molly Tuttle joins Tyler Childers in Glasgow and Manchester.

Laurie Anderson with Sexmob's Let X=X is due May 8, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. This triple-LP / double-CD set was recorded live during a 2023 tour by Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob—Steven Bernstein on brass, Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion, Douglas Wieselman on winds and guitar, Briggan Krauss on saxophone and guitar, and Tony Scherr on bass. The album features 23 songs, including many favorites from throughout Anderson’s career, performed in new arrangements—plus one by Lou Reed and Metallica, “Junior Dad.” Nonesuch Store orders include an exclusive print autographed by Laurie Anderson, while they last. The title track, from Anderson’s landmark 1982 album, Big Science, along with a visualizer, can be seen and heard here. Anderson and Sexmob play more US and international dates this spring and summer.

Punch Brothers have announced an extensive spring and summer US tour, with shows in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Colorado, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. Pre-sale and VIP tickets for most newly announced shows begin this Wednesday, March 4, at 10am local time via punchbrothers.com. General on-sale will follow this Friday. More shows will be announced soon.

Rhiannon Giddens has announced American Tunes: Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing, a series of shows this summer with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mavis Staples, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. The tour begins in Seattle on June 26 without Mavis Staples, followed by concerts with all of the artists in Oregon, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee. "We’re singing under open skies," Giddens says, "and hope you’ll lift your voice to join in this joyful celebration of songs that connect generations." Pre-sale starts this Wednesday, March 4 at 10am here; general on-sale begins this Friday.

Molly Tuttle and Emmylou Harris join the Grand Ole Opry's O Brother, Where Art Thou? 25th anniversary celebration in Nashville. Opéra National de Paris performs John Adams's Nixon in China. Sérgio and Odair Assad, Chris Thile, and Tortoise all tour California. Julia Bullock is in Australia for the Adelaide Festival. Mary Halvorson is at Dartmouth. Makaya McCraven tours Florida. Mandy Patinkin is in Denver.