Laurie Anderson is at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA, in a conversation with director Peter Sellars and performing with Sexmob. Julia Bullock is Carmen at Lakes Area Music Festival in Minnesota. Rhiannon Giddens joins Francesco Turrisi and others at Kilkenny Arts Festival in Ireland. Brad Mehldau plays with Joe Farnsworth Trio at Smoke Jazz Club in NYC, where Cécile McLorin Salvant celebrates Tin Pan Alley at Little Island. Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians gets its New Zealand premiere.

Thomas Adès conducts from his Dante at Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms before Gustavo Dudamel and LA Phil perform from the piece there next week. Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians is performed for BBC Proms at Bristol Beacon. Anthony Roth Costanzo continues sold-out run on Little Island in NYC. Donnacha Dennehy's Land of Winter is performed in Kilkenny. Mary Halvorson joins Ches Smith in Lisbon. Chris Thile joins Jacob Collier in Italy. Molly Tuttle and Marty Stuart tour Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi.

Flea, Ambrose Akinmusire are at Newport Jazz Festival. John Adams is performed by Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. Rhiannon Giddens, Hurray for the Riff Raff are in North Carolina and Tennessee with Mavis Staples, Mary Chapin Carpenter. Mary Halvorson is in Oregon. Makaya McCraven is in residence at the Village Vanguard in NYC, where Steve Reich is performed by Philadanco! at Joyce Theater. Chris Thile joins Minnesota Orchestra. Tortoise tours California. Molly Tuttle heads to Alaska. Yasmin Williams is at MASS MoCA.

Punch Brothers and Yasmin Williams are at Newport Folk Festival. The band is also at RockyGrass in Colorado, as is Rhiannon Giddens. Laurie Anderson is in the Hamptons. Timo Andres is performed in the Bay Area. Emmylou Harris is outside Detroit and Chicago with Graham Nash. Brad Mehldau is in Berlin. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in San Sebastian. Molly Tuttle tours Montana.

Rhiannon Giddens is at two festivals in upstate NY—Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival and Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival—then at Dartmouth. Punch Brothers are also upstate, at Caramoor and Point of the Bluff. Mary Halvorson and Cécile McLorin Salvant are at Pori Jazz Festival in Finland; Halvorson then heads to Lublin Jazz Festival in Poland. Molly Tuttle tours California.

North Sea Jazz takes place in Rotterdam with Artist in Residence Cécile McLorin Salvant, Flea, and Mary Halvorson. Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform at National Concert Hall in Dublin. Timo Andres music is performed at Carnegie Hall. Hurray for the Riff Raff plays close to home in Chicago. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Greece. Ringdown performs near Portland. Molly Tuttle is in Chula Visa, CA, with Chris Stapleton.

Laurie Anderson and Sexmob play SummerStage in NYC’s Central Park. Rhiannon Giddens kicks off tour with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Mavis Staples in Pacific Northwest. Mary Halvorson is at Ottawa Jazz Festival. Punch Brothers are in Ohio and North Carolina. Cécile McLorin Salvant is at Montreal and Saratoga jazz festivals. Tortoise tours mid-Atlantic. Molly Tuttle is in England. Yasmin Williams tours Utah and Colorado.

Laurie Anderson and the jazz band Sexmob perform “From the Air” live at Ravenna Festival in 2023 in a new video. Their new triple-LP / double-CD set, Let X=X, released last month on Nonesuch, was recorded live on the 2023 tour and features 23 songs, including “From the Air” and many other favorites from throughout Laurie’s career, performed in new arrangements. They perform at NYC's Central Park for SummerStage on June 26 and just announced new dates for September in Ojai, LA, Santa Cruz, and Chicago.

This Juneteenth weekend, Rhiannon Giddens performs in Tulsa with Silkroad Ensemble and at the Met Museum in NYC, where Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, and Dafnis Prieto reunite at The Jazz Gallery. Punch Brothers return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours Northeast. Kronos Quartet is in Minneapolis. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Croatia. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Northern California. Molly Tuttle tours Colorado. Yasmin Williams is in Seattle with The Crane Wives.

John Adams’s music is being performed throughout the Ojai Music Festival in Ojai, CA, this weekend. Steve Reich's The Four Sections can be heard free at Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City series. Cécile McLorin Salvant has two shows in Massachusetts. Chris Thile plays Bach at Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk. Yasmin Williams tours California with Crane Wives.

Robert Plant with Saving Grace and Suzi Dian announce Up the Sharp End, September 18–October 15, 2026—a US tour in celebration of their critically acclaimed recent album, Saving Grace. The band, which completed two sold-out US legs last fall and this spring, performs in the Midwest and the West, with stops in Saint Louis, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago, among others; special guest Rosie Flores joins. Artist presales begin Wednesday, June 10 at 10am local time, with general sales beginning Friday, June 12 at 10am local time. 

John Adams is being performed in Germany, UK, Chicago, and Portland, OR, where Steve Reich's music is on the program as well. Timo Andres performs in Banff and is performed in NYC. Emmylou Harris tours South Carolina. Molly Tuttle is in Florida and Nashville.