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.

Ambrose Akinmusire is in residence at NYC's Village Vanguard. John Adams’s music is performed across Germany. Laurie Anderson is in Milan and Lisbon. Flea closes out European tour in Paris. Punch Brothers are in Tennessee and Georgia. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Oxford. Molly Tuttle joins Little Feat in New Haven and upstate NY. Yasmin Williams tours the Carolinas.

This Memorial Day long weekend in the US, Makaya McCraven leads SFJAZZ residency. Julia Bullock closes Cincinnati's May Festival. Flea takes Honora to Amsterdam and Antwerp, where Cécile McLorin Salvant performs before going to Vilnius and Kraków. Rhiannon Giddens is in Limerick and Nijmegen. Mary Halvorson is in Vilnius, Cerkno, and Brno. Emmylou Harris tours the Netherlands. Nathalie Joachim premieres new work with NY Phil. Robert Plant and Saving Grace play São Paulo. Punch Brothers tour Maryland and the Carolinas. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in Duluth. Tortoise is in Chicago. Yasmin Williams heads to Texas.

Punch Brothers tour Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina. Timo Andres performs Philip Glass in Santa Barbara. Julia Bullock opens May Festival in Cincinnati. Flea concludes North American Honora tour in LA. Jonny Greenwood performs Steve Reich in Amsterdam. Mary Halvorson tours Ireland, Germany, and Italy. Emmylou Harris takes UK tour to Bristol and London. Gabriel Kahane joins Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Brad Mehldau tours New England. Robert Plant and Saving Grace are in Argentina. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in France. Molly Tuttle is in Ohio and Kentucky. Yasmin Williams is in New Hampshire.

Punch Brothers have shared "Song of the Water Kelpie (unsung)," a new track from their upcoming album, The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers, due July 24; you can watch a performance video here. The band will return to Europe in January 2027 for their first shows there in almost a decade. The tour begins in the UK on January 14, with stops in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czechia, and Switzerland. The band kicks off a 64-city North American tour this Thursday.