Emmylou Harris performs at the GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala; her album Wrecking Ball is being inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame. Timo Andres joins Calder Quartet in NYC. Ambrose Akinmusire joins Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Jeremy Denk is with Hawaii Symphony Orchestra in Honolulu. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson take The Old-Time Revue to Ontario. Hurray for the Riff Raff tours California. Makaya McCraven is in Chicago. Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Marcus Gilmore tour China. Punch Brothers are in Virginia and Tennessee. Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered is performed in New Jersey. Molly Tuttle plays at Royal Albert Hall for Eric Church’s festival. Vagabon is in Salt Lake City.

Sō Percussion continues its BAM Fisher residency in Brooklyn with Caroline Shaw and Ringdown. Ambrose Akinmusire joins Alonzo King LINES Ballet in San Francisco. Jeremy Denk is in Düsseldorf. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson take The Old-Time Revue to Chicago and DC. Gabriel Kahane hosts an evening with Oregon Symphony members in Portland. Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Marcus Gilmore tour Tokyo. Mandy Patinkin is in Kalamazoo. Chris Thile joins Asheville Symphony Orchestra.

Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell and Ringdown play Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival in Brooklyn; Kronos Quartet performs nearby at National Sawdust. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson take The Old-Time Revue across the US Southeast, in Miami, Atlanta, and Birmingham. Cécile McLorin Salvant is at SFJAZZ. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway join Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Red Rocks in Colorado. Yasmin Williams performs for Mountain Stage.

The Philharmonie de Paris has announced its 2025/26 season, including concerts by Cécile McLorin Salvant, Chris Thile, Brad Mehldau & Christian McBride, and Laurie Anderson, and a performance of The Blue Hour.

Rhiannon Giddens’ inaugural music festival, Biscuits & Banjos, is in downtown Durham, NC, including a Yasmin Williams set and a live-streamed Carolina Chocolate Drops reunion. Ambrose Akinmusire leads a Village Vanguard residency in NYC. Kronos Quartet’s 10th annual hometown festival is at SFJAZZ. Mandy Patinkin is in Seattle. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at the University of Maryland. Caroline Shaw & Gabriel Kahane are at 92NY. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway conclude their month-long tour with Brooks & Dunn in St. Louis and Louisville.

Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley, has announced its 2025–26 concert season, including Zellerbach Hall performances by Kronos Quartet, Jeremy Denk, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Chris Thile, and Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad Ensemble.

Dirty Projectors' David Longstreth performs at Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally in LA. Mary Halvorson plays Cully Jazz in Switzerland with pianist Sylvie Courvoisier. Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Marcus Gilmore tour Houston, Indianapolis, and Kalamazoo. Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn are at University of Notre Dame. Punch Brothers close out The Energy Curfew Music Hour season two in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs in Jacksonville and San Antonio. Molly Tuttle celebrates Duane Eddy at Opry House in Nashville.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Molly Tuttle was joined by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville to perform "San Joaquin," a song they co-wrote for her 2023 album with Golden Highway, City of Gold, which won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. You can watch it here. Tuttle returns to the Opry House in Nashville on Sunday for The Grand Ole Opry’s Titan of Twang: A Celebration of Duane Eddy.

Guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson's new album, About Ghosts, is due June 13, on Nonesuch Records. The album, produced by Deerhoof's John Dieterich, features eight new compositions by Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis, the improvisatory band featured on her critically praised albums Amaryllis, Belladonna, and Cloudward: Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet). Saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles join the ensemble on five tunes, and Halvorson adds Pocket Piano synthesizer overdubs on a number of tracks. Halvorson and Amaryllis will tour the US in September. You can get tickets and watch the video for the album track "Carved From" here.

Laurie Anderson is at Rewire Festival in The Hague. Mary Halvorson is in Germany and Switzerland. Emmylou Harris celebrates Guy Clark in Evanston and Milwaukee. Gabriel Kahane joins Oregon Symphony members in Portland; Ringdown plays nearby. Brad Mehldau is at SFJAZZ with Christian McBride, Marcus Gilmore. Mandy Patinkin is in upstate New York. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs in New Jersey. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway join Brooks & Dunn in Illinois.

Little Island in NYC announced its 2025 summer season, including performances by Davóne Tines in The Gospel at Colonus, Laurie Anderson and Sam Amidon in an Arthur Russell marathon curated by Thomas Bartlett, Amidon leading a shape-note singalong, Jeremy Denk with Conor Hanick, and Ringdown in a collaboration with choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, plus several concerts curated by Cécile McLorin Salvant.

The Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN—which kicked off with a set by Jeff Parker and his Tortoise bandmates and a solo set from Ambrose Akinmusire—continues with performances by Parker, Akinmusire, Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly, Mary Halvorson, and others. Kronos Quartet is at Carnegie Hall in NYC and Zellerbach Theatre in Philadelphia. Brad Mehldau is with Ian Bostridge at Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour with Brooks & Dunn in Charlotte and Charlottesville.