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.

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.