Rhiannon Giddens, Music Director for this weekend's Ojai Music Festival in California, takes part in a number of performances streaming live from Ojai at ojaifestival.org. Laurie Anderson is in Madrid and London. Timo Andres performs Chopin and Joplin in Brooklyn. Emmylou Harris is in Denver with Dwight Yoakam. Hurray for the Riff Raff gives theatrical performance of 2017's The Navigator at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Hamburg. Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered gets West Coast premiere in Portland.

Natalie Merchant performs two sold-out shows at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in NYC backed by The Knights orchestra. John Adams conducts The Death of Klinghoffer in Amsterdam, broadcast on NPO Klassiek. Laurie Anderson launches European tour at Primavera Sound in Barcelona. Julia Bullock joins Kansas City Symphony for Mahler and more. Yussef Dayes tours mid-Atlantic. Hurray for the Riff Raff performs at Natural History Museum in LA. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Utrecht. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway open for Dierks Bentley in Michigan and Ohio, then head to Kentucky.

Rhiannon Giddens, Chris Thile, and Edgar Meyer are in Knoxville, TN, this Memorial Day weekend for Yo-Yo Ma’s Our Common Nature: An Appalachian Celebration. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in Dante. Sam Amidon celebrates Harry Smith’s centenary at Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. Richard Goode plays Beethoven in San Juan. k.d. lang gets Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement in Ottawa. Brad Mehldau concludes Netherlands Chamber Orchestra residency in Rotterdam. Jeff Parker performs in California. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Spain. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Maryland.

Cécile McLorin Salvant performs from Mélusine at Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC tonight and Saturday; the latter streams live. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in Dante and discusses it with set/costume designer Tacita Dean. Sam Amidon joins Winona Symphony Orchestra in Minnesota. Tyondai Braxton premieres new work in Chicago. Mary Halvorson performs at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Tigran Hamasyan is in São Paulo. Emmylou Harris is in Napa. Hurray for the Riff Raff and First Aid Kit tour Denver and Salt Lake City. Kronos Quartet is in Berlin. Brad Mehldau plays Jonny Greenwood with Netherlands Chamber Orchestra in Amsterdam. Natalie Merchant sings in Chicago and Milwaukee. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri.

Rhiannon Giddens concludes a UK tour with Francesco Turrisi and a banner week at Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Birmingham Town Hall, and Saffron Hall in Essex. Thomas Adès leads Ballet Opéra de Paris in The Dante Project. Sam Amidon is in Galway and Belfast. Hurray for the Riff Raff is in Santa Barbara. Kronos Quartet gives French premiere of Terry Riley's Sun Rings at Philharmonie de Paris. Makaya McCraven is in Queens for Outline Festival. Brad Mehldau Trio is in Stockholm. Natalie Merchant sings in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway play the North Carolina Brewers and Music Festival.

Mary Halvorson, Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, and Tyondai Braxton perform at Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival in Brooklyn. Hurray for the Riff Raff and Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway are at New Orleans Jazz Fest. Kronos Quartet leads a 50 for the Future Weekend in Amsterdam. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in residence at SFJAZZ, streaming live tonight. Opéra National de Paris performs Thomas Adès' Dante. Sam Amidon is in Finland. The Black Keys headline Beachlife Festival in CA. Julia Bullock sings Messiaen in Belgium and Germany. Brad Mehldau Trio plays JazzFest Bonn. Sarah Kirkland Snider's Mass for the Endangered is performed in NYC.

Rhiannon Giddens is in the UK, performing in Edinburgh, Gateshead, and Perth. John Adams is performed in DC and Madrid. Emmylou Harris joins Willie Nelson's 90th birthday bash at the Hollywood Bowl. Natalie Merchant takes her Keep Your Courage tour south for a concert in St. Augustine and a sold-out show with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Cécile McLorin Salvant sings songs from Mélusine, Ghost Song, and more in Virginia. Sarah Kirkland Snider is in Maine for performances of her Mass for the Endangered. Richard Goode plays Beethoven in NYC. Mandy Patinkin is in Connecticut.

Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion perform Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. Jeremy Denk plays Nijmegen Piano Biennale. Emmylou Harris is in Dallas. Kronos Quartet joins the ballet in San Francisco. Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage tour continues in Pennsylvania. Joshua Redman is in Toronto. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs with American Pianists Awards finalists in Indianapolis. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour Texas.

Natalie Merchant kicks off her Keep Your Courage tour with two sold-out shows in Poughkeepsie. John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony gets its Taiwanese premiere; Nixon in China is in Germany and France; and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky is in Baltimore. Jeremy Denk joins Phoenix Symphony for Brahms. Jeff Parker is at Public Records in Brooklyn. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Ann Arbor and Miami.

Composer and vocalist Shara Nova joins members of the Oregon Symphony to perform The Blue Hour—a song cycle composed by Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider—at The Reser in Beaverton. Performances of John Adams's Nixon in China continue in Paris. Emmylou Harris chats with Joan Baez at OZ Arts in Nashville. Makaya McCraven joins harpist Brandee Younger at Public Records in Brooklyn. Cécile McLorin Salvant closes Savannah Music Festival. Wilco leads Reykjavik residency and Icelandic debut at Harpa Concert Hall.

The Big Ears Festival takes place at venues throughout downtown Knoxville, including concerts, conversations, and film screenings with Devendra Banhart, The Blue Hour, David Byrne, Sam Gendel, Mary Halvorson, Makaya McCraven, and Cécile McLorin Salvant. John Adams's Nixon in China is at Opéra national de Paris. Laurie Anderson is in Stockholm. Julia Bullock joins Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich. Jeremy Denk plays solo in Connecticut. Kronos Quartet and Wu Man perform at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. The Magnetic Fields have two sold-out shows at City Winery in Pittsburgh. Brad Mehldau plays solo in France and Denmark. Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway return to her home state of California for WinterWonderGrass and two nights in Menlo Park. Vagabon concludes her tour with Weyes Blood in Austin, Dallas, and Tulsa.

Thomas Adès conducts Boston Symphony Orchestra in works from Dante. Jeremy Denk joins Takács Quartet in Florida. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi are in Italy, as is Cécile McLorin Salvant. Mary Halvorson tours Germany and Austria. Tigran Hamasyan is at JazzFestBrno. The Magnetic Fields tour Texas. Brad Mehldau leads Bozar residency in Brussels. Steve Reich, on film, performs Clapping Music with Russell Hartenberger, in person, in Ontario. Molly Tuttle is at Charleston Bluegrass Festival and Suwannee Spring Reunion. Vagabon joins Weyes Blood in San Francisco.