John Adams leads El Niño with Dawn Upshaw at Carnegie Hall ... Amadou & Mariam play the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo ... the Assads stop by A Prairie Home Companion live in NY ... Christina Courtin plays NY's Rockwood Music Hall ... Philip Glass is solo in Istanbul ... Emmylou Harris supports Epilepsy Foundation in Nashville ... Kronos reunites with Joan Jeanrenaud in Berkeley ... Brad Mehldau joins Haden, Konitz, Motian at Birdland ... Joshua Redman plays with James Farm in Philly ... Sara Watkins joins Grant Lee Phillips in LA ... and more ...

Steve Reich unveils Mallet Quartet in Budapest ... John Adams-curated LA Phil fest continues with Kronos, Brian Wilson ... Christina Courtin plays two shows in Brooklyn ... Richard Goode performs Beethoven with Iván Fischer, Cleveland Orchestra ... Low Anthem closes Josh Ritter mini-tour ... Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau National Christmas Tree Lighting set airs on PBS ... Punch Brothers play Prairie Home Companion ... Sara Watkins joins Tom Brosseau at Largo ... and more ...

Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe bring "exceptional" show to Brisbane ... Dan Auerbach ends tour in Tennessee ... David Byrne discusses Jung at NY's Rubin Museum ... Carolina Chocolate Drops close tour in South Carolina ... Philip Glass talks Kepler at BAM ... Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller bring show to Boulder ... Kronos kicks of Adams-curated fest in LA ... Low Anthem, Natalie Merchant cross paths at Crossing Border in Holland ... Brad Mehldau flies solo in Serbia ... Joshua Redman plays Padova ... Sara Watkins joins Infamous Stringdusters in North Carolina ... and more ...

Stephen Sondheim talks with Frank Rich in Boston ... John Adams receives NEA Opera Honors Award ... Dan Auerbach's tour continues in Maryland and North Carolina ... Christina Courtin comes to NYC's Housing Works Café ... Autumn in Normandy fest celebrates Philip Glass ... Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller play two shows in Boise ... Brad Mehldau Trio, Wilco are in Italy ... Natalie Merchant launches London Jazz Fest ... Youssou N'Dour sings in Dar es Salaam ... Allen Toussaint has two shows in Spain ... Dawn Upshaw joins LA Phil ... and more ...

Bill Frisell "keeps stirring up fine and fresh new ideas" ... the St. Lawrence makes "big news" with Adams's String Quartet ... Dan Auerbach takes tour to Canada ... Carolina Chocolate Drops do three dates in California ... Shawn Colvin plays Portland, Maine ... Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe are in Osaka ... Kronos plays Reich at the Kimmel Center ... The Low Anthem, Blind Pilot visit Virginia ... Brad Mehldau Trio tours France, Spain ... Youssou N'Dour docu delivers in Denver ... Nicholas Payton plays St. Louis ... Wilco bookends Baltic Rolling Stone fest with sold-out sets ... and more ...

Steve Reich leads all-Reich program at London's Royal Festival Hall ... Leila Josefowicz, Baltimore Symphony play Adams's Violin Concerto ... Laurie Anderson opens NYU's Halloween Wonder Cabinet ... The Black Keys go Voodoo in New Orleans ... Christina Courtin plays her hometown ... Bill Frisell is in Italy ... The Low Anthem brings tour to Baton Rouge ... Brad Mehldau Trio plays Portugal ... Nicholas Payton, Don Byron, Iva Bittová convene for SFJAZZ Sacred Space ... Sara Watkins closes out tour in Indiana ... and more ...

Byrne concludes bike panel tour ... Alarm Will Sound plays Adams in Hamburg ... Courtin concludes Elizabeth & the Catapult tour ... Frisell's 858 Quartet is in Italy and Innsbruck ... Glass gives Dallas debut of Dracula Live! ... Harris, Buddy Miller move Midwest ... Kronos premieres new work at benefit event ... Low Anthem tours West with Blind Pilot ... Mehldau Trio plays Skopje Jazz Fest ... Portuondo has rare show in LA ... Joshua Redman has several sets at NY's Jazz Standard ... Sondheim talks about his career ... Toussaint reopens the Roosevelt Hotel ... Upshaw makes Strathmore debut ... Watkins heads South ... and more ...

Alarm Will Sound throws album release party in NYC ... Carolina Chocolate Drops play close to home ... Christina Courtin heads south ... Philip Glass heads weekend of piano and dance at Chicago museum ... Bill Frisell Trio plays The Kennedy Center ... Emmylou Harris tours with Buddy Miller ... Low Anthem headlines in the Northwest ... Brad Mehldau Trio launches tour from London ... Punch Brothers play Carnegie Hall ... Joshua Redman Trio traverses Europe ... Allen Toussaint travels to two jazz fests ... Sara Watkins joins John Prine in Canada ... Wilco winds via Chicago ... and more ...

Carolina Chocolate Drops come home to NC ... Black Keys drummer Pat Carney's band Drummer does NYC ... Shawn Colvin closes three-night stint in San Diego ... Christina Courtin's US tour moves Midwest ... Phillip Glass solos in PA benefit ... Kronos Quartet plays for a hometown crowd in San Fran ... Youssou N'Dour doc opens in DC ... Punch Brothers play Ohio and PA ... Sara Watkins makes it three for three in the Midwest ... Wilco's on for sold-out sets in Dallas and Memphis ... and more ...

Amadou & Mariam, Emmylou Harris, Allen Toussaint hit SF's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass ... Dan Auerbach, The Low Anthem, Sara Watkins are at Austin City Limits Fest ... Laurie Anderson, Bill Frisell join Gavin Friday and friends at Carnegie Hall for (red) ... David Byrne talks bikes in car-centric LA ... Carolina Chocolate Drops drop into Ann Arbor and Chicago ... Christina Courtin plays Boston and Brooklyn ... Kronos performs Crumb's Black Angels in Boulder ... Punch Brothers head South ... Wilco plays Prairie Home Companion and Farm Aid ... and more ...

Youssou N'Dour talks to BBC Radio 4 ... Kronos premieres Damon Albarn piece in Spain ... Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica perform Mendelssohn in Germany ... Low Anthem plays in Germany too ... Joshua Redman Trio launches Indy Jazz Fest ... Chris Thile, Colorado Sympohny give encore performances of his "astounding" Mandolin Concerto ... Allen Toussaint plays New York's Joe's Pub ... Laura Veirs tours with The Decemberists ... Sara Watkins plays the Americana Music Festival in Nashville ... and more ...