Sérgio and Odair Assad kick off their 60th Anniversary Farewell Tour in San Juan. Timo Andres is in Illinois. Gabriel Kahane performs Magnificent Bird and Book of Travelers in New Jersey. Mandy Patinkin and Cécile McLorin Salvant are in California. Davóne Tines performs there and in Tucson. Yasmin Williams is in Chattanooga and Asheville. 

Carnegie Hall has announced its 2026–27 concert season, including performances by Caroline Shaw, who has been named Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for the season, Jeremy Denk, Gabriel Kahane, Kronos Quartet, Punch Brothers, and Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens, and works by Steve Reich, John Adams, David Longstreth, and others.

Robert Plant and Saving Grace will release a vinyl EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters..., on Record Store Day, the annual celebration of independent record stores, taking place on Saturday, April 18. The record follows Plant's recent critically acclaimed album, Saving Grace; both feature singer Suzi Dian and a band of musicians from the English countryside that Plant calls home. The EP's four tracks, recently recorded especially for RSD, explore the folk and Americana songs that Plant and the band love: the traditional tunes "The Blackest Crow" and "Two Coats," arranged by Robert Plant and Saving Grace, as well as Gillian Welch's "Orphan Girl" and Bert Jansch's "Poison." Plant and the band resume their US tour in March.

Mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile has released a video of him performing Bach's Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: III. Sarabanda live at Reservoir Studios in New York City. He also performs the piece on his new album, Bach: Sonatas & Partitas, Vol. 2, which debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's Traditional Classical Albums chart on its release on Nonesuch in November. You can watch the video, directed by Matthew Edginton, here.

Congratulations to Alarm Will Sound and conductor Alan Pierson on winning the GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for Donnacha Dennehy's Land of Winter.

This GRAMMY Weekend in LA, nominees Rhiannon Giddens and Molly Tuttle perform at the Americanafest Pre-GRAMMY Salute to Neil Young. Julia Bullock performs Messiaen’s Harawi in Houston. Mary Halvorson is in NYC. Gabriel Kahane brings Book of Travelers to Cambridge. Davóne Tines performs there and at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in NYC and University of Richmond.

Malian balafon player Neba Solo and donso n’goni player Benego Diakité have released "Seko," a new song from their upcoming album, A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking, along with a live performance video shot in the Bamako garden where the basic tracks for the project were recorded; you can watch it here. The album is the first of a series of releases from Nonesuch and its longtime partner, Nick Gold, former head of World Circuit Records. Co-produced by Gold, Ousmane Haïdara, and Sonny Johns, it is due February 13, on Etoile Audio / Nonesuch Records. 

The fifteenth anniversary edition of Carolina Chocolate Drops' 2010 Grammy Award-winning album Genuine Negro Jig is out now on Nonesuch. The reissue, featuring founding band members Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, and Justin Robinson, includes the original Joe Henry–produced album and nine bonus tracks: seven previously unreleased tracks plus a 2025 remaster of “City of Refuge” and a 2025 mix of “Memphis Shakedown.” This release marks the album’s first time on vinyl since its original pressing in 2010. “A moment of reclamation and revelation,” says Uncut, naming the new edition of Genuine Negro Jig its Archive Album of the Month.

Weather permitting ... Julia Bullock performs at 92NY in NYC, while nearby Mary Halvorson is at The Jazz Gallery, and upstate Timo Andres and Aaron Diehl are in Beacon. Across the country, John Adams conducts LA Phil and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Chris Thile is in Texas, performing Bach in San Antonio and Austin.

Congratulations to composer Jonny Greenwood, who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film One Battle After Another. Greenwood was previously nominated for his scores to Anderson's 2017 film Phantom Thread and Jane Campion's 2021 film The Power of the Dog. One Battle After Another has been nominated for a total of thirteen Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, for which it recently won Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.

Molly Tuttle is on the latest episode of the American Songwriter show Off the Record. She talks with host and American Songwriter Editor-in-Chief Lisa Konickito about her latest album, the twice GRAMMY-nominated So Long Little Miss Sunshine, on which, Konickito says, Tuttle "explores country, rock, and pop; all the while, she's still the amazing guitar player that we know and love." You can watch their conversation here.

Emmylou Harris kicks off her European Farewell tour in Glasgow and Dublin. John Adams leads the New World Symphony and pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in an all-Adams program in Miami. Julia Bullock sings in Chicago. Brad Mehldau sells out Smoke Jazz Club in NYC. Chris Thile brings Bach to Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.