Carolina Chocolate Drops play three shows this weekend beginning tonight in Statesboro, Georgia, at the Georgia Southern University PAC. On Saturday the group returns to Durham, North Carolina, to perform at Duke’s Reynolds Industries Theater with Joe Henry, who produced the Drops' Nonesuch debut album, Genuine Negro Jig. Durham's Independent Weekly spoke with Henry about his work as a producer at indyweek.com.

On Sunday afternoon, the trio will honor Mike Seeger at a memorial concert for the late musician and longtime friend of the band, the Theater at Lime Kiln, in Lexington, Virginia. "Mike loved how the Chocolate Drops are digging into the old music and carrying it forward in their own special way," said Seeger's widow, Alexia Smith. "He really enjoyed their music, and their friendship, too. And he just loved to dance! I'm really looking forward to celebrating Mike in this way—it's going to be a wonderful afternoon."

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Laurie Anderson continues performances of her newest theater piece, Delusion, at the BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, through October 3. Anderson gave the New York premiere of the piece at BAM on Tuesday, launching the 2010 Next Wave Festival earlier this week. The Village Voice wrote of Anderson's voice: "As an instrument, it's just perfect: wise and bewildered, cutting and soothing, deadly serious and profoundly amusing."

Anderson will appear on Lou Reed's New York Shuffle with Hal Wilner on Sirius radio Saturday night. Tune in to Sirius Channel 29, The Loft, at midnight ET.

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The Black Keys closed out their tour with Kings of Leon and The Whigs last night and have set off on their own sold-out headlining tour, performing at SOMA in San Diego on Saturday, with Nicole Atkins now joining them. Earlier this week, the Keys headlined at the House of Blues, with The Whigs supporting, and "proved that real rock ‘n’ roll stills exits," Louisiana's OffBeat. "For The Black Keys, it’s just about the music—pure, unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll."

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Emmylou Harris performs at Arroyo Verde Park in Ventura, California, as a part of Saturday’s Ventura Hillsides Music Festival. The festival is a benefit for the land trust Ventura Hillsides Conservancy, which acquires open space to preserve the natural environment of San Buenaventura. The San Diego Union Tribune, previewing Monday's show at Humphreys by the Bay, says Harris "is blessed with a voice that is equal parts grace and grit."

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Wanda Jackson will participate in The Celebration of Books at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa Saturday afternoon. She and legendary artist manager Jim Halsey will take part in an on-stage conversation led by John Wooley.

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Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, whose latest album, De Profundis, was released last week on Nonesuch, will perform tonight at the Kursaal in Meran, Italy.

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Kronos Quartet kicks off a full day of free performances for Cal Performances Fall Free for All! on Sunday. Kronos performs at the University of California, Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall at 11 AM. No tickets are needed for the family-friendly day of events.

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On Saturday, Randy Newman joins the Louisville Orchestra to perform at Whitney Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. The show will feature the much-loved (and Oscar-winning) music Newman has written for film over the years.

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Fernando Otero performs at 92YTribeca in New York City tonight. Joining him on stage are Nick Danielson on violin, J.P. Jofre on bandoneon, and Pablo Aslan on double bass.

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Mandy Patinkin will give two performances of Mamaloshen ("Mother Tongue"), his acclaimed celebration of Yiddish music, at the Queensborough Performing Arts Center in Queens, New York, on Sunday. "A poignant, funny and thrilling theatrical experience," said Clive Barnes of the New York Post. "Patinkin's formidable presence and his power as an actor/singer has never been deployed to better effect."

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Punch Brothers launched their fall tour this week. The band plays two shows in Virginia this weekend, returning to the Theartre at Lime Kiln in Lexington tonight and heading next to the Watermelon Park Festival in Berryville on Saturday.

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Allen Toussaint continues his fall tour playing two Gulf Coast benefit shows with Neil Young. The first is on Saturday at the Imperial Palace Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the second on Sunday at the Saenger Theatre in Mobile, Alabama. Both are part of Young's Gulf Coast Tour, which benefits the Bay Area Food Bank, supporting communities in the Gulf region struggling with hunger.