This Easter long weekend, Stop/Time Festival brings Ambrose Akinmusire, Mary Halvorson, and Tortoise to Iowa City.

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire kicks off Stop/Time Festival, performing his new album honey from a winter stone and more, at Hancher Up Close on Friday. honey from a winter stone made year-end-best lists of DownBeat, Jazzwise, Mojo, and more, and was recently nominated for the Jazz FM Award for Album of the Year.

Guitarist Mary Halvorson and Canis Major perform at Riverside Theatre on Saturday for Stop/Time Festival, following their performances at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, California, tonight, and Freight & Salvage in Berkeley on Friday. Following Stop/Time Festival, the quartet heads to The Cedar in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Sunday. Halvorson’s album About Ghosts topped the Francis Davis Jazz Poll for New Jazz Albums.

Tortoise performs at The Englert Theatre on Saturday for Stop/Time. The band’s first new album since 2016, Touch, was released last fall. Band member Dan Bitney recently stopped by the Nonesuch offices to share some favorite records for the Nonesuch Selects video series; you can watch it and see his picks here.

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Laurie Anderson and Sexmob perform Republic of Love at DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sunday. Anderson and Sexmob’s new live album, Let X=X, is due May 8 on Nonesuch.

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Robert Plant and Saving Grace continue their US spring tour in support of their album Saving Grace, performing at Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Center for the Arts in Newport News, Virginia, tonight, and The Met in Philadelphia on Saturday. They conclude the tour at New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine next week, then head to South America in May and back to Europe this summer. Plant and Saving Grace will release a vinyl EP, Saving Grace: All That Glitters…, at independent record stores on Record Store Day, April 18.

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Mandolinist Chris Thile continues his US tour, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more to Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, tonight, Groton Hill Music Center in Groton, Massachusetts, on Friday, and Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, New York, on Saturday. Gramophone names the album an Editor's Choice, calling it "an album of real beauty, emerging as if through the mist—the mandolin proceeds to bring to this familiar music a vivid and highly personal sense of both mystery and joy."

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Molly Tuttle kicks off her tour with Marty Stuart, Molly x Marty: Guitars On Fire - The Cosmic Twang Tour!, tonight, bringing music from her album So Long Little Miss Sunshine and more to Smith Opera House in Geneva, New York, with more shows at Garde Arts Center in New London, Connecticut on Friday, and The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Saturday. Earlier this year, Tuttle, Emmylou Harris, and Alison Krauss performed "Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby" at the Grand Ole Opry's 25th anniversary celebration of the Coen brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its famed T Bone Burnett–produced soundtrack at the Opry House in Nashville. You can watch it here.