Happy Valentine’s Day! Caroline Shaw is at the Laguna Beach Music Festival in California, where she is the artistic director, performing at the Laguna Playhouse tonight, Saturday, and Sunday. Shaw is joined by members of the Pacific Chorale, Salastina, and dancer Jake Tribus Shaw to bring music from her 2022 GRAMMY-winning album Evergreen and more to the stage tonight. She is joined by Sō Percussion to perform music from their 2021 album Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part and their album Rectangles and Circumstance, which just won a GRAMMY Award earlier this month, on Saturday. To close things out, Shaw is joined by singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane to perform Hexagons, their new piece inspired by the magical realism of Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges’s 1939 short story The Library of Babel.

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Laurie Anderson and John Zorn perform at Roulette in Brooklyn on Saturday—a day before the 35th anniversary of Zorn’s album Naked City. Anderson’s latest album, Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight, was released last year; you can get the album—“mesmerizing from the first line to the last," per V magazine—and hear it here. You can hear Anderson’s recent appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs here.

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David Byrne performs at Radio City Music Hall in New York City tonight as a part of the SNL50 Homecoming Concert, available to stream live on Peacock.

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Kronos Quartet and a choir, conducted by Alexander Lloyd Blake, perform At War With Ourselves—400 Years of You at The Wallis's Bram Goldsmith Theatre in Los Angeles on Saturday. The piece features narration by National Book Award-winning poet Nikky Finney, reading a text inspired by her 2013 poem “The Battle of and for the Black Face Boy”, and music by composer Michael Abels, who won a Pulitzer Prize with Rhiannon Giddens for their opera, Omar.

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Pianist/composer Brad Mehldau is at Martinskirche in Basel, Switzerland, tonight and Saturday, performing music from his new album Après Fauré tonight and an eclectic program of music by Radiohead, Thelonious Monk, and The Beatles, some of which can be heard on his 2023 album Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, on Saturday. On Après Fauré, Mehldau performs four nocturnes from a thirty-seven-year span of Fauré’s career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor, along with four of Mehldau’s compositions that Fauré inspired presented in a group, bookended by two sections featuring the French composer’s works.

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Mandy Patinkin continues the US leg of his Being Alive tour—a collection of his favorite Broadway and classic American tunes from the likes of Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter, Harry Chapin, and more—with pianist Adam-Ben David, at the McCarter Theatre Center’s Matthews Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, tonight and the Marathon Center’s Donnell Theater in Findlay, Ohio, on Sunday.

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Singer Davóne Tines and his band THE TRUTH—sound artist Khari Lucas and pianist John Bitoy—perform music from their new album ROBESOИ at the Barbican’s Milton Court Concert Hall in London on Saturday. The album grapples with a hero's legacy, exploding the musical repertoire of Paul Robeson. "Tines proves a masterful storyteller whose work is compellingly provocative,” Mojo says in its four-star review of ROBESON. You can hear the album here.

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams concludes the East Coast leg of her current US tour in support of her new album, Acadia, at 3S Art Space in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tonight, the TCAN mainstage in Natick, Massachusetts, on Saturday, and the sold-out 118 North in Wayne, Pennsylvania, on Sunday. Williams heads to the West Coast next weekend for the Wintergrass Festival before continuing the Western leg of her tour. The Washington Post calls her new album “sumptuous” and describes her music style as “highly inventive, largely unorthodox, and totally alive.” You can watch her recent NPR Tiny Desk Concert here.