Laurie Anderson closes out the Rewire Festival at Amare in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sunday, joined by composer and electro-acoustic violist Martha Mooke. Anderson’s latest album, Amelia, about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight, is “mesmerizing from the first line to the last," says V magazine; you can get it and hear it here. You can listen to Anderson’s recent appearance on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs here.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier continue their European tour, which kicked off on Tuesday, with two shows in Germany—at Domicil in Dortmund tonight at Stadtgarten Concert Hall in Cologne on Saturday—and at Le Singe in Biel, Switzerland, on Sunday.

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Emmylou Harris celebrates the music of Guy Clark, joined by Shawn Camp & Verlon Thompson, in a sold-out show at the Cahn Auditorium in Evanston, Illinois, tonight, and a performance at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee on Saturday. Harris’s groundbreaking 1995 album Wrecking Ball will be inducted into the GRAMMY Hall of Fame at a special GRAMMY Museum and Recording Academy gala in May.

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Gabriel Kahane, the Oregon Symphony Creative Chair, is joined by members of the Oregon Symphony at Alberta Abbey in Portland tonight, as part of the Symphony’s Open Music series, to perform some of his own songs and those of artists who have inspired him in his career, like Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Connie Converse, and Charles Ives, as well as the next generation of artists like SZA, Mitski, and Haley Heyndrickx.

Fellow Portlanders Ringdown—the duo of Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—also play a hometown show tonight, sharing a double bill with foamboy at The Get Down. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, will be released on Nonesuch on May 9. The album celebrates the feeling of possibility in myriad forms: the possibility of love; the possibility of creating connection and community in a world trying to pull those things apart; the possibility of making music in new ways. You can pre-order the album and hear the new track “Run” and several previously released songs from the album here. Caroline Shaw’s new track “Taproot,” from the movie Julie Keeps Quiet, was released today and can be heard here.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who kicked off a three-week US tour earlier this week, perform three shows at SFJAZZ’s Miner Auditorium in San Francisco tonight, Saturday, and Sunday.

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Mandy Patinkin continues 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 Smith Center for the Arts in Geneva, New York, on Sunday.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant performs at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, on Saturday. She was recently nominated for the Deutscher Jazzpreis in Germany for Live Act of the Year International. You can hear her conversation with David Krauss on the Speaking Soundly podcast here.

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Molly Tuttle and her band Golden Highway—mandolinist Dominick Leslie, banjoist Kyle Tuttle, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and bassist Shelby Means—continue their month-long tour with Brooks & Dunn with two shows in Illinois: at the Peoria Civic Center Arena tonight and the Allstate Arena in Rosemont on Saturday. Tuttle and the band are featured in the latest installment of American Currents: State of the Music, the annual exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville showcasing country music and its place in American culture over the past year, which is open through January 2026.