Robert Plant and Saving Grace kick off their US spring tour in support of their album Saving Grace at the sold-out Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday. The tour continues across the US with stops in Tulsa, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville, Raleigh, Asheville, Newport News, Philadelphia, and Red Bank, culminating at New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They 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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Sérgio & Odair Assad conclude their 60th Anniversary Farewell Tour at 92NY’s Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City on Saturday. Last year marked the 40th anniversary of their Nonesuch debut album, Latin American Music for Two Guitars. On the album, the brothers—"the best two-guitar team in existence, maybe even in history" (Washington Post)—perform music by Astor Piazzolla, Leo Brouwer, Hermeto Pascoal, Radamés Gnattali, Alberto Ginastera, and Sérgio himself.

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Also in Manhattan, pianist Jeremy Denk performs at The Town Hall for Peoples' Symphony Concerts. The program features music by women composers from Clara Schumann to Meredith Monk, alongside pieces by Brahms and Robert Schumann, whose work he performs on his 2019 album, c. 1300–c. 2000. Denk wrote about Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in his Substack, Think Denk, earlier this week.

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Rhiannon Giddens and Silkroad Ensemble, of which she is artistic director, perform at Millennium Park’s Harris Theater in Chicago on Sunday for their tour Sanctuary: Power, Resonance, and Ritual. The program explores music’s capacity to process loss and environmental change while rebuilding community through shared humanity.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson joins Ches Smith in Europe, performing from his Clone Row at Opus Jazz Club in Budapest on Saturday and Teatro Principal in Puerto Real, Spain, on Sunday. Halvorson’s latest album, About Ghosts, was recognized on many year-end-best lists, including The Quietus, Jazzwise, Mojo, PopMatters, Slate, and more, and topped the Francis Davis Jazz Poll.

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Gabriel Kahane, joined by bassist Andrew Jones and drummer Matt Mayhall, performs in his adopted hometown at Strum PDX in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.

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Pianist Brad Mehldau spends the weekend at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg for the sold-out Reflektor Brad Mehldau. He performs a solo program featuring his Fantasy for Piano, Fourteen Reveries, L.A. Pastorale, and April 2020 on Friday; returns to the Great Hall, joining hr-Bigband and its composer-in-residence and conductor Darcy James Argue on Saturday; and is joined by bassist Christian McBride for a duo set on Sunday.

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Mandolinist Chris Thile continues his European tour, bringing music from his new album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, and more to Gloria Theater in Cologne tonight; the sold-out Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche in Krems an der Donau, Austria, on Saturday; and Heimathafen in Berlin on Sunday. 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 joins Tyler Childers for his European tour, performing at Salle Pleyel in Paris tonight. Tuttle recently joined Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss to perform "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; you can watch it here.