Bang on a Can’s Long Play Festival takes place at venues across Brooklyn throughout the weekend. Guitarists Mary Halvorson and Bill Frisell perform together in tribute to jazz guitar legend Johnny Smith at Roulette Intermedium on Saturday afternoon. Halvorson’s new album, About Ghosts, due June 13, features eight new compositions by Halvorson, performed with her sextet Amaryllis plus guest saxophonists Immanuel Wilkins and Brian Settles, and Halvorson on Pocket Piano synthesizer overdubs on a number of tracks. You can watch the video for the album track "Carved From" here.

Ringdown—the duo of Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—performs at Roulette Intermedium for the festival on Saturday night. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, out next week, 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 hear the new track “Emotional Absentee” and several previously released songs from the album here.

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Kronos Quartet is also in Brooklyn, bringing its Awaken the Future program to National Sawdust on Saturday. The program includes the world premiere of a new work by Niloufar Nourbakhsh featuring former Kronos cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, as well as works by Nicole Lizée, Peni Candra Rini, and Gabriella Smith.

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Following their debut at the Biscuits and Banjos festival last weekend, Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue, which features Justin Robinson and four other string musicians, continue their tour in support of Giddens and Robinson’s new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, throughout the Southeast this weekend with shows at the Miami Beach Bandshell tonight, The Eastern in Atlanta on Saturday, and Alys Stephens Center’s Jemison Concert Hall in Birmingham on Sunday. You can watch performance videos of eight tunes from the new album here.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—kicked off a four-performance run at SFJAZZ last night, and continue with a show tonight available to live stream here, and two shows on Saturday at Miner Auditorium in San Francisco. Salvant is up for the Deutscher Jazzpreis for Live Act of the Year International as well as the JJA Jazz Awards for Female Vocalist of the Year—which she won last year—and, with Fortner, Duo of the Year.

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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—are special guests of Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on Saturday. Earlier this year, Tuttle was joined by Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show on the Grand Ole Opry stage in Nashville to perform "San Joaquin," a song they co-wrote for her Grammy-winning 2023 album City of Gold; you can watch it here.

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams brings music from her latest album Acadia and more to Mountain Stage at the Lyell B Clay Concert Theatre in Morgantown, West Virginia, on Sunday. The radio taping is hosted by David Mayfield and also features Eric Bibb, Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet, Twisted Pine, and The McCrary Sisters. The two-hour episode will be available to listen to on 300 stations across America, and around the world via NPR Music and mountainstage.org. 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.