Pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Christian McBride kick off their US duo tour, performing at The Flynn in Burlington, Vermont, on Saturday, and Sanders Theatre in Cambridge, MA, on Sunday. The tour continues through the end of October. Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—was released earlier this year, and features performances by singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassists Felix Moseholm and John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman; you can get it on vinyl and CD and hear it here. Mehldau and McBride can be heard on three albums with saxophonist Joshua Redman and drummer Brian Blade: LongGone (2022), RoundAgain (2020), and MoodSwing (1994).

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Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society continue their 20th anniversary celebration, performing at the University of Denver’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts in Colorado on Saturday. Argue has been named Arranger of the Year for the second consecutive year in the DownBeat Critics Poll.

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Joachim Cooder performs for Mountain Stage at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia, on Sunday. The radio taping is hosted by David Mayfield and also features Jim Lauderdale & The Game Changers, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Sons of Town Hall, and Lilly Hiatt. The two-hour episode will be available on 300 stations across America, and around the world via NPR Music and mountainstage.org. Cooder’s Nonesuch Records debut album, Over That Road I'm Bound, was released in 2020.

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Jeremy Denk is at PianoPalooza! at the Portland Conservatory of Music in Portland, Maine, tonight. The program includes Bach’s complete Keyboard Partitas. You can hear his 2013 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations here and his latest album, Ives Denk, here.

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Emmylou Harris returns to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass for the 25th consecutive year, once again helping to close out the festival in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday afternoon. Harris was the subject of a Hardly Strictly tribute concert at The Masonic in San Francisco last night celebrating her having played every year at the festival since its start.

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Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) kicks off their tour supporting The Head and the Heart, bringing music from their album The Past is Still Alive and more to JJ’s Live in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Sunday.

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Singer/composer Gabriel Kahane joins the Santa Fe Pro Music Orchestra, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and violinist Colin Jacobsen for a performance at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe Sunday afternoon for its Season Opening Orchestra. On the program is Kahane’s clarinet concerto If love will not swing wide the gates, along with some of his other works and Dvořák's Serenade for Strings. Gabriel Kahane's new album, Heirloom, out next week, features a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra by the same name, performed by his father, the conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, and the Brooklyn-based orchestral collective The Knights.

Meanwhile, Jeffrey Kahane returns to perform with Colorado Symphony, of which he was once music director, to replace pianist Martin Helmchen as the featured soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in performances at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver tonight, Saturday, and Sunday.

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Drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven continues his US Off the Record tour, performing at Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York, tonight, before heading to Solar Myth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for four shows: a matinee and evening show on Saturday, a show on Sunday, and a final performance on Monday. The tour continues across the US through October. McCraven’s four new EPs will be released on all music platforms on October 31; double LP and double CD compilations, Off the Record, are available for preorder now and are due October 17 via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings.

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Mandy Patinkin kicks off his JukeBox tour with pianist Adam-Ben David at the Paramount Hudson Valley Theater in Peekskill, New York, on Saturday.

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Cinematic electro-pop duo Ringdown—Danni Lee Parpan and Caroline Shaw—kicks off its week of shows in support of Tune-Yards with two nights in Michigan: at Bell's Eccentric Cafe in Kalamazoo on Saturday and El Club in Detroit on Sunday. Ringdown’s debut album, Lady on the Bike, was released earlier this year; you can hear it and get it here.

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines joins the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludovic Morlot, at L'Auditori in Barcelona, tonight and Saturday, for performances of Beethoven’s Ninth to open L’Auditori’s season. During “Ode to Joy,” Tines will also be joined on stage by soprano Joyce El-Khoury, mezzo-soprano Silvia Tro Santafé, tenor René Barbera, and singers from the Orfeó Català.

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Molly Tuttle continues her The Highway Knows tour in support of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, with a show at Miramar Beach, Florida, tonight for Moon Crush: Avett Moon, and Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday, Tuttle stops by Guitar Center in Atlanta for a workshop and Q&A. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” Tuttle stopped by WFUV over the summer to perform for FUV Live and talk with host Alisa Ali about her new album; you can watch it here.

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Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams brings music from her latest album Acadia and more to Sellersville Theater in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, tonight and to StageOne at FTC in Fairfield, Connecticut, on Saturday. The Washington Post calls Acadia “sumptuous” and describes her music style as “highly inventive, largely unorthodox, and totally alive.”