Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—bring music from her upcoming album Oh Snap, due September 19 on Nonesuch, and more to New York this weekend, for a free performance at Bryant Park in New York City, tonight, as part of Carnegie Hall Citywide, and the Amphitheater at the Outlier Inn in Woodridge on Saturday, for a performance under the stars. Last week, Salvant was once again named Female Vocalist of the Year in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Her summer curation of evening jazz performances at The Glade on Little Island in New York City ends this weekend, with performances by The Emmanuel Michael Group tonight and Melanie Charles on Saturday.

---

Timo Andres has two performances for the La Jolla Music Society this weekend, first sharing the bill with nine other pianists at The Baker-Baum Concert Hall in La Jolla, California, on Saturday to performThe Complete Piano Études by Philip Glass. Andres is then joined by fellow New York contemporary composers and curators Patrick Castillo and Matthew Aucoin for a concert at the JAI in which he performs two of his pieces on Sunday.

---

Darcy James Argue and his Secret Society continue their 20th anniversary celebration, joined by Aaron Diehl trio for a performance at 92NY’s Kaufmann Concert Hall in New York City on Saturday. The program includes the world premiere of Argue’s Banquet for the Birds, a new suite for piano and jazz orchestra, inspired by Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad, written for Diehl. You can stream the performance here. Argue has been named Arranger of the Year for the second consecutive year in the DownBeat Critics Poll.

---

Rhiannon Giddens & The Old-Time Revue—featuring Justin Robinson and four other string musicians—bring music from Giddens and Robinson’s new album, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, and more to the Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho, tonight, and to the Strings Music Pavilion in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, on Sunday, as part of the Strings Music Festival. You can get What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow and hear it here, and watch performance videos of eight tunes from it here.

---

Hurray for the Riff Raff (Alynda Segarra) joins Greg Mendez for a sold-out performance at Space Ballroom in Hamden, Connecticut, tonight, before playing a sold-out show on the Harbor Stage in Newport, Rhode Island, on Sunday, for their third appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. Hurray for the Riff Raff hits the road with Ani DiFranco at the end of August.

---

Brad Mehldau brings his trio—bassist Felix Moseholm and drummer Jorge Rossy—to Spain this weekend, playing at the Plaza de la Trinidad in San Sebastian on Saturday, as part of the Jazzaldia festival, and at Guíxols Arena in Sant Feliu de Guíxols on Sunday, as part of the Porta Ferrada festival. Mehldau released the fourth single, “Southern Belle,” featuring Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, from his upcoming album Ride into the Sun, earlier this week. The album, due August 29, is a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Moseholm performs on the album, as do singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassist John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. You can pre-order the album and listen to the new single here.

---

Robert Plant and his new band Saving Grace continue their European summer tour with a performance at the Palacio Congresos de Granada in Spain on Saturday. Plant and the band’s debut album, Saving Grace, is out Septebmer 26 on Nonesuch. The first, released last week, is a take on Low’s “Everybody’s Song,” the video for which you can watch here.

---

Caroline Shaw joins cellist Andrew Lee of Attacca Quartet in Portland, Oregon, tonight, for the Three Trees concertseries of intimate performances that take place in Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan (Ringdown)’s backyard. Last week, Caroline Shaw was nominated for an Emmy Award for her score to Ken Burns’ two-part documentary LEONARDO da VINCI, up for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score), on which Attacca Quartet performs.

Shaw’s piece To the Hands can be heard on a program with Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Mass for the Endangered, performed by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this evening. Nonesuch and New Amsterdam Records released the first recording of Mass for the Endangered, a celebration of, and an elegy for, the natural world, with a libretto by poet/writer Nathaniel Bellows, in 2020. Shaw and Snider collaborated on the song cycle The Blue Hour with fellow composers Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, and Shara Nova, which the two labels released in 2022.

---

Davóne Tines concludes his nineteen-show run of Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s The Gospel at Colonus with sold-out performances at the Little Island Amphitheater in New York City, tonight and Saturday, before traveling to the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail, Colorado, on Sunday, for the Vail Dance Festival, where featured performers take on classic and contemporary pairings of dance and song, including compositions by Caroline Shaw.

---

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, who were just nominated for International Bluegrass Music Awards for Guitar Player of the Year and Instrumental Group of the Year, take the Rockygrass Festival Main Stage in Lyons, Colorado, tonight. Tuttle’s new solo album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, is due August 15. You can pre-order the album and listen to the first two singles here.

---

Guitarist/composer Yasmin Williams is on stage at Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta, for a solo set on Saturday and three collaborative sessions of spontaneous music on Sunday, as part of the Calgary Folk Festival.