Today’s Music Live-Streams: Willie Nelson, Niall Horan, Common, Indigo Girls, Gary Lightbody, Kalie Shorr

By Chris Willman

By Chris Willman

Orville Peck will take to three different social media platforms tonight to chat with fans, perform music — including a new song that drops tomorrow — and call some special friends. It goes down at 9 p.m. ET/6 PT on Twitch, Instagram and YouTube.

Yet another celebrity has announced that they’re fighting coronavirus, and this time, it’s Kalie Shorr.

Country singer Kalie Shorr is the latest celeb to announce that she's contracted COVID-19.

Well, it's Friday evening (March 27), and on a night we'd usually be breaking out our dancing shoes for the club or packing our bags to head to a festival, we find ourselves at home on the computer, unable to leave the house and slightly unsure of how we're going to pass the time this weekend. But the world of dance music has always maintained a spirit of optimism, so even amid

An Elvis Costello appearance “from his underground lair” in the UK and Dierks Bentley broadcasting live from the U.S. of A. lead the list of performance live-streams happening for music lovers Friday. Costello performs at 3:30 ET, and Bentley goes on at 9 ET.

Dave Matthews is definitely the elephant in the room — or maybe the 800-pound marching ant? — when it comes to Thursday’s music live-streams. Tonight is the night he performs a half-hour solo show online as the premiere of a new Verizon-sponsored series, “Pay It Forward Live,” that will be broadcast each week to promote the Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s efforts to help out small businesses in distress.

If you’re a big music fan, there’s a good chance you’ve seen more live music in the last week or two than you have in months. That’s if we put “live” in quotes, anyhow, and allow it to apply to the sudden phenomenon of pop-up web concerts that have replaced the local venue experience in the brief time since every stadium, theater and club in the country got shut down due to the pandemic.

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Lukas Nelson is in self-imposed isolation on his family’s ranch outside Austin, Tex. But that doesn’t mean the singer-songwriter, who inherited his guitar chops and unmistakable vocals from dad, country legend Willie Nelson, is resting on his laurels.

Jennifer Hudson is the titan among the intimate live-stream concerts happening Wednesday, with a performance she’ll be broadcasting from her home as part of Global Citizen’s “Together at Home” series. It takes place at 4 p.m. ET/1 PT on her Instagram Live channel.

The pace of fresh music live-streams is slowing down just a little mid-week, but Tuesday brings promising performances in store from Chloe x Halle, Kiana Ledé, “The Voice” alumna Meghan Linsey and her duo partner Tyler Cain, and a DJ set from Diplo, among others.

Christine and the Queens represent the country of France in leading a listing of Monday’s live-streamed music performances, while a pair of country music queens, Brandy Clark and Ashley McBryde, get their own turns at serenading fans in this new world of web-only concerts.

Newly announced music performance live-streams added for Sunday include Evanescence, Miguel, Bastille, Alex Aiono … and, believe it or not, a piano performance by news anchor Katie Couric.

The live-stream concert phenom continues in earnest this weekend with a couple of powerful multi-artist bills, starting with Sunday’s stripped-down, all-star version of the Grand Ole Opry with acoustic performances by Vince Gill, Brad Paisley and Marty Stuart, stepping into the Ryman without a live audience or the usual backing crew.

Paul Simon came out of semi-retirement on Thursday night (19Mar20) to perform as part of Willie Nelson’s virtual Till Further Notice festival.

Well, it's Friday evening, and on a night we'd usually be breaking out our dancing shoes for the club or packing our bags to head to a festival, we find ourselves at home on the computer, unable to leave the house and slightly unsure of how we're going to pass the time this weekend.

A starry slate of music live-streams for the shut-in age is on deck for Friday, with live web performances by Hozier, OneRepublic, Julianne Hough and the duo of Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn. Friday also brings a transplanted music festival: it’s the online version of the EDM-focused Ultra Festival, for your home rave needs.

Pop star Niall Horan and rapper Common joined in the Together, At Home concert series on Thursday (March 19, 2020) by performing acoustic shows for fans online during the coronavirus lockdown.

Charlie Puth joins the growing band of musicians entertaining fans from the comfort of their homes.