A Rare Appearance by Wild Romany Party Band Romashka at This Year’s New York Gypsy Festival

At the peak of their late zeros popularity, Romashka were rivalled only by Gogol Bordello and maybe Luminescent Orchestrii among New York Romany party bands. Frontwoman Inna Barmash, one of the world’s greatest klezmer singers, has a diamond-cutter clarity that’s almost scary. Her husband Ljova Zhurbin is one of this era’s most eclectic and brilliant violists. They don’t play live as much as they used to, but when they reconvene it’s like they never left off and the party starts all over again. They’re bringing their signature blend of slashing minor keys, acerbic chromatics and fiery Russian Romany dances to the latest installment of the ongoing New York Gypsy Festival at Drom this Sept 20 at 8 PM; adv tix are $15. It’s going to be a little taste of Golden Fest a few months before the annual Balkan blowout takes place next January 12 and 13 in Brooklyn.

Unless they’ve been keeping their gigs a big secret, the most recent Romashka gig was at Golden Fest 2018, and it was killer. Fortuitously, their set was recorded and is available as a free download at the Free Music Archive. They kick it off with Hochu Lyubit, a scampering, pulsing dance, Jeff Perlman’s clarinet bubbling, Zhurbin weaving through one ominous chromatic after another, then giving way to guest trumpeter Frank London’s triumphant solo as guitarist Jai Vilnai skanks and jangles. With her intense, melismatic delivery, Barmash gives it an extra shot of dramatic angst at the end – it was her birthday, so she was especially amped.

From there the band take a detour into a couple of acerbic Romanian dance numbers. Veering in and out of the western scale, Rustemul sounds like the theme to a village that time really forgot, a rustically surreal, coyly bombastic theme pushed along by Ron Caswell’s tuba and Chris Stromquist’s drums. Tocul is a lot more lighthearted and lickety-split.

Ljova’s delicate incisions and London’s plaintive trumpet matched Barmash’s distant, nuanced poignancy throughout a muted Russian tango, Serdtse. Her insistent attack and ornamentation in Loli Phabay – “Red Apple,” a Russian Romany tune – is pretty wild, in contrast with Vilnai’s jaggedly precise, Middle Eastern tinged jangle and clang.

Perlman fires off triumphant trills while Holmes smolders throughout the old Romany hit Shimdiggy. Barmash goes to redline right off the bat as the band launch into the edgy bounce of Zarnobila, taking a careening segue into a rapidfire take of Baro Faro to end their show with a blistering stampede out.

Although Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall wasn’t designed for electric bands, the sound quality is surprisingly clear and balanced. Get this set before it disappears (that happens sometimes at the Free Music Archive) – it’s one of this city’s great esoteric bands at the peak of their powers.

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A Wild Night With Dobranotch to Kick Off This Year’s New York Gypsy Festival

Dobranotch means “good night” in Russian. It’s a very understated way of describing the crazy, exhilarating dance party they put on this past evening at Drom to open this year’s New York Gypsy Festival. The Russian klezmer band romped and blasted through a fiery set of originals and radical reinventions of more traditional material, showing off their virtuoso chops as well as an irrepressibly boisterous sense of humor.

Klezmer dance music is fun by definition, but these guys are beyond the pale. There was a point about midway through their set where their their guest dancer, Lea Elisha, went twirling across the floor in front of the stage, her mane of curly hair flying, an unstoppable human gyroscope. Meanwhile, frontman/violinist Mitya Khramtsov played behind his back, Hendrix style.

OK, that’s common enough. Next, he played with his bow behind his back and his violin tucked under his arm.

Then he stuck his bow down his pants and fiddled the violin on the bow – without missing a catchy minor-key riff. After bowing with his mouth, then sticking the bow in the dancer’s mouth and fiddling it, he finally handed the bow to a surprised audience member and had him do it.

Ilya Gindin, the band’s not-so-secret weapon, started the show on alto sax, then switched to oboe, firing off lickety-split spirals and slashing chromatic trills. Then he switched to clarinet. Slowly and methodically, he disassembled the instrument between verses, moving further and further up the scale until there was nothing left to play but the mouthpiece and then the reed. By then, it was all he could do to slowly bend a note up to where it was supposed to be, but nobody wanted the joke to stop.

Beyond the theatrics, this is an incredibly tight party band. More often than not, Khramtsov and the horn section would lock in on their harmonies while Gindin did his thing. Roman Shinder fired off fast flurries of banjo chords as Evgeny Lizin thumped out the groove on a big tapan bass drum and accordionist Ilya Shneyveys fleshed out the sound with rich washes of chords and elegant filigrees.

Khramtsov took a couple of stark, strikingly rustic departures into otherworldly weaves of microtones, veering away from the center before leaping back into the traditional western scale. The best original of the night was an epic, darkly Bessarabian-flavored anthem written by trombonist Grigory Spiridonov, who puffed out staccato basslines when he wasn’t harmonizing with tenor saxophonist Max Karpychev and the rest of the group.

They reinvented the iconic Algerian protest anthem Ya Rayyeh as a gruff but similarly sardonic Russian brass tune. Likewise, they turned a shapeshifting Macedonian bagpipe dance into what Khramtsov termed a “gypsy rhumba,” although it sounded more like a Turkish tango. They finally wound up the night with a third encore, gathered on the floor in front of the audience. An unexpectedly slow, lushly benedictory, moody concluding anthem with edgy solos all around couldn’t douse the crowd’s energy.

The New York Gypsy Festival continues at Drom on Sept 14 at  9:30 PM with the eclectic Underground Horns celebrating ten years of mashing up Balkan, New Orleans and latin brass sounds. You can get in for ten bucks in advance.

Mesmerizing Accordion Sounds Serenade Bryant Park, Again

As all of us in New York have been painfully reminded over the last few days, summer is far from over. But there’s a silver lining: the summer outdoor concerts aren’t over yet, either. One of the year’s best series so far – no surprise – has been the Bryant Park accordion festival. Considering how widely that little box has infiltrated cultures around the world, it’s also hardly a surprise that this may be New York’s most multicultural annual festival.

This past evening’s installment was characteristically sublime and eclectic. Laura Vilche is one of relatively few women whose axe is the even smaller bandoneon so widely used in tango music. She played very kinetically, rhythmically and also remarkably sparsely, underscoring the sheer catchiness of her sometimes slinky, sometimes brooding mix of Argentine and Paraguayan themes. Her dynamically shifting take of the Carlos Gardel classic La Comparsita was the biggest hit with the crowd gathered on the folding chairs and blankets provided for concertgoers. Then she packed up her gear and moved to another of the park’s five quasi-stages to serenade another group; many followed.

Where Vilche was spare and almost otherworldly direct, Latvian-born accordionist Ilya Shneyveys played lavishly and even epically throughout a set of original and often relatively obscure klezmer songs from across the Jewish diaspora. He opened his set by explaining that he was going much further afield, beyond horas and Hava Nagila, and he wasn’t kidding. With long, lingering, suspenseful intros building to waterfalling and then absolutely torrential volleys of notes, he used every second of the allotted time to air out every bracing chromatic and adrenalizing minor key in a series of dances and more subdued material. The highlight was a slowly crescendoing, rather mysterious diptych typically played as an introductory theme for wedding guests. “Cocktail music,” he smirked. He’s playing tomorrow night, Sept 6 at 9 PM at Drom with pyrotechnic Russian klezmer band Dobranotch to open this year’s New York Gypsy Festival; cover is $15 if you get tix before midnight.

As much fun as it was to watch those two musicians, the stars of this installment of the accordion festival were Eva Salina and Peter Stan. In two separate sets, they played a lot of the same material, completely differently the second time around. The mesmerizing Balkan singer and her longtime accordionist collaborator aren’t just frontwoman and accompanist: each is as integral to the music as the other. Toying with rhythm and taking their time making up intros, outros and meticulously thought-out solos, they brought a jazz sophistication to a blend of Romanian and Serbian tunes from across the Romany diaspora.

Their first take of a catchy dance number, imploring Romany husbands to come home to their wives and kids from faraway jobs, was very straightforward. The second was slower and much more plaintive. Jaunty dance rhymes contrasted with haunting ballads of loss and longing. Both musicians’ fearsome technique was in full effect, whether Stan’s supersonic volleys of chromatics and grace notes, or Salina’s minute, microtonal melismas and ornamentation.

Next week’s first episode of the festival is on Weds Sept 12, starting at 5:30 PM with a phenomenally good lineup including but not limited to Ismail Butera playing Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music, Will Holshouser’s Indian-influenced accordion jazz, Shoko Nagai’s mix of klezmer and Japanese folk, and Sadys Rodrigo Espitia’s oldschool Colombian cumbia and vallenato. The festival’s grand finale is two days later, on Sept 14, and starts a half hour earlier.

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for September and October 2018

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, it couldn’t hurt to bookmark this page.

If you’re leaving your hood, make sure you check http://www.mta.info for service changes considering how the trains are at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you found out about here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

9/5, 9/12 and a grand finale on 9/14 a half an hour earlier, this year’s Bryant Park Accordion Festival is as amazing as it was last year. Scroll down for individual show lineups

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included!

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( Broadway/8th Ave) , 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in September, 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Mondays in September, Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.

Tuesdays in September, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes (check the club calendar). Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.

Wednesdays in September, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Thursdays at 8 in September the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Free classical concerts on Saturdays at 4 PM in September at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in September, 6 PM the Toomai String Quintet play all kinds of adventurous, global classical repertoire, specializing in fiery Cuban material at Barbes

Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands

Sundays in September, at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back; special guests from his wide circle of NYC Americana acts keep the afternoon going until about 7. It’s just like 1999 again -at least until the bar closes sometime this year.

Sundays in September?, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.

9/1, 3 PM the Sun Ra Arkestra outdoors at Union Pool, free

9/1, 5 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl – sort of a more straightforwardly trippy version of John Hollenbeck – followed at 8 by dazzlingly eclectic chamber pop/latin/classical violinist Concetta Abbate at Pete’s

9/1, 6 PM the Toomai String Quintet play all kinds of adventurous, global classical repertoire, specializing in fiery Cuban material, then at 8 PM pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri play their creepy Transylvanian jazz and then at 10 there’s epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

9/1, 7ish Bobby Radcliff – the rare blues guitarist who plays a ton of notes but doesn’t waste them, sort of a funkier Stevie Ray Vaughan – with his trio at Terra Blues

9/1, 7 PM in reverse order at El Cortez: no wave sax legends James Chance & The Contortions,dark art-rock guitar icon Martin Bisi, and perennially sick noiserock guitar band the Sediment Club, $20

9/1, 7  PM the annual Soorya festival of Sri Lankan culture and arts at Faber Park in Staten Island, free, shuttle bus will stop at the Staten Island Ferry to pick you up, call 718-755-4644, program tba

9/1, 8 PM singer Lara Solnicki leads a killer quintet with Marta Sanchez on piano and Roman Filiu on alto at the Cell Theatre, $15. Filiu leads his quartet afterward

9/1, 8 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band  at Club Bonafide, $20. She’s back here on 9/21 at 6, 9/28 at 7 and 9/29 at 6 again

9/1, 8:30 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico

9/1, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” followed by exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets at the Gutter, sug don

9/1, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 PM with ferocious, creepy surf noir band the Men in Gray Suits, at 10 spaghetti western/surf trio LoungeZotica 3000, at 11 gloomy surfed-up Russian prison songs with the Vivisectors, and around midnight the night’s hardest-rocking act, Surfer R Cool 

9/1, 9 PM dark garage rock and noir psychedelia with Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs at the Mercury, $15

9/2, 2 PM original mambo king Orlando Marin and his band at the Discovery Center in Central Park,110th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Ave, free

9/2, 6 PM purist CBs style female-fronted punks the Carvels NYC  at Otto’s – they have free potluck munchies too

9/2, 8:45 PM first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall a and hard honkytonk guitar legend Wayne the Train Hancock at the Knitting Factory, $18

9/2, 9 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at  at Skinny Dennis

9/2, 10ish brilliant Americana-rock lead guitarist Tom Clark – whose Lakeside and Manitoba’s shows back in the 90s and zeros were legendary – on his home turf at the Treehouse at 2A

9/3, 3 PM free dogs and burgers at Freddy’s. Not a music event but if you’re hungry…

9/3, 8:30 PM darkly brilliant, psychedelic Klezmatics multi-reedman Matt Darriau’s ’s Paradox Trio at Bar Lunatico. 9/9 at 7 they’re at Barbes

9/3, 9:30 PM Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos with members of M.A.K.U and Combo Chimbita play space cumbia at Barbes

9/4, 7 PM brilliantly lyrical latin jazz pianist Luis Perdomo leads his band at the Fat Cat, no joke

9/4, 7 PM Free Range Rats with Eric Hipp, tenor saxophone;  John Carlson, trumpet & pocket trumpet;  Shawn McGloin, bass;  George Schuller, drums followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

9/4, 8/10;30 PM state-of-the-art jazz bassist Christian McBride & the New Jawn Quartet at the Blue Note, $20 standing room avail

9/4, 8 PM feral bassist Brandon Lopez leads a trio with piano and drums at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

9/4-8, 8:30 PM saxophonist/composer Michael Blake plays with a variety of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: 9/6 with String Theory: Charlie Burnham (violin) Erik Friedlander (cello) Ryan Blotnick (guitar) Tony Scherr (bass) Jerry Granelli (drums) 

9/4, 9 PM two talented, individualistic guitarslinging women: Mallory Feuer and her fiery power trio the Grasping Straws followed by Balkan jazz player Martina Fiserova at Sidewalk

9/4, 10 PM the Inner City All-Stars – who mash up hot New Orleans brass and psychedelic funk – at Silvana 

9/4, 11:30 PM rising star singer Lucy Yeghiazaryan plays and maybe sings music by Fats Waller at Dizzy’s Club, $5

9/5, 5:30 PM  night four of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Laren Droll (Cajun + Zydeco), Laura Vilche (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Nain de los M-1 Sangre de Reyes (Norteño Music from Mexico), Patty Furlong (Traditional Irish Music), Cordeone (Portuguese Fado), Ilya Shneyveys (Traditional + Original Klezmer), Eva Salina and Peter Stan (Vintage Balkan Roma Ballads), Mira Stroika (Pop Cabaret), Albert Behar (French Musette + Gypsy Jazz), Alan Morrow (Waltzes, Tango + Blues), Papa Bavarian (German Oktoberfest), and Burlap Don Simons (American Swing)

9/5, 8ish Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” and hash-smoking anthems at Troost

9/5, 8 PM klezmer clarinet/mandolin wizard Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

9/5, 8 PM a killer second/third generation Afrobeat twinbill: Super Yamba and Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

9/5, 8:30 PM A Tribute to Americana hellraiser Jimmy C Newman w/ The Foghorn Stringband, Jesse Lege, Joel Savoy, Kelli Jones & Rusty Blake at the Jalopy, $25

9/5, 9 PM Mischief Night – the Grasping Straws’ Mallory Feuer’s menacingly lo-fi guitar-drums duo – at Footlight Bar

9/5, 10 PM awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra at the big room at the Rockwood

9/6, noon latin jazz drum maestro Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Aché outdoors at Worldwide Plaza, 350 W 50th St.

9/6, 5 PM the eclectic, Balkan/latin/funk brass Underground Horns on Broadway betw 42/43

9/6, 6 PM singer Jessy Carolina’s torchy cabaret band Shanghai Mermaid under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

9/6, 7 PM indie classical chamber ensemble Unbridled play a world premiere commission by composer Emily Praetorius plus works by Futing and others at Arete Gallery, $15

9/6, 8 PM eclectic groove instrumentalists Kadawa followed at 10 by Quatre Vingt Neuf (French for 89, a revolutionary date in case you weren’t aware) playing New Orleans brass music at Barbes

9/6, 8 PM snarky cabaret/funk/punk band Kid Congo & the Pink Monkey Birds– who are more new wave and less Crampsy than you would think – and grasscore legends Slim Cessna’s Auto Club at Brooklyn Bazaar, $20

9/6, 8 PM irrepressible multi-instrumentalist Joanna Sternberg wearing her front-porch folk guitarist hat, followed by noir soundtrack keyboardist Frank LoCrasto at Union Pool, $12

9/6, 8 PM popular newgrass/Americana road warriors Red Molly at City Winery, $22 standing room avail

9/6, 8 PM legendary drummer/cardiac medicine innovator/African historian Milford Graves with slinky bassist Shahzad Ismaily, plus performances by composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld and improvising vocalist Charmaine Lee at First Unitarian Congregational, 119 Pierrepont St., downtown Brooklyn,  $25/$10 stud/srs, closest train is the 2/3 to Clark St. or any train to Borough Hall

9/6, 8 PM pianist Alessandro Vena plays works by Chopin – Davide Zannoni – Giuseppe Lupis – Franz Liszt – Claude Debussy – Sergei Rachmaninoff at the DiMenna Center, $15/$10 stud/sf=rs

9/6, 8:30 PM kinetic, eclectic, funky parlor jazz violinist Mazz Swift  at Bar Lunatico

9/6, 9 PM wild minor key-loving Russian folk-punks Dobranotch at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

9/6, 9 PM mesmerizing, atmospheric guitarist Rafiq Bhatia & drummer Craig Weinrib at Nublu 151

9/6, 9 PM powerpop with Dave Derby’s Grand Armada, crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss  and Dave Foster’s 90s jangle/powerpop band Bubble at Hank’s

9/6, 10 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leading his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. They’re also here on 9/11 and 9/18 at 7

9/7, 6 PM elegant, lyrical, wildly eclectic oldtimey jazz/New England Americana songwriter Caroline Cotter at the American Folk Art Museum 

9/7, 7 PM Tilt Brass’s allstar trumpet octet play works by Eastman, Vierk, Gibson, McIntyre at the New School’s Stiefel Hall, 4th Floor, 55 W 13th St, $15, stud free

9/7, 8 PM timeless, haunting, playful octogenarian Armenian jazz sage and multi-reedman Souren Baronian’s Taksim at Barbes

9/7, 8 PM wryly lyrical Nashville gothic and Americana rock with Maynard & the Musties and Aron Blue at the Way Station

9/7, 8ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets at Troost

9/7, 8 PM hauntingly cinematic pianist/composer Kelly Moran plays new work at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

9/7, 9 PM eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts at Bar Chord

9/7, 10:30 PM kinetically hypnotic postpunk band Mattson 2 at Rough Trade, $17 adv tix rec

9/7, 11:30 PM sax/keyboard duo Eva & Marie play klezmer, French chanson and other diverse styles at Freddy’s 

9/8, 4 PM purist CBs style female-fronted punks the Carvels NYC at Tompkins Square Park

9/8, 7 PM pianist Jose Menor plays the music of Spanish composer Hèctor Parra at Spectrum, $15. He’s also here on the 9th at 3 with a more varied program, and on 9/22 at 8 playing Messiaen’s Vingt Regards Sur L’enfant Jesus.

9/8, 7 PM night one of this year’s Dissident Arts Festival is a Weimar-inspired “Cabaret of Dissent” to benefit the Rosenberg Fund for Children, a non-profit public foundation which aids children of targeted progressive activists. On the bill: speaker Jenn Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and director of the Rosenberg Fund; jazz singer Judi Silvano; pianist Chris Forbes playing “Harmolodic Weill”; liberation jazz and spoken word by the Red Microphone; bassist/poet Larry Roland debuts his new all-star band They Come With Gold, and politically-charged jazz/soul songwriter Lindsey Wilson & the Human Hearts at 17 Frost Theatre and Gallery, 17 Frost St, Williamsburg, $15 `

9/8, 7 PM Bahamian trumpeter Giveton Gelin and his quintet followed by fellow horn powerhouse Jeremy Pelt leading a mighty octet and plahing a Rodin-inspired program at the New School’s Stiefel Hall, 4th Floor, 55 W 13th St, $15, stud free

9/8, 7:30 PM the Knox Trio play works for flute, cello and piano including George Crumb’s Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale), Matthew Burtner’s atmospheric Snowprints and two 2018 world premieres (Victoria Romano, Ernest Ling) at Arete Gallery, $15/$10 stud

9/8, 8 PM legendarily eclectic surf band the Tiki Brothers at Arlene’s $10

9/8, 8 PM jazz harpist Pia Salvia leads a quintet at the Cell Theatre, $15

9/8, 8 PM dark cabaret legend  Sanda Weigl sings Brecht/Weill with Lucian Ban, piano & Mat Maneri, viola followed at 10 by Pangari & the Socialites playing classic ska and rocksteady – most of it from the 60s Skatalites catalog – at Barbes

9/8, 8 PM Savak – who rehash Wire as well as anybody else ever has – at the Bell House, free

9/8, $10 before 9 PM, bizarrely fun dubwise accordion-and-brass stoner funksters TM Street Band followed bye xplosive, creepy, colorfully psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Rubulad, plus projections, fortune tellers, fire twirlers probably, the works – email for Bushwick address/info 

9/8, 9 PM the intoxicatingly clattering, sintir bass lute fueled Moroccan trance grooves of Innov Gnawa at the Owl

9/8, 10 PM oldschool soul ballads with singer Camille Atkisson’s Empire Beats at the Way Station

9/8, 10 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

 9/8, 10 PM smartly eclectic singer and vivid original jazz songwriter Allegra Levy plays the album release show for her new lunar-themed record at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10

9/9, 2 PM unpredictably brilliant violinist Concetta Abbate plus a chamber ensemble for a killer program of her own work plus material by women composers Missy Mazzoli, Whitney George, Anna Bon and Kate Amrine at the Park Church Coop at 129 Russell St. in Greenpoint. No G train this weekend, so take the L to Bedford and walk about 10 mins., $10 and includes munchies

9/9, 3 PM koto visionary Yumi Kurosawa at the Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd,, Long Island City,  N to Broadway and about a 15-block walk, free w/museum adm

9/9, 5 PM irrepressibly charismatic oldtimey trombonist/uke player J. Walter Hawkes and band followed by Fuck You Tammy playing amazingly spot-on recreations of themes from Twin Peaks and David Lynch films at LIC Bar

9/9, 7 PM darkly brilliant, psychedelic Klezmatics multi-reedman Matt Darriau’s Paradox Trio followed at 9:30ish by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes. The twinbill repeats here on 9/30

9/9, 7 PM  dueling bass and treble clarinets: Josh Sinton and Guillermo Gregorio at Downtown Music Gallery

9/9, 10:30 PM Dreamdecay – who do as decently noisy a ripoff of late 70s PiL as well as anybody – at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10 adv tix avail at the Poisson Rouge box ofc 

9/9, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with trombonist David Gibson and his quintet at Smalls

9/10, 7 PM rustic, acerbic front-porch folk singer Jo Williamson at LIC Bar

9/10, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads leads a great quartet with Terrell Stafford on trumpet at 55 Bar

9/10, 7:30 PM the 12-piece, Eddie Palmieri-influenced Zaccai Curtis Orkesta at Dizzy’s Club, $35 but could be worth it

9/10, 8:30 PM bassist Jeom Lin Yang leads a killer trio with Oscar Noriega on alto, Jacob Sacks on piano and Gerald Cleaver on drums at Bar Lunatico

9/10, 9:30ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

9/11, 7 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai ’s haunting Tokala Silk Road/klezmer mashup project  followed byclever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes

9/11, 7 PM Mark Peskanov, violin; David Bottoms, piano; Rita Sloan, piano;play works by Bach, Barber, Beethoven, Brahms, Bottoms, Chopin and Coplandat Bargemusic, free, get there early

9/11, 7 PM a roundtable discussion to open the National Jazz Museum in Harlem’s new Machito and Mario Bauza exhibit plus a performance by Cuban pianist Emilio Morales, sug don 

9/11, 7:30 PM night one of this year’s Resonant Bodies Festival of avant garde vocals features Thingny’s Paul Pinto, the operatic Helga Davis and indie classical singer Lucy Dhegrae at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/11, 7:30 PM incendiary, fearlessly political Vietnamese chanteuse/freedom fighter Mai Khoi and the Dissidents plus poet Paul Tran, winner of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix req

9/11, 8 PM guy/girl duo Yael & Gabriel sing intimate versions of Edith Piaf classics at Highline Ballroom, $15 adv tix rec

9/11, 8 PM inscrutable, tropically-tinged psychedelic singer/bandleader Renata Zeigeur at Union Pool, $12

9/11, 8 PM oldschool-styhle Cuban mambo jazz with Orquesta Akokán  at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

9/11, 8 PM Jesse Neuman leads a three-trumpet frontline with Ingrid Jensen and Nadje Nordhuis with Jeff Davis on drums – wow – followed at 10 by Westerlies trumpeter Riley Mulherkar with guitarist Rafiq Bhatia and pianist Chris Pattishall at the upstairs room at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St, Gowanus, $10

9/11-15, 8:30 PM adventurously lyrical pianist Matt Mitchell plays with a variety of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 9/12 show with Miranda Cuckson (violin) Mariel Roberts (cello)

9/11, 8:30 PM hard-charging oldschool soul/funk/rock singer Bette Smith and band at Bar Lunatico 

9/11, 9 PM wickedly torchy noir songwriter Julia Haltigan and her killer band at 11th St Bar

9/11, 10 PM eclectically tuneful, spectacularly fast, Leo Kottke-esque acoustic guitar instrumentals with Dougmore at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10

9/11, 10 PM terse purist postbop trumpeter Alex Sipiagin leads a quiintet at 55 Bar

9/11, 9:30 PM the Bronx Conexion play their mighty salsa big band jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

9/12, 1 PM violist Jordan Bak and ensemble play works by Piazzolla, Telemann and Brahms at the Greene Space, free, res req 

9/12, 5:30 PM night five of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Julie Winterbottom (Cajun Music from Louisiana), Javier Sánchez (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Sadys Rodrigo Espitia (Colombian Cumbia + Vallenato), Ellen Lindstrom “The Swedish Meatball” (Scandinavian Music), Vitor Gonçalves (Brazilian Choro + Forró), Shoko Nagai (Japanese + Jewish), Maestro (Electronic Balkan Music), Papa Joe De Clemente (Italian + American Standards), Will Holshouser (Jazz + Folk), Ismail Butera (Ancient Mediterranean), Ryan O’Donnell + Friends (Ukrainian), and Guillermo Vaisman (Coastal Argentine Chamamé).

9/12, 6 PM oudist Tom Chess with tabla player Roshni Samlal at the  Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

9/12, 6:30 PM the Circle Wind Chamber Orchestra with Spanish choir Escolonia de Tomares plus taiko drummers play in memory of Fukushima and 3/11 with works by Bach, Bernstein, Saburo Takta and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $10

9/12, 7:30 PM night two of this year’s Resonant Bodies Festival of avant garde vocals features hauntingly atmospheric pan-Asian chanteuse/composer Jen Shyu, star indie classical composer/singer Caroline Shaw and flutist/singer Nathalie Joachim at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/12, 7 PM pianist Katie Reimer’s reliably adventurous Mimesis Ensemble play an immigration and displacement-themed program of works including Dave Schnackenberg’s Lakota setting of the Lord’s Prayer, a Moses Hogan arrangement of the African American Spiritual, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, excerpts from Huang Ruo’s opera, An American Soldier, Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 “American,” Astor Piazzolla’s Oblivion, excerpts from Edith Alomar and Jorge Lockward’s cantata Manos Indocumentadas, and Kinan Azmeh’s The Fence, The Rooftop, and The Distant Sea, at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25/$12 stud/srs

9/12, 7:30/9:30 carnatic string power couple Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy lead their amazing Indian/jazz string band Nakshatra with cellist Marika Hughes and bassist Rashaan Carter at the Jazz Gallery, $25

9/12, 8 PM trumpet-drums duo Anteloper – Jaimie Branch and Jason Nazary  – followed by Branch’s aptly named twelve-piece Wing Walker Orchestra at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass St, Gowanus, $10

9/12, 10 PM rising star trumpeter Adam O’Farrill‘s Stranger Days Quartet at 55 Bar

9/13, 5 PM charmingly torchy vocal trio the Ladybugs – who put a twistedly original spin on old Disney movie themes –  on Broadway betw 42/43

9/13, 7 PM lyrical, spectacular organist Renée Anne Louprette plays the 1868 Henry Erben organ in the loft at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, 260 Mulberry St. 

9/13, 7 PM bassist Michael Formanek’s Very Practical Trio with Tim Berne on sax and Mary Halvorson on guitar followed by Patricia Brennan solo on vibraphone at Spectrum, $15

9/13, 7:30 PM night three of this year’s Resonant Bodies Festival of avant garde vocals features opera fugitive Sarah Maria Sun backed by International Contemporary Ensemble, irrepressible downtown NYC stalwart Pamela Z and the amazingly mutable Gelsey Bell at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/13, 7:30 PM fiery Guatemalan freedom fighter and cumbia/reggae/Spanish rock bandleader Doctor Nativo at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/13, 7:30 PM furiously political, funny reggae/hip-hop band Tropidelic at South House in Jersey City, free 

9/13-16, 7:30/9:30 PM timeless bassist Rufus Reid leads a quartet with Yosvany Terry on alto at the Jazz Standard, $30

9/13, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies at Barbes

9/13, 8 PM slinky, brassy, retro 60s latin soul group Alba & the Mighty Lions plus soul bandleader Ben Pirani playing the album release show for his similarly purist, wickedly catchy classic-style soul debut album at C’Mon Everybody, $10

9/13, 8:30 PM the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico.  at Bar Lunatico

9/13-14, 9 PM ferociously tuneful tenor saxophonist/composer Donny McCaslin and band at Rough Trade, $25 gen adm

9/13, 9ish singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure and cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega  at the Owl

9/13, 10 PM Okkervil River at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, $25 gen adm. Lazy beardos or woozily fun post-Americana? you decide.

9/14, 4 PM Afro-Dominican dance sounds with Yasser Tejeda & Palotré at Ruppert Park, Second Ave. at 90 St.

9/14, 5 PM the grand finale of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival with full sets by Shashmaqam (hauntin Bukharan Jewish music and and Central Asian dance), João Cirilo Pilom Batuko Band (Batuko and Funaná from Cape Verde), a lame Patti Smith wannabe on harmonium, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (sizzling Pugliese folk dances), and Rimel (Norteño music from Mexico).

9/14. 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter and her band at 55 Bar

9/14, 7 PM the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band play their new reinventions of Leonad Bernstein West Side Story themes at Marcus Garvey Park

9/14-15, 7:30 PM terse, purposeful rising star postbop saxophonist Melissa Aldana leads a quartet at Smalls

9/14-15, 7.9:30 PM bluegrass national champions the Mark O’Connor Family Band with gospel singer Lizz Wright and guitarist Alvin Youngblood Hart at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, $22 tix avail

9/14, 7:30 PM the Mannes Orchestra play Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, free

9/14, 8 PM twisted, carnivalesque acoustic steampunk duo the Wedding Funeral and creepy noir chamber pop/murder ballad duo Charming Disaster at Bobby Dee’s, 49 Beacon Ave, Jersey City, about a 20 minute walk from the Journal Sq. Path station, $10 

9/14, 8 PM Penelope Houston‘s legendary, still-relevant first-wave punk band the Avengers at El Cortez, $20

9/14, 8 PM eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts followed at 10 by accordionist/sitarist Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood/cumbia/psychedelic rock project Bombay Rickey at Barbes

9/14, 8 PM lavish but feral Peruvian brass music with La Patronal at Flushing Town Hall

9/14, 8ish the City & Horses – who mix ethereal goth-tinged ballads, funky new wave and janglepop, and need a new singer – at Gold Sounds, $8

9/14, 8 PM Glass Farm Ensemble play works by Denis Schuler, Rico Gubler, and two Adagios: by Alban Berg and Stefano Gervasoni at Scholes St. Studio, $10

9/14, 8 PM recently revitalized, careening ten-piece Balkan brass crew Veveritse at Silvana

9/14, 9:30 PM eclectic, Balkan/latin/funk brass band the Underground Horns celebrate 10 years in business at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

9/15, 1 PM the Inner Mongolia Performing Arts Troupe at Flushing Town Hall, $10. Followed at 3 (separate $10 adm) by a killer twinbill withbassist Mark Wade leads his lyrical, cinematic piano trio plus the even more cinematic Yui Kitamura

9/15, 3:30 PM  the World Premiere of Neil Padukone’s surreal, colorful Indian/Puerto Rican mashup Salsa Masala: A Jackson Heights Block Party outdoors at 82nd St. and Roosevelt Ave in Elmhurst, 7 to Roosevelt Ave and about a 5 minute walk

9/15, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by  the Toomai String Quintet playing “a range of Cuban styles, paying homage to the great artistic lineage of Ernesto Lecuona, Israel “Cachao” Lopez, Beny Moré, and Celia Cruz,” then at 8 byeclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leading his Tango Quartet and at 10 by Super Yamba playing their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Barbes

9/15, 6 PM dark, intense, psychedelic guitarist/songwriter Anna Coogan at the small room at the Rockwood

9/15, 7 PM killer multi-generaitional punk triplebill: ferocious Spanish-language punks Escasos Recursos, similarly political, smart political hardcore band All Torn Up and first-wave punk-reggae band the Subhumans at the Knitting Factory, $20

9/15, 7:15ish dark psychedelic acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues. They’re also here on 9/29

9/15, 7 PM night two of this year’s Dissident Arts Festival, a benefit for the Alliance of Families for Justice and the NYC Jericho Movement, who advocate for the unjustly incarcerated and call for urgent prison reform. The evening opens with a solo performance by drummer William Hooker, followed by pianist/composer Trudy Silver, reedman Ras Moshe’s Music Now!, the Flames of Discontent duo of Festival director John Pietaro and Laurie Towers and Balkan jazz guitarist Martina Fiserova at 5C Café & Cultural Center, E. 5 Street/ Ave C, $15 

9/15, 8 PM popular, anthemic dark folk/chamber pop songwriter Agnes Obel at Warsaw, $20

9/15, 8 PM organist Jan Michalko kicks off Barnard’s academic year with works bySlovak composers Ilja Zeljenka and L’udovít Rajter at James Chapel, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway at 122nd St., free

9/15, 8 PM haunting flamenco/Sicilian folk chanteuse Julia Patinella, eclectic, tuneful accordionist/songwriter Ali Dineen &the amazing Miriam Elhajli – who switches effortlessly from Venezuelan-influenced folk to classic Appalachian sounds at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away.” The trio are also at the Owl at 8 on 9/27

9/15, 8 PM American Primitive guitar pioneer Don Bikoff solo plus Two Mule Team – guitarist Sue Garner and 75 Dollar Bill drummer Rick Brown with no wave guitar legend Willie Klein of Escape by Ostrich – at Wonders of Nature, $10

9/15, 8:30 PM exhilarating, edgy, sardonic alto saxophonist Elijah Shiffer leads a similarly colorful ensemble at Freddy’s

9/15, 8:30 PM wryly tuneful, purist Americana/C&W band Grain Thief at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10

9/15, 9ish catchy, edgy, darkly kinetic female-fronted Romany-tinged rock band the Trouble with Kittens at the Cobra Club, $tab

9/15, 9 PM ominously jangly Laurel Canyon psychedelic band the Mystic Braves at Rough Trade, $15 gen adm

9/15, 9 PM guitarist Luke Schwartz‘s Quiet City Ensemble and string adventurers Cory Bracken, Mariel Roberts, Sarah Dutcher at Arete Gallery, $10

9/16, 3 PM pianist Clare Longendyke plays work by Ravel, Vivian Fung and Amy Williams at Spectrum, $15

9/16, 3 PM harpist Melanie Genin leads a trio playing works by Debussy, Sebastian Currier and Saad Haddad at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

9/16, 4 PM irrepressibly eclectic organist Christopher Houlihan plays works by Bach, Vierne, Howells and others at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, 89 Ridge Street, Newark, $15 sug don

9/16, 7 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret group Hannah vs. the Many – NYC’s best power trio –at the small room at the Rockwood. This sedate little spot will never know what hit them.

9/16, 7 PM innovative, tuneful Indian-influenced drone-raga band Arranged Marriage NP followed at 9:30ish by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

9/16, 7 PM feral Italian tarantella string band Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino at Joe’s Pub, $20

9/16, 7:30 PM  erudite, purist torchy cosmopolitan jazz chanteuse Svetlana Shmulyian at Minton’s with saxophonist Chris McBride’s group

9/16, 8 PM jazz flutist Jamie Baum and her Septet play the album release show for their new one, Bridges at Roulette, $18 adv tix rec

9/16, 8 PM haunting, gothic doom trio Witchkiss, riff-driven Shadow Witch and doomy fuzztone stoners Destroyer of Light at Lucky 13 Saloon  

9/17, 9 PM darkly captivating Canadian singer Terra Lightfoot and band at the Knitting Factory, $12 adv tix rec

9/16, 9 PM edgy chamber jazz singer Becca Stevens and perennial post-jazz (is that a genre?) faves Kneebody at the Poisson Rouge, $18 adv tix rec

9/17, 7:30 PM the Jasper Quartet play works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Caroline Shaw and Missy Mazzoli at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free

9/17, 8 PM astonishingly prolific and acerbic guitarist Mary​ ​Halvorson does marathon duty in a twinbill with Bill Frisell and then with Robbie Lee at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

9/17, 9:30 PM Parrada Vallenata with brilliant Venezuelan Harold Rodriguez on accordion/lead vocals, Nes Gomez on caja/vocals, Sebastian Lopez on bass/vocals and JP Gomez on guacharaca/vocals at Barbes

9/17, 8 PM Red Desert play works by Lucier, Wolff, Oliveros, plus singer Charmaine Lee and Ben Bennett at the Fridman Gallery, $20

9/17, 11 PM pensive reedman Arnan Raz with his quintet at the small room at the Rockwood

9/18, 7 PM violinist Sabina Torosjan, clarinetist Thomas Piercy, and pianist Marija Ilic play works by Ivan Božičević, Gilbert Galindo, Katherine Hoover, Frances White, and Chinese composer Mao Zhu at Arete Gallery, $15

 9/18, 7:30 PM haunting, cinematic, Middle Eastern-inspired bass clarinetist Todd Marcus leads a quintet with guitarist Paul Bollenback, pianist Bruce Barth, bassist Kris Funn, and drummer Eric Kennedy at Dizzy’s Club, $30

9/18, 9 PM singer Duckie Simpson’s version of roots reggae legends Black Uhuru at Highline Ballroom, $25 adv tix recs

9/18, 10:30 PM brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, $10

9/19, 2 PM flutist Jiro Yoshioka and pianist Sakuya Okayasu play a 9/11 memorial concert with works by Debussy, Faure, Boulanger and others at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, free tix avail at the box ofc

9/19, 6 PM sitarist K.G. West with percussionists Mir Naqibul Islam, and Amanda Welch at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

9/19, 7:30/9:30 PM violist Melanie Dyer’s WeFreeStrings perform “original works and arrangements that embody the ethos of free jazz and the Afro-Atlantic music lexicon” at the Jazz Gallery, $15

9/19, 7:30 PM the High Zero anniversary concerts at Roulette commemorate a legendary/obscure Baltimore improvisational music spot with a 24-piece cast including Lea Bertucci (bass clarinet, alto sax, electronics), Amritha Kidambi (voice), Ikue Mori (electronics) and many, many others, $18 adv tix rec

9/19, 8 PM a good Americana songstress twinbill: the more hardcore countryish Michaela Anne followed by Courtney Marie Andrews at Rough Trade, $15 gen adm

9/19, 8/9:30 PM a rare duo with Sam Newsome on soprano sax with Angelica Sanchez on piano at Mezzrow, $20

9/19, 8 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss  hosts the latest edition of the Bushwick Book Club celebrating a minor 80s pop autobio with performers also including Charlie Nieland of Lusterlit and Jim Andralis at Barbes

9/19, 10 PM Rainer Maria bassist and lustrous dreampop singer Caithlin de Marrais at the Mercury, $10 adv tix rec

9/20, 5 PM purist trumpeter Drew Anderson leads his quartet on Broadway betw 42/43

9/20, 7 PM fiery jazz violinist/composer Zach Brock leads a rare trio date at 55 Bar

9/20, 7:30 a panel discussion on the devastation of gentrification featuring Vanishing New York’s Jeremiah Moss, plus Ensemble Connect play music by Julius Eastman, Tui St. George Tucker and others at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/20, 7:30 PM a lecture-recital by pianist Reed Tetzloff on Charles Ives and his Concord Sonatas at Stiefel Concert Hall, Arnold Hall, 55 West 13th St at the New School, free

9/20, 8 PM folk metal band Tengger Cavalry reinvent Mongolian themes at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $30 tix avail. You read that right: folk metal.

9/20, 8 PM wild female-fronted Russian turbo-folk jammers Romashka at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

9/20, 8 PM playfully Lynchian, cinematic keyboardist Frank LoCrasto and Fort Gorgeous at C’Mon Everybody, $10

9/20, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co at Mable’s Smokehouse, 44 Berry St at N 11th St in Williamsburg. They’re also at Otto’s at 8 on 9/27

9/20, 8 PM the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra reinvent music by Chopin, Part and Tschaikovsky at Stern auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25 tix avail

 9/20, 8 PM lustrously dark jazz pianist Guy Mintus leads his trio with the breathtakingly powerful Roopa Mahadevan on guest vocals at the Owl

9/20, 8 PM singer Ka Baird, multimedia artist Tamar Ettun and koto adventurer Miya Masaoka at the Fridman Gallery, $20

9/20, 10 PM Slavic Soul Party spinoff the Mountain Lions, who play hypnotic Turkish zurla music on saxes and drums, at Barbes

9/20 Red Baraat guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, Hearing Things organist JP Schlegelmilch and Alasnoaxis drummer Jim Black bought a vintage Yamaha organ and play the release show for their killer, psychedelic new trio album Visitors at Nublu 151

9/21, 7 PM sardonically lyrical chamber pop/pastoral jazz songwriter David Poe at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15

9/21, 7:30 PM trumpeter Charlie Sepulveda & the Turnaround play salsa dura at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

9/21-22, 7:30/9:30 PM edgy vibraphonist Joel Ross with Maria Grand – sax; Kanoa Mendenhall – bass; Jeremy Dutton – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $25

9/21, 8 PM sizzling oudist Mohamed Abozekry and Karade play haunting, serpentine Egyptian music from across the centuries at Roulette, $25/$20 stud/srs

9/21, 8 PM bassist Danton Boller leads a trio; drummer Jim Black, cellist Hank Roberts & saxophonist Elias Stemeseder jam at the Owl

9/21, 8 PM thunderous Brazilian drum ensembles MaracatuNY, BatalaNYC and slinky maracatu/New Orleans/surf rock mashups from Nation Beat at SOB’s, $20

9/21, 8 PM edgy, eclectic pan-Mediterranean art-rock/latin/chanson ensemble Banda Magda at Flushing Town Hall, $16/$10 srs/teens free

9/21, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly at Barbes

9/21, 8:30 PM torchy singer Jennifer Charles’ and guitar mastermind Oren Bloedow’s long-running art-rock/noir band Elysian Fields play the album release show for their new one at Nublu 151, $15 adv tix avail at the Poisson Rouge box ofc

9/21, 8:30 PM haunting French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares’ Ayojo at Bar Lunatico

9/21, 10 PM Revolutionary Council play Afrobeat at Shrine

9/21, 10:30 PM Camille Thurman – a double threat as nuanced singer and intense tenor saxophonist – and her group at the Fat Cat. Who knew

9/21, 10:30 PM a rare full-band show by elegant, sharply lyrical parlor pop stylist Heather Eatman at Freddy’s

9/21, 11 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie  – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir – at Sidewalk

9/22, 2 PM this year’s edition of the Brooklyn Americana Festival opens with preteen string band sensation Nora Brown, at 2:30 Sabine McCalla; 3:00 PM Giri and Uma Peters; 3:30 PM the mighty M Shanghai String Band; 4:30 PM Clarence Bucaro; 5:00 PM irrepressibly fun blues/swing pals Mamie Minch and Tamar Korn; 6:00 PM two thirds of the Be Good Tanuas Jolie Holland and Samantha Parton and at 7:00 PM City Billies at Pier 3 Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park

9/22, 6 PM Toomai String Quintet play all kinds of adventurous, global classical repertoire followed at 8 by boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band  – not as ridiculous as segue as it might seem since they all have a thing for latin music – and then at 10 by catchy, slinky, psychedelic tropicalia and cumbia band Yotoco at Barbes

9/22, 7 PM pianist Elizabeth A. Baker plays the album release show for her new one Quadrivium: “minimalist solo piano compositions, avant garde prepared piano improvisations, meditative tracks, spoken word, and electronics” at Arete Gallery, $15

9/22, 7 PM torchy German cabaret chanteuse Katharine Mehrling sings rare Piaf and Weimar songs at Joe’s Pub, $20 

9/22, 7 PM Darash, from Granada, Spain, play Andalucian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean sounds at Silvana 

9/22, 7:30 PM Indian carnatic crooner Sanjoy Banerjee backed by tabla and harmonium at Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

9/22, 7:30 PM two-piano team Allison Brewster Franzetti and Carlos Franzetti play a program TBA at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/srs

9/22, 8 PM eclectic Americana guitarist/singer Kirsten Maxwell at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away” 

9/22, 8:30 PMslinky psychedelic Americana rockers American String Conspiracy  acoustic followed by hard honkytonk with Sarah Durning at Freddy’s

9/22, 8 PM musique concrete composer MV Carbon, mesmerizing sound sculptor/singer Lesley Flanigan  and Michael Schumacher at the Fridman Gallery, $20

9/23, 2 PM this year’s edition of the Brooklyn Americana Festival continues with Rosetta and Evelyn followed by short sets: 2:30 PM noir Americana with accordion from Ali Dineen and Feral Foster; 3:00 PM all-female Americana allstars the Maybelles; 4:00 PM bluesman Will Scott w/ Charlie Burnham; 5:00 PM Jefferson Hamer; 6:00 PM The Wild Goats; 7:00 PM sophisticated soul/Americana band the Woes at Pier 3 Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park

9/23, 2 PM intense, lyrical, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Roxy Coss leads her quintet at Flushing Town Hall, $5

9/23, 5 PM Musica Viva NY​ ​kicks off its 2018-19 season with romantic lieder by Brahms, Schumann, and P.D.Q. Bach – uh huh -​ at All Souls Church​, 1157 Lexington Ave (at 80th St) feat. soprano Devony Smith, mezzo-soprano Michèle Eaton, tenor Nathan Siler, and baritone Brian Mextorf, accompanied by Artistic Director Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez and Trent Johnson, free

9/23, 7 PM hauntingly lyrical art-rock songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Joanna Wallfisch at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10

9/23, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist and Thelonious Monk reinventor Mike Neer and quartet followed at 9:30ish by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

9/23-29, 8 PMish amazing microtonal Afrobeat guitar band 75 Dollar Bill plays a week at Troost with a ton of cool special guests. Choice picks: 9/25 they’re joined by Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan; 9/26 their hypnotic microtonal guitarist Che Chen opens with a solo set followed by no wavers Two Mule Team; 9/28 they open the night followed by singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio; 9/29 bass goddess Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith open the night

9/23, 10:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads leads a quartet at Smalls 

9/24, 7:30/9:30 PM erudite, reliably tuneful postbop pianist Orrin Evans leads the mighty, purist, bluesily tuneful Captain Black Big Band at Dizzy’s Club, $35

9/24, 7 PM a rare NYC appearance by dark Norwegian bassist SIgurd Hole: a solo set followed by a trio show with Mark Feldman – violin; Jarle Vespestad – drums at Shapeshifter Lab, $15

9/24, 8 PM pianist Jasna Popovic leads a seventeen-piece ensemble (including Indian soul singer Shilpa Ananth) playing 700 years’ worth of Serbian music at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $35 tix avail.

9/24, 8:30 PM brilliant multi-reedman Peter Hess leads a rare trio date with Matt Moran on vibes and Jeff Davis on drums at Bar Lunatico

9/25, 7 PM unstoppably edgy, deservedly iconic, witty downtown guitarist Marc Ribot leads his fearless Songs of Resistance protest jazz project at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, sug son

9/25, 7:30 PM flamenco singer Barbara Martinez and band at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

9/25, 7:30 PM if there’s any night this year to make a whole evening of jazz, this is it: fiery alto saxophonist Lucas Pino’s twin-guitar No No Nonet followed by this era’s most intensely powerful tenor saxophonist/composer, JD Allen leading his group at Smalls

9/25, 7:30 PM pianists Huan Li and Zhu Wang play a program TBA at Paul Hall at Juilliard, free

9/25, 8 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at Shrine

9/25, 8 PM Moroccan electro dude Hatim Belyamani, Russian Romany multimedia artist Valentina Kvasova and Vitche Boul-Ra at the Fridman Gallery, $20

9/25, 8 PMr oaring 20s hot jazz with Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers at Radegast Hall

9/25, 8:30 PM impressively diverse, adventurous latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz at Bar Lunatico

9/25-29, 8:30 PM thereminist Pamelia Stickney  plays with a variety of ensembles at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 9/29 show by Transcendental Dissonance Quartet doing a  “Soundtrack to a Silent Film” with Sarah Bernstein (violin) Stuart Popejoy (piano, keys) Danny Tunick (vibraphone)

9/25, 9 PM wryly psychedelic cinematic Italophile instrumentalists Tredici Bacci  play the album release show for their new one at Elsewhere, $12

9/25, 9:30 PM hypnotic, pulsing, sousaphone-driven Guadelupian/New Orleans band Delgres at Joe’s Pub, $20

9/25, 11:30 River Cult play their ferocious, feral, cinematically psychedelic doom metal/postrock at St. Vitus, $10

9/26, 7 PM fascinatingly lyrical, individualistic pianist Sylvie Courvoisier at National Sawdust, $25

9/26, 7:30 PM pianist Niklas Sivelov plays  music by Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin and Bartok at Flushing Town Hall, free

9/26, 7:30 PM an allstar Taiwanese/Japanese orchestra play works by composers from their respective countries plus Chausson’s Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet at Merkin Concert Hall, $20 tix avail

9/26, 8 PM fiery, noirish Canadian Balkan/Romany band Lemon Bucket Orkestra at Drom, , $15 adv tix rec

9/26, 8 PM Junkbucket – an unorthodox allstar organ trio featuring Art Bailey (organ), Chris Stromquist (drums), Sean Moran (gtr).at Barbes

9/26, 8 PM the Mivos Quartet premieres Leila Bordreuil’s synesthetically-themed new work, Episodes et Mutations at Issue Project Room

9/26, 8 PM lyrical pianist Angelica Sanchez  leads a mighty nine-piece band with Thomas Heberer (trumpet), Kirk Knuffke (cornet), Chris Speed (tenor saxophone), Michael Attias (alto saxophone), Ben Goldberg (clarinets), Omar Tamez (guitar), John Hebert (bass), Sam Ospovat (drums) at Greenwich House Music School, $25/$20 stud/srs

9/26, 9:30ish explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at Hanks

9/27, 5:30 PM erudite, purist torchy cosmopolitan jazz chanteuse Svetlana & the Delancey 5 at Birdland They’re also at the Jazz Standard at noon on 9/30 for brunch

9/27, 7 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides followed by afropop singer Angelique Kidjo doing her reinvention of the Talking Heads’ Remain in Light at Central Park Summerstage

9/27, 7:30 PM the debut of paradigm-shifting carnatic jazz alto saxophonist Aakash Mittal’s big band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised. Anthony Braxton, you’ve got competition!

9/27, 8 PM art-rocker Pierre de Gaillande’s Bad Reputation playing witty chamber pop English translations of Georges Brassens classics followed at 10 by followed by the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz  – who do psychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha – at Barbes

9/27, 8 PM conversational pianist Jeffrey Siegel performs works by Rachmaninoff and Debussy “including the famous Clair de Lune, the Prelude in C Sharp Minor, the popular 18th Variation from the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, the humorous Golliwogg’s Cake Walk,” at Scandinavia House, $25

9/27, 8 PM Miya Masaoka‘s Four Moons of Pluto— which explores deep and relational resonances – performed by all-star cohort of 5 bass players: Robert Black, Shayna Dulberger, Rebekah Griffin-Greene, James Ilgenfritz, and Zach Rowden. Masaoka also presents a new piece for string quartet, with a quartet featuring Stephanie Griffin (viola), Alex Shiozaki (violin), and Michael Haas (cello) followed by Reidemeister Move (Robin Hayward – microtonal tuba; Christopher Williams – contrabass) performing Arcanum 17: a 45-minute piece composed by Christopher Williams & Charlie Morrow, with texts from André Breton’s book of the same name, at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

9/27, 8 PM Roya – a Habibi spinoff – and careeningly noisy guitar jamband faves Jeff the Brotherhood at Elsewhere, $17

9/27, 8:15 PM the irrepressible, cinematic, comedic Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet with special guest Wade Ridenhour at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

9/27, 8:30 PM jangly, catchy, anthemic Americana rock bandleader Christian Lopez – like a less attitudinous, less covers-focused Deer Tick – at the big room at the Rockwood, $10 

9/27, 8:30 PM dark Americana swing cult favorite Jolie Holland at Bar Lunatico

9/28, 7 PM day one of Futurefest at the Jazz Gallery: singer Kat Lee’s enigmatically anthemic abstract rock band TINY GUN, trombonist Abdulrahman Amer’s classically-inspired BA AKHU quartet, and at 10 PM Blake Opper’s Questionable Solution nonet, “one logistical dumpster fire that you do not want to miss,” $25

9/28, 7 PM Indian carnatic violin duo the Mysore Brothers backed by an “explosive rhythm section” at the Rubin Museum of Art, $28 adv tix rec

9/28, 7:45 PM flamenco guitar luminary Javier Limon leads his quartet playing his Middle Eastern and Romany songs at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

9/27, 8 PM the NYUO2 orchestra play Debussy: Petite Suite; Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22; Haydn: Symphony No. 100 in G major, “Military” at the NYU Loewe Theatre, 25 W 4th St., free

9/28-29, 8/9:30 PM intense pianist Gerald Clayton solo at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

9/28, 8 PM the NYUO1 orchestra play Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 at the NYU Loewe Theatre, 25 W 4th St., free 

9/28, 10 PM the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy – whose forthcoming album goes deep into dub as well as sardonic groove instrumentals – at Barbes

9/29, 5 PM retro swing with the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra at Marcus Garvey Park

9/29, 6 PM the Toomai String Quintet with special guests Matt Moran & Peter Stan of Slavic Soul Party on horns – wow, Latin/Slavic madness -at Barbes

9/29, 7 PM day two of Futurefest at the Jazz Gallery:rising star trumpeter Adam O’Farrill and guitarist Gabe Schnider duel it out followed by obscure Japanese jazz unit Secret Mall and then at 10 by vibraphonist Sasha Berliner leading a quartet, $25

9/29 7:30 PM hilarious, politically astute girlpunks the 50 Ft. Furies, hard-hitting, gutter bluesy piano/guitar/drums band Drum and a Tantrum at 8:15, eclectic reggae/troopical psychedelia maven Alex Tea at 9, Desir Decir – who put more of a powerpop/Guided By Voices edge on Springsteen four-on-the-floor rock – at 9:45, feral psychedelic guitarslinger Debra Devi at 10:30 and catchy, swirling twin-guitar dreampop band Overlake at White Eagle Hall in Jersey City, $15         

9/29, 7:30 PM fiery, eclectic Egyptian chanteuse/bandleader Dina El Wedidi at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, $20

9/29, 8 PM an amazing twinbill at the People’s Voice Cafe: the Elias Ladino Ensemble and cantor emerita Mara Goodman leading a high-energy string band playing classic and obscure Yiddish songs, sugg don $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away” 

9/29, 8 PM energetic, perennially relevant, boisterously amusing acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho  at Guadalupe Inn

9/29, 8 PM a mesmerizing, unorthodox lineup of  sitar, shehnai (Indian oboe) and tabla – Mita Nag, Hassan Haider and Subhen Chatterjee at Roulette, $30

9/29, 8:30 PM epically prolific, fearless, monumentally tuneful pianist Satoko Fujii leads a trio at I-Beam, $15

 9/29, 9 PM a killer female-fronted triplebill in a weird spot:hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘s hot Afrobeat-tinged funk grooves , psychedelic Brazilian tropicalia band As Lolas and wild, noisy, genuinely Hendrixian virtuoso lead guitarist Viva DeConcini and her band at the Way Station 

9/29 lush, dynamically eclectic Korean folk/art-rock band Coreyah mash up lustrous, often plaintive themes with hard-charging hip-hop and dance tunes, plus fiery Guatemalan freedom fighter and cumbia/reggae/Spanish rock bandleader Doctor Nativo at the Chile Pepper Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, time/price tba

9/30, 3 PM flutist Maarika Järvi, violinist Caterina Szepes, and pianist Aurelia Mika Chang perform works by J.S. Bach, Gaubert, Tchaikovsky, Massenet, Shostakovich and Martinu, reception to follow at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown, free

9/30, 4 PM charismatic singer/actor/six-string harpist Benjamin Bagby performs his high-voltage recreation of Beowulf at Corpus Christi Church, 529 W 121St St $10 tix avail  

9/30, 7 PM lustrous singer and badass cello-rock bandleader Serena Jost at the Owl

9/30, 7 PM tango violinist Machiko Ozawa with Argentine pianist Pablo Cafici at Bar Thalia

 9/30, 8:30 PM veteran electric Chicago blues guitarist Joe Louis Walker at City Winery, $20 standing room avail

10/3, 10 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kinetic NY Gypsy All-Stars at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

10/4, 6:30 PM saxophonist Evan Rapport joins Shashmaqam for an evening of otherworldly, intensely crescendoing Bukharian Jewish epics. “Before the musical celebration begins, enjoy a spread of traditional Bukharian food and drink” at the Eldridge Street Synagogue, $25/$15 stud/srs

10/4, 7:30 PM firebrand Egyptian accordionist/songwriter Youssra El Hawary – best known for her hilarious revolutionary youtube hit Piss on the Wall – at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/5, 7:30 PM a high-voltage Puerto Rican country music dance party: Viento de Agua spinoff La Máquina Insular plays classic and new plenas, followed by all female bomba group Ausuba at the Hostos Community College auditorium, 450 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, $20//$5 stud

10/5, 8 PM irrepressibly devious, lyrically hilarious multi-instrumentalist songwriter Walter Ego – who spans from darkly elegant art-rock to classic Britrock sounds – at Sidewalk

10/5, 10 PM high-voltage Neapolitan tarantella string band Newpoli play the abum release show for their new one at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

10/6, noon a high-voltage Puerto Rican country music dance triplebill: Plena de la R, La Raiz and Bombalya at the Hostos Community College auditorium, 450 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, $20//$5 stud$15/$5 stud

10/6, 7:30 PM Indian carnatic violinist L. Shankar with tabla player Abhijit Banerjee and percussionist Chris Garcia at the Schimmel Center at Pace University on Spruce St. in the financial district, $30 tix avail

10/9, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY at the Miller Theatre, free

10/11, 7:30 PM reedman McCoy Mrubata and pianist Paul Hanmer lead an all South African jazz quintet at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

10/11, the global 25-member cast of the Onebeat socially conscious music collective at  Bronx Museum. 10/12 they’re at the Queens Museum 

10/12, 7:30 PM the best latin jazz guitarist ever to play big league ball, Bernie Williams and His All-Star Band at the Schimmel Center at Pace University $30 adv tix rec

10/13, 2:30ish sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies, long-running, wickedly jangly, tuneful Americana rockers the Sloe Guns in Tompkins Square Park and Giftshop – the missing link between Blondie and the Distillers – at Tompkins Square Park

10/13, 3 PM iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas on the plaza at 300 Ashland Pl next door to BAM, free

10/13, 7 PM night one of this year’s amazing, free Momenta Festival featuring the Momenta Quartet playing works by Anna Clyne, Cristobal Halffter, Villa-Lobos and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 130 at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W 13th St

10/15, 7 PM night two of this year’s amazing Momenta Festival featuring the Momenta Quartet playing oceanic and heartbreak-themed works by their excellent violist Stephanie Griffin plus Carl Bettendorf, Alba Potes, Guy Barash and Wagner at the Americas Society, 680 Park Ave

10/17, 7 PM night three of this year’s amazing, free Momenta Festival featuring the Momenta Quartet playing works by Robert Sierra, Jean Martinon, Ann Southam, Kaija Saariaho and a solo violin piece by Nicola Matteis the Younger at the Americas Society, 680 Park Ave

10/18, 7:30 PM BRIC JazzFest Marathon Night 1 with – in reverse order – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Lakecia Benjamin & SoulSquad, Madison McFerrin, JD Allen, Melanie Charles & Make Jazz Trill Again, and the Yotam Ben-Or Quartet.at Bric Arts, $30 adv tix req

10/18, 8 PM In what may be the first-ever combination of voice, period wind instruments, and saxophones, poet Katie Ford’s The Anchoress – a haunting portrait of a medieval divination tradition – performed by soprano Hyunah Yu;, early music ensemble Piffaro, the Renaissance Band; and the PRISM Sax Quartet at the DiMenna Center, $22

10/19, 7 PM concluding night  of this year’s amazing, free Momenta Festival featuring the Momenta Quartet playing Bartok’s sinister String Quartet No. 4, Alvin Singleton’s Glory Bound and George Enescu’s Octet for Strings, Op. 7 at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W 13th St

10/19, 7:30 PM BRIC JazzFest Marathon Night 2 with – in reverse order – Cyrus Chestnut Trio, Keyon Harrold, The Jazz Passengers, Xenia Rubinos, Camila Meza, Michael Sarian & The Chabones, and Yasser Tejeda & Palotré.at Bric Arts, $30 adv tix req

10/20, 7:30 PM BRIC JazzFest Marathon Night 3 with – in reverse order – Terence Blanchard ft. the E-Collective, Brownout Presents: Fear of a Brown Planet ft. Third Root (Black Sabbath covers, go figure, they’re great), Deva Mahal, coma-inducing corporate singer Kat Edmonson, Arnetta Johnson & SUNNY, Resident Alien ft. Ali Sethi & Sunny Jain, and Noa Fort at Bric Arts, $30 adv tix req

10/21, 2 PM purist postbop tenor saxophonist Alexa Tarantino and her quartet at Flushing Town Hall, free

10/22, 8:30 PM amazing classical accordionist Hanzhi Wang with he Zorá String Quartet play works by Bach, Gubaidulina, Moszkowski, Piazzolla and Martin Lohse and at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, $10 tix avail

10/28, 5 PM the Merz Trio play piano trios by Mozart, Brahms, Schumann and Charlotte Bray at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave @ W 183rd St, A train or #1 train (to 181st St) or the M4 bus (to 183rd St), $15/$12 stud/srs 

10/31, 10ish thunderous, titanic Rhode Island Balkan street band What Cheer Brigade at the Market Hotel. Ten years in business and this spot finally, finally books a good band

11/6, 7:30 PM the Silesian String Quartet play a rare all-Polish program of works by Szymanowski, Lutosławski, Bacewicz and Penderecki at the Morgan Library, $35

11/10, 1 PM dazzlingly eclectic chamber pop/latin/classical violinist Concetta Abbate and drummer Ben Engel at Flowers for all Occasions, 1114 De Kalb Ave at Broadway, Bushwick, J/M to Kosciuszko St.

11/18, 2 PM terse, tuneful jazz guitarist Amanda Monaco and her quartet at Flushing Town Hall, free

11/20, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, flutist Isabel Lepanto Gleicher and ensemble plays works by Hildegard Von Bingen, David Lang, Rzewski and others at the Miller Theatre, free

12/4, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, perennially interesting piano/percussion ensemble Yarn/Wire play works by Crumb, Saint-Saens and Tschaikovsky at the Miller Theatre, free

12/6, 6 PM klezmer violinist Jake Shulman-Ment with rippllng tsimbl (Ukrainian Jewish dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky at Poe Park in the Bronx.

12/21, 2 PM brilliant baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian‘s LSQ at Flushing Town Hall, free

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for August and September 2018

Daily updates, and a new September calendar coming 9/1 – if you go out a lot, it couldn’t hurt to bookmark this page.

If you’re leaving your hood, make sure you check http://www.mta.info for service changes considering how the trains are at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you found out about here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

Beginning on 8/15, 5:30 PM and continuing on 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, 9/12 and a grand finale on 9/14 a half an hour earlier, this year’s Bryant Park Accordion Festival is as amazing as it was last year. Scroll down for individual show lineups

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included!

Puppeteer Basil Twist’s disorienting, phantasmagorical Symphonie Fantastique, with pianist Christopher O’Riley playing a score by Berlioz, “takes place in the most unlikely of places – a 1,000-gallon water tank, in which five unseen puppeteers swirl countless pieces of fabrics, feathers, fishing lures, flashlights, glitter, dyes, plastic, vinyl and bubbles in all shapes and sizes, creating a dream-like world of imagination and surreal storytelling,” at Here, 145 6th Ave. south of Spring, $35, through July 15, Tuesday–Saturday at 8:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday at 4. Click the link above for dates which continue through 9/2. 

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( Broadway/8th Ave) , 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in September, 10 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

Mondays in August, Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.

Tuesdays in August, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes (check the club calendar). Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.

Wednesdays in August, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Thursdays at 8 in August the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Free classical concerts on Saturdays at 4 PM in August at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in August, 6 PM witty Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester at Barbes. He’s not doing it for the money (he wrote the theme to NPR’s Fresh Air). He’s doing this for fun and you can be part of it. He’s also leading a quartet at Bar Lunatico on 8/26 at 8:30

Saturdays in September, 6 PM the Toomai String Quintet play all kinds of adventurous, global classical repertoire, specializing in fiery Cuban material at Barbes

Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands

Sundays in August, at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back; special guests from his wide circle of NYC Americana acts keep the afternoon going until about 7. It’s just like 1999 again -at least until the bar closes sometime this year.

Sundays in August, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.

8/1, noon hauntingly kinetic Peruvian psychedelic folk band Inti & the Moon at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/1, 5:30 PM trippy tropicalia jamband Locos Por Juana at Bryant Park

8/1, 6 PM an Afro-Cuban dance party with Los Habaneros at Madison Square Park

8/1, 6:30 PM this era’s foremost swing jazz guitarist, Matt Munisteri on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library

8/1, 7 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band  at Church Square Park, Park Ave & 4th St., Hoboken

8/1, 7:30/9:30 PM feral, brilliantly improvisational pianist Mara Rosenbloom‘s FLYWAYS with bassist Adam Lane and singer/percussionist Anais Maviel play work inspired by Adrienne Rich’s vision of love without exploitation at the Jazz Gallery

8/1-2, 7:30/9:30 PM lyrical Cuban pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa leads a trio at the Jazz Standard, $25

8/1, 8 PM a darkly psychedelic twinbill: the witchy Yula & the Extended Family  and the Malian-inspired Sway Machinery at Nublu 151

8/1, 8 PM catchy, restless female-fronted Americana/newgrass anthem band Kaylor Otwell & the Tin Cans at the Bitter End. They’re also at Sidewalk on 8/26 at 8 for free

8/1-5, 8:30/10:30 PM intense pianist Gerald Clayton  leads a quintet with Logan Richardson on sax at the Vanguard, $30

8/1, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new powerpop project the Bastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar

8/2, 5 PM Bahian percussion powerhouse Dende and band followed by iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/2, 7 PM the NYChillharmonic – arguably NYC’s most individualistic large ensemble, with art-rock grandeur, jazz instrumentation and a powerful frontwoman on the mic – at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec. They SLAYED at Littlefield back in May.

8/2, 7 PM the amazingly eclectic, groovalicious Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio– like Booker T & the MG’s on steroids – at Wagner Park on the water northwest of Battery Park

8/2, 7:30 PM intense, lyrical, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Roxy Coss leads her s leads her quintet followed at 10:30 PM by bassist Matt Pavolka’s wry, incisively rhythmic, drummerless Horns Band at Smalls

8/2, 7:30/9:30 PM strange and potentially smoldering improvisations and maybe some hip-hop with Kassa Overall – drums; Vijay Iyer – piano ;Ravi Coltrane – saxophone; Evan Flory-Barnes – bass at the Jazz Gallery, $25

8/2, 7:30 PM three bass-led improvisational situations: Brandon Lopez solo, the Jozwiak/Swanson/Zenkoff Trio and the Jack Wright / Evan Lipson / Weasel Walter Trio at Arete Gallery, $10

8/2, 8 PM Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay followed by Quatre Vingt Neuf (French for 89, a revolutionary date in case you weren’t aware) playing New Orleans brass music at Barbes

8/2, 9 PM noirish crooner/guitarslinger Phil Gammage and his four-piece band at 11th St Bar

8/2, 9 PM popular 90s-style alt-country with Rusty Truck at Hill Country

8/2, 9:30 PM sardonic C&W parody band the Great American Country Drifters at Pine Box Rock Shop

8/2, 10 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his sextet at the Fat Cat

8/3, 5:30 PM dark, carnivalesque oldtimey songwriter Feral Foster and eclectic, tuneful accordionist/songwriter Ali Dineen at the American Folk Art Museum

8/3, 7 PM metal crew Fear Is Dead followed by fearlessly political antiviolence metalpunks Rebelmatic at the Delancey, $10

8/3, 7:30/9:30 PM a first-class big band plays new large-ensemble work by jazz composers Matt Holman, Brian Krock and Anna Webber at the Jazz Gallery, $25

8/3, 8 PM Dromeno play fiery Greek and Balkan dance music at the Jalopy, $10

8/3, 8 PM all-female vocal chamber group Quince Ensemble sing works by Kate Soper, Amy Beth Kirsten, Kaija Saariaho, Giacinto Scelsi, Gilda Lyons, Pascal Dusapin, and more followed by catchy, slinky, psychedelic tropicalia and cumbia band Yotoco at Barbes

8/3, 8 PM darkly lyrical psychedelic pop songwriter Jennifer Hall at the Parkside

8/3-4, 8/10 PM Mike LeDonne takes a relatively rare turn on piano with Peter Washington on bass at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

8/3, 8:30 PM Antibalas spinoff Armo play Afrobeat at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 8/23,

8/3, 8:30 PM the Asian Cultural Symphony of the U.S.A play classical Chinese repertoire at Bryant Park

8/3, 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at Bar Chord

8/3, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

8/4, 3ish 60s-style bossa-influenced psych-pop band the Jay Vons outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/4, 3 PM Brazilian neosoul singer Xenia Franca, the Hamilton de Holandamandolin Trio and trippy dub band Baiana System at Central Park Summerstage

8/4, 6 PM witty Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester followed 8 by pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri playing their creepy Transylvanian jazz and then at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

8/4, 7ish Bobby Radcliff – the rare blues guitarist who plays a ton of notes but doesn’t waste them, sort of a funkier Stevie Ray Vaughan – with his trio at Terra Blues

8/4, 7:30 PM messy lo-fi psychedelic band Garcia Peoples followed eventually at around 9:30 by darkly intense art-rock duo Christy & Emily at Wonders of Nature

8/4, 8 PM three loud metal-influenced bands open for female-fronted new wavers: instrumental sludgecore band Apollo’s Ghost, serpentine, cinematic art-rock instrumentalists You Bred Raptors, metalpunks the US Americans and the New Tarot at Bowery Ballroom, $12 adv tix avail at the Mercury 

8/4, 8 PM Lone Piñon and Tepeyolotli play New Mexican border folk sounds at the Jalopy, $10

8/4, 8 PM klezmer-jazz piano icon Anthony Coleman with Nick Dunston on bass at Scholes St. Studios

8/4, 8:30 PM popular Jamaican dancehall crooner Tarrus Riley at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/4, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 PM with surfed-up tv themes from Commercial Interruption, at 10 gloomy surfed-up Russian prison songs with the Vivisectors, at 11 majestic, darkly cinematic surf band the TarantinosNYC and at midnight the possibly very well-named, metalish Tiki Torture 

8/4, 9 PM the deliciously jangly, melancholy Pale Lights – like the Church at their poppiest – and eternally popular, similarly catchy psych-pop road warriors the Essex Green at the Knitting Factory, $15 adv tix rec 

8/4, 10 PM rockabilly songstress Suzette Sundae & the Love Lifes with her killer retro band at Skinny Dennis. She’s also there on 8/28.

8/5, 1 PM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia playing edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences at Jefferson Market Garden out back of the playground behind the BMCC campus on Chambers St. 8/10 at 4 (four) PM they’re at Ruppert Park, Second Ave. bet. E. 90 St. and E. 91 St.

8/5, 1 PM klezmer clarinet/mandolin wizard Andy Statman, Irish group Cherish the Ladies, Grupo Rebolu, and Sidiki Conde and Tokounou on the plaza at Lincoln Center. The program repeats at 5 out back in Damrosch Park.

8/5, 1 PM wild live techno band Bombrasstico at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/5, 2 PM Pistolette play Afrobeat at Coney Island Baby, free

8/5, 6 PM a brassy New Orleans bill: New Breed Brass Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, a lame jamband, and then Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave at Central Park Summerstage

8/5, 7 PM Puerto Rican percussion ensemble Yuba Ire and two popular Miami bands—Philbert Armenteros y Los Herederos and PALO! accompany a dance performance at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/5, 7 PM state-of-the-art postbop guitarist Will Bernard and band reinvent Strayhorn tunes followed at 9:30ish by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes. Bernard is also at the small room at the Rockwood on 8/13 at 11 PM

8/5, 8 PM majestic noir cabaret/tango/Mediterranean band Paris Combo at City Winery, $25 standing room avail

8/5, 9 PM bass goddess Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith followed by the uneasily cinematic art-rock Pi PowerTrio  – film composer and former Raybeat Pat Irwin (guitar, electronics), Sasha Dobson (drums, vocals) and Daria Grace (bass, vocals) at the Treehouse at 2A

8/5, 9ish sludgy but tuneful metal band Earnest Gallows at the Cobra Club, $tba 

8/6, 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos with members of M.A.K.U and Combo Chimbita playing space cumbia 

8/6, 7 PM lively, relatively rocking indie classical string band Founders at Joe’s Pub, $15

8/6, 8 PM luminous, astonishingly eclectic, wickedly tuneful cello-rock badass Serena Jost followed by similarly fearless, historically-inspired badlands gothic songstress and powerful singer Karen Dahlstrom – possibly the only writer to record an oldtime Idaho-themed album – at Pete’s

8/6, 9 PM gritty, guitar-fueled postrockers Star Rover followed by trippy downtempo/chillout trio Dustlights playing the album release show for their new one at Wonders of Nature

8/7, 7 PM potential trainwreck, potential transcendence: BEACHFACE. Highly spontaneous collective compositions from an adventurous ensemble of Brooklyn improvisers.  John Carlson (trumpet) and Shawn McGloin (bass) from Free Range Rat, Tim Vaughn (trombone) from Gato Loco and Chris Stromquist (drums) from Slavic Soul Party! followed by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party 

8/7, 7 PM sitarist Shafaat Khan with a dance ensemble  at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

8/7, 7 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leading his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. They’re also here on 8/14

8/7, 7:0 PM irrepressible, transgressively funny saxophonist Jon Irabagon leads a quintet at Smalls

8/7, 7:30/9:30 PM popular purist postbop saxophonist Eric Alexander leads a rare chordless trio with Johnathan Blake on drums recording a live album at the Jazz Gallery $15

8/7, 8 PM  Moppa Elliott‘s Unspeakable Garbage – a potentially LMFAO Mostly Other People Do the Killing facsimile with Bryan Murray – sax, Nick Millevoi – guitar, Ron Stabinsky – piano, Moppa Elliott – bass, Dan Monaghan – drums at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

8/7, 8 PM edgy, historically-inspired newgrass band Cricket Tell the Weather at the small room at the Rockwood

8/7, 8:30 PM kinetic, eclectic, funky parlor jazz violinist Mazz Swift at Bar Lunatico

8/7-13, 8:30;10:30 PM purist postbop guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel leads a trio at the Vanguard. Then he’s here with a quartet through the 19th.

8/7. 9:30 PM high-voltage delta blues/Romany swing guitarist Felix Slim at Bar Chord

8/8, noon charmingly torchy vocal trio the Ladybugs – who put a twistedly original spin on old Disney movie themes – at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/8, 5:30 PM Afropop dancefloor guy Sinkane at Bryant Park

8/8, 6:30 PM slinky maracatu/New Orleans/surf rock mashups from Nation Beat on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library

8/8, 6:30 PM in reverse order: the Sun Ra Arkestra play a live score to Space Is the Place, José James sings Bill Withers and Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center. Jury’s out on the openers.

8/8, 7:30/9 PM eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette leads a trio at Minton’s, $10

8/8, 8 PM irrepressible klezmer violinist Eleonore Biezunski leads her Titi Parisienne ensemble playing French songs of displacement with her trio featuring ex-Chicha Libre keyboardist Josh Camp on accordion at Barbes

8/8, 8 PM improvisationally-inclined Madrid-based pan-latin jazz chanteuse Aurora Arteaga and band at Club Bonafide, $15

8/8, 9 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at Radegast Hall

8/8. 10 PM Savak – who rehash Wire as well as anybody else ever has – at Coney Island Baby, $10 

8/9, 5 PM Maceo Parker of the JBs at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/9, 6:30 PM powerhouse tropicalia chanteuse Xenia Rubinos in the sculpture garden at MOMA, free w/museum adm

8/9, 7 PM spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC –  plays “a very special [spectacularly surreal, snarky] show of reinterpretations of songs by the Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Michael Hurley, Hoagy Carmichael, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Johnny Mercer, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Neil Young, Harry Nilsson, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Screaming Jay Hawkins” – what, no Eagles? at Pangea

8/9, 7 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Fat Cat. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

8/9, 7 PM 9ish noirish blue-eyed soul singer Fiona Silver and popular blues guitarslinger Gary Clark Jr. at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/9, 7:30 PM International Contemporary Ensemble and Greg Stuart play whispery music on instruments like of glass bowls at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

8/9, 8 PM a short set by the haphazardly funny Eastern Blokhedz  – who do psychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs and specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha – followed by a screening of Maxim Pozdorovkin’s hilarious/terrifying documentary Our New President, “a vodka-soaked, fever-dream documentary of Donald Drumpf’s rise to power as told by Russian propaganda” on the roof of the American Can Factory, 232 3rd St north of 3rd  Ave., Gowanus, F/R to 9th St., $16, free booze to follow

8/9, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies  followed by theatrical avant-garde drummer Sean Noonan leading his band playing the album release show for his new one Aqua Diva at Barbes (note $10 cover for the headliners)

8/10, 5:30 PM weird segues, enticing triplebill: plaintive Yorkshire/Appalachian singer Jan Bell, avant garde jazz chanteuse May Cheung and brilliantly lyrical dark oldtimey songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Pete Lanctot & the Stray Dogs at the American Folk Art Museum  

8/10, 7:30 PM fiery, politically fearless, atmospheric Tunisian art-rocker Emel Mathlouthi  and macabre slowcore band Godspeed You Black Emperor at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/10, 7:30 PM the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band reinvent Leonard Bernstein’s Wes Side Story soundtrack at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/10, 8 PM eclectic, lyrical, pensive jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leads his Tango Quartet at Barbes

8/10, 8 PM feral, hypnotic Afro-Colombian trance-dance band Tribu Baharu at Bryant Park

8/10, 8ish eclectic, tuneful accordionist/songwriter Ali Dineen  and fiery oldtime string band guitarist Jackson Lynch at the Owl

8/10-12, 8 PM this summer’s Latino punk festival at Brooklyn Bazaar, short sets by too many bands to name, heavy on the hardcore, the festival link is here, $tba

8/10, 9 PM Austin bluegrass guitarist/singer Talia Bryce followed at 10 by fellow Texan oldtimey band the Troll Smashers and 11 by fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at Pete’s. Lizzie’s also at the small room at the Rockwood at 11 on 8/24.

8/10, 9:30 PM darkly sizzling original surf rock band the Black Flamingos play surf at the Gutter, $5

8/10, 10 PM Lakeside Lounge honcho and careening Americana guitar icon Eric Ambel, and fiery, lyrical Steve Earle-ish songwriter Kasey Anderson at Hill Country

8/10, 10 PM pyrotechnic jazz improv trumpeter Peter Evans with homemade instrument builder/percussionist Levy Lorenzo followed by the prosaically branded but mesmerizing Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel at Wonders of Nature 

8/10-11, 10:30 PM hard-charging alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo leads his quartet at Smalls

8/10, 10:30 PM Max’s era-style punks the NY Junk play the album release show for their new one at Coney Island Baby, $10

8/11, 3 PM the North, South, East, and West choruses – which could include you – sing the world premiere of John Luther Adams: In the Name of the Earth at Harlem Meer in Central Park

8/11, 3 PM ish swirling, feral female-fronted psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia allstars Combo Chimbita  outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/11, 4ish the lavish Mariachi Real de Mexico de Ramon Ponce  on the Coney Island Boardwalk in front of the Wonder Wheel

8/11, 5 PM an extremely rare solo show by the crystalline-voiced, savagely lyrical Mary Lee Kortes at Pete’s

8/11, 6 PM Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester f – who’s doing a barrellhous take on hypnotic Philip Glass-ine composition lately – followed at 8 by chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s kinetic French-Caribbean band  Blue Dahlia and at 10 by Cumbiagra – who’ve been going in a much more psychedelic direction lately-  at Barbes

8/11, 7 PM sizzling, haunting, psychedelic Turkish string band Neotolia at Joe’s Pub, $15

8/11, 7:30/9:30 PM drummer Tomas Fujiwara’s thundering, tidally shifting two-guitar/two-drum Triple Double at the Jazz Gallery, $25

8/11, 7 PM dark Americana lit-rock cult hero Joe Henry and soul/gospel icon Mavis Staples – good twinbill, hilariously bad segue – at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/11, 7 PM  Markus Reuter (Berlin), Mark Wingfield (London), Tim Motzer (Philadelphia), and Doug Hirlinger (NYC/Philadelphia) in a guitar trio plus drums. The late set starting at 9 is a talent-packed quadruple bill with Ikue Mori solo, Peter Evans’ new ensemble “Being & Becoming”, vocalists/noise artists Andrea Pensado, Charmaine Lee, and percussionist Chris Strunk at Arete Gallery, free

8/11, 8 PM masterful improvisational camaraderie with Shipp/Lowe/Cleaver/Ray – Matthew Shipp, Allen Lowe, Gerald Cleaver, Kevin Ray – at the  Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

8/11, 8 PM kinetic jazz vibraphonista Yuhan Su leads her quintet at the Cell Theatre, $15/$10 stud/srs

8/11, 8:30 PM jangly, clanging late 80s nostalgia with the Breeders at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/11, 9 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at Bar Chord

8/11, 10 PM the Muslim & a Mexican play classic psychedelic Farsi funk from the 60s and 70s at the old Nublu, $10

8/12, 1 PM Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/12, 1 PM low-key deep-Brooklyn sounds with Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens playing a gospel brunch show at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 8/26

8/12, 3 PM acerbic indie classical duo String Noise at the Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd,, Long Island City,  N to Broadway and about a 15-block walk, free w/museum adm

8/12, 4 PM amazingly psychedelic, cross-pollinated Indian sounds with the Women’s Raga Massive at the Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main St, Flushing, free w/garden adm

8/12, 6 PM noir-inspired low-register reedman Ben Goldberg  and cornetist Kirk Knuffke duel it out at Downtown Music Gallery

8/12, 7 PM twangy Crazy Horse-ish Americana jamband Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real followed by newschool Americana soul chanteuse Margo Price at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/12, 7:30 PM a haunting Tunisian/Palestinian twinbill: singer Sonia M’barek & oudist/violinist Simon Shaheen with his funky Qantara group at Merkin Concert Hall, $30

8/12, 7:30 PM a short set by irrepressibly devious, lyrically hilarious multi-instrumentalist songwriter Walter Ego – who spans from darkly elegant art-rock to classic Britrock sounds – at Sidewalk

8/12, 11 PM creepy, psychedelic circus rock/Russian folk band Mad Meg followed at midnight by Helsinki girlpunk band the Shrieks at Littlefield, $10 

8/13, 7 PM night one of this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music opens with acclaimed Hindustani spiritual singer Rattan Mohan Sharma at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $28 tix avail

8/13, 8 PM a rare NYC appearance by classy, cinematic NZ jazz pianist Alan Broadbent at Mezzrow, $15 at the bar

8/13, 8 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides, plus appearances by Valerie June, Jojo Abot, Ayo, Deva Mahal, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Annabella Sciorra, Abby Dobson, Shakina Nayfack, Indya Moore and others at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, free, early arrival advised (doors at 7:30

8/13, 8:30 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan at Bar Lunatico

8/13-16, 8/10:30 PM a rare summit meeting between trumpeter Roy Hargrove and soulful reedman Paquito D’Rivera at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail. Hargrove is back leading his quintet here 8/28-31.

8/13, 8:30 PM the Vitamin String Quartet play faux-classical covers of all your favorite cheeseball radio hits at City Winery, $20 gen adm

8/13, 9:30ish the NYC Gaita Club – a Bulla en el Barrio spinoff – play rustically pounding Afro-Colombian trance-dance music at Barbes

8/14, 7 PM powerhouse postbop trumpeter Wayne Tucker leads his group followed byclever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

8/14-15, 7:30/9:30 PM golden-age large-ensemble postbop sounds with the Lee Konitz Nonet at the Jazz Standard, $30

8/14. 8 PM bassist Adam Minkoff leads a nine-piece rock band with horns playing his original arrangements of Stravinsky works at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

8/14, 8:30 PM this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music continues with Vishal Vaid singing rapturous ghazals at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $28 tix avail

8/14-15, 8:30 PM lyrical, Balkan-inspired pianist Uri Caine leads a trio at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

8/14, 9ish tuneful, smartly lyrical songwriter and slashing guitarist Jennifer O’Connor and her band at Wonders of Nature

8/14, 9  PM Crampsy ghoul-surf/noir garage band Twin Guns at Coney Island Baby, $12

8/14. 10 PM bass sax monster Stefan Zeniuk does double duty with two of his dark latin bands: punk mambo crew the NY Fowl Harmonic  followed by the titanic, richly noir Gato Loco at Hank’s, $7

8/15, 5:30 PM night one of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Phil Passantino (Cajun + Zydeco), Maestro Tito Castro (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Foncho Castellar (Colombian Cumbia + Vallenato), Gregory Grene (Irish Rock), Eduardo de Carvalho (Brazilian Forró), Christina Crowder (Klezmer & Moldavian Folk), Jenny Luna (amazing Balkan + Turkish), Susan Hwang (wryly literary Blues + Soul), Jody Kruskal (Concertina: Old Americana), Dmitry Sokolovsky (Retro, Samba, Musette + Jazz), Nathan Koci (American and English Folk Tunes), and Barry Adler (German + Austrian)

8/15, 6 PM high-voltage psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat jamband MAKU Soundsystem at Madison Square Park

8/15, 6 PM sitar player Abhik Mukherjee at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

8/15, 7:15 PM this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music continues with rising star santoor player Vinay Desai at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $21 tix avail

8/15, 9 PM haunting all-acoustic symphonic art-rock band the Arcane Insignia at the Delancey, $10

8/16, 7:15 PM this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music continues with the epic, mesmerizing Navatman Music Collective – the only carnatic choir in this hemisphere – at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $22 tix avail

8/16, 7:30 PM the Jimi Hendrix of the cuatro, Jorge Glem at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

8/16, 8ish an amazing original roots music triplebill: badass original country blues and oldtimey guitarist/songwriter Mamie Minch, oldtimey Americana duo the Hawkins Brothers and wildly hilarious acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at a house concert at 169 Spencer St. at Willoughby, Bed-Stuy, G to Myrtle-Willoughby, sug don

8/16, 7:30/9:30 PM reedman Brian Krock’s titanic 20-piece jazz orchestra Big Heart Machine – conducted by Miho Hazama and featuring the spectacular Arcoiris Sandoval on piano – at the Jazz Gallery, $15

8/16-19, 7:30/9:30 PM high-voltage vibraphonist Warren Wolf and his Quartet at the Jazz Standard, $30

8/16, 8 PM eclectic, vivid Colombian pianist Ricardo Gallo with Ben Goldberg: clarinet; Sam Kulik: trombone; Satoshi Takeishi: drums followed at 10 by Pangari & the Socialites careening through classic ska and rocksteady – most of it from the 60s Skatalites catalog – at Barbes

8/16, 8:30 PM riveting, incisive oudist Brandon Terzic with the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – at the Jalopy, $15. Terzic is also at Barbes on 8/29 at 8.

8/16, 9 PM indie powepop icons Guided By Voices at Industry City Courtyard, 274 36th St, Sunset Park, D/R to 36th St., $25 tix avail at the Bell House box ofc

8/17, 5:30 PM ubiquitous, moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly at the American Folk Art Museum 

8/17, 6 PM ferocious, female-fronted Afrobeat band Underground System at Bryant Park

8/17, 10 PM ferociously lyrical, Macbeth-inspired art-rock/psychedelic songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister and her killer new band at the Jalopy, $10

8/17, 8 PM a collaboration between wildly eclectic bluegrass/Taiwanese folk guitaris/songwriter Chalaw Basiwali and Malagasy griot Kilema at Flushing Town Hall, $16/$10 srs, under 18 free w.ID

8/17, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY at Barbes

8/17, 9:30 PM a killer surf rock twinbill: the Nebulas and the evilly psychedelic Satan’s Pilgrims at the Gutter, $5

8/17, 7:30 PM baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian leads her killer LSQ quartet with Helen Sung on piano at Smalls

8/11, 8 PM jazz violinist Frederika Krier & her quartet Molecular Vibrations at the Cell Theatre, $15/$10 stud/srs

8/17, 8 PM exotic vibraphone-driven surf rock instrumentalists the Vibro-jets at Troost

 8/17, 8:30 PM future hall of famers the Out Louds: Tomas Fujiwara – drums; Ben Goldberg – clarinet; Mary Halvorson – guitar at I-Beam, $15

8/17, 8:30 PM organist and  Monk reinventor Greg Lewis and dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas at Bar Lunatico – OMFG

8/17, 10:40 PM (not 10:30) anthemic lit-rocker Dalton Deschain followed y the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie  – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir – at Sidewalk

8/17, midnight, this era’s most intensely powerful tenor sax guy, JD Allen runs the jam session at Smalls. Hell, he could sleep here afterward

8/18, 1 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/18, 1/3 PM the Collaborative Arts Ensemble play southern US-inspired works by Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Johnny Cash,Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancin at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

8/18, 6 PM trippy downtempo/postrock band Droneship followed at 7 by rockabilly band the Lexingtons at the Delancey 

8/18, 7:30 PM fearlessly relevant, genuinely riveting, populist tenor sax visionary/improviser Matana Roberts  solo on tenor sax at the Jazz Gallery. At 9:30 she plays a duo set with drummer Gerald Cleaver, $25

8/18, 7:30/9:30 PM powerful jazz belter – and Gil Scott-Heron reinventor –  Charenee Wade leads her group at Minton’s, $10

8/18, 8:30 PM this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music continues with Nirmala Rajasekar and Group playing magical Saraswati veena music at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $23 tix avail

8/18, 8:30 PM Unheard Of Ensemble play works by Christopher Stark, Margaret Shedel, Reiko Füting, Erin Rogers and Tonia Ko at Spectrum

8/18, 9 PM chugging girlpunks Grim Streaker, feminist hardcore band Fea and ageless Cali surf punk legends Agent Orange at the Knitting Factory, $17 adv tix rec 

8/18, 9ish crunchy Italian stoner doom metal band Megatherium at the Cobra Club, $tba 

8/18, 10 PM expansive brass-fueled Afrobeat jams with the Brighton Beatat Shrine

8/18. 10 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band  at Skinny Dennis

8/18. 10 PM oldschool psychedelic soul/groove band Empire Beats at the Way Station

8/18, 9:30 PM wryly retro, period-perfect classic 60s style female-fronted honkytonk band the Bourbon Express at Freddy’s

8/19, 1 PM bouncy, slyly amusing psychedelic cumbia band Consumata at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/19, 5 PM the final concert of this year’s sublime Drive East Festival of Indian music features the Flute Raman Trio playing mystical, centuries-old repertoire at LaMama, 66 E 4th St, $21 tix avail

8/19, 7 PM Fuck You Tammy play amazingly spot-on recreations of themes from Twin Peaks and David Lynch films at the Mercury, $10

8/19, 7:30 PM Haley Fohr aka Circuit des Yeux plays a live ensemble soundtrack to the 1923 silent film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s play Salomé. at National Sawdust, $17 adv tix rec

8/19, 8 PM torchy, riveting, erudite countrypolitan songwriter Drina Seay plays her bday show at the Treehouse at 2A

8/19, 8 PM hauntingly cinematic, windswept lapsteel soundscapes with Rainer Maria guitarslinger Kaia Fischer and freak-folk eeriness with Uke of Spaces at a house concert at 169 Spencer St. at Willoughby, Bed-Stuy, G to Myrtle-Willoughby, sug don

8/20, 7:30 PM a rare U.S. appearance by legendary Russian folk singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Sergei Starostin with his Virtual Village Ensemble playing medieval sounds at the Fridman Gallery, $20

8/20-22, 8/10:30 PM trumpeter Christian Scott and band at the Blue Note, $20 standing room avail

8/20, 9 PM lustrously dark jazz pianist Guy Mintus leads his trio at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

8/20, 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leads his quartet at the Fat Cat

8/21-22, 7:30/9:30 PM rising star jazz harpist Brandee Younger leads her Quintet: electric on the 21st and acoustic on the 22nd at the Jazz Standard

8/21, 8 PM roaring 20s hot jazz with Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers at Radegast Hall

8/21-25, 8:30 PM guitar icon Bill Frisell leads a series of duos with various drummers at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: how to decide? 8/22 with Kenny Wollesen or 8/24 with Johnathan Blake? 8/29 at 7 PM Frisesll plays a rare duo show with Ikue Mori on percussion at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec. He’s also at Russ & Daughters – smallest venue he’s ever played – on 8/30 for FREE. Get there early

8/21, 10:30 PM brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, $10

8/21, 10:30 PM fiery alto saxophonist Lucas Pino’s twin-guitar No No Nonet at Smalls

8/22, 1 PM a NYC bluegrass band twinbill with Bluegrass Collusion and Sheriff & the Deputy at the triangle at 66th and Broadway

8/22, 5:30 PM night two of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes John Sherman (Cajun, Appalachian + Blues), Tinta Roja (Argentine Bandoneón + Guitar), El Toro de la Sierra (Mexican Norteño), Dan Gurney (Traditional Irish), Felipe Hostins (Northeast Brazilian), Mary Spencer Knapp (French, Pop + Soul), Nathan Rivera (Gypsy Blues), The Bumper Crop Boys (Blues and Country), Yuri Lemeshev (World, Classical + Jazz), Sam Reider (American Roots), Erica Mancini (Jazz, Blues + Country), and Mario Tacca (French Musette + Waltz).

8/22, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new powerpop project the Bastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar

8/22, 9 PM intense, charismatic oldschool soul belter Sami Stevens at the small room at the Rockwood

8/23, 5 PM oldschool Dirty Jerz hip-hop with pioneering female rapper Rah Digga at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/23, 5:30  PM string ensemble Leadlights play works by Kyle Werner, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn at Belvedere Plaza north of Battery Park, follow the sound

8/23, 6 PM oldschool salsa dura with Los Habaneros under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

8/23, 6:30 PM Tom Csatari & Uncivilized Orchestra at Pioneer Works, free. Brooklyn’s most interesting jazz guitarist survives a brush with death and reemerges with his careening nine-ish piece band – an event not to miss

8/23, 7:30/9 PM lyrical latin jazz alto saxophonist Roman Filiu  leads a quartet with David Virelles on piano at Minton’s, $10

8/23, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega followed at 10 by allstar violinist and drummer Jenny Scheinman & Allison Miller’s Parlour Game trio with formidable pianist Carmen Staaf at Barbes

8/23, 8:30 PM bassist Ben Allison teams up with noir-inspired pianist Frank Kimbrough & guitarist Steve Cardenas at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

8/23, 10 PM twangy oldschool C&W band Girls Guns & Glory – who actually don’t embarrass themselves with their Hank Williams covers – at Hill Country

8/23, 10 PMtrumpeter Steven Bernstein’s legendary noir jazz outfit Sexmob at the old Nublu, $10 adv tix avail at the Poisson Rouge box ofc

8/24, 5:30 PM blues guitarist Will Scott – who can play just about any style from all over the country – and vivacious, badass all-female oldtimey string band the Dead Sea Sisters at the American Folk Art Museum 

8/24, 7 PM dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas, bassist Buster Williams leading his group and then veteran trumpeter Charles Tolliver reprising his 1968 album Paper Man at Marcus Garvey Park

8/24, 8 PM brilliantly lyrical trumpeter Ben Holmes’ Naked Lore with Kyle Sanna and Shane Shahanan at Barbes followed at 10 by the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy 

8/24-25, 10:30 PM innovative, erudite jazz organist Jared Gold leads his quartet at Smalls

8/25, 3 PM the ageless godfather of boogaloo, Joe Bataan outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/25, 5ish purist swing singer Catherine Russell and Jamaican jazz piano icon Monty Alexander’s reggae-jazz Harlem-Kingston Express at Marcus Garvey Park

8/25, 6 PM cleverly lyrical, murderously witty murder ballad/chamber pop allstars Charming Disaster at Castle Clinton in Battery Park

8/25, 7 PM the intricately polyrhythmic eight-piece Chhandayan Tabla Ensemble followed by Sougata Roy Chowdhury on sarod with Monir Hossain on tabla at Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

8/25, 7 PM pianist David Greilsammer “takes a musical journey to the heart of a strange and dazzling labyrinth in a solo recital that spans musical eras,” with a centerpiece of Leoš Janáček’s darkly cinematic suite “On An Overgrown Path” at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

8/25, 9 PM brilliant, historically spot-on oldtime blues guitar/banjo/piano genius Jerron Blind Boy Paxton and the similarly charismatic, politically fearless, historically-inspired oldtime country blues duo Piedmont Bluz at the Jalopy, $20

8/25, 10 PM sludgy, ornate Detroit metal band Acid Witch at St. Vitus, $12 

8/25. 10 PM Danaya Band play Malian and Afrobeat sounds at Silvana

8/26, 1 PM jangly New York original surf rock cult heroes the Supertones at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/26, 3 PM the trio of rising star trumpeter Adam O’Farrill, saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins and vibraphonist Joel Ross, iconic, rapturous AACM pianist/organist Amina Claudine Myers, then a lame corporate jazz act, then Gary Bartz leading a quartet at Tompkins Square Park

8/26. 5 PM awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra  in the Jefferson Market Garden on Greenwich St. west of 6th Ave

8/26, 4 PM Music Against Mass Incarceration at Secret Project Robot with lo-fi janglerock/C&W songwriter Colin Langenus, Americana songstress Erin Durant, first-class lo-fi stoner jamband Rhyton, that guy from the former Pleasure Unit, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers  and no-wave funksters Guerilla Toss, all proceeds to benefit Just Leadership USA and the fight to shut down Rikers Island $15

8/26, 7 PM  Perspectives Ensemble play works by Manuel de Falla at the Angel Orensanz Center, 172 Norfolk St south of Houston, free 

8/26, 7 PM Alfred Kpebsaane – Ghanaian Gyil xylophone, and Brittany Anjou – piano & keyboards playing Ghanaian Bewaa and Binne funeral music followed at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

8/26, 8ish perennially vital latin jazz piano sage Eddie Palmieri  at Central Park Summerstage

8/26, 10 PM stampeding, merciless Savannah metal band Black Tusk at St. Vitus, $18 

8/26, 10 PM swirly, dancey/dreamy, vaguely 80s inflected stadium rock band Mars Motel at the Delancey, $12 

8/27, 8ish irrepressible, historically informed, crystalline-voiced folk noir/art-rock songwriter Elisa Flynn and the similarly noir, more minimalist Peg Simone at Troost

8/27, 8/10 PM  ageless, perennially hard-hitting jazz piano sage and ex-Coltrane bandmate McCoy Tyner at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail.

8/27, 9 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini followed by high-voltage delta blues/Romany swing guitarist Felix Slim at LIC Bar

8/27, 9:30ish singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

8/28, 8 PM badass oldschool electric bluesmistress Celisse Henderson  and a bunch of actors read from and play music inspired by the Howard Zinn classic People’s History of the United States at Central Park Summerstage. They did something like this at Lincoln Center last year and it was surprisingly subversive.

8/28, 9 PM slashing guitarist Steve Antonakos plays slide guitar blues with his band at Bar Chord

8/28, 9 PM edgy, deep blues-inspired acoustic songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Lola Johnson at 11th St. Bar

8/29, 5:30 PM night three of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Kenny Margolis (Zydeco + Blues), David Hodges (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Harold Rodriguez (Colombian Vallenato), Annmarie Acosta (Williams Traditional Irish), Rob Curto (Brazilian Bluegrass), Ed Goldberg & the Odessa Klezmer Band (Eastern European Klezmer), Melissa Elledge (Rock + Pop), George Saenz (Music from Texas-Mexico Border), Smörgåsbandet (Scandinavian), Earl Accordionist (Polka, French + Tango), Mindra Sahadeo (Harmonium: South Asian), and Rachelle Garniez (arguably this era’s greatest and most colorful, magnetic songwriter)

8/29, 7:30/9:30 PM this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society at the Jazz Standard, $30

8/29, 8:30 PM epically prolific, fearless, monumentally tuneful pianist Satoko Fujii leads her trio at i-Beam, $15, get there early

8/29, 10:30 PM slinky maracatu/New Orleans/surf rock mashups from Nation Beat at the big room at the Rockwood

8/30, 5:30 PM the Harlem Quartet play works by Schubert, Debussy and others at Belvedere Plaza north of Battery Park, follow the sound

8/30-9/2, 7:30/9:30 PM purist pianist Cyrus Chestnut and Trio featuring Buster Williams and Lenny White at the Jazz Standard

8/30, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co at Otto’s

8/30, 8:30 PM haunting, intense ,soulful folk noir songwriter Holly Miranda – who’s as good on Telecaster as she is on piano at City Winery, $15

 8/30, 10 PM accordionist/sitarist Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood/cumbia/psychedelic rock project Bombay Rickey at Barbes

8/30, 10:30 PM drummer Dan Pugach leads his nonet with Nicole Zuraitis on the mic, playing the album release show for his new one at Smalls

8/31, 6 PM 80s style goth/dreampop band Shadow Age at Elsewhere, $12 

8/31, 7:30 PM the glimmering, noir-inspired Tom Beckham on vibes with Peter Slavov on bass and George Schuller on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

8/31, 8 PM klezmer-jazz icon Anthony Coleman on piano and organ with Doug Wieselman – clarinets and Brad Jones – bass; Chris Cochrane – guitar and Brian Chase – drums followed by a rare club show by busker legends the Xylopholks at Barbes. Let’s see how far they get in those sweaty animal onesies and masks!

8/31, 8 PM Yoon-Ji Lee’s “Sunday Supper”“Sunday Supper” (Korean title: “저녁식사”), “an experimental chamber opera loosely inspired by the 2007 novel “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang” with electroacoustic Korean music and instrumental backing, plus a dance work in progress by Adrianne Aguilar at National Sawdust, $15 adv tix rec

8/31, 10:30 PM energetic, perennially relevant, boisterously amusing acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at Terraza 7, $10

9/1, 3 PM the Sun Ra Arkestra outdoors at Union Pool, free

9/1, 5 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl – sort of a more straightforwardly trippy version of John Hollenbeck – followed at 8 by dazzlingly eclectic chamber pop/latin/classical violinist Concetta Abbate at Pete’s

9/1, 6 PM the Toomai String Quintet play all kinds of adventurous, global classical repertoire, specializing in fiery Cuban material, then at 8 PM pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri play their creepy Transylvanian jazz and then at 10 there’s epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

9/1, 7ish Bobby Radcliff – the rare blues guitarist who plays a ton of notes but doesn’t waste them, sort of a funkier Stevie Ray Vaughan – with his trio at Terra Blues

9/1, 7 PM in reverse order at El Cortez: no wave sax legends James Chance & The Contortions,dark art-rock guitar icon Martin Bisi, and perennially sick noiserock guitar band the Sediment Club, $20

9/1, 7  PM the annual Soorya festival of Sri Lankan culture and arts at Faber Park in Staten Island, free, shuttle bus will stop at the Staten Island Ferry to pick you up, program tba 

9/1, 8 PM singer Lara Solnicki leads a killer quintet with Marta Sanchez on piano and Roman Filiu on alto at the Cell Theatre, $15. Filiu leads his quartet afterward

9/1, 8 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band  at Club Bonafide, $20. She’s back here on 9/21 at 6, 9/28 at 7 and 9/29 at 6 again

9/1, 8:30 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant, fearlessly political Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico

9/1, 8:30 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” followed by exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets at the Gutter, sug don

9/1, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 PM with ferocious, creepy surf noir band the Men in Gray Suits, at 10 spaghetti western/surf trio LoungeZotica 3000, at 11 gloomy surfed-up Russian prison songs with the Vivisectors, and around midnight the night’s hardest-rocking act, Surfer R Cool 

9/1, 9 PM dark garage rock and noir psychedelia with Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs at the Mercury, $15

9/5, 5:30 PM  night four of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Laren Droll (Cajun + Zydeco), Laura Vilche (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Nain de los M-1 Sangre de Reyes (Norteño Music from Mexico), Patty Furlong (Traditional Irish Music), Cordeone (Portuguese Fado), Ilya Shneyveys (Traditional + Original Klezmer), Eva Salina and Peter Stan (Vintage Balkan Roma Ballads), Mira Stroika (Pop Cabaret), Albert Behar (French Musette + Gypsy Jazz), Alan Morrow (Waltzes, Tango + Blues), Papa Bavarian (German Oktoberfest), and Burlap Don Simons (American Swing).

9/6, 6 PM singer Jessy Carolina’s torchy cabaret band Shanghai Mermaid under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

9/7, 6 PM elegant, lyrical, wildly eclectic oldtimey jazz/New England Americana songwriter Caroline Cotter at the American Folk Art Museum 

9/9, 3 PM koto visionary Yumi Kurosawa at the Noguchi Museum, 9-01 33rd Rd,, Long Island City,  N to Broadway and about a 15-block walk, free w/museum adm

9/12, 5:30 PM night five of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival, short sets by musicians scattered across the park lawn to prevent any sonic interference. Lineup includes Julie Winterbottom (Cajun Music from Louisiana), Javier Sánchez (Bandoneón: Argentine Tango), Sadys Rodrigo Espitia (Colombian Cumbia + Vallenato), Ellen Lindstrom “The Swedish Meatball” (Scandinavian Music), Vitor Gonçalves (Brazilian Choro + Forró), Shoko Nagai (Japanese + Jewish), Maestro (Electronic Balkan Music), Papa Joe De Clemente (Italian + American Standards), Will Holshouser (Jazz + Folk), Ismail Butera (Ancient Mediterranean), Ryan O’Donnell + Friends (Ukrainian), and Guillermo Vaisman (Coastal Argentine Chamamé).

9/14, 5 PM the grand finale of this year’s amazing Bryant Park Accordion Festival with full sets by Shashmaqam (hauntin Bukharan Jewish music and and Central Asian dance), João Cirilo Pilom Batuko Band (Batuko and Funaná from Cape Verde), a lame Patti Smith wannabe on harmonium, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (sizzling Pugliese folk dances), and Rimel (Norteño music from Mexico).

9/20 Red Baraat guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, Hearing Things organist JP Schlegelmilch and Alasnoaxis drummer Jim Black bought a vintage Yamaha organ and play the release show for their killer, psychedelic new trio album Visitors at Nublu 151

9/21, 8 PM sizzling oudist Mohamed Abozekry and Karade play haunting, serpentine Egyptian music from across the centuries at Roulette, $25/$20 stud/srs

9/27, 7 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides followed by afropop singer Angelique Kidjo at Central Park Summerstage

9/29 lush, dynamically eclectic Korean folk/art-rock band Coreyah mash up lustrous, often plaintive themes with hard-charging hip-hop and dance tunes at the Chile Pepper Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, time/price tba

10/13, 2:30ish sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies, long-running, wickedly jangly, tuneful Americana rockers the Sloe Guns in Tompkins Square Park and Giftshop – the missing link between Blondie and the Distillers – at Tompkins Square Park

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for July and August 2018

Daily updates – if you go out a lot, it couldn’t hurt to bookmark this page.

If you’re leaving your hood, make sure you check http://www.mta.info for service changes considering how the trains are at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.

If you see a typo or an extra comma or something like that, remember that while you were out seeing that great free concert that you found out about here, somebody was up late after a long day of work editing and adding listings to this calendar ;)

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included!

Puppeteer Basil Twist’s disorienting, phantasmagorical Symphonie Fantastique, with pianist Christopher O’Riley playing a score by Berlioz, “takes place in the most unlikely of places – a 1,000-gallon water tank, in which five unseen puppeteers swirl countless pieces of fabrics, feathers, fishing lures, flashlights, glitter, dyes, plastic, vinyl and bubbles in all shapes and sizes, creating a dream-like world of imagination and surreal storytelling,” at Here, 145 6th Ave. south of Spring, $35, through July 15, Tuesday–Saturday at 8:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday at 4. Click the link above for dates which continue through 9/2. 

7/18-29, 8 PM the International Keyboard Festival features a whole slew of top-tier piano talent playing classical repertoire from standard to obscure at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 695 Park Ave at 68th St. Most concerts are $20/$10 stud/srs. Too many acts to mention, the full lineup is here. 

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( Broadway/8th Ave) , 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in July, Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.

Tuesdays in July, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes (check the club calendar). Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.

Wednesdays in July, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Thursdays at 8 in July the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Free classical concerts on Saturdays at 4 PM in July at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands

Sundays in July, at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back; special guests from his wide circle of NYC Americana acts keep the afternoon going until about 7. It’s just like 1999 again -at least until the bar closes sometime this year.

Sundays at 5 PM in July, the irrepressible Eleonore Biezunski – arguably the most eclectic violinist in klezmer music – leads a series of groups at Barbes 

Sundays in July, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.

7/1, 2 PM the Ebony Hillbillies – NYC’s only African-American bluegrass and oldtimey string band – at the Discovery Center in Central Park, 110th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Ave

7/1, 2PM-ish punk/rockabilly band the Screaming Rebel Angels at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

7/1, 4 PM elegantly angst-fueled, individualistic torchsong/parlor pop piano chanteuse Jeanne Marie Boes followed by darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at LIC Bar

7/1, 5 PM all-female merengue tipica band Cocomama at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Roger Morris Park, C to 163rd St.

7/1, 5 PM intriguingly lyrical chamber-pop band Paper Citizen followed at 6 by cleverly lyrical, edgily funny, spine-tingling powerpop/acoustic rock singer Tamara Hey and then eventually at midnight by guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery power trio the Grasping Straws – sort of a mashup of Patti Smith and Hole’s first album – at the small room at the Rockwood

7/1, 5 PM spellbinding vocal quartet Monteverdi & Bartók – Deborah Carmichael, Kinga Cserjési, Marisa Michelson and Sara Serpa – join forces with a chamber ensemble and the Choral Society of the Hamptons to find unexpected connections between the two composers at Hungarian House, 213 E 82nd St., $10 adv tix rec

7/1, 6 PM Ben Goldberg on clarinet dueling it out with drummer Gerald Cleaver followed by  the magically improvisational trio of Josh Sinton on baritone sax, Todd Neufeld on guitar and Giacomo Merega on bass at Downtown Music Gallery

7/1, 7 PM dark latin/Russian ska/tropicalia/dub band Karikatura at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

7/1, 8/9:30 PM an amazing duo collaboration: lyrical pianist Geoffrey Keezer with similarly brilliant trumpeter Ingrid Jensen at Mezzrow, $20. Then Keezer is with Steve Wilson on drums the following night, 7/2 and with Donny McCaslin on tenor on 7/5.

7/1, 9 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at Skinny Dennis. She’s also at Bar Chord on 7/18 at 9.

7/1, 9 PM lush, hypnotic slowcore/postrockers Bing & Ruth at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

7/1, 10 PM incendiary, politically fearless postrock-soulpunk-soundtrack band Algiers at Elsewhere, $20

7/1, 10:30 PM catchy soul-jazz trombonist David Gibson leads his quintet at Smalls

7/2, 6 PM terse, hypnotic Indian classical acoustic guitarist Camila Celin at the Fat Cat

7/2, 7 PM Bodega – a female-fronted update on the Gang of 4 – at Rough Trade, free 

7/2, 7 PM bassists Tom Shad and Jair-Rohm Parker Wells improvise with purposefully brilliant violinist Concetta Abbate), then Abbate plays solo at 8 followed at 9 by singers Lauren Lee and Andrea Wolper at Silvana

7/2, 7 PM novelist Simeon Marsalis and pianist Chris Pattishall explore grim themes of mortality at Joe’s Pub, $20. Followed at 9:30 (separate $20 adm) by carnivalesque loopmusic maven Sxip Shirey  – a one-man New Orleans funeral parade 

7/2, 8 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” at Sisters Brooklyn, 900 Fulton St. at Washington. They’re also at Troost  on 7/4at 9:30 and on 7/19 at 8:30 at Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street (just off of 37th Ave), Jackson Heights

7/2, 8 PM adventurous, noir-inspired theremin virtuoso Carolina Eyck with crooner Theo Bleckmann at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

7/3, 7:30 PM pianist Michael Reisman plays Philip Glass’ original score to a screening of the remake of Dracula at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

7/2, 9:30 PM Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos with members of M.A.K.U and Combo Chimbita play space cumbia at Barbes

7/3, 10:30 PM cleverly lyrical, murderously witty murder ballad/chamber pop allstars Charming Disaster at Pete’s

7/4, 7:30 PM the Mambo Legends Orchestra play the Tito Puente classics they played with him 40 years ago at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/4, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

7/5, noon hypnotic, pulsing, sousaphone-driven Guadelupian/New Orleans band Delgres at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn. They’re at the Lincoln Center Atrium that same night at around 8. 

7/5, 5ish powerhouse Malian chanteuse Oumou Sangare and band at Central Park Summerstage

7/5, 6 PM hot 20s swing from the Blue Vipers of Brooklyn under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

7/5, 7 PM mesmerizing Malian duskcore band Songhoy Blues at Wagner Park on the water northwest of Battery Park. 7/7, 3 PM they’re at Union Pool, free 

7/5, 7 PM tastefully guitar-fueled Rocky Mountain badlands blues band Blue Moon Marquee at Terra Blues, $10 

7/5, 8 PM klezmer-jazz piano icon Anthony Coleman’s duo with drummer Brian Chase at Arete Gallery, $10

7/5, 8 PM purposeful, uneasy, ferociously smart guitarist Sean Moran’s Sun Tiger trio with cellist Hank Roberts and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza at  at Barbes

7/5, 9 PM volcanically tuneful noise-punk band the Skull Practitioners – led by Jason Victor from Steve Wynn’s similarly incendiary band – at Coney Island Baby, $12

7/5, 9:15 PM epic female-fronted Indian carnatic gothic/slowcore band Sita Virgin at the big room at the Rockwood 

7/5, 10 PM rockabilly songstress Suzette Sundae & the Love Lifes with her killer retro band at Skinny Dennis

7/5, 10 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leading his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. They’re also here on 7/10 at 7.

7/6, 7 PM Jerry Drake and the Front Page Big Band play classic 30s swing at the Knockdown Center, $10

7/6, 7:30 PM Naomi & Her Handsome Devils play the devil’s music, a.k.a. hot 20s swing at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

 7/6, 8 PM epic, cinematic Indian violin-fueled art-rock themes with Rini and her explosive band  at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

7/6, 8ish tersely imagistic folk noir and rainy-day 4AD sounds with Jaye Bartell at Wonders of Nature, $10

7/6, 8 PM pyrotechnic Balkan multi-reedman Greg Squared‘s Great (and ever-expanding) Circle followed by horn-driven psychedelic band Los Cumpleanos at Barbes. Los Cumples (we can call them that, right?) are also there on 7/9 at 9:30ish

7/6, 8 PM accordionist TC Costello plays “mafia punk” followed at 9 by reputedly high-energy Americana string band the Psychobillys at the Way Station 

7/6, 8/9:30 PM the smoky, torchy Harry Allen (tenor sax), Rossano Sportiello (piano), Joel Forbes (bass) at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

7/6-7, 8:30 PM fiery Middle Eastern guitarist Eyal Maoz at the Stone at the New School

7/6, 9 PM edgy, glam-inflected girlpunk band Damsel at Pete’s 

7/6, 9 PM high-voltage oldtimey barrelhouse swing group the 4th St. Nite Owlsat FM Jersey City $7

7/6, 9 PM quirky, smartly lyrical female-fronted avant cello-rock with the Icebergs at Otto’s

7/6, 9ish haunting Romany/Balkan music reinventor Eva Salina with whirlwind accordionist Peter Stan at the Owl

7/6, 10 PM drummer Dan Pugach leads his inventive nonet with powerful belter Nicole Zuraitis on the mic at 55 Bar

7/6, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

7/6, 11 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at at the small room at the Rockwood

7/7, 1/3 PM avant garde guitar quartet Dither play works of Eve Beglarian, Josh Lopes, Lisa Renée Coons, Gyan Riley, James Moore & Taylor Levine at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

7/7, 1 PM majestic, darkly cinematic surf band the TarantinosNYC at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways. 7/14 at 10 they’re at Sidewalk 

7/7, 5 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl – sort of a more straightforwardly trippy version of John Hollenbeck – at Pete’s

7/7, 6 PM surreal, intense klezmer/oldtime gospel guy/girl duo Book of J  followed eventually at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

7/7, 6ish golden age hip-hop legends EPMD at Springfield Park, 147th and Springfield Blvds at the far edge of Queens

7/7, 7:30 PM Heybale play honkytonk and western swing at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/7, 7 PM intense, fearlessly relevant Middle Eastern clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and similarly dark guitarist  Erdem Helvacioglu play the album release show for their stormy, hauntingly nebulous new war-themed album Dictatorial at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix rec.

7/7, 7/9 PM tenor saxophonist Tom Scott and the Rich Shemaria Big Band at the NYU Provincetown Playhouse on Washington Square West, free

7/7, 8  PM Iranian pianist, violinist and singer Saman Samadi’s Apām Napāt trio with clarinetist and saxophonist Blaise Siwula, and buchla player Hans Tammen at Scholes St. Studios

7/7, 8 PM the Sad Bastards of Brooklyn – basically Spanking Charlene playing melancholy acoustic classics – at Sidewalk

7/7, 8 PM the Duchess vocal trio – Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner and Melissa Stylianou – salute the great 30s swing girl groups at the bandshell at Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard at Oxford, Manhattan Beach, shortest ride is the Q to Brighton Beach, transfer to the B1 bus if you’d rather not take a leisurely 15-minute walk

7/7 Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 with mysterious Connecticut band Renegade Lounge, at 10 guitar mastermind Mike Rosado’s volcanic, pounding Dick Dale-influenced 9th Wave, at 11 jangly New York original surf rock cult heroes the Supertones and at midnight metalish Providence band the Infra-Men

7/7, 10 PM inscrutable, tropically-tinged psychedelic singer/bandleader Renata Ziegeur at the Owl

7/7, 10 PM Nashville gothic band Karen & the Sorrows at C’Mon Everybody, $13

7/8, 5 PM violinist Eleonore Biezunski’s Lyutbshe sing women’s Yiddish folksongs with Lauren Brody, accordion followed at 9 by the Gonzalo Bergara Trio playing Romany guitar swing at Barbes 

7/8, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

7/8, 6ish in reverse order: newschool lovers rock crooner Kabaka Pyramid, the surprisingly vital version of what’s left of popular 70s roots reggae band Third World and ubiquitous loverman Barrington Levy at the Amphitheater at Coney Island, 3052 West 21st St., free, prepare to be treated like a criminal at the entry gates since this is a corporate venue

7/8, 7 PM Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Pier One on the upper west

7/8, 7 PM pianist Jose Menor plays Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards” in its entirety at Spectrum

7/8, 7 PM magical microtonal violinist Sarah Bernstein plays Ornette Coleman works solo at Downtown Music Gallery

7/8, 7:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads his group at Smalls

7/8, 8 PM the New Juilliard Ensemble play works by Shin-ichirō Ikebe, Philip Cashian, and James Primrosch in MOMA’s Sculpture Garden, free w/museum adm

7/8, 8ish haunting, purposeful viola improvisations with Jessica Pavone at Troost

7/8, 8 PM excellent, rippling John Fahey-esque fingerstyle acoustic guitarist Marisa Anderson followed by darkly vivid acoustic rock songwriter Tara Jane O’Neil at Union Pool, $15 

7/8, 9 PM the uneasily cinematic art-rock Pi PowerTrio  – film composer and former Raybeat Pat Irwin (guitar, electronics), Sasha Dobson (drums, vocals) and Daria Grace (bass, vocals) at the Treehouse at 2A

7/7, 8:30 PM sharply lyrical southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at Bowery Electric, $10

7/9, 7 PM tuneful postbop pianist Jim Ridl leads his group from behind the Rhodes followed at 10 by intense, brooding Turkish jazz pianist Burak Bedikyan’s trio at 55 Bar

7/9, 7 PM soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom with Mark Helias, bass; Bobby Previte, drums at the NYU Provincetown Playhouse on Washington Square West, free

7/9, 9 PM the Trump Beatles – who do hilarious political satire set to classic Fab Four tunes –  deep in Republican Bushwick at Pine Box Rock Shop

7/10, 7 PM the extraordinary Ahreum Han plays a program TBA on the organ at Riverside Church, $20/$15 stud/srs

7/10, 7 PM the Dave Pietro Group with Mike Rodriguez, trumpet; Gary Versace, piano; Matt Clohesy, bass; Johnathan Blake, drums at the NYU Provincetown Playhouse on Washington Square West, free, wow

7/10, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian  at 55 Bar

7/10, 7:30 PM wild newschool Puerto Rican salsa dura big band Orquesta El Macabeo at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/10, 7:30 PM A Far Cry play Divertimento in F – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Symphony No. 3 – Philip Glass; Divertimento for String Orchestra – Bartók at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat.

7/10, 8 PM oldschool Cuban mambo jazz with Orquesta Akokán at National Sawdust, $20 adv tid rec

 7/10-14, 8:30 PM purposefully atmospheric guitarist Gyan Riley  leads a series of ensembles at the Stone at the New School,$20

7/10-15, 8:30/10:30 PM state-of-the-art postbop guitarist Russell Malone leads his quintet at the Vanguard, $30

7/10, 10 PM bass saxophonist Stefan Zeniuk’s punk mambo band the NY Fowl Harmonic followed by dark art-rocker and ex-Nanuchka bandleader/bassist Yula & the Extended Family at Hank’s

7/10, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his quintet at Smalls

7/11, 5 PM the mighty all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides at Elsewhere, $15

7/11, 6 PM eclectic pan-latin singer Sofia Tosello’s starkly rhythmic Chuño play the album release show for their new one at the Argentinian Consulate, 12 W 56th St, free, reception to follow. Their most recent show at Barbes was gorgeously spare and lyrical.

7/11, 6 PM flamenco duo Sonia Olla & Ismael Fernández on Bwy betw 42/43

7/11, 7 PM abrasively tasty, growling postrock crew Grex – who do a twisted, iconoclastically noisy version of Coltrane’s A Love Supreme – at Holo, $10. 7/12 at 10:30 PM they’re at Pine Box Rock Shop followed by imaginative bassist Shayna Dunkelman leading a trio with Lim Yan and Grey McMurray 

7/11, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis and her band at Birdland, free w/rsvp 

7/11, 7:30 PM dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas and her  Band at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/11, 8 PM intense Balkan chanteuse Jenny Luna‘s haunting, traditional Turkish band Dolunay at Barbes

7/11, 8 PM stoner 70s Murder City style rockers Sun Voyager at St Vitus, $10

7/11, 8:30ish golden age hip-hop meets the new school: the album release show for 38 SPESH & Kool G Rap’s new one “Son of G Rap” featuring guest appearances from NORE, Anthony Hamilton, Cormega, AZ, and many more at Drom, $20. It’s 38 Spesh’s NYC debut show too.

7/11, 9 PM 20s hot jazz revivalists Cait and the Critters at Radegast Hall. They’re also there on 7/29 at 7.

7/12, 6 PM a rare return gig by upbeat original ska band the Brown Rice Family under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

7/12, 6:30 PM feral tenor saxophonist Eric Wyatt and band at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd in Queens, free

7/12, drinks at 6:30 PM, show at 7, brooding Finnish jazz pianist and composer Anni Koski at Scandinavia House, $15

7/12, 7 PM spine-tingling darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – covers Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Michael Hurley, Hoagy Carmichael, John Lennon, Nina Simone, Johnny Mercer, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Neil Young, Harry Nilsson, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Screaming Jay Hawkins at Pangea. What’s missing from this list? THE EAGLES. No joke. Ok, it’s a joke but you have to hear her Hotel California. 

7/12, 7 PM oldschool-style, accordion-fueled vallenato punks Very Be Careful and  alternately rustic and techy tropicalians Systema Solar at Queensbridge Park, 41st Ave and Vernon Blvd in Queens, F to 21st St. and walk to the water

7/12, 7 PM darkly lyrical Americana rock bandleader Nora Jane Struthers at Joe’s Pub, $15

7/12, 7 PM soaringly explosive jazz composer/torch singer Nicole Zuraitis salutes a hundred years of women songwriters at 55 Bar

7/12, 7:30/9:30 PM drummer JK Kim leads a smoldering quartet including Chris McCarthy  – piano and Noah Preminger – tenor sax at the Jazz Gallery, $15

7/12, 7:30 PM the 12-piece oldschool Afro-Cuban salsa group Orquesta Akokán at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/12, 8ish feral female-fronted psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat allstars Combo Chimbita and iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/12, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies followed at 10 by eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts at Barbes

7/12, 8 PM intense bassist Brandon Lopez is joined by saxophonist Steve Baczkowski in a duet that ostensibly “tests the limits of the musicians’ endurance” at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

7/12, 10 PM a twinbill of two of Brooklyn’s best, most enigmatically tuneful, psychedelically abstract rock bands, Gold Dime and Parlor Walls at Union Pool, $12

7/13, 6 PM elegantly angst-fueled, individualistic torchsong/parlor pop piano chanteuse Jeanne Marie Boes followed by soul/gospel belter (and Lenny Molotov collaborator) Queen Esther at the American Folk Art Museum

7/13, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter and her band at 55 Bar

7/13, 7 PM Afropop dancefloor guy Sinkane’s Caparundi – envisioning a magical and colorful place where Africa, North America, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean blend together – at National Sawdust, $20

7/13, 7:30 PM edgy, punk-inspired female-fronted funk band Eliza & the Organix at Coney Island Baby, $12

7/13, 7:30ish cumbia rapper Ana Tijoux‘s Roja y Negro and Spanish hip-hop artist Mala Rodriguez at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/13, 8:30 PM terse, anthemic dark folk/Americana songwriter Lara Taubman at Sidewalk 

7/13, 8 PM Renee Goust – best known for her sarcastic feminist anthem “La Cumbia Feminazi” followed at 9:30 by similarly edgy oldschool-style cumbia band Elena & Los Fulanos and then at 11 by Rana Santacruz – the Mexican Shane MacGowan, but without the booze if you can imagine that – at Barbes 

7/13, 8 PM electroacoustic composer Julia Santoli’s premieres her new project Burning Body of Love with bassist Zach Rowden, staged within a sculptural landscape at Issue Project Room, $10 sug don

7/13. 8;30 PM Innov Gnawa‘s irrepressible Samir Langus leads his psychedelic gnawa-rock band at Bar Lunatico

7/13, 9ish edgy, playful improvisation with Jessica Pavone (viola) and Nick Podgurski (synthesizer) at the Owl

7/13, 10 PM early zeros Lower East Side folk-rock icons the Kennedys at the Jalopy, $10

 7/13. 10:30 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant Organ Monk Trio at the Fat Cat, no joke

]7/13, 11 PM scampering, irrepressibly fun girlpunks Sharkmuffin at Brooklyn Bazaar, $12

7/14, 2ish lo-fi British female-fronted janglerock band Girl Ray at Union Pool, free 

7/14, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by surreal, intense klezmer/oldtime gospel guy/girl duo Book of J, at 8 by Gato Loco’s Stefan Zeniuk’s Green Mambo band and at 10 by wild psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta at Barbes

7/14, 5ish pensively lyrical, politically fearless Uruguayan folk-jazz singer Jorge Drexler at Central Park Summerstage

7/14, 7:30 PM Malian griots Trio Da Kali and new music icons Kronos Quartet at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/14, 7:30 PM the Harlem Renaissance Orchestra play their 14th annual tribute to Illinois Jacquet at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, $17 adv tix rec

7/14, 7:30 PM eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leads his tango-inspired Big Band at the Jazz Gallery $25

7/14, 8 PM wildly eclectic, female-fronted, politically fearless Mexican dance-rock band La Santa Cecilia at SOB’s, $25

7/14, 8 PM Professor Cunningham & His Old School play New Orleans sounds at the bandshell at Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard at Oxford, Manhattan Beach, shortest ride is the Q to Brighton Beach, transfer to the B1 bus if you’d rather not take a leisurely 15-minute walk

7/14, 8:30 PM charismatic No Ice soul-rock frontman Jamie Frey and hilarious acoustic punk Mickey PG & the Overshare doing their first NYC show in seven years at Freddy’s

7/14, 8:30 PM guitarist Yuri Juarez’s slinky Afroperuano group at Bar Lunatico

7/14, 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band at Bar Chord. 7/27-28 at 8 he’s at 68 Jay St. Bar and 7/29 at 9 PM he’s at Skinny Dennis

7/14, 10:30 PM CBs style female-fronted punks the Carvels NYC  followed by hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at Hank’s, $8

7/14, 11 PM antifascist oi punks Permanent Revolution at the Cobra Club, $tba 

7/15, starting at 10 AM the annual Smith St. Provence Festival, bands TBA on Smith St. going south from Atlantic Ave in Cobble Hill

7/15 noon-5 PM the annual Bastille Day festival on 60th St between Lexington and 5th Ave. Brooklyn’s original punk Balkan horn group Hungry March Band march from the Park Ave stage a little before 3; at 3 sharp,  fiery, angst-fueled French art-rockers La Jarry – dead ringers for Noir Desir – play the Park Ave. stage 

7/15 2 PM creepy Americana hellraiser duo the Tall Pines  at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

7/15, 5 PM violinist Eleonore Biezunski’s Ephemeral Birds play “songs of the passing time” with Ilya Shneyveys, accordion + guests followed at 7 PM by Los Aliens playing spacious cumbia-influenced keyboard-based jazz followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

7/15, 7 PM fearlessly political latin Caribbean rock band Galipote at Pier One on the upper west

7/15, 8 PM intricately orchestrated, low register-loving psycho mambo crew Gato Loco  at the Gallow Green bar on the roof of the McKittrick Hotel, 530 W 27th St. 

7/15, 8 PM trumpeter James Rodriguez leads his quintet in MOMA’s Sculpture Garden, free w/museum adm

7/15, 8:30 PM hauntingly smoky noir cabaret chanteuse Little Annie with this era’s most brilliant rock pianist and organist, Botanica’s Paul Wallfisch at Pangea $15. They’re also here on 7/19

7/15, 9 PM noisy, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers followed by paint-peeling noise group Crazy Doberman at Secret Project Robot 

7/16, 8 PM violin quartet the Modern Violin Ensemble play politically-charged works by Jordan Nelson, Evan Chambers, Daniel Wohl, and Jessica Meyer at Arete Gallery, $20 includes wine 

7/16, 9:30 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

7/16, midnight torchy, clever retro Americana singer/guitarist Emily Julia Kresky at the small room at the Rockwood 

7/17, 7 PM New York’s most charismatic, darkly compelling lyrical songwriter/storyteller/keyboard genius Rachelle Garniez at Pangea

7/17, 7 PM popular bluegrass touring band Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

7/17, 7 PM the Mead Mountain Resonators play oldschool bluegrass at the small room at the Rockwood 

7/17-18. 7:30/9:30 PM the haunting, smokily atmospheric Michael Leonhart Orchestra with Nels Cline on guitar at the Jazz Standard, $30

7/17, 7:30 PM Plinth with the magical, microtonal Sarah Bernstein on violin, the similarly acerbic Sean Moran on guitar and Brian Adler on drums at Wonders of Nature, $10

7/17,  7:30 PM popular indie classical orchestra the Knights play Within Her Arms – Anna Clyne; Armenian Folk Songs – Komitas; Idyll – Janáček and Hungarian Dances – Brahms at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat

7/17, 8 PM bewitching noir Americana chanteuse Eilen Jewell and her amazing band at the Bell House, $20 gen adm

7/17-22, 8:30/10 PM the acidically delicious Thumbscrew with guitarist Mary Halvorson, drummer Tomas Fujiwara and bassist Michael Formanek at the Vanguard

7/17, 10:30 PM pensive, thoughtful Caribbean/Canadian banjoist/songwriter Kaia Kater at Pete’s. Last time she was at Lincoln Center. What happened?

7/18, noon percussive, trance-inducing, bitingly tuneful, Middle Etstern-tinged female-fronted jamband SisterMonk at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

7/18, 5:30 PM Brave Combo – the world’s most paradigm-shifting polka band – at Bryant Park

7/18, 6 PM cellist Gjilberta Lucaj’s Piazzolla Trio play nuevo tango classics on Bwy betw 42/43

7/18, 7 PM live music from CASYM Steel Orchestra, Radamiz, and Chris Wattz followed by Khalik Allah’s populist new documentary about working class women in Jamaica,  Black Mother, at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City, N/W to Broadway, free

7/18, 7 PM “the entire history of Yiddish theater, from the sublime to the appalling, in 83 New York minutes… you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll sing, you’ll get nauseous,” with Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Steve Sterner, who describe themselves as being “of the younger generation of Yiddish theater veterans, i.e., under eighty.” at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th St., $15 

7/18, 7:30 PM in reverse order at Drom: explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas playing the album release show for their new one, intricately orchestrated, low register-loving psycho mambo crew Gato Loco & the phenomenal Mavrothi Kontanis on oud, $10 adv tix rec. Greek Judas are also at Hank’s on 7/26 at around 9

7/18-19, 7 PM Lesley Karsten and Stephen Wadsworth’s bio-concert That’s Not Tango—Astor Piazzolla, A Life in Music at Subculture, Bleecker at Lafayette, $25 adv tix rec

7/18, 8 PM catchy psychedelic pop band the Magic Numbers at the Mercury, $20. Followed at 11 (separate $12 adv tix adm) by melancholy Americana harmony band the Cut Worms 

7/18, 11 PM explosively theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal trio A Deer A Horse at Trans-Pecos, $10

7/18, midnight the Electric Mud play their anthemic mix of bluesy psychedelia, stadium rock and 60s Dylan at the small room at the Rockwood 

7/19, noon trippy, darkly cinematic Afrobeat psychedelia with Jupiter & Okwessat Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn 

7/19, half past noon the self-explanatory, elegant Gypsy Jazz Caravan at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St

7/19, 6ish golden age hip-hop legends EPMD for free at Chambers Plaza in Newark

7/19, drinks at 6:30 PM, show at 7 flugelhornist Oskar Stenmark and his Quartet improvise on the ancient, desolate Swedish sounds at Scandinavia House $15

7/19, 7 PM eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo‘s Trio followed by the Quartetto Tommasini playing their edgy string tango jazz at the Mercury, $12. Followed at 11 (separate $12 adv tix adm) by post-Stooges garage-psych band Acid Dad

7/19, 7:30 PM otherworldly, kinetic Afro-Colombian legends Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

7/19, 7:30 PM scruffy, tuneful girlpunks Sharkmuffin play a short set before a free screening of the film Donnnie Darko in McCarren Park in Williamsburg, screen and stage are off Bedford Ave around N 12th/13th Sts.

7/19, boarding at 7:30 PM at the heliport at the FDR and 23rd St, sailing at 8 lavish oldschool style New Orleans funk/soul orchestra bandleader Brother Joscephus plays the Rocks Off Cruise aboard the Lucile, $30 adv tix rec

7/19, 8 PM savagely relevant, smart political hip-hop with stoner support: Slum Village & Dead Prez w/ special guests Kool Keith & Prince Paul at Highline Ballroom, $25 adv tix rec

7/19, 8 PM eclectic Romany and Indian-inspired jazz accordionist Will Holshouser at Barbes

7/19, 8 PM feral psychedelic guitarslinger Debra Devi and her power trio  at Coney Island Baby, $12

7/20, 5:30 PM brilliant fingerstyle guitarist/dark Americana songwriter Shawna Caspi at the American Folk Art Museum

7/20-21, 6 PM surviving members of legendary avant garde collective the Sonic Arts Union and its founding members: David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma – with their acolytes at Issue Project Room, $25/$15 stud/srs

7/20, 7 PM high-voltage steampunk duo Frenchy & the Punk at Bowery Electric, $10

7/20, 7 PM luminous singer Deborah Karpel’s bittersweetly triumphant klezmer-influenced one-woman show The Midwood Miracle traces her career from a jaded Eastern Seaboard adolescence to her triumphant discovery of her grandfather’s Brooklyn klezmer music at Pangea, $20

 7/20, 7:30 PM kinetic chamber-rock dance band My Brightest Diamond and cutting-edge sitarist Anoushka Shankar at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/20, 8 PM reverb guitar heaven: Crampsy ghoul-surf/noir garage band Twin Guns at Brooklyn Bazaar, $12

7/20. 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Galle Bueno at Barbes

7/20, 8 PM cumbia jazz accordionist/crooner Gregorio Uribe leads an all-star Colombian expat band celebrating his home country’s independence day at Drom, $20 adv tix rec

7/20, 9ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf rock instrumentalists the Vibro-jets at Troost

7/20, 10 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret group Hannah vs. the Many – NYC’s best power trio – at Arlene’s, $10

7/20. 11 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie  – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir and dark cabaret –  followed by guitarslinger Mallory Feuer’s fiery power trio the Grasping Straws at Sidewalk

7/21, 3 PM legendary 60s Britfolk singer Bridget St. John and her band outdoors at Union Pool, free

7/21, 5ish high-voltage psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat jamband MAKU Soundsystem followed by fearlessly populist LA folk-punks Las Cafeteras at Corporal Thompson Park, Broadway between Markham Rd. and Wayne St., Staten Island

7/21, 5 PM catchy, restless female-fronted Americana/newgrass anthem band Kaylor Otwell & the Tin Cans at the small room at the Rockwood

7/21, 5 PM haunting jazz pedal steel virtuoso Susan Alcorn and noisy, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers at Trans-Pecos, $12

7/21, 5 PM short sets by moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly  followed by edgy, carnivalesque Americana/gutter blues band Fife & Drom at the American Folk Art Museum, free

7/21, 6 PM surreal, intense klezmer/oldtime gospel guy/girl duo Book of J playing Piedmont blues followed at 8 by eclectic, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leading his Tango Quartet at Barbes

7/21, 7ish Bobby Radcliff – the rare blues guitarist who plays a ton of notes but doesn’t waste them, sort of a funkier Stevie Ray Vaughan – with his trio at Terra Blues

7/21, 7:30 PM theremin-fronted, cinematic Mexican psychedelic band Sonido Gallo Negro followed by Wordless Music Orchestra playing a live score to the Mexican fireworks festival documentary Brimstone & Glory at Prospect Park Bandshell 

7/21. 8 PM trumpeter Jumaane Smith plays Louis Jordan-style jump blues at the bandshell at Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard at Oxford, Manhattan Beach, shortest ride is the Q to Brighton Beach, transfer to the B1 bus if you’d rather not take a leisurely 15-minute walk

7/21, 8:30 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at Bar Lunatico

7/21, 10 PM Hawaiian band the Lambsbread blend dub and dancehall into their newschool roots reggae sound at Shrine 

7/21, 10 PM oldschool psychedelic soul/groove band Empire Beats at the Way Station

7/21, midnight what’s left of cult favorite 70s roots reggae harmony trio the Mighty Diamonds at the Mercury, $20. This might actually sell out

7/22, 2 PM upbeat original ska band the Brown Rice Family at the Discovery Center in Central Park, 110th Street between Lenox Avenue and Fifth Ave

7/22, 5 PM the irrepressible Eleonore Biezunski – arguably the most eclectic violinist in klezmer music followed at 7 PM by wildfire guitarist Brandon Seabrook leading a typically combustible trio with Daniel Levin, cello; Henry Fraser, bass and then at 9:30 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

7/22, 5 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at LIC Bar. 7/26 at 10 they’re at the Bitter End for those who don’t want to/can’t make it out to Queens.

7/22, 6 PM the Bangladeshi Institute of Performing Arts presents a two segment production highlighting Bengali songs and diasporic dances at the LIU Kumble Theatre, 1 University Plaza, downtown Brooklyn, $10/$5 stud/sr

7/22, 8 PM the Ansonia Quartet play new music for string quartet by John Woolrich, Lei Liang, Paul Desenne and  Franghiz Ali-Zadeh in MOMA’s Sculpture Garden, free w/museum adm

7/22, 8 PM trailblazing pipa goddess and singer Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa trio at Pier One on the upper west

7/22, 8 PM wryly lyrical new wave legend Ken Butler followed eventually at 10 by percussive postrock pioneers the Wharton Tiers Ensemble at Union Pool, $10

7/22, 9ish ferociously lyrical, Macbeth-inspired art-rock/psychedelic songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister and her killer new band at the Letlove Inn, 27-20 23rd Ave in Astoria, N/W to Astoria Blvd. opening for psychedelic no wave legends The Scene Is Now.

7/22, 10 PM wild, intense, frequently satirical newgrass/oldtimey hellraisers the Dustbowl Revival at Bowery Ballroom, $20 gen adm

7/22, 9 PM first-wave Vancouver punk legends DOA play their NYC stop on their 40th anniversary tour at Brooklyn Bazaar, $20

7/22, 9 PM dadaesque German krautrock legends Faust at Murmur Ballroom, the old synagogue at 17 Eastern Pkwy, Ft. Greene, 4 to Brooklyn Museum, $20 

7/22, 10 PM captivatingly enigmatic newschool soul singer Maya Sharpe at the big room at the Rockwood

7/23, 7 PM sharply lyrical, relevant, twangy Americana rock songwriter Kevin Gordon at the third stage at the Rockwood $15

7/23, 7 PM Seung-Min Lee’s “performance takes on the conflicted symbolic power of milk: As the once–booming dairy industry in New York state suffers with the steady decline of milk consumption, a new generation of Neo-Nazis takes pride in lactose tolerance, instrumentalizing the optical purity of milk as a emblem of white supremacy,” at the Kitchen, free

7/23, 8ish multidisciplinary artists Frank Malloy IV, Inaya Day, spellbinding violinist Anjna Swaminathan and Ryan Daniel Beck provide a soundtrack for the world-class choreographers and dancers of Wise Fruit in a celebration of female divinity at Hudson Terrace, 621 W 46th St., $20

7/23, 10:30 PM a good darkly theatrical parlor pop twinbill: Brenda Carsey and Miwa Gemini at the big room at the Rockwood, $10

7/24, 7 PM ferocious, psychedelic Sandcatchers lapsteel wizard Myk Freedman  followed by fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at 9 PM at Barbes

7/24, 7:30 PM the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA leads an ensemble in an epic re-score of the 1978 martial arts flick The 36th Chamber of Shaolin at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, free, get there very early

7/24, 8:30 PM haunting Britfolk songstress Amanda Thorpe reunites with her old Bedsit Poets bandmate Edward Rogers at Pangea

7/24-28, 8:30 PM noir and spy-theme-inspired downtown composer Annie Gosfield at the Stone at the New School, $20. Choice pick: the 7/27 show with her string orchestra

7/24-29, 8:30/10 PM lyrical jazz piano icon Fred Hersch leads his trio at the Vanguard, $30

7/24, 8:30 PM catchy, fun guy/girl indie soul band Sunshine Nights at  at Pete’s

7/24, 9:15 PM popular North Carolina bluegrass band Town Mountain at the big room at the Rockwood, $

7/24, 10 PM  brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

7/25, noon the all-female Calliope Brass and the Williamsburg street sounds of the L Train Brass Band at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

7/25, 5:30 PM chamber ensemble Decoda play Ennio Morricone’s Cinema Paradiso film score, a new arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, and Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango at Bryant Park

7/25, 6 PM brilliant, soaring south Indian chanteuse Falu and her band at Madison Square Park

7/25. 6 PM the lush, cinematic postbop Jonathan Parker Octet with Chris Pattishall on piano at Muchmore’s 

7/25, 6 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan on Bwy betw 42/43

7/25, 6:30 PM Orlando Marin, “the Last Mambo King” and his salsa combo on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library

 7/25, 7 PM Kami Thompson’s fiery, jangly Britfolk band the Rails at the Mercury, $20

7/25,  7:30/9:30 PM the Posi-Tone New Faces band with  trumpeter Josh Lawrence, vibraphonist Behn Gillece, saxophonist Roxy Coss, pianist Theo Hill, bassist Peter Brendler and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza at the Jazz Standard, $25

7/25, 8 PM a killer jangly rock twinbill: wickedly catchy Americana/paisley underground rockers Girls on Grass  and first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall at Union Hall, $10

 7/25, 9 PM ferocious, twin guitar-fueled, Radio Birdman-esque psychedelic punks the Electric Mess at Coney island Baby, $12

7/25, 9 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at Radegast Hall

7/25, 9 PM eclectically scampering oldtimey swing band the Bumper Jacksons at Hill Country

7/25, 9ish broodingly lyrical Nashville gothic band Leland Sundries  at Hank’s

7/26, noon trumpeter Terence Blanchard & the E-Collective at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn

7/26, half past noon vibraphonist Mike Freeman’s ZonaVibe latin jazz project at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St

7/26, 6 PM the band who started the NPR Tiny Desk Concert meme, Tank & the Bangas at Chambers Plaza in Newark, free

7/26, 7 PM Alynda Segarra’s edgy political-folk band Hurray for the Riff Raff at Wagner Park on the water northwest of Battery Park

7/26, 7 PM intriguing, kinetic postrock instrumentalists Hollow Engine at the Delancey 

7/26, 7:30 PM Argentine dancehall rapper Alika at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

7/26-28, 7:30/9:30 PM incisive, perennially popular jazz violinist Regina Carter leads her quintet at the Jazz Standard, $30

7/26, 8 PM darkly cinematic postrock band Somnuri, Kings Destroy – who blend sludge and post-Sabbath doom – and crushing doom-metal instrumentalists Bongripper playing their new album in its entirety at St. Vitus, $15. Be aware that the 7/25 show is sold out

7/26, 8 PM singer Dida Pelled salutes obscure cult favorite women songwriters including Connie Converse, Elizabeth Cotten, Molly Drake, Vashti Bunyan and Norma Tanega at Barbes

 7/26, 8 PM pianist Patrick Moraz – the only musician ever to play with both Bunny Brains and the Moody Blues  – at Iridium, $27.50

7/26, 8ish sharply lyrical Great Plains gothic folk/gospel/janglerock mother/son duo Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear at Public Arts, 215 Chrystie St. south of Houston, $15

7/27, 7 PM Honeyfingers play their Chinese-influenced “country jazz and western swing,” at National Sawdust, $20

7/27, 7:30 PM Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate and the world’s most popular duskcore band,Tinariwen at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/27, 7:30 PM classic Fellini film scores live with Hal Willner’s Amarcord Nino Rota at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

7/27-28, 8/9:30 PM brilliantly lyrical latin jazz pianist Luis Perdomo solo at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

7/27, 8:30 PM rising Spanish stars Flamenco Joven y Jondo (Young and Deep Flamenco) at City Winery, $20 standing room avail

7/27, 10 PM ferocious heavy psychedelic cumbia band Money Chicha at Barbes

7/28, 2 PM starkly psychedelic Malian duskcore guitarist/singer Mamadou Kelly outdoors at Union Pool, free

7/28, 2 PM low-key classic roots and rocksteady sounds with the Reggay Lordsat the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

7/28, 3 PM Video Music Box icon Ralph McDaniels emcees an afternoon of rising star hip-hop at Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Blvd, Long Island City,, free

7/28, 4 PM sizzling salsa dura band the Spanish Harlem Orchestra  at Saint Mary’s Park, St. Ann’s Ave. & 146th St. in the Bronx,2/5 to 149th St. and go south

7/28, 4 PM trippy, darkly cinematic Afrobeat psychedelia with Jupiter & Okwess and Afrobeat legacy band Femi Kuti & Positive Force at Central Park Summerstage

7/28, 6 PM surreal, intense klezmer/oldtime gospel guy/girl duo Book of J  followed at 8 by brilliantly lyrical trumpeter Ben Holmes’ Naked Lore with Kyle Sanna and Shane Shahanan and at 10 by accordionist/sitarist/singer Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood/cumbia/psychedelic rock project Bombay Rickey at Barbes

7/28, 7 PM a very rare Iranian rock triplebill in reverse order: crooner Faramarz Aslani accompanied by Babak Amini, underground legends KIOSK and Brooklyn expat band Habibi at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

7/28, 8 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at the bandshell at Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Boulevard at Oxford, Manhattan Beach, shortest ride is the Q to Brighton Beach, transfer to the B1 bus if you’d rather not take a leisurely 15-minute walk

7/28, 9 PM thoughtful, purposeful original jazz songwriter Gracie Terzian  at Pete’s

7/28, 10 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band at Skinny Dennis

7/28, 10:30 PM lyrical trumpeter Tim Hagans leads a trio with Leo Genovese on piano at Smalls

7/29, 2 PM guitar/drums improvisers Elkhorn, messy lo-fi psychedelic band Garcia Peoples and psych-folk bandleader Hans Chew at Union Pool, $12, all proceeds to benefit the Freedom of the Press Foundation 

7/29, 3 PM trippy, darkly cinematic Afrobeat psychedelia with Jupiter & Okwess followed by politically fearless Afrobeat scion Femi Kuti at Central Park Summerstage

7/29, 4 PM Gran Combo bandleader Charlie Aponte and his latest salsa dura project at St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx

7/29, 5 PM the irrepressible Eleonore Biezunski – arguably the most eclectic violinist in klezmer music – followed at 7 by Alfred Kpebsaane – Ghanaian Gyil xylophone, and Brittany Anjou – piano & keyboards playing Ghanaian Bewaa and Binne funeral music and at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

7/29, 7 PM newschool gutter blues chanteuse Lucy Dacus followed by Roger Waters guitarist Jonathan Wilson at Damrosch Park out behind Lincoln Center

7/29, 8 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan at Pier One on the upper west

7/29, 8 PM no-bs doom metal/heavy psych band High Reeper, catchy heavy 80s style NWOBHM band Sanhedrin and ornate doom metal band Witch Mountainat St. Vitus, $15

7/29, 8 PM tuneful postbop pianist Matthew Shipp leads his trio in MOMA’s Sculpture Garden, free w/museum adm

7/29, 10 PM careening, charismatic, lyrically-fueled soul-rockers No Ice – arguably Brooklyn’s best band – at Union Pool, $10

7/30, 7:30/9:30 PM eclectic soul-jazz alto saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Quartet plays Coltrane at Dizzy’s Club, $30

7/30-31, 8/10 PM ageless, perennially hard-hitting jazz piano sage and ex-Coltrane bandmate McCoy Tyner at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail.

7/30, 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at LIC Bar

7/30, 10ish singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

7/31-8/1, 7:30/9:30 PM tuneful, neoromantically-tinged latin jazz pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa leads his trio at the Jazz Standard, $25

7/31, 7:30 PM the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with soprano Sherezade Panthaki and violinist Krista Bennion Feeney play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons,  Concerto for Strings in C Major and In Furore lustissimae Irae at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat.

7/31-8/5, 8:30/10 PM intense pianist Gerald Clayton  leads a quintet with Logan Richardson on sax at the Vanguard, $30

7/31, 9 PM slashing guitarist Steve Antonakos plays slide guitar blues with his band at Bar Chord

7/31, 10 PM broodingly lyrica, bitingly eclectic Americana violinist/songwriter Amanda Shires at Bowery Ballroom, $25 gen adm

8/1, noon hauntingly kinetic Peruvian psychedelic folk band Inti & the Moon at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/1, 5:30 PM trippy tropicalia jamband Locos Por Juana at Bryant Park

8/1, 6:30 PM this era’s foremost swing jazz guitarist, Matt Munisteri on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library

8/1, 7 PM fiery electric bluegrass and C&W with Demolition String Band  at Church Square Park, Park Ave & 4th St., Hoboken

8/1, 7:30/9:30 PM feral, brilliantly improvisational pianist Mara Rosenbloom‘s FLYWAYS with bassist Adam Lane and singer/percussionist Anais Maviel play work inspired by Adrienne Rich’s vision of love without exploitation at the Jazz Gallery

8/1, 8 PM Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues”

8/2, 5 PM iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/2, 7 PM the NYChillharmonic – arguably NYC’s most individualistic large ensemble, with art-rock grandeur, jazz instrumentation and a powerful frontwoman on the mic – at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec. They SLAYED at Littlefield back in May.

8/2, 7 PM the amazingly eclectic, groovalicious Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio– like Booker T & the MG’s on steroids – at Wagner Park on the water northwest of Battery Park

8/2, 8ish the Nigerian “Queen of Afrobeat” Yemi Alade at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/4, 3ish 60s-style bossa-influenced psych-pop band the Jay Vons outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/4, 3 PM Brazilian neosoul singer Xenia Franca, the Hamilton de Holandamandolin Trio and trippy dub band Baiana System at Central Park Summerstage

8/4, 8:30 PM popular Jamaican dancehall crooner Tarrus Riley at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/5, 1 PM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia playing edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences at Jefferson Market Garden out back of the playground behind the BMCC campus on Chambers St.

8/5, 1 PM klezmer clarinet/mandolin wizard Andy Statman, Irish group Cherish the Ladies, Grupo Rebolu, and Sidiki Conde and Tokounou on the plaza at Lincoln Center. The program repeats at 5 out back in Damrosch Park.

8/5, 1 PM wild live techno band Bombrasstico at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/5, 6 PM a brassy New Orleans bill: New Breed Brass Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, a lame jamband, and then Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave at Central Park Summerstage

8/5, 7 PM Puerto Rican percussion ensemble Yuba Ire and two popular Miami bands—Philbert Armenteros y Los Herederos and PALO! accompany a dance performance at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/5. 9 PM bass goddess Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith followed by the uneasily cinematic art-rock Pi PowerTrio  – film composer and former Raybeat Pat Irwin (guitar, electronics), Sasha Dobson (drums, vocals) and Daria Grace (bass, vocals) at the Treehouse at 2A

8/6, 8 PM luminous, astonishingly eclectic, wickedly tuneful cello-rock badass Serena Jost followed by similarly fearless, historically-inspired badlands gothic songstress and powerful singer Karen Dahlstrom – possibly the only writer to record an oldtime Idaho-themed album – at Pete’s

8/7, 7 PM sitarist Shafaat Khan with a dance ensemble  at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

8/8, noon charmingly torchy vocal trio the Ladybugs – who put a twistedly original spin on old Disney movie themes – at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/8, 5:30 PM Afropop dancefloor guy Sinkane at Bryant Park

8/8, 6:30 PM slinky maracatu/New Orleans/surf rock mashups from Nation Beat on the plaza at the Brooklyn Public Library

8/8, 6:30 PM in reverse order: the Sun Ra Arkestra play a live score to Space Is the Place, José James sings Bill Withers and Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center. Jury’s out on the openers.

8/9, 7 PM 5/5, 9ish noirish blue-eyed soul singer Fiona Silver and popular blues guitarslinger Gary Clark Jr. at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/9, 5 PM Maceo Parker of the JBs at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/10, 7:30 PM fiery, politically fearless, atmospheric Tunisian art-rocker Emel Mathlouthi  and macabre slowcore band Godspeed You Black Emperor at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/10, 7:30 PM the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band reinvent Leonard Bernstein’s Wes Side Story soundtrack at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/11, 3 PM the North, South, East, and West choruses sing the world premiere of John Luther Adams: In the Name of the Earth at Harlem Meer in Central Park

8/11, 3 PM ish swirling, feral female-fronted psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia allstars Combo Chimbita  outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/11, 7 PM dark Americana lit-rock cult hero Joe Henry and soul/gospel icon Mavis Staples – good twinbill, hilariously bad segue – at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/11, 8:30 PM jangly, clanging late 80s nostalgia with the Breeders at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/12. 1 PM Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/12, 7 PM twangy Crazy Horse-ish Americana jamband Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real followed by newschool Americana soul chanteuse Margo Price at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/12, 11 PM creepy, psychedelic circus rock/Russian folk band Mad Meg followed at midnight by Helsinki girlpunk band the Shrieks at Littlefield, $10 

8/15, 5:30 PM night one of this year’s Bryant Park Accordion Festival, a dozen accordionists playing music from around the world, positioned throughout the park so there’s no sonic interference between them. Lineup tba; the festival continues on 8/22, 8/29, 9/5, 9/12 and a grand finale on 9/14 a half an hour earlier. Last year’s lineup was to die for.

8/18, 1 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/18, 1/3 PM the Collaborative Arts Ensemble play southern US-inspired works by Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Johnny Cash,Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancin at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

8/19, 1 PM bouncy, slyly amusing psychedelic cumbia band Consumata at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways

8/22, 1 PM a NYC bluegrass band twinbill with Bluegrass Collusion and Sheriff & the Deputy at the triangle at 66th and Broadway

8/23, 5 PM oldschool Dirty Jerz hip-hop with pioneering female rapper Rah Digga at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/23. 5:30  PM string ensemble Leadlights play works by Kyle Werner, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn at Belvedere Plaza north of Battery Park, follow the sound

8/23, 6 PM oldschool salsa dura with Los Habaneros under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

8/23, 6:30 PM Tom Csatari & Uncivilized Orchestra at Pioneer Works, free. Brooklyn’s most interesting jazz guitarist survives a brush with death and reemerges with his careening nine-ish piece band – an event not to miss

8/25, 3 PM the ageless godfather of boogaloo, Joe Bataan outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/25, 5ish purist swing singer Catherine Russell and Jamaican jazz piano icon Monty Alexander’s reggae-jazz Harlem-Kingston Express at Marcus Garvey Park

8/26, 1 PM jangly New York original surf rock cult heroes the Supertones at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar in the Rockaways at the triangle at 66th St. and Broadway

8/26, 3 PM the trio of Adam O’Farrill, Immanuel Wilkins and Joel Ross, Amina Claudine Myers, then a lame corporate jazz act, then Gary Bartz leading a quartet at Tompkins Square Park

8/26, 4 PM Music Against Mass Incarceration at Secret Project Robot with lo-fi janglerock/C&W songwriter Colin Langenus, Americana songstress Erin Durant, first-class lo-fi stoner jamband Rhyton, that guy from the former Pleasure Unit, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers  and no-wave funksters Guerilla Toss, all proceeds to benefit Just Leadership USA and the fight to shut down Rikers Island $15

8/26, 8ish perennially vital latin jazz piano sage Eddie Palmieri  at Central Park Summerstage

8/28, 8 PM badass oldschool electric bluesmistress Celisse Henderson  and a bunch of actors read from and play music inspired by the Howard Zinn classic People’s History of the United States at Central Park Summerstage. They did something like this at Lincoln Center last year and it was surprisingly subversive.

8/30, 5:30 PM the Harlem Quartet play works by Schubert, Debussy and others at Belvedere Plaza north of Battery Park, follow the sound

9/1, 3 PM the Sun Ra Arkestra outdoors at Union Pool, free

9/6, 6 PM singer Jessy Carolina’s torchy cabaret band Shanghai Mermaid under the Manhattan Bridge archway, go south from the  York St. subway and follow the sound

9/20 Red Baraat guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, Hearing Things organist JP Schlegelmilch and Alasnoaxis drummer Jim Black bought a vintage Yamaha organ and play the release show for their killer, psychedelic new trio album Visitors at Nublu 151

9/27, 7 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides followed by afropop singer Angelique Kidjo at Central Park Summerstage

9/29 lush, dynamically eclectic Korean folk/art-rock band Coreyah mash up lustrous, often plaintive themes with hard-charging hip-hop and dance tunes at the Chile Pepper Festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, time/price tba

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for May and June 2018

Check the June/July calendar since this calendar isn’t being updated anymore.

If you’re leaving your hood, make sure you check http://www.mta.info for service changes considering how the trains are at night and on the weekend.

If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included!

Puppeteer Basil Twist’s disorienting, phantasmagorical Symphonie Fantastique, with pianist Christopher O’Riley playing a score by Berlioz, “takes place in the most unlikely of places – a 1,000-gallon water tank, in which five unseen puppeteers swirl countless pieces of fabrics, feathers, fishing lures, flashlights, glitter, dyes, plastic, vinyl and bubbles in all shapes and sizes, creating a dream-like world of imagination and surreal storytelling,” at Here, 145 6th Ave. south of Spring, $35,  through July 15, Tuesday–Saturday at 8:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday at 4

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( Broadway/8th Ave) , 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in May, Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.

Later Tuesdays in May, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes (check the club calendar). Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.

Wednesdays in May, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Thursdays at 8 in May the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Fridays in May, 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Free classical concerts return on Saturdays at 4 PM in May at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in May, 6 PM eclectic jazz guitarist Anders Nilsson – who ranges from reinvented 20th century classical styles to savage metal to postbop – plays with a series of groups at Barbes

Saturdays in June, 6 PM Alfred Kpebsaane – Ghanaian Gyil xylophone, and Brittany Anjou – piano & keyboards play Ghanaian Bewaa and Binne funeral music at Barbes

Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands

Sundays in May, at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back; special guests from his wide circle of NYC Americana acts keep the afternoon going until about 7. It’s just like 1999 again -at least until the bar closes sometime this year. Also Sundays at 6 PM in May rockabilly bassist Laura Rebel Angel of the Screaming Rebel Angels leads her own band here.

Sundays in May, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.

Sundays in June, 6 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at Hank’s. They’re also at Bowery Electric on 6/12 at 10 if you feel like paying a $10 cover

5/1, 6:30 PM a super rare performance by downtown guitar icon Elliott Sharp on acoustic, plus he reads from his book, ‘Found Sound Nation’, at Downtown Music Gallery, free, reception to follow

5/1, 7 PM hotshot young bluegrass stars in an unexpected venue: Yonder Mountain String Band’s Jacob Jolliff (mandolin) & Max Johnson (double bass) at Barbes followed at 9 byclever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

5/1, 7:30 PM Maria Grand on sax and voice with ensemble in two sets: first the premiere of Revés/Rêves: Dreams of a Departed Maestra, dedicated to her early multimedia mentor, and then the album release show for her new one Magdalena performed by her DiaTribe ensemble at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/1. 8 PM cutting-edge, eclectic cellist Okkyung Lee’s Yeo-Neun Quartet at the San Damiano Mission, $15

5/1. 8 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at Shrine. They’re also there on 5/8

5/1, 8 PM allstar Romany guitar jazz royalty: the Django Festival Allstars (guitarist Dorado Schmitt, his sons Samson and Amati, accordionist Ludovic Beier, violinist Pierre Blanchard, guitarists Doudou Cuillerier and Francko Mehrstein with Antonio Licusati and Gino Roman on bass) plus special guests singer Melody Gardot and reedman Ken Peplowski at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall

5/1, 10 PM enigmatic Turkish saxophonist/composer llhan Ersahin with drummer Yusuke Yamamoto & Daniel Jodocy at his home base, Nublu 151

5/2, 6 PM Los Titanes del Trombon play classic salsa dura at Bryant Park

5/2, 7:30/9:30 PM this era’s most cutting-edge, politically relevant large jazz ensemble, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society play new material at Dizzy’s Club, $35

5/2, 8 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai ’s haunting Tokala Asian/klezmer mashup project at Barbes. She’s also at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery on 5/23 at 8 playing solo piano and then leading a quartet at 9.

5/2, 8ish Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” at Troost. 5/10 at 9 they’re  at Espresso 77, 35-57 77th Street, Jackson Hts

5/2, 8 PM catchy, fun guy/girl indie soul band Sunshine Nights at LIC Bar

5/2, 9 PM hypnotically psychedelic Saharan desert rockers Imarhan at Rough Trade, $15. Or you could go see them for free on 5/3 at 7:30 PM at the Lincoln Center Atrium

5/2, 9 PM Norwegian gothic art-rock band Voluspa, cinematic guitar-and-EFX dude Xander Naylor and band and Mexican shoegaze/dreampop band Jablonsky at C’Mon Everybody, $12 

5/2, 10 PM rising star singer/pianist and Christian McBride protegee Kelly Green leads her sextet at Smalls

5/3, 6 PM a screening of the Peruvian immigrant documentary Urban Condors followed by a reception with live music by the Andean ensemble Inkarayku at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I Center Auditorium, 53 Washington Square S, free, rsvp rec

5/3, 7 PM irrepressible storyteller/psychedelic guitarist/new wave cult hero Wreckless Eric at Berlin, $10

5/3, 7 PM ethereal folk noir songstress Belle-Skinner, cleverly lyrical 90s Britrock-influenced stadium rock band Mustardmind and psychedelic soul-rockers Madam West at Coney Island Baby, $10

5/3, 7:30/9:30 PM alto saxophonist Marike van Duk’s lustrous 14-piec Stereography Project at the Jazz Gallery, $15

5/3. 7:30 PM, repeating on 5/5 at 8 PM and 5/8 at 7:30 the NY Philharmonic play selections from Tschaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty plus the Sibelius Violin Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall, $30 seats avail

5/3, 8 PM eclectic, edgy soul/art-rock/funk/chamber-pop cellist/singer Marika Hughes’ new string quartet at Greenwich House Music School, $15/$12 srs

5/3. 8 PM the Jimi Hendrix of the cuatro, Jorge Glem at Barbes. Wow.

5/3. 8:30 PM Thumbscrew and reeds: Mary Halvorson (guitar) Tomas Fujiwara (drums) Michael Formanek (bass) with: Tim Berne (alto sax) Oscar Noriega (alto sax, clarinets) Peter Formanek (tenor sax, clarinet) at the New School’s Glass Box Performance Space, 55 W 13th St, $20.

5/3. 8 PM amazing string quintet – who are also the world’s coolest Radiohead cover band – Sybarite5 at the Cell Theatre, $25

5/3, 9 PM psychedelic eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter followed by high-energy retro soul/Americana band the California Honeydrops  at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix avail. at the Mercury

5/3, 9 PM rippling klezmer sounds wiwth Ukrainian tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) player Pete Rushefsky’s “Flora Hora” w/Josh Waletzky, Madeline Solomon & Zoe Aqua at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

5/3, 9 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at Radegast Hall

5/3. 10ish scampering, irrepressibly fun girlpunks Sharkmuffin at Brooklyn Bazaar, free w/rsvp

5/3. 10 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leading his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. They’re also here on 5/8 at 7

5/3. 11 PM sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies  at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10

5/4 4 PM saxophonist and Ellington alum Alvin Flythe with his combo at Haswell Green Park, 61st and the East River

5/4. 5:30 PM two contrasting, brilliant singers: haunting Romany/Balkan music reinventor Eva Salina and western swing faves Brain Cloud’s frontwoman Tamar Korn – who can impersonate any instrument ever made –  at the American Folk Art Museum

5/4, 7 PM pianist Anna Khanina plays works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and Chopin at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St, free

5/4, 7 P Schola Heidelberg and Ensemble Aisthesis, featuring pianist Donald Berman play Daniel Peter Biro works including the US premiere of his new piece Nulla Res Singularis at St. Peter’s church, 346 W 20th St (8/9), free

5/4, 7:30 PM Crampsy ghoul-surf/noir garage band Twin Guns  and noir cabaret/goth rock legend David J at Berlin, $12. Mr. Haskins (if you’re a Bauhaus fan, you get that) is also at the Owl the following night, 5/5 at 8 with this era’s greatest dark rock pianist, Botanica‘s Paul Wallfisch for two bucks less in the tip jar

5/4, 7:30 PM trombonist Chris Washburne’s Rags and Roots improvise on melodies from 1921 for a live score to the classic horror film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari at the Bell House, $25

5/4, 8 PM Haitian compas/calypso band Agoci Band followed by Zikrayat playing slinky, cinematic classics from the golden age of Arabic song at Flushing Town Hall, $16

5/4, 8 PM Niger’s Tuareg psychedelic guitar sensation Mdou Moctar at Elsewhere, $15

5/4, 8 PM eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the Jug Addicts  at Barbes. 5/12 they’re at Bar Chord at 2 PM

5/4, 8 PM Hidden Green with Anna Weber -sax, Peter Evans -trumpet, flute, Mariel Roberts -cello, Joseph Green -bass  at Scholes St. Studios, $10

5/4, 8 PM the Barnard-Columbia Chamber Singers present an evening of vocal and harpsichord music by Tallis, Byrd, Schutz, Handel, and Bach at the Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall, 117th St and Broadway, free

5/4, 9 PM uneasy indie guitar icon and longtime Steve Wynn collaborator Chris Brokaw at Wonders of Nature, $10

5/4. 10 PM one of the great saxophonists in the history of ska, Dave Hillyard and his quintet at Sunny’s

5/4, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold, Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

5/4, midnight spectacular, intense Yemeni-Israeli guitar monster Dudu Tassa & the Kuwaitis at Joe’s Pub, $20

5/4, midnight the eclectic, Balkan/latin/funk brass Underground Horns at the old Nublu

5/5, 2:15 PM son jarocho punk rock with Cambalache at Flushing Town Hall, $14

5/5, 3 PM indie classical vocals and bass: singer Amber Evans and bassist Sam Zegnit’s Confluss Duo play works by Gubaidulina, Katie Balch, Beat Furrer, Jon Deak and others at Scholes St. Studios, $10. 5/8 they’re at Arete Gallery at 7 followed by Contrafunktus – JD Davis, bass trombone,  and Rose Xiu Yi Kow, violin – for five bucks more

5/5, 4 PM cinematic, psychedelic quirk-pop keyboardist Michael Hearst presents “Curious, Unusual and Extraordinary” songs from his many bands followed eventually at 6 by eclectic jazz guitarist Anders Nilsson with Jason Kao Hwang on violin and viola, at 8 by edgy lefty guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band and then at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

5/5, 6 PM the Michele Brangwen Dance Co. with music by trumpeter Tim Hagans and vocalist Danielle Reich Seale explore Statue of Liberty-inspired themes at the  Mark Morris building, 3 Lafayette Ave, downtown Brooklyn, free, reception to follow

5/5, 7 PM a wild Hungarian string and brass band triplebill: Fényes Banda, Életfa Zenekar and Szikra Banda at Hungarian House, 321 E 70th St. $15/$10 stud/srs

5/5, 7 PM Florida roots reggae band the Marauders sandwiched between a couple of lame folkie acts at the small room at the Rockwood. Stranger things have happened. 

5/5, 7:30 PM the Dover String Quartet with violist Steven Tenenbom play works by Haydn, Borodin and Mozart at Irving HS Auditorium, 17th/Irving Place, $15

5/5, 8 PM brilliant, Lynchian, darkly lyrical latin and Satie-inspired guitarist Jack Martin’s Bob Dylan Deathwatch at Berlin

5/5, 8 PM eclectic Mediterranean/tango/Romany band Dodo Orchestra at Club Bonafide, $20

5/5, 8 PM haunting, hypnotically lyrical fingerstyle guitarist/songwriter Jean Rohe at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

5/5, 8:30 PM Irish superduo House of Hamill, featuring Rose Baldino (Burning Bridget Cleary) and Brian Buchanan (Enter the Haggis) play fiery Celtic string band music at the third stage at the Rockwood, $20

5/5 Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock quadruplebill at Otto’s begins at 9 with the careeningly jangly, sardonic Aquatudes, the eclectically original, harder-rocking Blue Wave Theory at 10, the majestic, cinematic TarantinosNYC  at 11 and legendarily eclectic surf band Tiki Brothers at around midnight

5/5, 9 PM smartly lyrical, politically fearless Detroit underground art-rock legends Discipline – the American Genesis, at least if you count The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as that British band’s peak – at Spectrum, $10 

5/5, 9 PM ten-piece country/carnivalesque/acoustic rock powerhouse M Shanghai String Band at the Jalopy, $!0

5/5, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new powerpop project the Bastards of Fine Arts at Sidewalk

5/5, 9ish haphazardly psychedelic Afrobeat-influenced psych-punk guitarist/bandleader Yonatan Gat at the Poisson Rouge, $12 adv tix rec

5/5, 9ish noirish blue-eyed soul singer Fiona Silver at Coney Island Baby, $10 

5/5, 9:30 PM Heidi Lieb’s recently reunited all-female punk/powerpop NYC legends Sit N Spin followed eventually at 11 by oldschool garage-punks Mala Vista at Hank’s

5/5, 9:30 PM stoner boogie/psych blues band the Balkun Brothers at Hill Country 

5/5. 10:30 PM God Tiny – who veer from stoner soul to boogie-ish to creepy psych blues – at Footlight Bar, $10

5/5, 10:30 PM powerhouse drummer Ralph Peterson leads his formidable Fo’Tet at Smalls

5/6, 1 PM murderous, wild, Middle Eastern-tinged surf Beninghove’s Hangmen at the 7th St. stage at the Hoboken Arts & Music Festival on Washington St; at 4:30 PM Steve Wynn’s iconic, amazingly vital, darkly psychedelic, noisy 80s jamband the Dream Syndicate at the Observer Highway stage right around the corner from the Path station, OMFG, see you there

5/6, 1 PM Zikrayatt violinist Sami Abu Shumays teaches a useful introductory class in Arabic maqam: “Are you curious about the microtonal scales used in Middle-Eastern music? Do you want to expand your improvisation skills? Sami demystifies maqam by presenting basic melodies in a straightforward call-and-response style, accessible to musicians and aspiring musicians of all levels. This 90 minute workshop will introduce several common maqamat through both songs and improvisation. Vocalists and instrumentalists welcome,” at the Jalopy, $25

5/6, 3 PM singer Elspeth Davis leads a chamber ensemble playing songs from Elvis Costello’s Juliet Letters album at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

5/6, 4 PM the Claremont Trio play a program TBA at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

5/6, 4 PM Tin & Bone with rising star multi-instrumentalist and champion banjo player Nora Brown, harmonica guy Trip Henderson, fiddler Stephanie Coleman and guitarist Eli Hetko at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $10

5/6, 4 PM the Parthenia Viol Consort play works by Taverner, Purcell and their predecessors William Byrd, Robert Parsons, Orlando Gibbons, Giovanni Coprario, and John Jenkins, at St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson St, $25

5/6, 6 PM sharply lyrical, Waits-ish southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at LIC Bar

5/6, 6 PM descend into the maelstrom: bassists Thomas Helton and Brandon Lopez duel it out at Downtown Music Gallery

5/6, 7ish the rapturous, otherworldly Bulgarian Voices Trio at X Marks the Loft, 405 Johnson Ave off Knickerbocker, Bushwick, L to Morgan Ave,, $10 sugg don, “lamb and other librations will be served” to celebrate the Bulgarian festival of St. George

5/6, 7 PM spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – at Pangea with special guest, downtown vocal legend John Kelly

5/6, 7 PM velvety noir jazz singer (and Tickled Pinks member) Stephanie Layton’s impressively eclectic torch/swing jazz band Eden Lane at Caffe Vivaldi

5/6, 7 PM roaring 20s hot jazz with Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers at Radegast Hall

5/6, 7 PM Ensemble Ipse play works by new Latin American composers including Santos, Bolanos, Pereyra, Hancke, Ricardo Gallo, Patricia Martínez and others at Shapeshifter Lab, $20

5/6, 8:30 PM ferocious guitar icon Marc Ribot ’s Ceramic Dog play the album release show for their incendiary, politically-fueled new one at the Poisson Rouge, $18 adv tix rec

5/6, 9 PM diverse, upbeat, lyrical Americana/bluegrass string band and Steve Martin collaborators the Steep Canyon Rangers at Bowery Ballroom, $17 adv tix avail. at the Mercury

5/6, 9 PM bass goddess Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove band Faith at the Treehouse at 2A

5/6, 10 PM uneasily amorphous, brooding improvisational indie band Green & Glass at C’Mon Everybody, $12

5/7, 7:30 PM the Jack Quartet play music of Derek Bermel at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free 

5/7, 8 PM composer/performer Elliot Cole & percussionist Peter Ferry team up with NYU percussionists for The Future is Bright, a pointillistic, gamelanesque suite for 100 flowerpots – will they get smashed? – along with Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap, “a dramatically percussive retelling of the ancient Indian Hanuman myth, which draws on epic song, hip hop, reggae, throat singing, choral, and experimental music to create something both ancient and new” at the NYU Loewe Theatre, 25 W 4th St., free

5/7, 8ish multi-instrumentalist Nick Demopoulos‘ twinkly, atmospheric electroacoustic Smomid project at Troost

5/7, 9:30ish Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos play their cumbia-inspired stoner dub jams at Barbes

5/7, 10 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) pinch-hit for Rev. Vince Anderson at Union Pool, free

5/8, half past noon Scottish organist Kevin Duggan plays a program TBA at Central Synagogue, 54th/Lex, free

5/8, 8 PM charming Montana Americana fiddle/guitar duo the Brook Sisters at the small room at the Rockwood. 

5/8, 7 PM all-female klezmer band Tsibele (Yiddish for “onion”) and recently revitalized, careening ten-piece Balkan brass crew Veveritse at Barbes. Veveritse are also at Silvana on 5/25 at 8.

5/8, 7:30/9:30 PM popular purist postbop saxophonist Eric Alexander leads a rare chordless trio with Doug Weiss – bass; Johnathan Blake – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $20. They’re also here on the 13th

5/8. 8 PM haunting, erudite North African Jewish music maven Samuel Torjman Thomas leads a rare small group performance with John Murchison (bass) and Jeremy Smith (percussion), Sami Abu Shumays, Megumi Sahurashi (violins), and Dror Shahaf (percussion) at Sister’s Brooklyn, Fulton off Washington, C to Clinton-Washington, $10

5/8, 8:30 PM Camille Thurman – a double threat as nuanced singer and intense tenor saxophonist – with the Darrell Green Trio at Iridium, $20

5/8, 9 PM guitar god Steve Antonakos plays electric slide blues with his band at Bar Chord

5/8, 9:30 PM the Bronx Conexion play their mighty salsa big band jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

5/8, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his group at Smalls

5/9, 6 PM Punjabi psych-folk band Rhythm Tolee play live bhangra at Bryant Park

5/9, 7 PM the world premiere of Tristan Perich’s Drift Multiply for 50 violins and 50 self-built 1-bit speakers. plus mesmerizing sound sculptor/singer Lesley Flanigan debuts her new project for her own custom-made subwoofers and solo voice at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, $20

5/9, 7 PM diverse, purposeful, poignant bassist/composer Iris Ornig plays Burt Bacharach material with her band at 55 Bar

5/9, 7:30 PM the lush, propulsive, cinematically vintage Glenn Cryzter Orchestra play the album release show for their new one at the Montauk Club, 25 8th Ave. off Grand Army Plaza, Clinton Hill

5/9, 8 PM amazing microtonal Afrobeat band 75 Dollar Bill’s Che Chen on bass recorder, vocals and organ with Talice Lee on violin and Patrick Holmes on clarinet at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/9, 8 PM eclectic pan-latin singer Sofia Tosello’s starkly rhythmic Chuno project at Barbes

5/9, 8 PM the Emerald Trio play works by Matt Castle, Dan Cooper, Carolyn Steinberg, Joseph Pehrson, Milina Paranosic and  Davide Zannoni at the DiMenna Center, $15/$1o stud/srs

5/9, 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at LIC  Bar

5/9, 9 PM Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw and others play Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn covers at Otto’s. This should be amusing.

5/9, 10:30ish the amazing Miriam Elhajli – who switches effortlessly from Venezuelan-influenced folk to classic Appalachian sounds – followed by lo-fi psychedelic Americana band Lord Youth at Footlight Bar

5/10, 7 PM energetic acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho with special guest, spitfire poet Zenen Zeferino play the album release show for their new one Rios de Norte y Sur at Joe’s Pub, $20. Followed at 9:30 (separate $20 adm) by eclectic soul-jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin’s Soul Party

5/10. 7:30 PM, repeating 5/11-12 at 8, the NY Philharmonic play the Elgar Cello Concerto plus Tschaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 at Avery Fisher Hall, $30 tix avail

5/10, 7:30 PM high-voltage oldschool-style Detroit soulstress Thornetta Davis at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/10, 8 PM kinetic klezmer/cumbia/cinematic jamband Isle of Klezbos with special guest, incomparably charismatic accordionist Rachelle Garniez at City Lore Gallery, 56 E 1st St., $20, Russ & Daughters rugelach plus locally-sourced Lower East Side knishes included

5/10, 8 PM tuneful, terse guitarist/singer Camila Meza  and pianist Aaron Goldberg explore themes of justice, equality and social awareness in songs from the Latin America diaspora at Greenwich House Music School, $15/$12 srs

5/10, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies  followed  at 10 by pastoral gothic accordion art-rock with Sam Reider & the Human Hands  at Barbes

5/10, 8 PM intense improvisational cellist Leila Bordreuil and haphazardly careening, occasionally theatrical dreampop/noiserockers Gold Dime at Holo, $10

5/10, 8 PM Jamaican dancehall sensation Konshens at the computer store at 247 Bedford Ave (N 3/4) in Wililamsburg, free, rsvp rec 

5/10, 8:30 perennially tuneful tenor saxophonist John Ellis & Double Wide at Bar Lunatico

5/10, 9 PM powerhouse klezmer trumpeter Jordan Hirsch’s Secret Ensemble at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

5/10, 9 PM Sloan – Halifax’s answer to Guided by Voices – at Bowery Ballroom, $25 gen adm

5/10, 9 PM Clebs – the trippy, ethereal acid jazz-y duo of singer Emilie Wiebel and percussionist Jason Nazary – at Trans-Pecos, $12

5/10, 9ish Mischief Night – the Grasping Straws’ Mallory Feuer’s menacingly lo-fi guitar-drums duo – at Footlight Bar, $10

5/10, 9 PM golden age hip-hop legends EPMD celebrate Parrish Smith’s 50th bday at Highline Ballroom, $25 adv tix rec. These guys never, ever compromised their flow.

5/11, 5:30 PM haunting, brilliantly lyrical Americana songwriter Karen Dahlstrom – possibly the only writer to record an oldtime Idaho-themed album – and popular powerpop/janglerock songwriter Mike Errico at the American Folk Art Museum

5/11, 6 PM pianist Hyo-jee Kang plays works by Ligeti, Ravel and Stravinsky’s Three Movements from Petrouchka at the NY Library for the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Ave, free

5/11, 7 PM early music ensemble Tenet play music of 12th and 13th century French troubadours at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave,  Queens, $15/$10 srs. The program repeats on 5/12 at 7:30 PM at Christ Church Riverdale,  5030 Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx for $10 more

5/11, 7/9 PM dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas and her group at Ginny’s Supper Club, $15 standing room avail

5/11, 7:30/10:30 PM legendary Moroccan Sufi trance ensemble the Master Musicians of Jajouka with Bachir Attar, British elecroacoustic cellist Oliver Coates, harpist Zeena Parkins, drummer Greg Fox, bassist Trevor Dunn plus a light show at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, $25

5/11, 7:30/9:30 PM eclectic electroacoustic postbop saxophonist Dayna Stephens leads his quintet at the Cave at St. George’s, 209 E. 16th St (east of 3rd Ave), side courtyard entrance, $15 cover

5/11, 7:30/9:30 PM lyrical latin jazz alto saxophonist Roman Filiu leads a sextet playing the album release show for his new one Quarteria at the Jazz Gallery, $25

5/11, 8ish fiery reverbtoned latin  hardcore band Depresion Tropical followed eventually at around 10 by snarling, lo-fi surf/cumbia band Le Yikes Surf Club at Union Hall 

5/11, 8 PM the Cecilia Chorus of NY perform the Mozart Requiem and the US premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth’s final, similarly harrowing 1930 large-scale work, The Prison at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25 tix avail

5/11, 8 PM Iktus Percussion plus  special guests Andrea Lodge; piano, Roberta Michel; flute, and Hannah Levinson; viola play music by emerging composers Louis Aguirre, Alice Shields, Morgan Greenwood, Jeremy Rapaport-Stein, Kevin Michael Kay, Faye-Ellen Silverman and Nicholas V. Hall at Arete Gallery, $tba

5/11, 9 PM intense female-fronted psychedelic groove/funk band Imunuri at Bar Chord. 5/17, time TBA they’re at Bowery Electtric, free adm w/rsvp; and 5/24 at 9 at the small room at the Rockwood

5/11, 9 PM sardonically relevant guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene at Bowery Electric, $12

5/11, 9 PM jangly Dylanesque acoustic dude Hiss Golden Messenger followed by lush, artsy Americana band Trampled by Turtles at the Nokia Theatre, $25

5/11, 9:30 PM oldschool soul ballads with singer Camille Atkisson’s Empire Beats  at Hill Country

5/11, 10 PM Cumbiagra – who’ve been going in a much more psychedelic direction lately – at Barbes 

5/11, 10 PM hauntingly psychedelic folk noir crooner/songwriter Jaye Bartel at Wonders of Nature, $10

5/11, 10 PM Hollywood’s Dan Finnerty leads his savagely hilarious top 40 parody group the Dan Band at Joe’s Pub, $25

5/11, 11 PM bad segue, good twinbill:  jaunty female-fronted original retro rocksteady band the Big Takeover followed at midnight-ish by unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at the big room at the Rockwood

5/11, 1 AM (actually wee hours of 5/12) this era’s most intensely powerful tenor saxophonist/composer, JD Allen leads the jam at Smalls

5/12, 4:30 PM the Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra play the album release show for their characteristically cinematic, sweeping new one followed at 7:30 by the one guy who can match them for volume and power all by himself, Eric Wyatt and his group at Smalls

5/12, 6 PM eclectic jazz guitarist Anders Nilsson  followed at 8 by state-of-the-art postbop guitarist Will Bernard & the Strays doing their Strayhorn tribute thing at Barbes

5/12, 7 PM in reverse order: oldschool reggae crew the Hub City Stompers, irrepressibly funny hardcore party band No Redeeming Social Value, dark second-wave style ska crew the Ladrones and unstoppable hardcore band None Above All at El Cortez, all ages, $12

5/12, 8 PM Jane Lecroy’s edgy, intensely lyrical electro-punk band Ohmslice followed eventually at midnight by ferociously fun, menacing psychobilly/horror rockers the Omega Men at the Parkside

5/12, 7:15ish dark psychedelic acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband Hazmat Modine at Terra Blues.

5/12, 7:30 PM powerpopstress Tara Lynne and the Sometime Boys’ incendiary frontwoman Sarah Mucho join “musical and comedic forces” followed at 9:30 by elegant, sharply lyrical parlor pop stylist Heather Eatman at Freddy’s

5/12, 7:30 PM Juilliard Quartet cellist Astrid Schween leads an ensemble playing works by Aaron Jay Kernis, Scott Joplin, Brahms, Franck and Didorenko at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave at W183rd St, $12, reception to follow

5/12, 8 PM veteran Greek chanteuse Maria Farantouri and her band play a tribute to legendary balladeer Mikis Theodorakis at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $34 tix avail

5/12, 9ish cult favorite apocalyptic stoner boogie/doom/art-rock band Mos Generator followed by popular heavy lo-fi 90s rockers Fu Manchu at Bowery Ballroom, $15

5/12, 9ish composer Vanessa Rossetto presents her new work The Dirt, exploring the physical manifestation of transgenerational trauma at Issue Project Room, $15

5/12, 10 PM bass saxophonist Stefan Zeniuk’s punk mambo band the NY Fowl Harmonic   followed by explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas a at Hank’s

5/13, 2 PM-ish sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies and long-running, wickedly jangly, tuneful Americana rockers the Sloe Guns in Tompkins Square Park

5/13, 3:30 PM adventurously lyrical pianist Lucy Yao leads a multimedia electroacoustic program of works by emerging composers Trey Makler and Kirsten Milenko examining the Orpheus/Eurydice myth from Eurydice’s perspective, plus dance by Moscelyne Parkeharrison, Barry Gans, Nicolas Noguera at Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 152 W 71st St, sug don $15 or pay what you can. Yao is also at Arete Gallery at 67 West St in Greenpoint on 5/20 at 3 PM leading a trio with Madeline Hocking on violin and Paul Mizzi on flute playing new work by Samn Johnson, $15/$10 stud/srs

5/13, 3:30 PM violinist Christina Bouey and pianist Tatiana Tessman play works by Saint-Saens plus Beethoven’s Kreuzer Sonata at Scholes St. Studios, $15

5/13, 6:30 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at Club Bonafide, $20. She’s also here on 5/25 a half hour earlier

5/13, 7 PM pianist Jinjoo Yoo leads her Trio at Shapeshifter Lab, $10. Purist Monk influence, unselfconscious sense of humor, vivid compositions: good stuff. 

5/13, 7:30 PM the reliably exciting Queensboro Symphony Orchestra play Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 3 plus the Jupiter Symphony plus the world premiere of Paul Joseph’s “The Vanished Princess” to celebrate Mother’s Day at Mary’s Nativity Church, 46-02 Parsons Blvd., Flushing, sug don

5/13, 8 PM somber, diversely textural, female-fronted, often atmospheric postrock/avant garde band Oracle Hysterical play the album release show for their new one Hecuba – a cut-and-paste retelling of the Euripides play – at National Sawdust, $25

5/13, 8 PM the New Asia Music Society plays works by Mozart as well as the world premiere of Shih-Hui Chen’s Flashback Moments at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

5/13, 8 PM an electroacoustic multimedia program by intense avant garde singer Ka Baird on piano and vocals with Chris Penalosa on the mixing desk at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/13, 9 PM bassist Petros Klamanis plays his haunting Mediterranean jazz at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15. At 11 PM the amazing Miriam Elhajli – who switches effortlessly from Venezuelan-influenced folk to classic Appalachian sounds – is up the block at the small room there.

5/13, 10:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads leads his group at Smalls 

5/13, 7 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie  – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir and dark cabaret – at LIC Bar followed by dark Americana singer Emily Frembgen. 5/18, 11 PM Leckie is at Sidewalk; 5/31 at 10 PM she’s at Pete’s

5/14, 2 PM trailblazing pipa goddess and singer Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa trio reinterprets the work of legendary jazz trumpeter Buck Clayton, Chinese composer Li Jinhui, Count Basie and Duke Ellington at Fresh Meadows Library, 193-20 Horace Harding Expressway, Fresh Meadows

5/14, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, Ensemble Signal plays works by Helmut Lachenmann at the Miller Theatre, free

5/14, 7 PM Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti and Nina Young perform their own works for violin, viola, and electronics, at the second-floor space at 1 Rivington St off Bowery, $20/$15 srs

5/14, 7 PM a benefit for progressive candidate Zellnor Myrie’s State Senate campaign with traditional Ghanian music by Alfred Kpedsaane and Brittany Anjou at the Owl, $50 contribution if you have it for the candidate who co-sponsored the Tenant Bill of Rights

5/14, 7:30 PM saxophonist Javier Oviedo and pianist François-Xavier Poizat play a very rare program of works by Mompou, Poulenc, Britten and Schulhoff at the Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 E 65th St., $25

5/14, 8 PM funky, lyrically intense dark folk jamband the Sometime Boys– with the riveting Sarah Mucho on vocals – at the big room at the Rockwood

5/14, 9 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at LIC Bar

5/14, 9:30 PM Los Cumpleanos play psychedelic cumbias with new wave synths & retro organ, effect-laden trombone and trumpet as well as a three piece percussion section at Barbes

5/15 7 PM  Katie Hyun plays solo violin works from Bach to Bartok at the second-floor space at 1 Rivington St off Bowery, $15/$10 srs

5/15, 7/9 PM unorthodoxically intriguing new classical works by Greg Watson and other contemporary composers played by Cesare Papetti – percussion; Derin Oge – piano; William Lang – trombone at Arete Gallery, $15

5/15, 7:30 PM  pianist Tamara Cashour and ensemble play works by Frederick Boyle, Richard Brooks, Cashour, Robert Cohen, Kevin McCarter, Timothy Lee Miller, Dary John Mizelle, Dana Dimitri Richardson and David See Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E. 29th Street $20

5/15, 8:30 PM the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico. 5/25 at 10 they’re at Barbes and 5/29 they’re at the third stage at the  Rockwood at 8:30 for $10 followed by amazing, psychedelic instrumentalists Sandcatchers – who blend cinematic, pastoral Americana and Middle Eastern themes 

5/15-20, 8:30/11 PM this era’s most consistently interesting, original jazz pianist/composer Vijay Iyer leads his sextet at the Vanguard, $30

5/15, 10 PM  brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

5/15, time/price TBA brilliant, Lynchian, darkly lyrical latin and Satie-inspired guitarist Jack Martin’s Bob Dylan Deathwatch and dark glam/ghoulabilly cult hero Tav Falco’s Panther Burns at El Cortez

5/16, 7 PM busy jazz and klezmer bassist Jim Whitney plays the album release show for his colorful, Stravinsky-esque new one Dodecahedron with Eric  Halvorson on  drums,  Nate  Radley on  guitar  and  Bennett  Paster on  keyboards  at 55 Bar. Whitney is also at Barbes at 7 on 5/22 with his Perpendicular Shoes quarrtet with Diego Voglino – drums; Michel Gentile – flute and Sean Moran – guitar followed at 9 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  

5/16, 7:30 PM perennially interesting new music advocates Ensemble Mise-En  play works by Korean and Austrian composers Sungji Hong (Korea/Texas), Mirela Ivičević (Croatia/Austria), Peter Jakober (Austria), Seong Ae Kim (Korea/NYC), Matthias Kranebitter (Austria) and Sojin Yoon (Korea) at the Austrian Cultural Center, 11 E 52nd St., free, rsvp req. The free program repeats on 5/17 at 8 at the Cell Theatre

5/16, 8 PM “feminist feline marching band” Pussy Grabs Back, catchy, edgy, darkly kinetic female-fronted Romany-tinged rock band the Trouble with Kittens , mystery band Nevada Nevada and the irrepressible Ellia Bisker’s explosive Balkan/New Orleans flavored Funkrust Brass Band at Friends & Lovers, $tba

5/16, 9 PM tuneful, epically-inclined, cinematic trombonist John Yao leads his quintet at Terraza 7, $10

5/16, 9ish haunting, intense, creepy harp/violin duo Leya at le Wallet, 1154 Myrtle Ave (Broadway/Bushwick Ave)

5/17, 4:30 PM a rare performance of Vietnamese music worth skipping work for: the Mekong Group play mystical dan tranh songs at Poe Park Visitor Center, 2640 Grand Concourse in the Bronx, B/D to Kingsbridge Road

5/17, 6 PM the Samurai Mama Big Band play music by Rudresh Mahanthappa, Maria Schneider, Radiohead, and Owen Carter at the auditorium at Harlem Hospital Center, 506 Malcolm X Blvd at 136th, free, res req  

5/17, 7 PM badass, fiercely political, sultry New Orleans oldtimey chanteuse Carsie Blanton at the Mercury, $15

5/17, 7 PM Jog Blues – who reinvent classical Indian themes much like Brooklyn Raga Massive does – at the  Rubin Museum of Art, $25 adv tix rec

5/17-18, 7:30/9:30 PM Gil Evans scholar/archivist/conductor Ryan Truesdell leads the Gil Evans Project playing rare, recently unearthed gems by the iconic big band composer at the Jazz Standard, $30

5/17, 8ish ethereal vibraphonist Chris Dingman solo and the duo of atmospheric guitarist Todd Neufeld and terse bassist Thomas Morgan  at the Owl, $10

5/17, 8 PM luminous, soulful pan-Latin jazz chanteuse Claudia Acuña with Pablo Vergara on piano  & Jauncho Herrera on guitar at Mezzrow, $20

5 /17, 8 PM the Starbenders – who blend a little funk and reggae into their powerpop and glamrock – followed by the Muckers – who veer between catchy GBV powerpop, gutter blues and art-rock  – at the Knitting Factory, $12 adv tix rec 

5/17, 9 PM intense, lyrical jazz bassist/composer Pedro Giraudo leadshis Tango Quartet, followed at 10 by wryly funny, psychedelic covers of 60s Russian psychedelic pop songs with the Eastern Blokhedz – who specialize in the catalog of legendary Polish singer Edita Piaha – at Barbes

5/17, 9 PM bassist Brian Glassman’s “Klezmer-Jazz Alliance” at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

5/17, 9 PM a killer, edgy violin-driven twinbill: Dana Lyn’s psychedelic, ecologically-themed Mother Octopus followed at 10 by Skye Steele and band at Niagara at 7th and A

5/18, half past noon singer/guitarist/flamenco dancer Marija Temo at the World Financial Center atrium, free

5/18, 5 PM Street Beat Brass Band play ”music from New Orleans Jazz to polka, Mexican banda, gospel, klezmer, and funk” at Bryant Park

5/18, 7 PM Michael Moss’ wildly improvising 22-piece Accidental Orchestra play the album release show for their lavish new one at the Westbeth Community Center, 155 Bank St. in the west village, $10 

5/18, 7 PM cleverly lyrical, witty saxophonist Daniel Bennett with guitarist Nat Janoff and Matthew Feick on drums at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St (off of Broadway), free

5/18, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 bypsychedelic cumbia band Yotoco at Barbes

5/18-19 at 8, repeating on 5/22 at 7:30 PM the NY Philharmonic play Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 plus Shostakovich’s savage Symphony No. 5 at Avery Fisher Hall, $30 tix avail

5/18, 8 PM Barbes comes to Queens: pioneering Guinea guitar legends the Mandingo Ambassadors and epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Flushing Town Hall, $16

5/18, 8 PM Korean musicians and dancers perform Ssitkimkut: The Korean Shaman Ritual of the Dead at the Asia Society, 725 Park Ave, $25. There’s also a pre-concert lecture at 7.

5/18, 8 PM multi-instrumentalist Brandon Lopez plays the debut of his piano trio, “Mess,” – “With Mess, he attempts to dismember the notion of the piano trio to create a counterpart where each instrument functions outside of their supposed traditional roles. A sprawling thing devoid of harmony or melody, the trio insists giving violence and silence equivalent weight,” at Issue Project Room, $10 sugg don

5/18, 8 PM chamber ensemble Collectio Musicorum play a homage to baroque composer Guillaume Dufay and his contemporaries at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 122 W. 69th St., free

5/18, 9 PM broodingly lyrical Nashville gothic band Leland Sundries at Bowery Ballroom, $15 adv tix avail. at the Mercury. Avoid the putrid headlining poser-rock band at all costs.

5/18, 9ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets  at Troost

5/18, 10:30ish alternately ambient and swirlingly ferocious guitar looper Ben Greenberg aka Hubble and the even more feral Reg Bloor playing the album release show for her deliciously assaultive new one Sensory Irritation Chamber at Muchmore’s, $10

5/18, midnight awesomely unhinged horror surf/hotrod instrumentalists the Mad Doctors at the Gutter, $10

5/19, 2 PM bouncy, slyly amusing psychedelic cumbia band Consumata at Lafayette Avenue and Edgewater Road in Hunts Point Riverside Park in the Bronx, 6 to Longwood Ave

5/19, 3 PM Wall to Wall Leonard Bernstein at Symphony Space with a whole series of chamber and vocal ensembles playing a career retrospective in more or less chronological order, free, the whole marathon lineup is here 

5/19, 4 PM pyrotechnic klezmer clarinetist and Dave Tarras protege Michael Winograd  and lyrical trumpeter Ben Holmes play poignant, cleverly intertwining new klezmer music followed at 6 by eclectic jazz guitarist Anders Nilsson and at 8 by uneasy Transylvanian jazz pianist Lucian Ban and baritone saxophonist Alex Harding at Barbes,

5/19, 4:30 PM experimental singer Odeya Nini, dancers Coco Karol and Ximena Garnica, sound artist Michaela Davies, and wild New Orleans-influenced loopmusic maven Sxip Shirey at the New School’s Glass Box Performance Space, 55 W 13th St,, $15

5/19, 7 PM magical Persian/Turkish improvisations with kamancheh fiddle icon Kayhan Kalhor and baglama player Erdal Erzincan at the Schimmel Center at Pace University on Spruce St. in the financial district, $30 tix avail

5/19, 7 PM wild Korean-klezmer cross-pollination with Lee Tae-Baek (ajaeng); Yi Jiyoung (gayageum); Kim Sung-Ah (haegeum); Kim Tae Young (janggo); Gamin (piri); Sita Chay (violin); Frank London (trumpet) and Ned Rothenberg (saxophone) at the Asia Society, $25

5/19, 7 PM sensational ex-Klezmatics fiddler Alicia Svigals and pianist Marilyn Lerner play their original score to the rare 1918 silent film Yellow Ticket at National Sawdust, $30. Followed at 10 ($20 separate adm) by wild avant jazz trumpeter Stephanie Richards playing the album release show for her new one

5/19, 7:30 PM acclaimed classical guitarist Sharon Isbin with guest six-stringer Romero Lubanbo at the World Financial Center atrium, free

5/19, 8 PM folk-gospel duo Gathering Sparks plus Pete Seeger’s Walkabout Clearwater Chorus at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away” 

5/19,8 PM entertaining female-fronted saloon blues/parlot pop band the Claudettes at the small room at the Rockwood

5/19, 8 PM the Centre Symphony Orchestra play Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, plus Beethoven’s Triple Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 with Muneko Otani, violin, Elizabeth Anderson, cello and Kaoru Fukuda, piano, at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., at 54th St, $10 sugg don

5/19, 10 PM 70s dark folk legend Kath Bloom – who has a haunting new album out  – a at Wonders of Nature, $10

5/19, 11 PM stoner 70s Murder City style rockers Sun Voyager at the Gutter, $10

5/20, 11 AM a rare performance of music for kids that isn’t condescending or stupid: Vered & the Babes play the album release show for their new one Songs for Sisters and Brothers, “which approaches the topic from every angle – from the eldest’s point of view, the youngest’s point of view, and the parent’s point of view,” outdoors at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, free

5/20, 1 PM epically lyrical alto saxophonist Peter Apfelbaum with Middle Eastern drummer April Centrone at the Cutting Room, $15 adv tix rec

5/20, 1/3 PM Sandbox Percussion play works by Steve Reich, Andy Akiho, Victor Caccese, Jonny Allen & Alex Weiser at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

5/20. 1 PM new music guitarist Denise Mei Yan Hofmann leads a chamber ensemble premiering soprano Kelsey Park’s new work exploring the challenges of fertility at at All Angels Church at 80th and Broadway., free

5/20, 6 PM high voltage skiffle/Americana band the Salt Cracker Crazies at LIC Bar

5/20. 7:30 PM the Orchestra of the League of Composers plays music by Du Yun, Samuel Adler, Hayes Biggs, and John Harbison at the Miller Theatre, $20/$12 stud/srs

5/20, 8 PM thereminist Pamelia Stickney’s Transcendental Dissonance Quartet followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

5/20,8 PM the PubliQuartet play NYC premieres of works by composers Jessica Meyer and Steven Snowden and a world premiere by Xian Wang at Arete Gallery, $20

5/20, 8 PM Triptyk with Patricia Brennan – vibraphone; Leonor Falcón – violin; Noel Brennan – drums and Multi-percussion followed by ethereal, raptly haunting singer Sara Serpa leading her trio with Angelica Sanchez – piano; Erik Friedlander – cello at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

5/20, 9 PM an all-female version of singer/keyboardist Sara McDonald’s lush, cinematic 17-piece art-rock/chamber pop band the New York Chillharmonic at Littlefield

5/20, 9 PM bad segue, good twinbill: thoughtful, purposeful original jazz songwriter Gracie Terzian followed by ethereal folk noir songstress Belle-Skinner, at the small room at the Rockwood

5/21, 8/10:30 PM eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette leads a multi-generational Coleman quartet with George Coleman Sr. on tenor and his son on drums plus Vic Juris on guitar at the Blue Note, $15 standing room avail

5/21, 8 PM a rare NYC performance by edgy Japanese experimental percussionist, composer, and theater artist Midori Takada at the Kitchen, $25

5/21, 8:30ish legendary, savagely lyrical British new wave era songwriter Graham Parker at City Winery, $25 standing room avail.

5/21, 9:30 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

5/21, 10 PM high-voltage delta blues/Romany swing guitarist Felix Slim at LIC Bar

5/22, 8 PM a rare bass-fronted large jazz ensemble (just like Mingus), the Ross Kratter Jazz Orchestra at Club Bonafide, $15

5/22, 8:30 PM quirky, smartly lyrical avant cello-rock with the Icebergs  followed by the catchy, edgy, darkly kinetic female-fronted Romany-tinged Trouble with Kittens at Pete’s

5/22, 9:30 PM ethereal folk noir songstress Belle-Skinner at Sidewalk

5/23, 6 PM haunting, lyrical Indian violinist/composer Trina Basu at the  Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

5/23, 6 PM erudite, purist torchy cosmopolitan jazz chanteuse Svetlana & the Delancey 6 at Bryant Park

5/23, 7 PM an extremely rare small club gig by noir Americana icon Neko Case at Littlefield, $30

5/23, 8 PM cinematic trombonist/guitarist Curtis Hasselbring’s colorful, wry, sometimes satirical Curhastra at Barbes

5/23, 8 PM serpentine, cinematic, epic art-rock band Book of Harmony, string metal band Stratospheerius and math-metal band the Astral Cadence at Gold Sounds, $10 

5/23, 8 PM purposeful, tunefully purist trombonist Nick Finzer plays the album release show for his new one with his sextet at Subculure,45 Bleecker at Lafayeette, $20 adv tix rec

5/24, 6 PM International Contemporary Ensemble plays a rare all-Zosha Di Castri program at the NYPL for the Performing Arts out back of Lincoln Center, free, res req 

5/24, 7 PM Luc Sante reads; reggae-soul Faith bandleader and badass bassist Felice Rosser follows in an evening of music and spoken word at the Howl space, 6 E 1st Str

5/24, 7:30 PM koto player Yumi Kurosawa and shamisen player Yoko Reikano Kimura perform an eclectic program of traditional and untraditional Japanese music spanning four centuries, including duets with cello and tabla at the Japan Society, 333 E 47th St, $25

5/24, 8 PM thoughtful, original cello/fiddle Americana duo Oliver the Crow at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10 

5/23, 8:30 PM intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio –Tamer Pinarbasi, Ismail Lumanovski & Ara Dinkjian – at Bar Lunatico

5/24, 7 PM ridiculously bad segues but three good acts: wryly surreal Lynchian parlor pop duo the Dream Eaters, oldtime country blues guitarist Mary-Elaine Jenkins and intense female-fronted psychedelic groove/funk band Imunuri at the small room at the Rockwood

5/24, 7:30 PM repeating on 5/26 at 8 the NY Philharmonic  play Berio’s Sinfonia with mighty avant garde choir Roomful of Teeth, plus Richard Strauss’ epic Alphine Symphony at Avery Fisher Hall, $30 tix avail

5/24, 7:30 PM newschool Cuban salsa jazz quintet Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/24, 8 PM David Ostwald and his ensemble the Louis Armstrong Eternity Band at Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, a 15-minute walk from the 7 stop at Junction Blvd

5/24, 9 PM klezmer mischief and mayhem: Reb Leybl & the Heights and the 156th Street Freylekh Band (w/Louis Pollison & Jesse Chevan) at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

5/25, 5 PM Brooklyn’s original punk Balkan horn group Hungry March Band at Bryant Park

5/25, 7 PM indie classical piano/percussion ensemble Bearthoven play a program TBA at Arete Galley, $15

5/25, 7:30 PM adventurous nuevo tango group Quinteto de Academia – with bandoneon and a wind section and an album whose Spanish title is “Wind Dynamics” – at Caffe Vivaldi

5/25, 7:30 PM the NY Festival Orchestra and Festival Chorus play works by Mozart, Hirai, Haydn, Handel, plus Japanese songs at Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 W 66 St (west of Broadway), $20, reception to follow

5/25-26, 8 PM cinematic, lyrical vibraphonist Joe Locke with Lorin Cohen & Jim Ridl at Mezzrow, $20 at the bar

5/25, 8 PM woodwind group Soundmind Ensemble play Schoenberg’s iconic wind quintet and other works at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

5/25, 9 PM a killer triplebill with Patricia Santos and Tara Hanish’s amazing, intense, soul-infused cello-rock/cello-metal duo the Whiskey Girls, pensive acoustic duo Peach and Knife –  Molly White and Elena Degl’Innocenti – and creepy noir chamber pop/murder ballad duo Charming Disaster at Pine Box Rock Shop 

5/25, 9 PM slinky maracatu/New Orleans/surf rock mashups from Nation Beat at the big room at the Rockwood

5/25, 9 PM acerbic, intense jazz cellist Hank Roberts leads his sextet with Dana Lyn on violin at I-Beam, $15

5/25, 10ish Christina Schneider’s jangly psych/garage/blue-eyed soul band Locate S1 at Secret Project Robot, $12

5/26, 1:30 PM energetic acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, a 15-minute walk from the 7 stop at Junction Blvd

5/26, 7 PM wildly theatrical, creepy circus rock band Orphan Jane at the Delancey, $10

5/26, 7:30 PM lyrical postbop trombonist/composer Michael Dease leads his sextet at Smalls

5/26, 7:30 PM the CMS Improvisers Orchestra directed by Peter Apfelbaum and Karl Berger explore river-themed group improvisation at El Taller, 215 W 99th St., $10

5/26, 8 PM otherworldly, ancient trance-dance music from the Punjab and Morocco: Falsa Band and Innov Gnawa at the Owl, $10 

5/26, 8 PM luminous, astonishingly eclectic, wickedly tuneful cello-rock badass Serena Jost, pensive acoustic duo Peach and Knife –  Molly White and Elena Degl’Innocenti, and acerbically lyrical chamber-soul band Sweet Soubrette at Hell Phone, 247 Varet St. in Bushwick, L to Morgan Ave

5/26, 9:45 PM sardonic, tuneful punks the Car Bomb Parade at the Gutter, $7 

5/26, 10 PM bassist Dana Schechter’s haunting, sweepingly menacing loopmusic instrumental project Insect Ark at Union Pool, $12

5/26, 10 PM psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Galle Bueno at Barbes

5/27, 4 PM a very rare perofrmance of Anna Thorvaldsdóttir piano music by pianist Cory Smythe and International Contemporary Ensemble at National Sawdust, $30

5/27, 6:30 PM Blythe Gruda sings her enigmatic art-rock and parlor pop at Pete’s

5/27, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –   followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

5/27, 7 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band at Sunny’s 

5/27, 7 PM smart, darkly pensive third-stream jazz pianist Noa Fort at the big room at the Rockwood

5/27, 9 PM charismatic, intense violinist/singer Natalia Steinbach aka WaterLynx followed by catchy, lyrically intriguing janglerockers Flock of Indifference at Pine Box Rock Shop

5/28, 3-6 PM, not a music event, but if you’re hungry and in the south slope, there are free burgers and hot dogs at Freddy’s!

5/28, 8 PM the NY Philharmonic play Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, free, GET THERE EARLY, like 6 PM if you’re going

5/28, 8:30 PM Jeff Lederer’s Shakers & Bakers celebrate little-remembered Albert Ayler soul and R&B at Bar Lunatico

5/28. 9:30ish singer Carolina Oliveros’ mighty 13-piece Afro-Colombian trance/dance choir Bulla en el Barrio at Barbes

5/29, 7 PM a super rare, intimate show with brilliantly lyrical latin jazz pianist Luis Perdomo at the Fat Cat. Who knew ?!?!?

5/29, 7 PM epic big band John Yao & His 17-piece Instrument plays the music of Yao’s old Hong Kong pal Patrick Lui plus his own colorful, cinematic work at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

5/29 9 PM purist, guitarishly excellent oldschool soul band Miss Tess & the Talkbacks  at Skinny Dennis

5/29, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new project the Bastards of Fine Arts  at 11th St. Bar

5/29, 9 PM terse, enigmatic avant garde singer Anais Maviel plays the album release show for her new one at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/30, 6 PM cumbia jazz accordionist/crooner Gregorio Uribe’s Big Band at Bryant Park

5/30, 6 PM terse, hypnotic acoustic guitarist Camila Celin and tabla player Ehren Hanson reinvent stark Indian carnatic sounds at the  Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

5/30, 7 PM the amazing, haunting, otherworldly NY Andalus Ensemble – who play ancient Middle Eastern and North African Jewish sounds from as far back as a thousand years ago  – host a Muslim-Jewish Iftar potluck party in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The band will provide utensils along with the tunes!

5/30, 7 PM jazz vocal-and-bass duo François Moutin & Kavita Shah play the album release show for their new one Interplay at Joe’s Pub, $20. Followed at 9:30 (separate $25 adm) by the Jim Kweskin Jug Band with Samoa Wilson on vocals.

5/30, 7 PM noir and spy-theme-inspired downtown composer Annie Gosfield plays an electroacoustic keyboard world premiere at National Sawdust, $25

5/30, 7:30 PM pianist Elias Stemeseder and vocalist Lauren Kinsella perform the world premiere of their cross-disciplinary music theater work for two improvisers, Press Play Backwards at the Austrian Cultural Center, 11 E 52nd St., free, res req 

5/30, 8ish cinematic multi-instrumentalist/violinist Laura Ortman, fearlessly relevant no wave-ish songwriter Emilie Lesbros and the magical microtonal Sarah Bernstein’s Unearthish play the album release show for their new one at Wonders of Nature, $10

5/30, 8 PM rising star composers Felix Bransbourg, Isaac Lageschulte, Ella Vermut, Owen Woolford, Danielle Wu, Philina Zhang, and Marina Zurita McKinnon parse Nathaniel Hawthorne’s take on the Midas myth with trio works for bassoon (Brad Balliett), guitar (Jordan Dodson), cello and narrator (Paul Hecht) at the second-floor space at 1 Rivington St off Bowery,  $10/stud free

5/30, 8 PM the Hands Free – composer/performers James Moore (guitar/banjo), Caroline Shaw (violin), Nathan Koci (accordion) and Eleonore Oppenheim (bass) – celebrate the release of their self-titled debut album at the Kitchen, $20

5/30, 8 PM “thingNY gives a taste of its opera-in-development with a short selection of songs from Gelsey Bell’s Rolodex, in which the ensemble surrounds the interrogation table to investigate a crime, calling on witnesses from a Rolodex that doubles as a musical score. Varispeed, with additional members from thingNY, performs their new arrangement of Kenneth Gaburo’s masterpiece, Maledetto, from 1968” at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/30, 9 PM breathtaking, charismatic singer Sami Stevens’ oldschool soul group followed by moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly  at the small room at the Rockwood

5/31, 7 PM intense, fearlessly relevant Syrian clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and his amazing Middle Eastern jazz ensemble put a relevant, intense new spin on ancient Syrian sounds at National Sawdust, $30

5/31, 7:30 PM six-string guitarist Timucin Sahin and pianist Cory Smythe play uneasy Middle Eastern-tinged improvisations at Drom, $10 adv tix rec

5/31, 7:30 PM colorful, intense, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger leads his quartet at Smalls

5/31, 7:30 PM Punjabi-American soul with Zeshan B at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/31, 8 PM a rare Brooklyn appearance by sharply lyrical, grimly futuristic parlor pop band the Tyranny of Dave followed at 10 by Super Yamba playing their psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Barbes 

5/31, 8 PM singer Gabrielle Herbst leads a chamber octet through her dreamlike but arresting new opera, Vulnerability at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

5/31, 8:30 PM Indian jazz crew Overview Effect with Mustafa Bhagat – sitar; David Freeman – drums; Steve Hudson – keyboards; Jamie Zillitto – bass with special guests Ivan Barenboim – bass cllarinet & Arun Ramamurthy – violin play the album release show for their new one at the Jalopy, $15

5/31, 8:30 PM impressively diverse, adventurous latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz at Bar Lunatico

5/31, 9ish haunting, hypnotically lyrical fingerstyle guitarist/songwriter Jean Rohe at the Owl

5/31, 9 PM Lynchian Moscow klezmer/latin noir dance band Vanya Juke at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

6/1, 7 PM the Aizuri Quartet with Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh play immigration and exile-themed works by Azmeh, Komidas, and Lembit Beecher, plus a suite of short works by Pauchi Sasaki, Michi Wiancko, Wang Lu and Can Bilir at the Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $35 but worth it

6/1, 7 PM Aya Aziz and Ali Merghoub mash up haunting North African sounds and new wave followed eventually at 10 by hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote‘s hot Afrobeat-tinged funk grooves at Shrine  

6/1, 7 PM pianist Zach Lapidus, bassist Peter Brendler and drummer Aaron Seeber play an all-Leonard Bernstein program at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St, free

6/1, 7 PM bass duo Sean Ali and Pascal Niggenkemper, soprano Stephanie Lamprea and pianist Gabriel Zucker playing works by Saariaho, Webern and others, then Nathan Bell solo on drums, then Gaya Feldheim Schorr singing Connie Converse songs at Spectrum, $10

6/1, 7 PM pianist Roger Lent and singer Olivia Chindamo! play Gershwin at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

6/1-2, 7:30/9:30 PM terse, purposeful rising star postbop saxophonist Melissa Aldana   leads a septet playing her Frida Kahlo-inspired material at the Jazz Gallery, $25

6/1, 8 PM one of the year’s best twinbills:hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly and epic, original, intense original Balkan monsters Raya Brass Band at Flushing Town Hall, $16

6/1, 8 PM a wildly eclectic, jazz-inclined steel guitar triplebill: Susan Alcorn, Doug Jernigan and Mike Neer at the Jalopy, $20

6/1, 8ish a rare Brooklyn show by searing, intense, politically conscious alto saxophonist/composer Sarah Manning leading a trio with Alli Miller on drums followed by another killer reed player, Briggan Krauss’ The Need with Wayne Horvitz on piano at the Owl

6/1, 8 PM alto saxophonist Caroline Davis leads her Quartet at the Neighborhood Church, 269 Bleecker St. at Morton St., free

6/1, 8 PM the epic (possibly four-hour) annual performance by legendary Japanese collective improvisers Marginal Consort – who use homemade acoustic instruments, electronics, bamboo sticks, marbles, water and more – at Pioneer Works, $20 

6/1, 8:30 PM, repeating on 6/2 at 7:30 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play works by Samuel Beebre, Jonathan Bruce Brown and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. Friday’s concert features soloist Susanne Chen on the Victor Bruns’ Contrabassoon Concerto. Saturday’s concert also has the Violin Concerto by Erich Korngold featuring Emanouil Manolov, at St. Paul’s Church, 315 W 22nd St., $20 sugg don

6/1, 8:30 PM catchy oldschool roots reggae with a fearlessly populist Senegalese feel from Meta & the Cornerstones playing a rare acoustic show at the big room at the Rockwood, $15

6/1, 8:30 PM torchy tropicalia swing singer Candice Reyes leads her quintet at Club Bonafide, $15

6/1, 9:30 PM hardscrabble, smartly lyrical Americana rock band Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters at Hill Country

6/1, 9:30 PM Mischief Night – the Grasping Straws’ Mallory Feuer’s menacingly lo-fi guitar-drums duo – at Sidewalk 

6/1, 9:30 PM Miles Evans leads what’s left of the Gil Evans Orchestra playing classic noir and swing themes at the Cutting Room, $20 adv tix avail

6/1, 10 PM awesomely slinky, psychedelic Israeli Ethiopiques groove instrumentalists Anbessa Orchestra  at Barbes

6/1, 10 PM brilliantly lyrical, Elvis Costelloish multi-instrumentalist songwriter Tris McCall & the Cell Phone Thieves at FM Jersey City, free

6/1, 10:30 PM catchy Booker T-esque soul jazz with the David Gibson/Jared Gold, Hammond B3 organ band at the Fat Cat

6/2 starting in the morning an allday concert in Ft. Greene Park, acts TBA

6/2, 3 PM this year’s Choralfest features performances by the rivetingly eclectic all-female Accord Treble Choir, Stuyvesant High School Choir, St. Thomas Gospel Choir, Polyhymnia early music singers, Every Voice Choirs, University at Buffalo Choir, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, the Canticum Novum Singers, LaGuardia High School Women’s Choir and New York Virtuoso Singers at Symphony Space, free  

6/2, 4 PM fiery, deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner Seth Kessel & the Two Cent Band followed eventually at 10 by rockabilly songstress Suzette Sundae & the Love Lifes – killer band if retro sounds are your thing – at Skinny Dennis

6/2, 4:30  PM soprano Marguerite Sutherland sings works by black composers, “the story of Harriet Tubman’s life, the Birmingham church bombing, black art songs, Creole folk music and spirituals” at St. Peter’s Church, 54th/Lex, $25

6/2, 4:30 PM hard-hitting postbop trombonist/composer Jimmy O’Connell leads his sextet at Smalls

6/2, 6 PM harmony-fueled bluegrass band the NYCity Stompers at Asser Levy Park out behind the aquarium in Coney Island (where the free outdoor shows used to be held, remember?)

6/2, 7 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini at the Way Station

6/2, 7 PM Margaret Leng Tan, doyenne of the toy piano plays a program of all female composers:. Phyllis Chen, Monica Pearce, Laura Liben, Ying An Lin, Kelly Moran, Bunita Marcus, Hye-Kyung Lee and Y fat Soul Zisso.at Spectrum, $10

6/2 7:30 PM the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play their 6th anniversary show with psychedelically ripping hammered dulcimer power trio House of Waters , singer Samarth Nagarkar with harmonium and tabla, and the Women’s Raga Massive at Pioneer Works, $30

6/2, 8 PM art-rocker Pierre de Gaillande’s Bad Reputation playing witty chamber pop English translations of Georges Brassens classics followed at 10 by epic ranchera/bolero brass crew Banda de los Muertos at Barbes

6/2, 8 PM slinky all-female jazz quintet Mariposa with Hyuna Park (piano and musical direction), Myriam Phiro (vocals and bandleader), Leonor Falcon(violin), Tina Lama (bass), and Mariana Ramirez (drums and percussion) at Club Bonafide, $20

6/2, 8 PM, repeating 6/3 at 4, irrepressible vocal/instrumental chamber ensemble Cantata Profana with Lucy Dhegrae as vocal soloist, in Jukka Tiensuu‘s Plus IV, Mauricio Kagel‘s single-minded Unguis Incarnatus Est, Simon Steen-Andersen‘s playful sonata for contact microphones, Difficulties Putting it into Practice, and a little bonus material from the 14th century by Guillaume de Machaut at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix rec

6/2, 8:30 PM edgy psychedelic/jazz Gutbucket guitarist Ty Citerman performs duets and trios with singer/multi-instrumentalist Judith Berkson and singer Sara Serpa from his Bop Kabbalah+Voices: New Radical Yiddish Liberation Song project at I-Beam, $15

6/2, 8:40 PM (not 8:30) a killer Brazilian acoustic rainforest psychedelic folk twinbill at SOB’s with rapidfire accordionist Vitor Gonçalves & Trio Sanfonya Brasileira and Adriana Giordano & Forro en Canto, $15

6/2, 9 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret trio Hannah vs. the Many at Hank’s. OMFG this band is good – they slayed on an off-night at LIC Bar, who knows what they could do in the surprisingly good sonics here. 

6/2, 9 PM Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 PM with surfed-up tv themes from Commercial Interruption, at 10 the jangly, southwestern gothic-inclined Agent Octopus, 11 the swirly, hard-hitting, reverb-iced Strange but Surf and at midnight wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists the Bakersfield Breakers

6/2, 9ish catchy, slinky, psychedelic tropicalia and cumbia band Yotoco at the Owl

6/2, 9 PM sardonically relevant guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene  at Sidewalk

6/2, 10 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes play the album release show for their new one She Is Tossed By the Waves But Doesn’t Sink at El Cortez, $tba

6/2, 10 PM singer Allysen Callery blends medieval and new, original folk noir sounds at Wonders of Nature, $10 

6/2, 10ish purposeful, anthemic metal band Fragile Sky at Lucky 13 Saloon, $10 

6/2, 10 PM edgy lefty lead guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band  at Silvana. He’s also at the Way Station at 6/8 at 9:30

6/3, 11 AM ferociously lyrical, Macbeth-inspired art-rock/psychedelic songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister’s amazing band serves at the backing unit for her surreal songwriting class for seniors at Young Israel Senior Center, 1694 Ocean Ave at Ave. L, Midwood, Q to Ave. M, free

6/3, 11 AM chanteuse/uke player Dahlia Dumont’s Blue Dahlia playing edgy, smartly lyrically-fueled, jazz-infused tunes in English and French with classic chanson and Caribbean influences at City Winery for brunch, $10

6/3, 1:30 PM

1:30 PM trumpeter Jordan Hirsch & the New York Klezmer Ensemble; dynamic, subtle new female-fronted klezmer band Tsibele, and Jewish dance master Steven Weintraub at Sholem-Aleichem Cultural Center, 3301 Bainbridge Ave., Bronx, D to 205th St., $10

6/3, 3 PM the rivetingly eclectic all-female Accord Treble Choir, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 423 Clinton St. (Greene/Gates) in Ft. Greene. 6/9 at 6 they’re at St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, 552 West End Ave (entrance on 87th St.)

6/3, 3 PM edgy sax ensemble the PRISM Quartet at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 120 W 69th St, $22/$17 stud/stud/srs

6/3, 6 PM these improvisers are gonna bring a crowd: David Aaron on soprano sax with Rob Ritchie on guitar and David Gould on drums followed by Sam Newsome solo on soprano sax at Downtown Music Gallery

6/3, 7 PM spine-tingling darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriter Carol Lipnik – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – at Pangea

6/3, 7 PM velvety noir jazz singer (and Tickled Pinks member) Stephanie Layton’s impressively eclectic torch/swing jazz band Eden Lane at Caffe Vivaldi

6/3, 7 PM Karen Bentley Pollick reprises “an awesome solo violin & viola recital mixing Serbian, Lithuanian, Oriental, Icelandic & Mid-Eastern harmonies and melodies” at Spectrum, $10

6/3, 7 PM pianist Jinjoo Yoo leads her Trio at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10. Purist Monk influence, unselfconscious sense of humor, vivid compositions: good stuff. 

6/3, 8 PM feral, cinematic noisemetal guitarist Reg Bloor at Coney Island Baby, $10

6/3, 8 PM Clara Latham’s enticingly, hopefully excoriating musical theatre piece Bertha the Mom excavates the story of the birth of psychoanalysis via the famous case history of Fräulein Anna O, as a “farcical melodrama” starring Alice Teyssier and a first-class ensemble at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec. Take that, Freud!

6/3, 9Ish loud drony reverb guitar atmospherics with Trigal and Invisible Circle at Secret Project Robot, $7    

6/3, 9ish horn-driven New Orleans soul with Sammy Miller & the  Congregation at Bowery Ballroom, $18 gen adm 

6/4, 6 PM sitar player Abhik Mukherjee followed at 9 bysweeping, swinging vibraphonist Behn Gillece and group at the Fat Cat 

6/4, 7 PM Parisian chamber group Ensemble Almaviva play works by Ravel, Ginastera and others at the Americas Society, free, rsvp req 

6/4, 7:30 PM Glass Farm Ensemble play works by Sciarrino and Berg plus Klaus Huber’s Schattenblätter (Shadow leaves) for bass clarinet and piano, and works by Rico Gubler and Denis Schuler at Symphony Space, $20 adv tix rec

6/4, 8 PM Changing Modes – NYC’s funnest, most unpredictable, sharply lyrical new wave art-rock band –  followed eventually at 10 by kick-ass reverbtoned surf-influenced Spanish punks Leevancleef at Gold Sounds, $10

6/4, 8 PM the most bizarre yet strangely tuneful band in town: Subtropico Militia Heavy Squad, who veer from sludgy riff-rock to dub to tropicalia, followed by Romany ska-punks Romala & Otretsaloff Orchestra at Bowery Electric, $10. Romala and crew are also at Shrine the next night, 6/5 at 9 for free.

6/4, 8 PM Tosca Opdam, violin and Victor Stanislavsky, piano play works by Prokofiev, Bach, Korngold, Debussy and De Raaf at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25

6/4, 8 PM the DaCapo Chamber Players perform an enticing new music bill with works by Philip Glass, David Lang, Dylan Mattingly, Christopher Cerrone, Tania Leon, Taylor Brook, Mario Davidovsky and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $20/$10 stud/srs

6/4, 9:30 PM Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos with members of M.A.K.U and Combo Chimbit play space cumbia at Barbes

6/4, 1AM ish (wee hours of 6/5)  wickedly catchy MC5ish stoner riff-rockers Ecstatic Vision at Secret Project Robot 

6/5, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the Spektral Quartet play works by George Lewis, David Fulmer and Eliza Brown at the Miller Theatre, free

6/5, 7 PM Ethiopian crooner Habte Awalom followed eventually at 9 by Romany ska-punks Romala & Otretsaloff Orchestra at Shrine

6/5, 8 PM Anna Wray, Michael Lofton, and Brian Adler and the Human Time Machine play an electroacoustic multimedia exploration of Roscoe Mitchell’s work – and the injustice being done to the African American community – at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

6/5, 8 PM the Festival Chamber Orchestra with Robert Ingliss, oboe soloist at Washington Square Park, program tba

6/5, 8:15 PM haunting Middle Eastern guitarist Ayman Fanous with Jason Hwang (violin),Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion and gongs) and then at 9:30 Fanous joins William Parker (bass),Ned Rothenberg (reeds),Amir ElSaffar (trumpet), Tatsuya Nakatani at Shapeshifter Lab, $12

6/5, 8:30 PM popular, low-key Americana songstress Kelly Willis at City Winery, $20

6/5, 9 PM slinky all-female latin jazz supergroup Cocomama at the Fat Cat 

6/5, 10 PM edgy, carnivalesque Americana/gutter blues band Fife & Drom at C’Mon Everybody, $12

6/6, 6 PM oldschool Dominican bachata with Wilson Daniel and his combo at Bryant Park

6/6, 7 PM singer Elspeth Davis and the Argus Quartet play Elvis Costello’s Juliet Letters at the second-floor space at 1 Rivington St off Bowery, $15/$10 stud

6/6, 7:30/9:30 PM purposeful, smart, tuneful saxophonist Sharel Cassity plays the album release show for her new one with Sharel Cassity, vocalist Christie Dashiell, guitarist Mark Whitfield, pianist Miki Hayama, bassist Jon Michel, and drummer Jonathan Barber at Dizzy’s Club, $30

6/6, 7:30 PM multimedia artist Luisa Muhr explores the life and implications of the immigrant path traced by Turkish immigrant great-grandmother Anna along with her own, seeking “to uncover the intergenerational connection two related women have by dealing with the themes of ancestry, immigration, language, and identity via movement, voice/music, recording, and projection,” at the Austrian Cultural Center, 11 E 52nd St., free

6/6, 8 PM a rare bass-fronted stoner boogie/psych blues power trio, Datcha Mandala followed by the similar, more Mississippi hill country-influenced Dirty Deep at Drom, free 

6/6, 8 PM catchy, drifty postrock guitar instrumentalists To Sail Beyond the Sun at Gold Sounds, $8 /

6/6, 7:30/9:30 PM darkly enigmatic jazz singer/keyboardist Alina Engibaryan with Chris Potter – tenor saxophone; Taylor Eigsti – keyboards; Michael League – bass; Kendrick Scott – drumsat the Jazz Standard, $25

6/6, 8 PM psychedelic klezmer/bluegrass mandolin and clarinet legend Andy Statman at Barbes, $10

6/6, 8 PM captivatingly relevant New Zealand composer/performer Emma Peacock explores “marginalized experiences of women from abuse and tension to hope and reform in staged solo and chamber works” with a first class ensemble at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

6/6, 8 PM the purist, deviously funny Gary Versace leads his organ trio at Mezzrow, $20

6/6, 8 PM Eliza Bagg, Gabriel Zucker, Alex Goldberg, Emily Bookwalter, and guests perform Rzewski’s Attica-themed minimalist classic Coming Together plus Louis d’Heudières Laughter Studies II at Spectrum, $10

6/6, 8ish Dervisi feat. guitar god Steve Antonakos play “exotic Greek gangsta blues” at Troost

6/7, noon the world’s most-recorded drummer ever, Bernard “Pretty” Purdie’s All-Star Shuffle with guests Bobbi Humphrey and Quiana Lynell at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn

6/7, 7 PM the Spectrum Symphony  play a rapturously lyrical, extremely rare performance of Henryk Wieniawski’s High Romantic Violin Concerto No. 2 plus the equally rare, arioso 1867 Mass in F by Italian-influenced Polish composer Prince Poniatowski with brand-new orchestration by conductor David Grunberg at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Ave, $30

6/7, 7:30 PM iconic, fearless Mauritanian rights crusader and psychedelic bandleader  Noura Mint Seymali at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

6/7-10, 7:30/9:30 PM mighty, tectonic latin jazz with the Dafnis Prieto Big Band at the Jazz Standard, $30

6/7, 7:30/9:30 PM noir-inspired low-register reedman Ben Goldberg leads a killer quintet with Mary Halvorson on guitar at the Jazz Gallery, $15

6/7, 7:30 PM Duke Guillaume and the Metropolitan Gospel Big Band at Shapeshifter Lab, $20

6/7, 8 PM Mitra Sumara – New York’s only psychedelic 1960s style Iranian art-funk band – play the album release show for their new one at Nublu 151, $15

6/7, 8 PM kaleidoscopically shapeshifting, edgy, tuneful art-rock band Bent Knee at the Mercury, $12

6/7, 8 PM eclectic Romany and Indian-inspired jazz accordionist Will Holshouser at Barbes

6/7, 8 PM bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval plays Jakob Ullmann’s mystically ambient Müntzer’s Stern at the San Damiano Mission, $20

6/7, 8ish pianist Mariel Berger and percussionist Maraliz Campos followed by brilliant Middle Eastern percussionist/oudist April Centrone’s album release show at the Owl, $20, half the proceeds to benefit music therapy programs in Lebanon

6/7, 8 PM the C4 Ensemble play water and water disaster—themed music by Nilo Alcala, Massimo Lauricella, Lucas Marshall Smith, Jaako Mantyarvi, Timothy Brown,Vince Peterson, Julian David Bryson, Wilma Alba Cal, J. D. Frizzell, Carlo Vincetti Frizzo, and Bettina Sheppard.at the Baruch College Audiorium, $20/$5 under 17/under 10 free

6/7, 8 PM slack-tuned, four-string wildman guitarist Bill Orcutt, feral Bhutanese guitarist Tashi Dorji, and creative jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee at Issue Project Room, $15/$12 stud/srs

6/7, 8:30 PM a killer jangly rock twinbill: wickedly catchy Americana/paisley underground rockers Girls on Grass  and first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Cliff Westfall at Hank’s, $7

6/7, 8:30 PM the Kurt Neumann-led version of Milwaukee highway rock legends Bodeans at City Winery, $32 standing room avail

6/7, 8:30 PM cellist and singer Laura Wolf Schatz at Pete’s. She’s also there on 6/16 a half hour earlier

6/7, 9 PM cinematic noir Americana with Nathan Xander followed by creepy Laurel Canyon art-rock/psych-folk/dark Americana band Quicksilver Daydream at Footlight Bar

6/8, 5 PM percussionist Luisito Quintero and New Swing Sextet play cha-cha and boogaloo at Bryant Park

6/8. 6 PM brilliantly lyrical dark oldtimey songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Pete Lanctot and similarly amazing violinist Ginger Dolden on the granite terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park, south of the roller rink

6/8, 6 PM crystalline-voiced, noir-tinged third-stream jazz chanteuse Tessa Souter and her band at 55 Bar

6/8, 7/9:30 PM the amazingly eclectic female-fronted latin/Mediterranean/Romany and charming French ye-ye Banda Magda String Orchestra at Joe’s Pub, $25 adv tix rec

6/8, 7 PM ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black at the Well, 272 Meserole St. in Bushwick, L to Montrose Ave. They’re back there at 9ish on 6/28

6/8, 7:30/9:30 PM powerhouse drummer/composer Johnathan Blake leads a monster trio with Chris Potter on tenor and Linda Oh on bass at the Jazz Gallery, $25

6/8, 8 PM the Jalopy Chorus sing music from the Balkans, Caucuses and beyond followed at 9 by Sardinian vocal ensemble Tenores De Aterue, at 10 the Bodoma Garifuna Cultural Band and then at 11 Fada playing Occitan songs at the Jalopy, $15

6/8, 8 PM hypnotically explosive live bhangra dance band Red Baraat at Flushing Town Hall, free, rsvp req 

6/8, 8 PM sitar legend Krishna Bhatt teams up for some ragas with avant guitar fave Gyan Riley at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

6/8, 8 PM the New York Jazzharmonic Trad-Jazz Sextet led by bassist Ron Wasserman perform new arrangements of James Reese Europe’s music from his pre and post-WWI periods, including some of his important collaborations with Noble Sissle, with vocalist Aubrey Barnes at Symphony Space, $20 adv tix rec

6/8, 8:30 PM dark Americana guy/girl harmony duo the Tall Pines followed by funny, organ-fueled garage rockers Archie & the Bunkers at Coney Island Baby, $12

6/8, 8:30 PM newgrass/pastoral pop band the Darkest Timeline at the Way Station. If you can handle the weak vocals, the two-guitar interplay is delicious.  

6/8, 9 PM baritone crooner Sean Kershaw‘s Serpentones play “hi octane Brooklyn honkytonk”at Bar Chord

6/8, 9ish a rare appearance by Ed Pastoriini’s shapeshifting, cinematic, twisted 101 Crustaceans at the Owl

6/8, 10 PM oldschool roots reggae band Rho & the Nomads at Shrine 

6/9, 1/3 PM Ensemble Connect play chamber works of Jennifer Higdon, Charles Wuorinen, Osvaldo Golijov & a New York premiere by Andy Akiho at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

6/9, 2 PM Jen Bevin, Nick Flynn, Rachel Zucker and haunting one-string violinist Tamalyn Miller read works inspired by Mel Chin’s installation The Funk & Wag from A to Z, followed by witchily theatrical art-rockers Goddess at the Queens Museum, free

6/9, 6 PM conguero Ray Mantilla leads his salsa jazz quintet at Hood Wright Park in Washington Heights, A to 175th St

6/9, 7 PM an amazing night of global sounds with Zong Li Lu (Chinese monochord), at 8 Yacouba Sissoko (kora music from Mali), at 9 – Rosa (all female Serbian vocal group); at 10 Cumbiamba eNeYe (oldschool Colombian cumbia jams) and at 11 Turkish sounds with intense chanteuse Jenny Luna, oudist Kane Mathis, and percussionist Philip Mayer at the Jalopy, $15

6/9, 7:30 PM sarod virtuoso Indrayuddh Majumder with tabla maestro Samir Chatterjee at Chhandayan Center For Indian Music, $20

6/9, 8:30 PM torchy singer Jennifer Charles’ and guitar mastermind Oren Bloedow’s long-running art-rock/noir band Elysian Fields at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

6/9, 8:30 PM a rare deep-Brooklyn appearance by the brilliant Greg Lewis Organ Monk Trio at Bar Lunatico

6/9, 10 PM ferocious, twin guitar-fueled, Radio Birdman-esque psychedelic punks the Electric Mess followed by the godfather of powerpop, the ageless Paul Collins at Hank’s, $7

6/9, 10 PM sick noiserock fun with the Sediment Club followed by ageless CB’s era funk-punk/postrockers the Bush Tetras at El Cortez, $tba

6/9, 10 PM guitarist Alyse Lamb’s fiery, subtly witty, tightly psychedelic jazz-inspired postpunk band Parlor Walls  at Secret Project Robot $10. They’re back here on the 18th at 9

6/9 hilariously acerbic, perennially relevant purist rock/Americana songwriter Amy Rigby at Berlin

6/10, 2 PM the NY Scandia Brass Quintet play works by Nordic composers at the Billings Lawn down the hill a bit in Ft Tryon Park

6/10, 2:30 PM all-star indie classical choir Roomful of Teeth sing a program TBA at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

6/10, 3 PM the original Mexican-American folk-punks: Los Lobos at Prospect Park Bandshell

6/10, 4 PM the Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra play Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni and Flute concerto no. 2, plus Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 at Congregation Beth Elohim, 271 Garfield Pl (Prospect Park West/8th Ave), Park Slope, any train to Grand Army Plaza, $20/$15 stud

6/10, 5 PM the Toomai String Quintet with special guest vocalist Alina Roitstein play the release show for their gorgeous new album, Cuerdas Cubanas – “modern string arrangements of legendary songs by Ernesto Lecuona as well as salsa, bolero, and mambo classics” at Symphony Space, tix $17 with code TOOMAIFAN

6/10, 5 PM up-and-coming new music ensemble Face the Music collaborate with the Tricentric Foundation, playing Anthony Braxton compositions; ensembles include the FTM Big Band, Improv Ensemble, and Advanced Jazz Project with performers from Braxton’s circle, at the Jazz Gallery, $15

6/10, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

6/10, 8 PM cinematic, plaintively sardonic composer/violinist and one-man band Christopher Tignor  at Trans-Pecos, $10

6/10, 8ish multi-instrumentalist Nick Demopoulos‘ twinkly, atmospheric electroacoustic Smomid project at Troost

6/10, 8 PM wow – rapturously eclectic jazz chanteuse Marianne Solivan leads a trio with Leandro Pellegrino (guitar), JD Allen (tenor sax) at Mezzrow, $20

6/10, 9:30 PM: indie classical group American Contemporary Music Ensemble perform cinematic works by the late Jóhann Jóhannsson at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec

6/11-14, 4-7 PM choreographer Abigail Levine’s Restagings No. 2: Of Serra (to movement) “begins at the moment of precarious balance enacted by Richard Serra’s Prop pieces. The performance makes a substitution of materials, replacing Serra’s steel forms with human bodies. For three hours each day, dancers perform looping solos and duets, their movements recorded on graphite panels mounted on the walls. Paula Matthusen’s sound design highlights the performance’s departure from sculpture, measuring and reflecting changes in position through shifting sound,” at the Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring St, free

6/11, 7:30 PM hauntingly tuneful, propulsive Lebanese jazz pianist Tarek Yamani leads his trio at Dizzy’s Club, $30. He absolutely slayed in a different Lincoln Center room this past spring.

6/12, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6 the Mivos Quartet’s Olivia De Prato plays solo violin works by Ned Rothenberg, Missy Mazzoli and others at the Miller Theatre, free

6/12, 7 PM the great unsung hero of darkly purposeful, noir-tinged jazz guitar, Saul Rubin leads his Zebtet at the Fat Cat. at the Fat Cat

6/12,7:30 PM a benefit for the National Jazz Museum in Harlem with Arturo O’Farrill with his Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble, legendary percussionist and Prince protegee Sheila E., and pianist Jon Batiste at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 695 Park Ave, $30 seats avail

6/12-13, 7:30/90:30 PM drummer Ralph Peterson, pianist Orrin Evans and bassist Luques Curtis play a Geri Allen tribute at the Jazz Standard, $30

6/12, 7:30 PM violinist Tessa Lark leads a pickup ensemble playing Fanfare & Fugue (for a Fish) (world premiere) – David Handler; Aurora (East Coast premiere) – Thea Musgrave; The Red Violin: Suite for Violin and Orchestra – John Corigliano; Serenade for Strings – Tchaikovsky; Clair de Lune –  Debussy at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat.

6/12, 7:30/:30 PM two counterintuitive duos: Peter Evans – trumpet and Cory Smythe – piano followed by Joel Ross – vibraphone with Immanuel Wilkins – alto saxophone at the Jazz Gallery, $15

6/12, 8 PM the NY Philharmonic play Saint-Saëns: Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah; Jordan Millar: Boogie Down Uptown; Camryn Cowan: Harlem Shake; Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town; Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The program repeats on 6/13 on the great lawn in Central Park (enter at 79nd St. in the west side), 6/14 at Cunningham Park in Queens – enter at 193rd Street, near 81st Avenue or Union Turnpike, concert is at the 193rd St. field; and 6/15 in Prospect Park (use the 9th St. entrance). They’re also at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island for free at 3 PM on 6/17.

6/12, 8 PM furiously political, funny reggae/hip-hop band Tropidelic at South House in Jersey City, free 

6/12, 8ish the irrepressible, cinematic, comedic Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet at Troost

6/12, 8:30 PM the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Bar Lunatico

6/12-16, 8:30 PM feral improvisational bassist James Ilgenfritz leads a series of ensembles at the Stone (otherwise known as the New School Glass Box Theatre at 55 W 13th St), $20. Choice pick: opening night with the Momenta Quartet

6/12, 9 PM guitar god Steve Antonakos plays electric slide blues with his band at Bar Chord

6/12, 9:30 PM the Bronx Conexion play their mighty salsa big band jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

6/13, 7 PM new, adventurous and older, more traditional klezmer and Jewish liturgical sounds, probably in reverse order: Klezmatics trumpeter Frank London and his Klezmar All Stars;clarinet/mandolin wizard Andy Statman; Middle Eastern tinged folk-rockers Pharaoh’s Daughter fronted by chanteuse Basya Schecter; wild, hilarious klezmer punks Golem; popular cantor Magda Fishman; theatrical singer Eleanor Reissa; the excoriatingly lyrical, fearlessly anti-fascist Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird and Yiddish theatre maven Zalmen Mlotek at Central Park Summerstage

6/13, 7 PM badass jump blues/torch singer Mimi & the Podd Bros. at the big room at the  Rockwood, $12 

6/13, 8 PM kick-ass hardcore punks Ted’s Dead – whose best song is Fuck Trump – followed by awesomely unhinged horror surf/hotrod instrumentalists the Mad Doctors  and explosively theatrical, phantasmagorical indie/metal trio A Deer A Horse around 11 at Secret Project Robot  

6/13, 8:30 PM kinetic, eclectic, funky parlor jazz violinist Mazz Swift at Bar Lunatico

6/14, 6:30 PM veteran trombonist Clifton Anderson leads his combo in Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City

6/14, 6:30 PM David Ostwald and his ensemble The Louis Armstrong Eternity Band at Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, 7 to Main St.. 6/29 at 6 they’re at Peninsula Library, 92-25 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Rockaway Beach, Queens. Hitch a ride if you can

6/14, 7 PM Danish vocalist and songwriter Helle Henning with Simon Linnert on piano, Tony Scherr on bass, and Kenny Wollesen on drums play pensive Nordic jazz at Scandinavia House, $15

6/14, 7:30 PM dubious segue, killer twinbill:haunting Romany/Balkan music reinventor Eva Salina with whirlwind accodionist Peter Stan followed by wildfire guitarist Brandon Seabrook‘s two-drummer monstrosity Die Trommel Fatale at Nublu 151

6/14, 7:30 PM pensively bluesy Mediterranean songwriter Piers Faccini at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

6/14, 8ish fiery jazz oudist/guitarist Gordon Grdina with his band The Marrow with Hank Roberts-cello; Mark Helias- bass and Hamin Honari on Persian percussion at Happy Lucky No 1 Gallery. 6/16, 8 PM he leads a quartet with Russ Lossing piano; Oscar Noriega alto and clarinets; Satoshi Takeishi drums at Greenwich House Music School, $15/$10 stud. Then they’re at Bushwick House on 6/18

6/14, 8 PM a dynamic, transcendent evening of classical Indian music with Roopa Mahadevan – vocals; Anjna Swaminathan – violin; Abhinav Seetharaman – mridangam at the Jamaica Center, 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, Queens, E/J to Jamaica/Parsons, $10

6/14, 8 PM quirky, smartly lyrical avant cello-rock with the Icebergs followed by atmospheric guitarist Robert Poss of Band of Susans and hypnotic postrock/art-rock/psychedelic supergroup Heroes of Toolik at Sidewalk. The Icebergs are also at Pete’s at 8:30 on 6/26

6/14, 8:30 PM PM Lynchian Moscow klezmer/latin noir dance band Vanya Juke with special guest  Michael Winograd on clarinet at Funky Joe’s, 455 W.56th St., $15

6/14, 8:30 PM the Ephemeral Birds – four violins and accordion – mash up Indian and klezmer sounds at the  Jalopy, $15

6/14, 8:30 PM impressively diverse, adventurous latin jazz pianist Aruan Ortiz at Bar Lunatico with bassist Cameron Brown 

6/14, 8:30 PM irrepressible, transgressively funny saxophonist Jon Irabagon with Matt Aronoff on bass and Alan Mednard on drums at the Bar Next Door, $12

6/14, 9:30 PM reverb guitar heaven: Crampsy ghoul-surf/noir garage band Twin Guns at Coney Island Baby, $12

6/14, 9:30 PM a rare intimate show by oldschool-style Liverpool-based soul crooner Jalen N’Gonda at the big room at the Rockwood, $15

6/14, 10 PM popular 90s powerpop/paisley underground rockers Elk City at Bowery Electric, $10

6/14, 10 PM eclectic Florida roots reggae band the Ellameno Beat  at the small room at the Rockwood

6/15, 7 PM sitar maestro Shakir Khan with tabla player Amit Kavtheskarshar Khan at the Rubin Museum of Art, $25 adv tix rec

6/15, 7:30 PM eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist Brian Charette  leads his trio; at 10:30 PM Smalls honcho and stride pianist Spike Wilner leads his; and at 1 in the morning this era’s most intensely powerful tenor sax guy, JD Allen runs the jam session at Smalls

6/15-1, 7:30/9:30 PM trumpeter Jason Palmer records a quartet album with a choice band including Mark Turner on tenor at the Jazz Gallery, $25

6/15, 8 PM an enticing quadruplebill of up-and-coming female voices at Littlefield, $10; allusively haunting, minimalist folk noir singer Belle-Skinner , the similarly enigmatic Riley Pinkerton, the more front-porch folk oriented Rose Hotel and intense, charismatic oldschool soul belter Sami Stevens

6/15, 8 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at Club Bonafide, $20

6/15, 8 PM drummer Ben Perowsky leads a killer trio with Sylvie Courvousier – piano; Hank Roberts – cello at I-Beam, $15

6/15, 8:30 PM fiery Red Molly Americana singer/guitarist Molly Venter & Goodnight Moonshine at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15

6/15, 9 PM creepy, psychedelic circus rock/Russian folk band Mad Meg at Singlecut Beersmiths in Queens

6/15, 9 PM Eno-esque, haunting, fearlessly political Berlin feminist singer Mary Ocher at Holo

6/15, 9ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf rock instrumentalists the Vibro-jets at Troost

6/15, 9:30 PM this era’s most interesting voice in retro Britrock and glam-inspired art-rock, Edward Rogers and his killer band followed by 70s outsider art-rock legend Terry Reid at the Cutting Room, $20 adv tix rec

6/15, 9:30 PM oldschool psychedelic soul/groove band Empire Beats at Hill Country

6/16, 6 PM rainy-day goth/postrock instrumentalists 40 Watt Sun at St Vitus, $15 

6/16, 6 PM ferociously lyrical, Macbeth-inspired art-rock/psychedelic songwriter Rose Thomas Bannister at Gowanus Canal Dredger Society Boathouse, 125-153 2nd St, downhill from the Carroll St. F stop. 6/22 at 9ish Bannister is also at the Letlove Inn, 27-20 23rd Ave in Astoria, N/W to Astoria Blvd. opening for psychedelic no wave legends The Scene Is Now.

6/16, 7 PM ferocious, female-fronted Afrobeat band Underground System at National Sawdust, $20

6/16, 7:30 PM two of the most riveting in the business with a slinky rhythm section – the Vijay Iyer Trio with fearlessly relevant, populist tenor sax visionary/improviser Matana Roberts  at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec

6/16, 7:30/9 PM powerful jazz belter – and Gil Scott-Heron reinventor –  Charenee Wade at Ginny’s Supper Club, $15

6/16, 11 PM the lavish, intense classical Turkish sounds of the NY Ataturk Chorus at Drom, $20 gen adm

6/16 wildly eclectic Afrobeat/funk/art-rock jamband the Jauntee at Drom

6/17, noonish roots reggae group Royal Khaoz headline the annual free Mafrika Festival at Marcus Garvey Park

6/17, 3 PM Domenic Salerni, violin; Nick Pauly, viola  ; Benjamin Larsen, cello and Yinfei Wang, piano play works by Tania Leon, Robert Sierra and Beethoven at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, sugg don

6/17, 5 PM fun dub-infused skanking with Skalopy in the community garden at Van Brunt and President in Red Hook, $10

6/17, 6 PM sitar/guitar raga duo Suhaib & Sharmeen at Sidewalk

6/17, 8 PM klezmer-jazz piano icon Anthony Coleman’s Sephardic Tinge followed by Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos doing their fearlessly political noiserock at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec. Coleman is also at Russ & Daughters on 6/28 at 8 for free.

6/17, 8 PM charismatic singe Amirtha Kidanbi leads a series of ensembles finding the populist link between the work of Muhal Richard Abrams and Hildegard von Binghen at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

6/18, 7 PM exhilarating all-female Finnish-Swedish string band Jepokryddona at Scandinavia House, free

6/18, 7:30 PM fiery alto saxophonist Lucas Pino’s twin-guitar No No Nonet at Smalls

6/18, 8 PM J-pop’s “Spooky Obakeyashiki,” Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at the Nokia Theatre, $30 

6/18, 8 PM edgy, punk-inspired female-fronted funk band Eliza & the Organix at Gold Sounds, $8

6/18, 8 PM sick new-Nashville cover band Your Ex-Girlfriends – or wait a minute, maybe they don’t actually think their repertoire of covers really sucks – at the small room at the Rockwood

618, 7:30/9 PM smoky singer Jenn Jade Ledesna leads an all-female quintet with Emily Sgouros – vibes; Liya Grigoryan – piano; Brandi Disterheft – bass; Sanah Kadoura – drums at Minton’s, $10

6/18, 8 PM witty Euro-jazz trombonist Samuel Blaser with Marc Ducret – guitar; Peter Bruun – drums at Roulette, $20 adv tix rec

6/18, 8ish pensive, tuneful acoustic songwriter Aviva Jaye and stark chamber-folk cellist/singer Clara Kennedy at Troost 

6/18, 8:30 PM vibraphonist Matt Moran leads an organ trio ?!? with Gary Versace and Tom Rainey at Bar Lunatico

6/19, 4:30 PM  trailblazing pipa goddess and singer Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa trio reinterprets the work of trumpeter Buck Clayton, Chinese composer Li Jinhui, Count Basie and Duke Ellington at Windsor Park Library,79-50 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, Queens

6/19, 6 PM legends from the zeros: singer/guitarist Genie Morrow’s super-catchy, erudite powerpop band Sputnik at the small room at the Rockwood

6/19, 7 PM eclectic singer Gaya Feldheim Schorr leads her Septet followed by drummer Mareike Wiening‘s quintet with Rich Perry on tenor sax at Shapeshifter Lab, $15

6/19-24, 8:30/10 PM postbop sax wildman David Murray & Class Struggle at the Vanguard

6/19-23, 8:30 PM multi-keyboardist Brian Marsella leads a series of ensembles at the Stone (otherwise known as the New School Glass Box Theatre at 55 W 13th St), $20. Choice pick: the 6/22 show, playing Zorn Bagatelles and Masada pieces with a trio

6/19, 9 PM JD Wilkes & the truly legendary, murderously intense, creepy punk/ghoulabilly Legendary Shack Shakers play a very rare acoustic show at the Bell House, $20

6/19, 10 PM amazing microtonal Afrobeat guitar band 75 Dollar Bill at Secret Project Robot

6/19, 10 PM  brilliant drummer/percussionist Willie Martinez & La Familia Sextet play classic salsa grooves at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

6/19, 10 PM French rock band Matmatah – the missing link between 70s AC/DC and Gogol Bordello – at Drom, free 

6/19. 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his quintet at Smalls. He’s also here on 6/26

6/20 7 PM original lead guitarist Seth Tiven leads the latest resurrection of 80s jangle legends Dumptruck at the Mercury, $12

6/20, 8 PM golden age jazz legends in a rare duo setting: postbop guitar purist Gene Bertoncini & bassist Rufus Reid at Mezzrow, $20

6/20, 8 PM golden-age era hip-hop artist Big Daddy Kane celebrates his 30th anniversary onstage (and about his 20th playing the NYC summer parks circuit) at the Amphitheater at Coney Island, 3052 West 21st St., free. Caveat: this is a rare free show at a Nazi corporate venue, prepare to be treated like a criminal at the entry gates

6/20, 8:30 PM exhilarating, edgy, sardonic alto saxophonist Elijah Shiffer leads a similarly colorful ensemble with Brian Simontacchi – trombone; Jeff McLaughlin – guitar; Marty Kenney – bass; Tim Rachbach – drums at Arete Gallery. 6/25 at 6:30 he leads a trio at the Bar Next Door

6/21 is Make Music NY, with thousands of free outdoor shows and a few indoors as well. Be aware that half the time, the musicians either don’t show up, or wait til the sun goes down and the temperature drops a bit.

6/21, half past noon latin piano jazz mastermind Arturo O’Farrill leads his sextet at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St

6/21, 4 PM Los Hijos de la Gran Puna play traditional Andean panpipe music on the second floor of the Ottendorfer Library, 135 Second Ave

6/21, 7 PM Finnish bassist Kaisa Mäensivu and her group play moody Nordic jazz at Scandinavia House, $15

6/21, 7:30 PM funny quirk-pop songwriter Jonathan Coulton, a lame 90s band, and then iconic, perennially relevant lit-rock songwriter Aimee Mann at Prospect Park Bandshell

6/21, 7:30 PM singer Elda Almeida – who does a more produced take on Cape Verdean ballads – at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised 

6/21-24, 8 PM dancer Molissa Fenley and Company join with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris for an evening ofwater-themed scores by Linda Bouchard, Andrew Toovey, Frank Cassara and Tigran Mansurian at  Danspace Project, 131 E 10th St, $22

6/21, 8 PM an intriguing original postbop trio: Kyle Nasser on saxophone with Rick Rosato on bass and Colin Stranahan on drumsat the Bar Next Door 

6/21, 8:30 PM noir jazz legends the Jazz Passengers at Bar Lunatico

6/21, 8ish remnants of Tom Csatari’s hopefully someday resuscitated large ensemble: drummer Rachel Housle, edgy guitarists Cubillos and Sean Cronin‘s Very Good at the Owl

6/21, 9:30 PM Turtle Island Quartet violinist Mateusz Smoczynski leads his enigmatic Polish string jazz project at Shapeshifter Lab, $10

6/21, 10 PM quirkily charismatic, powerful-voiced, kinetic avant-pop siren Grace McLean at Pete’s, note $10 cover – on a day when there are more advertised free shows than any other in NYC, that might be a joke

6/22, 6 PM badass original country blues and oldtimey guitarist/songwriter Mamie Minch and similarly badass, tapdancing Brain Cloud frontwoman Tamar Korn on the granite terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park, south of the roller rink

6/22, 7 PM saxophonist and composer Tyrone Birkett “presents a musical work giving voice to the dispossessed, acknowledging circumstances caused by dehumanization and “otherness,”  at Flushing Town Hall, free

6/22, 7 PM pianist Blair McMillen plays an all-David Lang program at Spectrum, $10

6/22, 7 PM cellist Margalit Cantor, soprano Katherine Copland & pianist Marc Peloquin play a program tba  at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St, free

6/22, 7:30/9:30 PM drummers aren’t the only guys with deep address books. Look at the amazing lineup bassist Ricky Rodriguez assembled for tonight: Miguel Zenon – alto saxophone; Dayna Stephens – tenor saxophone & bass clarinet ; Luis Perdomo – piano and keyboards ; Rudy Royston – drums at the Jazz Gallery, $25

6/22, 8 PM brilliantly lyrical trumpeter Ben Holmes’ Naked Lore with Kyle Sanna and Shane Shahanan at Barbes

6/22, 8 PM dark Britfolk songwriter Adam Masterson plays the album release show for his new one at Bowery Electric, $10

6/22, 8 PM Ocean Alley – who bizarrely mash up roots reggae with Oasis stadium rock – at the Mercury, $15 

6/22, 10 PM oldtime field hollers, banjo and fiddle music with Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons at the Jalopy, $15

6/22, 11 PM fiery latin dub guitarist/bandleader Nicolas Emden at the Way Station. 6/29, 7 PM he’s at at the park on the Hudson at 125th St. 

6/22-23, 10:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his catchy postbop quintet at Smalls

6/23 noon ageless nonagenario EWI player Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra outdoors at Union Pool, free, wow

6/23. 4 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new powerpop project the Bastards of Fine Arts at Pete’s

6/23, 5 PM ferociously lyrical populist rockers LJ Murphy & the Accomplices – the closest thing to Elvis Costello & the Attractions this city’s ever produced – at Bar 9, 807 9th Ave (53/54)

6/23, 6 PM an all-Portuguese triplebill at Central Park Summerstage, in reverse order: fado chanteuse Mariza, rainy-day keyboard instrumentalist Noiserv, and more improvisationally-inclined pianist Renato Diz.

6/23, 8ish a monster heavy rock triplebill: deliciously dirgey, hypnotic Brooklyn doom metal band Neither God Nor Master, darkly artsy boogie band Hogan’s Goat and haunting heavy psych band Matte Black at Lucky 13 Saloon 

6/23, 8 PM Argentine pianist Santiago Leibson with bassist Drew Gress and drummer Devin Gray followed by bassist Sean Conly leading his trio with Michael Attias on alto sax and Satoshi Takeishi on drums at Greenwich House Music School, $20

6/2, 8:30 PM haunting French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares’ Ayojo at Bar Lunatico

6/23, 9 PM intense charismatic danceable metal cumbia/skaragga/latin rockers Escarioka, at Bar Chord

6/23, midnight, funny, explosive oldschool style punk rockers the Live Ones at Hank’s , $8

6/24, 2 PM the NY Scandia String Orchestra perform works by Frank Foerster, Jean Sibelius, Ture Rangstrom and Knudage Riisager at the Billings Lawn down the hill a bit in Ft Tryon Park

6/24, 8 PM wryly funny honkytonk steel guitar genius/crooner Junior Brown at City Winery, at City Winery, $22 standing room avail

6/24, 8 PM ambitious, tuneful trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson leads a quartet inspired by poems by Harlem Renaissance writer Sterling Brown at Roulette, $15 adv tix rec

6/24, 8:30 PM Blythe Gruda sings her enigmatic art-rock and parlor pop followed by elegant oldtimey/frontporch folk/jazz songwriter Shannon Pelcher at Pete’s

6/24-26, 8:30/10:30 PM Jamaican jazz piano legend Monty Alexander leads a trio playing ballads at the Blue Note, $20 standing room avail

6/24, 9 PM catchy, soul-inflused third-wave ska band Beat Brigade followed by 80s legends the Toasters – still going strong – at the Knitting Factory, $15 adv tix rec 

6/24, 9 PM Kristen Estlelle & the Heartstrings – soul band with a live string section! – at the small room at the Rockwood 

6/25-28, half past noon witty Microscopic Septet pianist Joel Forrester at Bryant Park

6/25, 8:30 PM bassist Mario Pavone leads a killer trio with pianist Angelica Sanchez and drummer Pheeroan AkLaff at Bar Lunatico

6/26, 7 PM violist Jonah Sirota leads an ensemble playing compositions by Paola Prestini, Nico Muhly, Valgeir Sigur∂sson, Robert Sirota, A.J. McCaffrey, and Rodney Lister, as well as Sirota himself.from his new album Strong Sad at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

6/26, 8 PM a rare bass-fronted large jazz ensemble (just like Mingus), the Ross Kratter Jazz Orchestra at Club Bonafide, $1

6/26, 9 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at Shrine. 6/29 at 10 they’re at Silvana 

6/26, 10 PM murky, swirling postrock-ish doom band Witchkiss and grimly groove-driven doom metal band Eternal Black at Lucky 13 Saloon 

6/27, 7 PM catchy garage-psych road warriors the Monophonics at the Mercury, $15

6/27, 7 PM oldschool 90s hardcore hip-hop nostalgia: Black Moon and Smif N Wessun at Betsy Head Park, 167 Livonia Ave in Crown Heights; 3 to Saratoga Ave.

6/27, 7 PM irrepressible saxophonist Jon Irabagon premieres his new song cycle for mezzo-soprano, improvising sax and piano with Jennifer Beattie — mezzo soprano; Adam Marks — piano at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

6/27, 8 PM Berlin jazz singer Lucia Cadotsch’s Speak Low trio with tenor saxophonist Otis Sandsjö and double-bassist Peter Eldh, who contrast low-key, purist vocals and rough-edged improvisation in new interpretations of standards at Greenwich House Music School, $20

6/27, 9 PM hard honkytonk with Sarah Durning & the Fun Sisters at Skinny Dennis

6/28, half past noon kinetic klezmer/cumbia/cinematic jamband Isle of Klezbos at St. Marks Park, 2nd Ave/10th St

6/28, 7 PM spellbinding Arabic violinist Layale Chaker with her ensemble Sarafand, with cellist Jake Charkey, pianist Phillip Golub, bassist Nick Dunston, and percussionist Adam Maalouf at National Sawdust, $30 adv ix rec

6/28, 7 PM drummer Thomas Strønen’s lush, acerbic string jazz group at Scandinavia House, $15

6/28, 7:30 PM the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21/6; Othmar Schoeck: Summer Night, Pastoral Intermezzo for Strings, Op. 58 (NY Premiere) and Beethoven: String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 “Serioso”  at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, free

 6/28, 8 PM Chicago’s trippy, hip-hop and free jazz-influenced Lowdown Brass Band at Drom, $13 adv tix rec 

 6/28, 9 PM jangly, catchy Americana rock with Jennifer Milch & the Lonesome Sea at Bar Chord 

6/28, 9 PM hot 20s swing with trumpeter Jason Prover and his Sneak Thievery Orchestra at Radegast Hall

6/29, 6 PM blues guitarist Will Scott – who can play just about any style from all over the country – with violinist Charlie Burnham on the granite terrace in Brooklyn Bridge Park, south of the roller rink

6/29, 6:30 PM hauntingly harmony-driven folk noir supergroup Bobtown at the American Folk Art Museum

6/29, 7 PM David Fulmer, violin and Steve Gosling, piano plus an all-female vocal quintet perform new John Zorn works inspired by iconic female visual artists at National Sawdust $25 adv tix rec

6/29, 8 PM Giftshop – the missing link between Blondie and the Distillers – at the Delancey, $10 

6/29, 8 PM perennially interesting new music advocates Ensemble Mise-En play works by north sea composers Maija Hynninen (Finland); Gráinne Mulvey (Ireland); Jörgen Häll (Sweden); Agnes Ida Pettersen (Norway): and Ville Raasakka (Finland at Scandinavia House, $15

6/29, 8:30ish jazz royalty; Branford Marsalis and band at Prospect Park Bandshell

6/29, 10 PM trash-garage guitar maven Palmyra Delran and her band at Bowery Electric, $10

6/30, 3 PM hauntingly jangly noir Americana band the Sadies outdoors at Union Pool, free, see you there

6/30, 3 PM energetic acoustic Veracruz-style folk-punk band Radio Jarocho at Forest Hills Library, 108-19 71 Avenue, Forest Hills, 7 to 71st St.

6/30, 5 PM atmospheric, cinematic drummer/composer Tim Kuhl – sort of a more straightforwardly trippy version of John Hollenbeck – at Pete’s

6/30, 6 PM veteran jazz drummer Phil Young leads his septet at Marcus Garvey Park

6/30, 7 PM John Zorn conducts a mostly-female twelve-piece ensemble featuring pianist Sylvie Courvoisier, harpist Zeena Parkins and others from the Stone scene in a performance of his famous Cobra at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

6/30, 7 PN in reverse order at Prospect Park Bandshell: banjo player and Nashville pop refugee Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder,  mandolinist Sierra Hull and Justin Moses and badass original country blues and oldtimey guitarist/songwriter Mamie Minch, who’s gonna blow them all off the stage

6/30, 7ish perennially relevant hip-hop artist Talib Kweli at Betsy Head Park, 167 Livonia Ave in Crown Heights; 3 to Saratoga Ave

6/30, 8 PM Iggy Pop cover night at Lucky 13 Saloon with oldschool goths Night Gallery and a whole slew of other bands, free

7/5, noon hypnotic, pulsing, sousaphone-driven Guadalupian/New Orleans band Delgres at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn

7/7, 1/3 PM avant garde guitar quartet Dither play works of Eve Beglarian, Josh Lopes, Lisa Renée Coons, Gyan Riley, James Moore & Taylor Levine at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

7/7, 3 PM mesmerizing Malian duskcore band Songhoy Blues at Union Pool, free

7/7, 6ish golden age hip-hop legends EPMD at Springfield Park, 147th and Springfield Blvds at the far edge of Queens

7/8, 6ish in reverse order: newschool lovers rock crooner Kabaka Pyramid, the surprisingly vital version of what’s left of popular 70s roots reggae band Third World and ubiquitous loverman Barrington Levy at the Amphitheater at Coney Island, 3052 West 21st St., free, prepare to be treated like a criminal at the entry gates since this is a corporate venue

7/8, 7 PM Super Yamba play their bracingly psychedelic Afrobeat jams at Pier One on the upper west

7/10, 7:30 PM A Far Cry play Divertimento in F – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar; Symphony No. 3 – Philip Glass; Divertimento for String Orchestra – Bartók at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat.

7/12, noon Amalgarhythm with lyrical pianist Kris Davis and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn

7/12, 7 PM oldschool-style, accordion-fueled vallenato punks Very Be Careful and  alternately rustic and techy tropicalians Systema Solar at Queensbridge Park, 41st Ave and Vernon Blvd in Queens, F to 21st St. and walk to the water

7/12, 8ish feral female-fronted psychedelic cumbia/Afrobeat allstars Combo Chimbita and iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/13, 7 PM Afropop dancefloor guy Sinkane’s Caparundi – envisioning a magical and colorful place where Africa, North America, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean blend together – at National Sawdust, $20

7/13, 7:30ish cumbia reapper Ana Tijoux‘s Roja y Negro and Spanish hip-hop artist Mala Rodriguez at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/14, 5ish pensively lyrical, politically fearless Uruguayan folk-jazz singer Jorge Drexler at Central Park Summerstage

7/14, 7:30  PM Malian griots Trio Da Kali and new music icons Kronos Quartet at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/15, 7 PM fearlessly political latin Caribbean rock band Gallpote at Pier One on the upper west

7/17, 7 PM popular bluegrass touring band Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

7/17,  7:30 PM popular indie classical orchestra the Knights play Within Her Arms – Anna Clyne; Armenian Folk Songs – Komitas; Idyll – Janáček and Hungarian Dances – Brahms at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat

7/19, noon trippy, darkly cinematic Afrobeat psychedelia with Jupiter & Okwess at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn 

7/19, 6ish golden age hip-hop legends EPMD for free at Chambers Plaza in Newark

 7/20, 7:30 PM kinetic chamber-rock dance band My Brightest Diamond and cutting-edge sitarist Anoushka Shankar at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/21, 3 PM legendary 60s Britfolk singer Bridget St. John and her band outdoors at Union Pool, free

7/22, 8 PM trailblazing pipa goddess and singer Min Xiao-Fen’s Blue Pipa trio at Pier One on the upper west

7/23, 7 PM Seung-Min Lee’s “performance takes on the conflicted symbolic power of milk: As the once–booming dairy industry in New York state suffers with the steady decline of milk consumption, a new generation of Neo-Nazis takes pride in lactose tolerance, instrumentalizing the optical purity of milk as a emblem of white supremacy,” at the Kitchen, free

7/24, 7:30 PM the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA leads an ensemble in an epic re-score of the 1978 martial arts flick The 36th Chamber of Shaolin at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center, free, get there very early

7/26, noon trumpeter Terence Blanchard & the E-Collective at Metroteck Park in downtown Brooklyn

7/27, 7 PM Honeyfingers play their Chinese-influenced “country jazz and western swing,” at National Sawdust, $20

7/27, 7:30 PM Malian griot Cheick Hamala Diabate and the world’s most popular duskcore band,Tinariwen at Prospect Park Bandshell

7/27, 7:30 PM classic Fellini film scores live with Hal Willner’s Amarcord Nino Rota at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

7/28, 2 PM starkly psychedelic Malian duskcore guitarist/singer Mamadou Kelly outdoors at Union Pool, free

7/28, 7 PM a very rare Iranian rock triplebill in reverse order: crooner Faramarz Aslani accompanied by Babak Amini, underground legends KIOSK and Brooklyn expat band Habibi at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

7/29, 3 PM trippy, darkly cinematic Afrobeat psychedelia with Jupiter & Okwess followed by politically fearless Afrobeat scion Femi Kuti at Central Park Summerstage

7/29, 4 PM Gran Combo bandleader Charlie Aponte and his latest salsa dura project at St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx

7/29, 8 PM fearlessly haunting, dynamic, charismatic Romany/Balkan chanteuse Eva Salina with pyrotechnic accordionist Peter Stan at Pier One on the upper west

7/31, 7:30 PM the Orchestra of St. Luke’s with soprano Sherezade Panthaki and violinist Krista Bennion Feeney play Vivaldi’s Four Seasons,  Concerto for Strings in C Major and In Furore lustissimae Irae at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park, get there early if you want a seat.

8/2, 5 PM iconic second-wave Afrobeat band Antibalas at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/2, 8ish the Nigerian “Queen of Afrobeat” Yemi Alade at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/4, 3ish 60s-style bossa-influenced psych-pop band the Jay Vons outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/4, 3 PM Brazilian neosoul singer Xenia Franca, the Hamilton de Holanda mandolin Trio and trippy dub band Baiana System at Central Park Summerstage

8/4, 8:30 PM popular Jamaican dancehall crooner Tarrus Riley at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/5, 1 PM klezmer clarinet/mandolin wizard Andy Statman, Irish group Cherish the Ladies, Grupo Rebolu, and Sidiki Conde and Tokounou on the plaza at Lincoln Center. The program repeats at 5 out back in Damrosch Park.

8/5, 6 PM a brassy New Orleans bill: New Breed Brass Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, a lame jamband, and then Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave at Central Park Summerstage

8/5, 7 PM Puerto Rican percussion ensemble Yuba Ire and two popular Miami bands—Philbert Armenteros y Los Herederos and PALO! accompany a dance performance at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/7, 7 PM sitarist Shafaat Khan with a dance ensemble  at Gantry Plaza State Park in Long Island City

8/9, 7 PM 5/5, 9ish noirish blue-eyed soul singer Fiona Silver and popular blues guitarslinger Gary Clark Jr. at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/8, 6:30 PM in reverse order: the Sun Ra Arkestra play a live score to Space Is the Place, José James sings Bill Withers and Samora Pinderhughes: The Transformations Suite at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center. Jury’s out on the openers.

8/9, 5 PM Maceo Parker of the JBs at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/10, 7:30 PM the Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band reinvent Leonard Bernstein’s Wes Side Story soundtrack at Damrosch Park out back of Lincoln Center

8/11, 3 PM the North, South, East, and West choruses sing the world premiere of John Luther Adams: In the Name of the Earth at Harlem Meer in Central Park

8/10, 7:30 PM fiery, politically fearless, atmospheric Tunisian art-rocker Emel Mathlouthi  and macabre slowcore band Godspeed You Black Emperor at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/11, 8:30 PM jangly, clanging late 80s nostalgia with the Breeders at Prospect Park Bandshell

8/18, 1/3 PM the Collaborative Arts Ensemble play southern US-inspired works by Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Johnny Cash,Hoagy Carmichael, Henry Mancin at Colonels Row on Governors Island, free

8/23, 5 PM oldschool Dirty Jerz hip-hop with pioneering female rapper Rah Digga at Chambers Plaza in Newark

8/25, 3 PM the ageless godfather of boogaloo, Joe Bataan outdoors at Union Pool, free

8/25, 5ish purist swing singer Catherine Russell and Jamaican jazz piano icon Monty Alexander’s reggae-jazz Harlem-Kingston Express at Marcus Garvey Park

8/26, 3 PM the trio of Adam O’Farrill, Immanuel Wilkins and Joel Ross, Amina Claudine Myers, then a lame corporate jazz act, then Gary Bartz leading a quartet at Tompkins Square Park

8/26, 8ish perennially vital latin jazz piano sage Eddie Palmieri  at Central Park Summerstage

8/28, 8 PM badass oldschool electric bluesmistress Celisse Henderson  and a bunch of actors read from and play music inspired by the Howard Zinn classic People’s History of the United States at Central Park Summerstage. They did something like this at Lincoln Center last year and it was surprisingly subversive.

9/27, 7 PM the all-female Resistance Revival Chorus sing epic, inspiring populist gospel tunes and anti-trumpie broadsides followed by afropop singer Angelique Kidjo at Central Park Summerstage

The Brooklyn Folk Festival Is Ten Years Old and Better Than Ever

Over the past decade, the Brooklyn Folk Festival has become a New York rite of passage. Like Golden Fest, Rev. Vince Anderson’s Union Pool residency, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Shakespeare in the Park, it’s something that everyone should experience at least once. It’s held over a weekend every spring, with both daytime and evening lineups; a lot of people go every year.

The best thing about the festival is that it isn’t exclusively devoted to artists who play music by the greatest and most prolific songwriter of all time – whose name varies from language to language, but invariably translates as Anonymous. This past Saturday night’s lineup featured some of that repertoire but also originals drawing on a global expanse of influences, from high-voltage Romany dance music, to moody Balkan ballads,  ecstatic Afro-Colombian trance-dance chants, honkytonk, southern gothic and jug band sounds. Which makes sense, considering that the folks at the magical Jalopy Theatre – New York’s Americana music central – put this thing together.

By the time the nighttime lineup got underway, St. Ann’s Church on Montague Street was already packed with a diverse crowd of veterans and kids hell-bent on getting the most bang for the buck out of their all-weekend or allday passes. Italian pianist/singer Luca Ferraris kicked off the evening on the stage next to the beer stand with a dynamic set of originals and a few traditional numbers that ran the gamut from bouncy dance tunes with Romany or even Russian tinges, to ballads that sometimes sauntered unexpectedly in a jazz direction. A bassist joined him about midway through and became a vocal sparring partner. Even for those in the crowd whose Italian might be limited to restaurant menu items, the songs were infectious. 

In the church’s main space, pan-Balkan singer and song reinventor Eva Salina and sorcerer accordionist Peter Stan benefited from the rich natural reverb, which added yet another layer of mystery to their distinctive versions of songs from the catalogs of iconic Romany singers Saban Bajramovic and Vida Pavlovic. Nimbly negotiating the slithery sibilances of the Romanes language, the California-born Salina channeled resilience and grace in the face of longing and abandonment, sang a cartoonishly bouncy number from the point of view of a guy overjoyed with his three-foot-tall, extremely fertile wife, and didn’t shy away from the issues of displacement and exile that permeate so much of this repertoire. Stan sized up the sonics in a split-second and maxed them out with flickering torrents of bracing minor keys and chromatics that took on new dimensions, echoing off the walls.

There was a little overlap while one of the Jalopy house bands, Skalopy, played live dub reggae and some classic Toots & the Maytals material with a lineup that included both banjo and piano. Meanwhile, in the main space, Bulla En El Barrio built a frenzy of call-and-response with their hypnotically percussive chants, which draw a straight line back from Colombia to Africa. A succession of men and women took turns leading the choir over the thunder of the percussion; they closed with an original that was as rustic and otherworldly as any of the traditional epics.

They would have been a tough act to follow, but not for Jerron Paxton, who may be the most talented musician in all of New York. Playing a longer set than any of the other acts on the bill, solo, he nonchalantly showed off his spectacular chops as oldtime acoustic blues and ragtime guitarist, fiddler, banjo and harmonica player. This time out he didn’t take a turn at the piano, but he could have. In his genial Louisiana drawl, he entertained the crowd with stories from the kind of colorful past only a musician could have…but also didn’t hesitate to remind them of the sobering reality of how many ex-slaves died of starvation after the Civil War. And you wonder why so many old blues songs mention hunger. Moving methodically between carefree proto-bluegrass fiddle, wickedly precise blues fingerpicking, ominously ancient, hypnotically percussive banjo and some fierce harmonica blues, he made it all seem easy He encored on harmonica as well, with a breathless medley of 18th century blues tunes, including Abraham Lincoln’s favorite song.

Nick Panken, frontman of high-voltage Americana crew Spirit Family Reunion, didn’t waste time admitting that they had an impossible act to follow. And they’re a great band – but loud electric rock with drums doesn’t work in a space like St. Ann’s. In that context, the matter of who was playing before or after was irrelevant. The sound people really tried their best, and the band realized what was up, so their ballads worked out ok. But when they picked up the pace, the mix was just vocals, drums and Maggie Carson’s icepick five-string banjo lines. Their songs blend bluegrass, honkytonk and oldtime string band music and they can jam like crazy. And their fan base is crazy about them. But this was the wrong venue. The Jalopy is their New York home base when they’re not on tour; they’re best experienced there.

Speaking of Jalopy people, guitarist/singer Feral Foster – who’s been running the weekly Roots and Ruckus series there since forever – was next on the bill. Looking dapper in a sharp tan suit, he crooned, picked expertly in oldtimey open tunings and took a couple of unexpected and very successful turns into ragtime and slow blues. It’s hard to think of a more original songwriter in gothic Americana. Some of the songs were tongue-in-cheek but others were not: there’s an omnipresent dark undercurrent that always grounds them in grim reality. He’s at the Jalopy virtually every Wednesday sometime after 9 PM.

Finally, at around midnight, Birmingham, Alabama’s Steel City Jug Slammers took the stage, bolstered by Ernesto Gomez and one of his bandmates from Brooklyn’s Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues. It was amazing to watch Washtub Jay pick out swooping basslines on that clothesline string – without any tape on his fingers, either! – and play kazoo lines through a trumpet horn at the same time, and not miss a beat. Frontman Ramblin’ Ricky Tate played guitar and led the band through a sly series of shuffles and stomps as Maxwell Honeycup kept the low end going at the other side of the stage with his jug. By now, the crowd had thinned out, but these guys were not about to let anybody down.

That was it for this year’s Brooklyn Folk Festival, but a lot of these acts can be found at the Jalopy. Bulla en El Barrio are at Barbes on April 30 at around 10. Eva Salina and Peter Stan are at the American Folk Art Museum on May 4 at 5:30 PM, sharing the bill with irrepressibly fun, charming oldtimey chanteuse Tamar Korn, who can vocalize any wind instrument ever invented.. The Steel City Jug Slammers are at KGB Bar at around 9:30 PM on April 11. And Spirit Family Reunion are at the Knickerbocker, 35 Railroad Ave. in Westerly, Rhode Island on April 14 at 9 for $13 in advance.

The Irrepressibly Fun Klazz-Ma-Tazz Radically Reinvent Classic Yiddish Vaudeville Themes

Klazz-Ma-Tazz’s lusciously Lynchian 2016 album Tangibility was one of the half-dozen best releases of the year. Violinist Ben Sutin’s group bring fearless jazz adventurousness to an individualistic, darkly electric sound that draws equally on classic klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern sounds. Interestingly, their forthcoming album Meshugenah – streaming at Bandcamp  – is mostly reinventions of iconic Yiddish vaudeville tunes. Sutin’s objective here is to do with that repertoire what Charlie Parker and John Coltrane did with Broadway songs, in other words, establish a new Great American Songbook for future generations of jazz players. To say that the new record is as astonishingly original and irresistibly fun as the last one isn’t an overstatement. They’re playing the klezmer brunch at around 11 AM this Sunday, April 8 at City Winery; cover is $10, kids under 12 get in free and there’s no minimum. You better believe that this blog will be in the house.

Ben Rosenblum’s dark washes of accordion underscore Alec Goldfarb’s flickering guitar as the enigmatically tropical take of Alexander Olshantesky’s Mein Shtetele Belz gets underway; violin and guitar solos keeps the edgy bounce going, the latter edging toward Django Reinhardt territory. Elijah Shiffer’s clarinet veers from a party in the Pale to dixieland and then back. A Hawk and a Hacksaw and 3 Leg Torso come to mind.

Sutin’s arrangement of Svalava Kozatshok has a suspenseful trip-hop pulse anchored by Shifffer’s baritone sax, up to a shreddy fireball solo from Goldfarb; Sutin adds devious hints of bluegrass, then the band make Hava Nagila metal out of it. Are we having fun yet?

Drummer Tim Rachbach kicks into thumping techno mode in Cyberbalkanization, a suspensefully pulsing Turkish-flavored metal tune by bassist Mat Muntz, bristling with high-voltage tradeoffs and intertwining solos. They take it out with Beninghove’s Hangmen-style metal and then a psychedelic accordion outro

Sutin’s remake of the traditional tune Tumbalalaika has a desolate, glimmering poignancy, Rosenblum’s starry piano against Goldfarb’s languid Romany-tinged phrases, Sutin takes the energy up between a forlornly dancing Muntz solo and Rosenblum’s graceful, elegaic conclusion.

Astrid Kuljanic sings the first of two Joseph Rumshinsky numbers, Sheyn Vi Di Levone, a sardonic noir Vegas tango of sorts: her jazz kazoo solo has to be heard to be believed. Then they make Balkan metal out of Im Odessa – but with Rosenblum’s accordion, Shiffer’s airy alto sax and Sutin’s wild spirals interspersed up to a punchline that’s too good to spoil.

Sunrise, Sunset gets reinvented as a slinky, distantly lurid Twin Peaks Red Room theme, lit up with Rosenblum’s cascades, Shiffer’s summery alto trading off with Sutin’s knifes-edge violin before things get really crazy,

Pretty much every klezmer band does Rumshinsky’s Builgar; Klazz-Ma-Tazz’s epic version blends Hendrix, hints of an Appalachian dance and Balkan metal into a colorful salute to the song’s theatrical origins. And the take of Bei Mir Bist Du Schon is surreal to the extreme, balmy Rachelle Garniez-esque balladry bookending hard swing with Sutin at the center; Zhenya Lopatnik sings

Sutin’s only original here, the diptych Letting Go, is the album’s most cinematic track. A lushly vamping, edgy Middle Eastern groove gives way to a rippling Rosenblum piano solo, then Sutin gives the music in a brighter, more latin pulse, Golfarb’s icepicking signaling a return to an insistent attack. This band has a huge ceiling: fans of jazz, metal, Jewish folk, David Lynch soundtracks and all other things noir will not be disappointed. You’ll see this on the best albums of 2018 page if we make it that far.

Live Music Calendar for New York City and Brooklyn for April and May 2018

The new May/June calendar – with all the free summer concert listings – is here.

Free and cheap concerts in just about every neighborhood. If you’re leaving your hood, make sure you check http://www.mta.info for service changes considering how the trains are at night and on the weekend.

Constant updates. If you don’t recognize a venue where a particular act is playing, check the comprehensive, recently updated list of over 200 New York City music venues at New York Music Daily’s sister blog Lucid Culture.

This is not a list of every show in town – it’s a carefully handpicked selection. If this calendar seems short on praise for bands and artists, it’s because every act here is recommended if you like their particular kind of music. Many different styles to choose from.

Showtimes listed here are set times, not the time doors open – if a listing says something like “9ish,” that means it’ll probably start later than advertised. If you see a show listed without the start time, that’s because either the artist, their publicist or the venue in question sent incomplete info – those acts are usually listed last on a particular date.  Always best to check with the venue for the latest information on set times and door charges, since that information is often published here weeks in advance. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar.

On select Wednesdays and Sundays, an intimate, growing piano music salon on the Upper West Side featuring iconoclastically insightful, lyrical pianist Nancy Garniez – a cult favorite with an extraordinarily fluid, singing, legato style – exploring the delicious minutiae of works from across the centuries, beverages and lively conversation included! Upcoming concerts on 4/11 at 7 PM, 4/15 at 4 featuring rarely heard piano music of Dvorak, Clementi and Grieg, email for info/location.

For six shows beginning on 4/14 at 7:30 PM, repeating on 4/15-16 at 6:30 and 4/19, 4/21 and 4/22 at 7:30 PM, singer/sound artist Samita Sinha’s envelopingly confrontational multidisciplinary work This Ember State at the Asia Society, $20. With mashups of classical Indian ragas, sound art and dance inspired by the myth of Sati—the Hindu goddess who self-immolates in sacrifice—and the concept of dark matter, the work tackles a lot of heavy, relevant issues. “Some nudity is involved – not appropriate for children.” 

Mondays at 7 PM multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman’s popular western swing band Brain Cloud at Barbes followed at 9:30 PM by a variety of south-of-the-border-style bands playing cumbias, boogaloo, salsa, maybe all of the above.

Mondays at the Jazz Standard it’s all Mingus, whether with the Mingus Orchestra, Big Band or Mingus Dynasty: as jazz goes, it’s arguably the most exhilarating show of the week, every week. The first-rate players always rise to the level of the material. Sets 7:30/9:30 PM, $25 and worth it.

Also Monday and Tuesday nights Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks, a boisterous horn-driven 11-piece 1920s/early 30’s band play Iguana, 240 W. 54th St ( Broadway/8th Ave) , 3 sets from 8 to 11, surprisingly cheap $15 cover plus $15 minimum considering what you’re getting. Even before the Flying Neutrinos or the Moonlighters, multi-instrumentalist Giordano was pioneering the oldtimey sound in New York; his long-running residency at the old Cajun on lower 8th Ave. is legendary. He also gets a ton of film work (Giordano wrote the satirical number that Willie Nelson famously sang in Wag the Dog).

Mondays at the Vanguard the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra – composer Jim McNeely’s reliably good big band vehicle – plays 9/11 PM, $30 per set plus drink minimum.

Mondays in April, Rev. Vince Anderson and his band play Union Pool in Williamsburg, two sets starting at 10:30 PM. The Rev. is one of the great keyboardists around, equally thrilling on organ or electric piano, an expert at Billy Preston style funk, honkytonk, gospel and blues. He writes very funny, very politically astute, sexy original songs and is one of the most charismatic, intense live performers of our time. It’s a crazy dance party. Paula Henderson from Burnt Sugar is the lead soloist on baritone sax, with frequent special guests.

Tuesdays in April, clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party  at 9 PM at Barbes. Get there as soon as you can as they’re very popular. $10 cover.

Wednesdays in April, 8 PM the Binky Griptite Orchestra (formerly Sharon Jones’ brilliant oldschool soul backing band) at Threes Brewing Outpost, 113 Franklin St (Greenpoint/Kent Aves) in Greenpoint, free

Thursdays at 8 in April the Brooklyn Raga Massive – a rotating cast of A-list Indian, jazz and rock musicians who love to jam out classic Indian themes from over the centuries to the present day – play the Jalopy, $15 adv tix at the bar at the main space. Tons of special guests followed by a wild raga jam!

Fridays and Saturdays at 5 PM adventurous indie classical string quartet Ethel plus frequent special guests playing a mix of classical and more contemporary material at the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

Fridays in May, 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser leads his band at the Django. Jukebox jazz in a JD Allen vein but not as dark and more straight-ahead/groove-oriented: as postbop party music goes, nobody’s writing better than this guy right now.

Free classical concerts return on Saturdays at 4 PM in April at Bargemusic;  usually solo piano or small chamber ensembles. If you get lucky, you’ll catch pyrotechnic violinist/music director Mark Peskanov and/or the many members of his circle. Early arrival advised.

Saturdays in April, 6 PM Kane Mathis – whose fast fingers are as electrifying on the kora as they are on the oud – plays with a rotating cast of Middle Eastern and African talent at Barbes

Saturdays in May, 6 PM eclectic jazz guitarist Anders Nilsson – who ranges from reinvented 20th century classical styles to savage metal to postbop – plays with a series of groups at Barbes

Saturdays eclectic compelling Brazilian jazz chanteuse Marianni and her excellent band at Zinc Bar, three sets starting at 10 PM.

Sundays there’s a klezmer brunch at City Winery, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands

Sundays in April, at sometime past noon at Hank’s, Nashville gothic crooner Sean Kershaw‘s legendary honkytonk brunch is back; special guests from his wide circle of NYC Americana acts keep the afternoon going until about 7. It’s just like 1999 again -at least until the bar closes sometime this year. Phil Gammage plays his dark Americana and blues there this month at 6 PM every Sunday this month as well.

Sundays at 6 PM in May rockabilly bassist Laura Rebel Angel of the Screaming Rebel Angels leads her own band at Hank’s

Sundays in April, 8 PM purist guitarist Peter Mazza – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door.

4/1, 4 PM the Iranian Female Composers Association launch their auspicious new series at National Sawdust with pianists Ava Nazar and Erika Dohi, the Steinem Quartet, Alison Rowe, and kamancheh player Niloufar Shiri, plus Anahita Abbasi, Aftab Darvishi, Farzia Fallah, Mahdis Golzar Kashani, Niloufar Karimi, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Gity Razaz, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Shiri, $20

4/1, 6:30 PM Shafaat Khan – sitarist son of the legendary Vilayat Khan – at Joe’s Pub, $30. Gotta start early to give this guy a chance to take his time and mesmerize you.

4/1, 9ish the catchy, edgy, darkly kinetic female-fronted Romany-tinged Trouble with Kittens and explosive, creepy, colorful psychedelic rembetiko metal band Greek Judas at the Cobra Club

4/2, 7 PM night one of this year’s MATA festival of new music kicks off with a new music dream team of Miranda Cuckson, Ariadne Greif, Blair McMillen, Sarah Brailey, and Russell Greenberg playing a  mystical program including David M. Gordon’s song-cycle Mysteria Incarnationis, sung in the original Syriac plus works by Shawn Jaeger  and Lydia Winsor Brindamour at the Church of the Epiphany, 1393 York Avenue (at 74th St), $25

4/2, 7:30 PM eclectic Bay Area vocal jazz sextet Jazz-Ology at Club Bonafide, $2o 

4/2, 8:30 PM terse, purposeful guitarist Miles Okazaki with Linda Oh on bass and Dan Weiss on drums at Bar Lunatico

4/2, 9:30 PM Dilemastronauta Y Los Sabrosos Cosmicos play their cumbia-inspired stoner dub jams at Barbes

4/3, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, Ensemble Signal’s Lauren Cauley, violin; David Friend, piano play works by Christopher Cerrone, Tonia Ko, and David Lang at the Miller Theatre, free

4/3, 7 PM innovative, tuneful Indian-influenced drone-raga band Arranged Marriage NP followed at 9 by ten-piece funky Balkan brass jazz monsters Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

4/3, 7 PM irrepressibly theatrical parlor pop pianist Greta Gertler Gold at Joe’s Pub $15

4/3-4, 7:30/9:30 PM savagely eclectic guitarist Mary Halvorson plays the album release show for her excellent, sardonic new one Code Girl with Amitha Kidambi – vocals; Adam O’Farrill – trumpet; Michael Formanek – bass; Tomas Fujiwara – drums at the Jazz Standard, $30 but worth it

4/3, 7:30 PM pianist Jeanne Golan and the Attacca Quartet play a rare all-Mieczyslaw Weinberg program featuring his Piano Quintet, haunting Cello Sonata, and Piano Sonatine at the Baruch College Auditorium, 55 Lexington Ave at 24th St.,(enter mid-block), $21

4/3, 8 PM pianist Katie Reimer’s reliably adventurous Mimesis Ensemble play haunting Middle Eastern-inspired works by Mohammed Fairouz and Halim El-Dabh – arguably the world’s first electronic composer – at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25

4/3, 8 PM enigmatically lyrical minimalist parlor pop pianist/singer Dia Luna followed by Sharon Jones guitarist Joe Crispiano and his band at Freddy’s 

4/3, 8 PM the Tak Ensemble sextet with bassoon soloist Rebekah Heller debut Mario Diaz de Leon’s first album-length suite at Roulete, $20 adv tix rec

4/3-9, 8:30/11 PM reliably lyrical pianist Renee Rosnes with Steve Nelson (vibes 4/3-4/7) Melissa Aldana (tenor sax 4/6-4/8) Peter Washington (bass) Lenny White (drums at the Vanguard

4/4, noon the Zorá String Quartet play Webern, Langsamer Satz; Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 at the Morgan Library, $20

4/4, 6 PM lyrical pianist Monika Herzig’s SHEroes album release celebration with a killer all-female band feat. Chicha Libre’s Karina Colis on drums, Jennifer Vincent on bass, Reut Regev on trombone and more at the New School 5th floor jazz room, 55 W 13th St., free

4/4, 7 PM a composer portrait of Jason Eckardt:  ”performers include, but are not necessarily limited to” Claire Chase (flute), Jordan Dodson (guitar), Rebekah Heller (bassoon), Bridget Kibbey (harp), and Will Lang (trombone) at Spectrum, $10

4/4, 9 PM intense frontwoman Hannah Fairchild’s searingly lyrical punk/art-rock/noir cabaret trio Hannah vs. the Many – NYC’s most dangerously underrated band – at LIC Bar

4/5, 7:30 PM eclectic, poignant cabaret chanteuse Gay Marshall – whose latest album is titled Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night – sings Leonard Cohen at Pangea, $25

4/5, 7:30 PM powerhouse bassist Shelley Nicole’s Blakbushe play their hard-edged Afrobeat-flavored funk at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/5, 7:30 PM a collaboration between visual artist Anna Fríða Jónsdóttir,violinist Abraham Brody and cellist Ásta María Kjartansdóttir tackles “a quest for the silence that can be found in abundance in their native Iceland” at Scandinavia House, $12

4/5, 7:30 PM pyrotechnic klezmler clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg’s new immigration and displacement-themed Borderlands Project at Symphony Space, $30

4/5, 7:30/9:30 PM guitarist Yuri Juarez’s slinky Afroperuano group with Steve Turre on trombone; Shirazette Tinnin on drums and percussion; Moto Fukushima on bass; Renato Diz on piano; Héctor Morales on drums and percussion; and special guest Sofia Tosello on vocals at Minton’s

4/5, 8ish ethereal, raptly haunting singer Sara Serpa leads her shapeshifting group playing the album release show for her new one at the Owl, $10

4/5, 8 PM accordion genius Shoko Nagai ’s haunting Tokala Asian/klezmer mashup project at Barbes 

4/5, 8 PM Hindustani classical sarod virtuoso Steve Oda at the Jalopy, $15

4/5, 8 PM twistedly talented, vaudevillian cover band the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Poisson Rouge, $15 adv tix rec

4/5, 8 PM Camille Thurman – a double threat as nuanced singer and intense tenor saxophonist – with her band at Greenwich House Music School, $15

4/5, 9 PM lush, dynamic female-fronted art-rockers Arc Iris at Union Pool, $10 adv tix avail at the Poisson Rouge box ofc

4/5, 10 PM fiery, psychedelically bluesy oldschool soul/southern rockers Lizzie & the Makers at the Bitter End. 4/27 at 9 they’re at at the small room at the Rockwood

4/5, 10  PM the uneasily cinematic art-rock Pi PowerTrio  – film composer and former Raybeat Pat Irwin (guitar, electronics), Sasha Dobson (drums, vocals) and Daria Grace (bass, vocals) at Sunny’s

4/6, 1 and 3 PM oldschool deep Brooklyn gospel with Naomi Shelton & the Gospel Queens at Bar Lunatico. They’re also here on 4/20

4/6, 6 PM oldschool-style high plains C&W singer Hope Debates & North 40 at 55 Bar

4/6, 7 PM brilliant, Lynchian, darkly lyrical latin and Satie-inspired guitarist Jack Martin’s Bob Dylan Deathwatch open for Richard Lloyd of Television at Bowery Electric, $15 adv tix rec

4/6, 7 PM serpentine dark retro 60s psychedelic/stoner boogie/art-rock band Medusa’s Disco at Gussy’s Bar in Queens

4/6, 7 PM a killer, eclectic triplebill: irrepressible multi-instrumentalist Joanna Sternberg wearing her front-porch folk guitarist hat, Soul Loom with drummer Billy Mintz, violinist Ben Sutin, and clarinetist David Valbuena, and pianist Gabriel Zucker playing his own material in addition to works by Ives and Wadada Leo Smith at Spectrum, $10

4/6, 7 PM purposeful, uneasy, ferociously smart guitarist Sean Moran’s Sun Tiger trio  with cellist Hank Roberts and drummer Vinnie Sperrazza at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $tba

4/6, 7:30 PM first night of the Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St in downtown Brooklyn, $25 per concert, adv tix available at the Jalopy. On the main stage: 7:30pm Little Nora Brown – young banjoist with a very oldtime sound; 8:00pm Radio Jarocho & Zenen Zeferino – hilarious, acerbic Veracruz folk band with punk energy collaborating with the politically fearless poet; 8:45pm Mamie Minch & Tamar Korn – badass oldtimey resonator guitarist/singer with the similarly irrepressible Brain Cloud frontwoman/tapdancer; ; 9:30pm Innov Gnawa; 10:15pm Women’s Raga Massive – Indian Classical and folk music; 11:00pm The Crimson Ragdolls –Blues, folk and early Jazz. On the parish hall stage at 11 Jackson & the Janks play retro 50s style New Orleans R&B

4/6. 7:30 PM pioneering, otherworldly Tibetan singer Yungchen Lhamo at the Asia Society, 725 Park Ave at 70th St., free, early arrival advised

4/6, 8:30 PM a rare reunion of cult favorite Bay Area jazz group the Munchies with Dred Scott on piano and saxophonist Kenny Brooks at Bar Lunatico

4/6, 9ish dangerous folk noir chanteuse Larkin Grimm  – who’s gone in a psychedelic Indian direction lately – at Wonders of Nature

4/6 Unsteady Freddie‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 with Brooklyn cover trio the Band of Others, at 10 Dick Dale cover band Surf Squad, at 11 spaghetti western and hotrod influenced quartet the Jagaloons and then jangly New York original surf rock cult heroes the Supertones,

4/6, 9 PM DD White and her catchy, jangly retro garage/surf/R&B band at Singlecut Beersmiths 

4/6, 9:30 PM slinky psychedelic Americana rockers American String Conspiracy at Freddy’s

4/6, 10 PM classic C&W cover band and wry Sit N Spin side project the Lonesome Prairie Dogs followed by boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the Jack Grace Band  at Hank’s, $5. Grace is also at Bar Chord on 4/7 at 9.

4/6, 10 PM accordionist/sitarist Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood/cumbia/psychedelic rock project Bombay Rickey at Barbes. Those wondering how Sankaram might sound singing traditional western opera can check out Opera on Tap, who sing beforehand at 8.

4/6, 10 PM guitar mastermind Danny Weiss’ and magical Americana singer Mary Olive Smith’s soulful retro bluegrass band Stillhouse Serenade at Sunny’s

4/7 day two of the Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St in downtown Brooklyn, $25 per concert, adv tix available at the Jalopy. On the main stage: at noon King Isto’s Tropical String Band play jaunty, balmy Hawaiian sounds; 12:45pm Suzy & Eric Thompson’s oldtime string duet; 1:30pm Piedmont Bluz’s haunting, politically apropros oldtime country blues; 2:15pm Georgia string band the HickHoppers; 3:00pm Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues playing sly, traditional and original jug band music; 3:45pm Clifton Hicks plays ballads and banjo songs from Georgia; 4:30pm brilliant banjoist Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters 5:15pm the Horse-Eyed Men plaing “disgruntled country songs and at 6 the Birdman of Rome returns, all the way from Rome, Italy! Not to be missed. The parish hall stage has jams, workshops and at 5:30pm Poorboy Krill playing blues and ragtime

4/7, 5 PM a house concert with magical carnatic singers Mohan Deshpande and Mitali Bhawmik plus Samir Chatterjee on tabla and Kedar Naphade on harmonium, $20, email the harmonium player for info/location 

4/7, 6 PM dark, intense, psychedelic guitarist/songwriter Anna Coogan at the small room at the Rockwood

4/7, 7 PM New Tide Orquesta, fronted by composer  Per Störby Jutbring mash up “chamber music, minimalism, improvisation, and hints of new tango.” at Scandinavia House, $15

4/7-8, 7 PM Susana Cook’s “ Run! It’s Getting Utly, a “satire about racism and discrimination – Cook shares what she calls a “family melodrama for these fascist times.” In the brazen, wacky play, a white nationalist family falls into a muddy and desperate identity crisis when they are attacked by “La Contaminación Cultural.” Their sense of language, grammar and origin gets altered, making them question who they really are.” at Jack, $15

4/7, 7:15 PM night two of the Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St in downtown Brooklyn, $25 per concert, adv tix available at the Jalopy. On the main stage: 7:15pm Wyndham Baird doing folk and country blues; at 8 riveting, haunting Balkan singer/accordionist duo Eva Salina & Peter Stan; 8:45pm Bulla En El Barrio playing hypnotically pulsing Afro-Colombian trance-chants; 9:30pm amazing multi-instrumentalist and oldtime blues maven Jerron Paxton; 10:15pm high-voltage oldtime string band Spirit Family Reunion; 11:00pm brooding original Nashville gothic songwriter Feral Foster; 11:45pm Alabama jugband the Steel City Jug Slammers. The parish hall stage has salsa jazz icon Willie Martinez and the NYC Salsa All Stars at 9:30

4/7, 7:30 PM the aptly named Megalopolis Saxophone Orchestra, play NYC premiere of works by Kanasevich, Janmohammadi, and Glaser, as well as music by Edvard Grieg. at the DiMenna Center, $tba

4/7, 7:30 PM noir cabaret legend Ute Lemper and her ensemble at Irving HS Auditorium, 17th/Irving Place, $14. 4/9 she sings songs from Theresienstadt at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free 

4/7, 7:30 PM pianist Marie Blair plays works by Faure, Debussy, Quilter, Bridge, and Alwyn at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $tba

4/7, 8 PM Fragile Sky – the Dead Boys meet Sonics Rendevous Band meet early Iron Maiden – at Gussy’s Bar in Queens 

4/7, 8 PM the world’s most captivatingly assaultive extended technique trumpeter, Peter Evans  plus percussionist Levy Lorenzo & pianist Yvette Janine Jackson at the Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring St. 

4/7, 9 PM cleverly lyrical, murderously witty murder ballad/chamber pop allstars Charming Disaster at Pete’s

4/7, 9 PM fiery, guitar-fueled female-fronted Americana punks Spanking Charlene at Sidewalk.

4/8, 11AM-ish violinist Ben Sutin’s high-voltage, eclectic klezmer jamband Klazz-Ma-Tazz at City Winery for brunch, $10, no min., kids 10-under free. Sutin is also at Sidewalk ?!? on 4/11 at 7 PM where he leads a trio.

4/8, 2 PM day three of the Brooklyn Folk Festival has a lot of workshops and kiddie music, and a banjo tossing competition at the corner of Smith and 9th Sts. in Gowanus at 1 PM to kick it off. The shows are at St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St in downtown Brooklyn, $25 per concert, adv tix available at the Jalopy. On the main stage, the adult stuff starts at about 3:30pm with bluegrass band the Hayrollers; 4:15pm Thomas McCarthy plays solo Irish songs; 5:00pm acoustic blues guitarist Pat Conte; 5:45pm the amazing East River String Band w/ R. Crumb playing all kinds of wild 19th century country blues in weird tunings. The parish hall stage has some jams and at 4 the rising star singers of the Jalopy Chorus, led by the great Eva Salina, singing haunting Balkan folk tunes.

4/8, 2:30 PM Cantori NY perform Valery Gavrilin’s acerbic new cautionary cantata, Chimes, exploring the seductive danger of nationalism at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix rec

4/8, 3 PM Patricia Santos and Tara Hanish’s amazing, intense, soul-infused cello-rock/cello-metal duo the Whiskey Girls at Pete’s

4/8, 4 PM the world’s most popular renaissance vocal ensemble, Stile Antico tackle one of the era’s greatest masterpieces, Tomás Luis de Victoria’s Tenebrae Responsories at Corpus Christi Church, 529 W 121st St, $10 tix avail

4/8, 4 PM the brand-new Clarosa String Quartet play a program TBA at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes.

4/8, 6 PM noir guitar legend Jim Campilongo leads his trio at 55 Bar

4/8, 7 PM NYC’s own rippling, hypnotic, epic Javanese gamelan, Gamelan Dharma Swara play pool – woops, serenade the pool players – at the Fat Cat

4/8, 7 PM night three of the Brooklyn Folk Festival at St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St in downtown Brooklyn, $25 per concert, adv tix available at the Jalopy. On the main stage 7:00 pm the Down Hill Strugglers w/ John Cohen play rambunctious 19th century string band music; 7:45 pm Seyyah, the only largescale Turkish band in NYC; and at 10 amazing flamenco singer Julia Patinella closes it out. 

4/8, 7 PM Ansahman – limitless in Armenian flamenco guitarist Anna Garano and Armenian singer Anaïs Alexandra Tekerian’s poignant Near Eastern/Spanish mashup duo Ansahman (Armenian for eternal) followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

4/8, 7 PM sharply lyrical, Waits-ish southwestern gothic/Americana songwriter Tom Shaner at LIC Bar

4/8, 8:30 PM serpentine, cinematic, epic art-rock band Book of Harmony at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

4/8, 10 PM hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly at Bembe, 81 S 6th St, Williamsburg

4/9, 8ish Roger Miller covers in the round followed by New Orleans’ Jackson & the Janks at a house concert at 169 Spencer St. at Willoughby, Bed-Stuy, G to Myrtle-Willoughby, sug don

4/9, 8 PM the NY New Music Ensemble play dynamic new electroacoustic works by Paula Matthuse, Eric Wubbels, Benjamin Hackbarth and Rand Steiger at the DiMenna Center, $20/$10 stud/srs 

4/9, 9:30 PM horn-driven psychedelic cumbia band Los Cumpleanos at Barbes

4/10, 7 PM otherworldly, dynamic all-female Armenian vocal trio Zulal at Bric Arts, free w/rsvp 

4/10, 7 PM eclectic, hard-hitting, lyrical composer/tenor saxophonist Stan Killian plays a rare trio set at 55 Bar

4/10, 7 PM the Mivos Quartet play a mnemonically-themed program of works by Hans Thomalla, Charles Wuorinen, Matthew Ricketts, and Sofia Gubaidulina at the second floor space at 1 Rivington St. at Bowery, $15/$10 stud/srs, use code MKQ7 for $5 off

4/10-15, 7:30/9:30 PM iconic jazz bassist Christian McBride with trumpeter Josh Evans, tenor saxophonist Marcus Strickland, drummer Nasheet Waits at Dizzy’s Club, $25

4/10, 8 PM night two of this year’s MATA festival of new music with the East Coast debut of Mexico’s only independent new music ensemble, Liminar playing works by Sergey Khismatov’s D-Musik – for soprano broadcast from within a shower in the offices of the venue – plus works by Carlos Iturralde, Juro Kim Feliz and Annie Gosfield at the Kitchen, $25

4/10, 8/9:30 PM singer Michelle Lordi leada a phenonemal quartet with Orrin Evans, JD Allen & Ben Wolfe at Mezzrow, $20 

4/10-14, 8:30 PM ubiquitously terse, interesting drummer Tomas Fujiwara leads a series of ensembles at the new Stone, $20. Choice pick: 4/11 with Amir ElSaffar (trumpet); Ole Mathisen (tenor saxophone), wow

4/10, 8:30 PM popular, pensive retro C&W/bluegrass/soul singer Dori Freemanat City Vineyard, $12

4/10-14, 8:30 PM lyrical Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi with Scott Colley (bass) Clarence Penn (drums) reprising his smartly terse live album recorded at the Vanguard, $30

4/10, 9:30 PM the Bronx Conexion play their mighty salsa big band jazz at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

4/10, 11 PM ethereal folk noir songstress Belle-Skinner – who wrote the chilling ballad John Wayne Gacy Jr. – at the Mercury, $10. She’s also at the small room at the Rockwood on 4/30 at midnight for the tip jar.

4/11, 8 PM feral, wildly improvisational, tuneful pianist Mara Rosenbloom  plays solo and then with her trio at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery

4/11, 8 PM night three of this year’s MATA festival  of new music with Liminar playing works by  Kristin Boussard, Sky Macklay, Valentin Pelisch, Michael Winter and David T. Little at the Kitchen, $25

4/11, 9:30 PM the whip comes down when subversive chanteuse/provocatrice Tammy Faye Starlite reprises her legendary Lakeside Lounge Stones cover nights by playing Some Girls in its entirety at Joe’s Pub, $15

4/11, 10 PM tenor sax improv legend George Garzone leads a quartet at Zinc Bar, $20

4/12, 7 PM violinist Abraham Brody and Lithuanian folk ensemble Trys Keturiose put a haunting new spin on ancient work and field songs at National Sawdust, $20 adv tix rec

4/12, 7:30 PM the Aeolus Quartet playBeethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1; Ives: Quartet No. 2 at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/12, 8 PM haunting all-female Bulgarian vocal choir Black Sea Hotel followed by popular indie classical orchestra the Knights playing new arrangements of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances plus a world premiere arrangement of Ligeti’s Hungarian Rock by Knights horn player, Michael P. Atkinson at Bric Arts, $18 adv tix rec

4/12, 8:30 PM intense, rapturous Balkan/Middle Eastern ensemble the Secret Trio –Tamer Pinarbasi, Ismail Lumanovski & Ara Dinkjian – at Bar Lunatico

4/12, 8 PM night four of this year’s MATA festival of new music features nightmare-themed works by Erin Rogers, Ken Ueno, Du Yun, Aaron Graham, Jenny Hettne, Steven Whiteley and Chris Perren at the Kitchen, $25

4/12, 8 PM plush, balmy, oldtimey uke swing band Daria Grace & the Pre-War Ponies  followed by epic, cinematic violinist/soundtrack composer Christina Courtin at Barbes

4/12, 8 PM haunting, kinetic, paradigm-shifting Middle Eastern jazz with Ensemble Fanaa and tabla playser Roshni Samlal at the Jalopy, $15

4/12, 8 PM oceanically-inspired, relevant atmospheric sound artist Julia Santoli with sound artist Geng at Issue Project room, free 

4/12, 8 PM dazzlingly eclectic purist jazz singer Brianna Thomas and her group at Greenwich House Music School, $27

4/12, 9ish catchy, terse postbop tenor saxophonist Arman Raz leads his quintet at the old Nublu. Primo new record, lots of hooks, no wasted notes.

4/13, 7 PM a night of new and not so new works by some of the best avant jazz and new classical musicians in  NYC: Brandon Lopez, Lucie Víková, Jessica Pavone, Mary Halvorson, Matt Welch, Chris Corsano, Sam Yulsman and Emily Manzo at the Areté Venue and Gallery, 67 West St#103, Greenpoint, $10

4/13, 7:30/9:30 PM alto saxophonist Caroline Davis leads a quintet with Noah Preminger on tenor at the Jazz Gallery, $25. Damn – those two out front, could be some serious fireworks

4/13, 8 PM chamber ensemble Shattered Glass play Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 3, Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho Suite for Strings plus works by Glass and Caroline Shaw – WOW –  at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Ave one block west of Broadway at 189th St in Washington Heights, free

4/13, 8 PM playfully lyrical, fearlessly political superduo Kill Henry Sugar – guitar/banjo mastermind Erik Della Penna and drummer Dean Sharenow –followed at 10 by the world’s creepiest crime jazz/film noir band, Big Lazy at Barbes

4/13, 8 PM crystalline-voiced noir Americana songwriter Jessie Kilguss followed eventually at 10 by first-rate purist honkytonk crooner/bandleader Clifford Westfall at Hank’s, $8

4/13, 8 PM Claire Chase and ensemble play a Du Yun premiere; gamelanesque percussionist/composer Susie Ibarra debuts her Filipino talking gong project at Bric Arts, free w/rsvp 

4/13, 8 PM brilliantly cinematic, kinetic violinist Dana Lyn & guitarist Kyle Sanna play the album release show for their eco-disaster themed new one The Coral Suite at the Irish Arts Center, 551 W 51st St., $20 includes a copy of the cd

4/13, 8 PM night five of this year’s MATA festival of new music features “greatest hits” from past festivals  by Randy Hostetler, Carlos Gutierrez Quiroga, Kate Moore and Eric Wubbels’s played by pianist Vicky Chow, Sandbox Percussion and Face the Music at the Kitchen, $25

4/13, 7:30 PM the American String Quartet do a lot of gearshifting through Webern’s Five Movements,, Op. 5, Schoenberg’s creepily magical Verklärte Nacht and Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 in D Major, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden” at Greenfield Hall at Manhattan School of Music

4/13, 8 PM pianist Stanislav Fridman plays compositions inspired by “ madness, passion, jealosy, desire” at the DiMenna Center, $20/$15 stud/srs, light refreshments included

4/13, 8 PM the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra play an all-Leonard Bernstein program: the Candide Overture and other works at Symphony Space, $25

4/13, 9 PM pianist Shai Wosner plays late Schubert sonatas at the 92nd St. Y, $30

4/13, 10 PM fiddler Diane Stockwell’s high-voltage Fresh Baked Bluegrass at Sunny’s

4/13, midnight, haphazardly careening, occasionally theatrical dreampop/noiserockers Gold Dime at Baby’s All Right, $12

4/14, noon the Queens Jazz Overground festival with a lineup TBA at Flushing Town Hall, free

4/14, 4 PM the Erik Satie Quartet – Ron Hay (trombone), Max Seigel (bass trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet), and Andrew Hadro (bari sax) –reinvent classic and obscure Satie chamber pieces as well as rare compositions by his obscure contemporaries, followed at 6 by oud powerhouseKane Mathis, at 8 by the deviously eclectic, psychedelic Tredici Bacci playing original instrumentals inspired by Italian film themes from the 60s and 70s and then at 10 by psychedelic salsa bandleader Zemog El Galle Bueno at Barbes

4/14, 6 PM charmingly inscrutable Parisienne chanteuse Chloe & the French Heart Jazz Band at Club Bonafide, $20

4/14, 7:30 PM a very rare solo show by brilliant bassist Mark Dresser; at 9 he leads a quartet with Michel Gentile – flute; Daniel Kelly – piano; Rob Garcia – drums at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

4/14, 7:30 PM Ethan Philbrick leads six works for cello and string quartet at Dixon Place, free

4/14, 7:30 PM eclectic soul-jazz saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin plays the album release show for her new one at Ginny’s Supper Club, $15 standing room avail

4/14, 8 PM ageless CB’s era funk-punk/postrockers the Bush Tetras at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

4/14, 8 PM night six of this year’s MATA festival of new music features chamber ensemble Contemporaneous playing theatrical and dance-oriented works by Andreas Eduardo Frank, David Kirkland Garner, William Dougherty, Jennifer Higdon and Jenna Lyle at the Kitchen, $25

4/14, 8:30 PM catchy, fun guy/girl indie soul band Sunshine Nights at Freddy’s

4/14, 8:30 PM Jeremy Flower, John Hollenbeck, Ethan Iverson, Carla Kihlstedt, Christopher Tordini & Patrick Zimmerli play songs of mourning and the passage of time at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

4/14, 9:30 PM urban country legends Miller’s Farm – who did the original dis song about the L train – at Hill Country

4/14, 11ish Jack Grace‘s legendary, raucous 90s jamband Steak at Hank’s

4/14, 11:30 PM violinist/string bandleader/intense songwriter Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards at the third stage at the Rockwood, $15. Late 90s/early zeros angst-fueled Americana songcraft for string ensemble: an idea you wish you invented.

4/15, 11 AM (in the morning) Chad Hoopes, violin and David Fung, piano play works by Ravel, Dvorak and Prokofiev at Walter Reade Theatre on 65th St. east of Broadway, $22

4/15, 4 PM mysterious, otherworldly, ecstatic Georgian traditional music and dances with Dancing Crane Company at the United Palace Theatre, 4140 Broadway (btwn 175th and 176th Sts).free w/rsvp

4/15, 4 PM carrillon player Dionisio A. Lind followed by organist Christopher Johnson playing a program TBA followed by the Combined Choirs of the Annual English Handbell Festival at Riverside Church, $20

4/15. 6:30 PM slinky Middle Eastern dance jamband Yemen Blues at Symphony Space, $18/$10 stud/srs

4/15, 7 PM improvisational multi-reed and bass magic Ned Rothenberg and Mark Dresser at Jack, $15

4/15, 7 PM International Contemporary Ensemble play a rare program of piano music by Conlon Nancarrow, Steve Reich, and Heather Stebbins on non-pianos including analog synthesizers, repurposed piano wiring & components, and B. Toys Meowsic keyboards at the Abrons Arts Center, free, res req https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe.c/10270521

4/15, 8 PM the Last Revel play their wild oldtimey string band music at the Jalopy, $15

4/15. 8 PM 80s NJ janglerock icons the Feelies at Rough Trade, $25. Note that the 4/13-14 shows are sold out

4/16, 7 PM the Nels Cline 4 feat. Julian Lage, Scott Colley & Tom Rainey at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix rec

4/16, 8/9:30 PM the Makrokosmos Orchestra – akin to a woodwind-ier take on Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society – at Sir D’s Lounge, 837 Union St., Park Slope, free 

4/16, 8 PM jazz pianist Yuko Fujiyama returns to Roulette with her new quartet to release of their album, joined by Graham Haynes on cornet and flugelhorn, Jennifer Choi on violin, and Reggie Nicholson on drums, $20 adv tix rec

4/16, 9 PM pianist/singer Neha – who mashes up simmering oldschool soul, torch jazz and a little quirky atmospheric rock – at LIC Bar 

4/16, 9 PM legendary dual-reedman George Braith – who can play two saxes at once better than most guys can play one – leading his quartet at the Fat Cat

4/16, 9:30 PM Cumbiagra – who’ve been going in a much more psychedelic direction lately – at Barbes

4/17, 7 PM brilliant steel guitarist Mike Neer’s Steelonious – who do Monk covers in the same vein as Buddy Emmons –  followed at 9 by by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

4/17, 7 PM Twosense – pianist Lisa Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate – play new works by Paul Dresher, Ingram Marshall, Jack Perla, Amy Beth Kirsten and Martin Bresnick at the  Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec

4/17, 7 PM drummer Colin Hinton’s enigmatically cinematic postrock jazz quartet Glassbath at Shapeshifter Lab, $tba

4/17, 7:30 PM Trio Vitruvi play works by Schubert, Shostakovich and Dvorak at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25. 4/26 at 7:30 PM they play works by Dvorak, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven at Scandinavia House

4/17, 7:30 PM the Dorian Wind Quintet play works by Gershwin, Billy Childs and Lalo Schifrin at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Ave/50th St., $25/$15 stud/srs

4/17, 7:30 PM Norwegian string quartet Quartetto Testosterone – all-male, one assumes but you never know – play both of Grieg’s quartets at Scandinavia House, free

4/17, 8 PM the intoxicatingly clattering, sintir bass lute fueled Moroccan trance grooves of Innov Gnawa at C’Mon Everybody, $12

4/17, 8 PM pyrotechnic blues guitarist Ana Popovic – who plays a ton of notes but doesn’t waste them – at Highline Ballroom, $20 adv tix rec

4/17, 8 PM ominously, relevantly lyrical no wave electro duo Ohmslice – sort of this era’s Suicide – celebrate frontwoman Jane LeCroy’s bday at Sensei Bar, 135 Eldridge St. in Chinatown

4/17-22. 8:30 PM brilliant bassist/composer Linda May Han Oh leads her quintet with Ben Wendel (saxophone) Matt Stevens (guitar) Fabian Almazan (piano) Rudy Royston (drums) at the Vanguard

4/17, 8:30 PM bassist Max Johnson’s Heroes Trio with Jason Rigby on saxophone, Jeff Davis on drums playing  “compositions by the great bassists and heroes, past and present, such as Jimmy Garrison, Henry Grimes, Charlie Haden, Mark Dresser, Slam Stewart and many more” at Bar Lunatico

4/17, 9 PM hypnotic postrock/art-rock/psychedelic supergroup Heroes of Toolik at Sunny’s

4/17, 10 PM Americana songbird Jackie Bristow – sort of the New Zealand counterpart to Kasey Chambers – at the third stage at the Rockwood, $10 

4/17, 10ish popular, pummeling postrockers Russian Circles at Elsewhere, $25

4/18, 6  PM oud/kora wizard Kane Mathi leads his oud power trio at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

4/18, 7/9 PM hauntingly tuneful, propulsive Lebanese jazz pianist Tarek Yamani and vibraphonist Sasha Berliner at the Cunningham studio space at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 W. 37th St, $20

4/18, 7:30/9:30 PM intense, lyrical, politically fearless tenor saxophonist Roxy Coss leads her sextet at the Jazz Standard, $25

4/18, 7:30 PM Seth Parker Woods, cello, with Ashleigh Gordon, viola play a world premiere by Giorgio Nett and works by Claudio Gabriele, Matthias Pintscher, and Giacinto Scelsi at the Italian Academy at Columbia, 1161 Amsterdam Ave south of 118th, free

4/18, 8 PM an intriguing, no-BS soul triplebill: oldschool soul/funk singer Kara Ali and band, stoner trip-hop/neosoul singer Francesca Milazzo and the much harder-edged, simmeringly retro Amira B at Drom, $12 adv trix rec 

4/18. 8 PM the Mivos Quartet play new works by NYU composers TBA at  35 West 4th St Room 303 free

4/18, 9 PM purist retro dark Americana harmony band the Cactus Blossoms at Bowery Ballroom, $15

4/18, 9 PM charming front-porch folk duo Anna & Elizabeth play the record release show for their new one with special guest drummer Jim White and pedal steel sorceress Susan Alcorn at the Park Church Coop in Greenpoint, $tba

4/18, 9 PM tuneful, epically-inclined, cinematic trombonist John Yao leads his quintet at Terraza 7, $10

4/18, 10 PM oldschool soul ballads with singer Camille Atkisson’s Empire Beats at the Way Station

4/18, 10:30 PM the amazingly eclectic, groovalicious Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio – like Booker T & the MG’s on steroids – at the big room at the Rockwood, $15

4/19, 6/7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and vibraphonist Joel Ross improvise two sets in response to artwork by Terry Winter at the Drawing Center, 35 Wooster St, free w/rsvp 

4/19, 7 PM La Camerata Washington Heights play works by pan-latin composers Víctor Jara, Violeta Parra, Luis Dias, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Mercedes Sosa, Pablo Milanes, Silvio Rodriguez, at Aaron Davis Hall on the CCNY campus between W 133rd and 135th St on Convent Avenue. free w/rsvp  

4/19, 7:15 PM the NY debut of wild Finnish string band Frigg at Drom, $15 adv tix rec

4/19, 7:30 PM French-Tunisian saxophonist Yacine Boulares, French cellist Vincent Segal, and American drummer Nasheet Waits reimagine the forgotten tambeli tradition—a healing trance sound created by the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves brought to Tunisia – at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/19, 7:30 PM luminous, astonishingly eclectic, wickedly tuneful cello-rock badass Serena Jost  plays the album release show for her new solo release Up to the Sky at St. Peter’s Church, 346 W 20th Street between 8th & 9th Ave $10, reception to follow

4/19, 7:30/9:30 PM some real improvisational brilliance: Mike McGinnis – clarinet; Art Lande – piano; Steve Swallow – bass at the Jazz Standard, $25

4/19, 8 PM dark cabaret legend  Sanda Weigl sings Romany songs and Tom Waits material followed by high-voltage Dominican Afro-Caribbean trance-dance legends Enerolisa Nunez y El Grupo de Salve de Mata los Indios at Barbes

4/19, 8 PM fearlessly relevant latin rock songwriter and protest song connoisseur Ani Cordero at Greenwich House Music School $15

4/19. 8 PM ex-American Ambulance frontman and Stonesy rock maven Pete Cenedella’s new band Pete & the True Mongrel Hearts at a house concert at 269 Vose Ave in South Orange, NJ, a block and a half from the Jersey Transit station, $20 includes food and beverages

4/19, 8 PM the Del Sol String Quartet play an all-Rzewski concert at the Miller Theatre, $20 tix avail

4/19, 8 PM new music ensembles represent composers from their respective countries, the UK and France: ECCE and Court-Circuit join forces to play works by Christophe Bertrand, Philippe Hurel, David Felder, Philippe Leroux, and John Aylward at Roulettte, $20 adv tix rec

4/19-22, 8:30/10:30 PM iconic alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett at the Blue Note, $20 standing room avail

4/19, 9ish badass all-female swing harmony trio the Tickled Pinks sing an Elvis tribute followed by new surf band the Cameramen at Hank’s. The Pinks are also at Bedlam, 40 Ave C on 4/20 at 9 and at Pete’s on 4/22 at 8:30 PM

4/20, 5:30 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitarist Miwa Gemini, rockabilly bassist Laura Rebel Angel, and socially conscious rapper Melissa Czarnik at the American Folk Art Museum

4/20, 6 PM broodingly vivid, crystalline-voiced harmonium player/singer/atmospheric songstress Elena Low at Sidewalk. For those who prefer lucidity on 4/20. 

4/20, 7 PM the Orchestra Now  play Schubert, Symphony No. 8; Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet Suite at Aaron Davis Hall, on the CCNY campus between W133rd and 135th St on Convent Ave, free w/rsvp 

4/20, 7 PM playfully soaring pan-latin avant jazz songstress Sofia Rei and powerhouse guitarist Juancho Herrera team up to celebrate iconic Argentine artist Jorge de la Vega’s original music at the America’s Society, 680 Park Ave, $20

4/20, 7:30/9:30 PM paradigm-shifting trumpeter/santoorist Amir ElSaffar mashes up Middle Eastern and Indian sounds with the Brooklyn Raga Massive at the Jazz Gallery, $25

4/20, 7:30 PM 70s era salsa percussionist/bandleader Eddie Montalvo y su Orquesta at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/20, 7:30/9:30 PM the massive Evan Sherman Big Band  at Dizzy’s Club, $20

4/20, 8 PM Nowhere Near (dark art-rock guitar icon Martin Bisi and drummer Bob Bert) followed by Ex-Cop (ex-Cop Shoot Cop, haha) and then New Old Skull (3/4 of 80s noiserock legends Live Skull) at St. Vitus, $15

4/20, 8 PM the Dirty Waltz Band- a seven-piece group playing more than a dozen instruments in 3/4 time from Balkan, Irish, jazz, blues and American folk traditions, politically-inspired cover band the Occasionalists and darkly enigmatic singer Erika Simonian’s rainy-day indie project Little Silver at Littlefield, $15

4/20, 8 PM hard-hitting, brass-fueled newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly and brassy, spot-on Fela cover band Chop & Quench at Flushing Town Hall, $16/$10 stud/srs

4/20, 8 PM blistering post-Sonic Youth noiserock trio Weeping Icon and the even more deliciously abrasive Elizabeth Colour Wheel at Holo, $15 

4/20, 8 PM epic cello rockers Break of Reality at the Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tx rec

4/20, 8 PM New Orleans-tinged hard funk band Here Come the Mummies at Highline Ballroom, $25 adv tix req 

4/20, 8 PM a night of seven-channel experimental works by cellist Leila Bordreuil, singer Ka Baird, and sound artists MV Carbon and Muyassar Kurdi at Holo, $10

4/20, 8 PM rustic Brazilian jungle guitar-and-accordion sounds with Regional de NY followed at 10 by Rana Santacruz – the Mexican Shane MacGowan, but without the booze if you can imagine that – at Barbes

4/20, 8 PM charismatic, soaring Ladybugs frontwoman Martina DaSilva with trumpeter Alex Nguyen and pianist Steven Feifke play jazz standards with original string orchestrations at 33 W 17th S, $20

4/20, 8:30 PM noisy, hazily jangly, psychedelic slowcore/free jazz/avant instrumentalists Sunwatchers  and post-Syd Barrett-ish Obits spinoff Savak at the Bell House, $15

4/20, 9ish exotic vibraphone-driven surf band the Vibro-jets  at Troost

4/20, 10 PM stoner 70s Murder City style rockers Sun Voyager play the album release show for their new one at Baby’s All Right, $10

4/20, 11 PM the darkly eclectic, enigmatic Lorraine Leckie  – equally adept at Slavic and Americana noir and dark cabaret – at Sidewalk

4/21, 4 PM pyrotechnic klezmer clarinetist and Dave Tarras protege Michael Winograd  and lyrical trumpeter Ben Holmes join forces for edgy new klezmer tunes followed eventually at 10 by pan-tropical psychedelic band Yotoco – whose rotating cast spins through cumbia and other south-of-the-border styles – at Barbes

4/21, 6:30 PM the final night of this year’s MATA festival  of new music is really wild: “Nadia Botello’s Sono/Aqua, part of MATA’s unique and vital initiative devoted to female-identifying composer-performers, A Room of One’s Own, will be a truly immersive event. The audience, having passed through stages of listening from the audible to the vibrational, will be invited to enter a sonified pool to become one with sound: generating, altering, and ultimately becoming sound incarnate,” at Imagine Swimming, 40 Harrison St west of Greenwich in Tribeca., $25, “tickets allow entry to the space for the duration of the event and for timed entry to the pool itself. Visitors will be required to sign a waiver in order to enter the pool. Not recommended for children, or for those with epilepsy or similar conditions”

4/21, 7 PM pianist Daniel Schreiner explores “100 years of radical pianism” via works by Debussy, Messiaen, Berio, Murail and Donnacha Dennehy at Scholes St. Studios, $!0. 4/29 at 4 he’s doing much of the same at Spectrum followed at 7:30 by pianist Erika Dohi playing sonatas by Berio, Schubert and Scriabin

4/21, 7:30 PM  the 18-member Steve Oquendo Mambo Orchestra with guest vocalists Ray De La Paz, Frankie Morales, Nayibe La Gitana, Luisito Rosario, Miss YaYa and flutist Jeremy Bosch play salsa dura classics at the Hostos Community College auditorium, 450 Grand Concourse, in the Bronx, $25 tix avail

4/21, 7:30 PM Glass Farm Ensemble e play works by Jonathan Harvey, Yvonne Troxler, Claude Vivier, Alfred Zimmerlin and Balz Trümpy at Symphony Space, $25

4/21, 8 PM cellist Mariel Roberts performs Davíð Brynjar Franzson’s Cartography of Time; Boston-based saxophone and viola duo Patchtax perform New York premieres; powerhouse soprano Mellissa Hughes does Great American Songbook material;improvisations by Peter Evans (trumpet) and Levi Lorenzo (percussion) with special guests Dan Peck (tuba) and percussionist Dennis Sullivan at the Invisible Dog Arts Center, 51 Bergen St. off Smith, Carroll Gardens, F to Bergen St., free w/rsvp

4/21, 8ish eclectic, tuneful accordionist/songwriter Ali Dineen and brilliant Elysian Fields guitarist Oren Bloedow at the Owl, $10

4/21, 8 PM the Ureuk Symphony Orchestra play Korean art songs and orchestral works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Beethoven at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 tix avail

4/21, 9ish wryly retro, period-perfect classic 60s style female-fronted honkytonk band the Bourbon Express, playing the album release show for their new one plus wickedly catchy Americana/paisley underground rockers Girls on Grass  at Hank’s

4/21, 9:30 PM wryly surreal Lynchian parlor pop duo the Dream Eaters at Pine Box Rock Shop

4/21, 10 PM Greg Lewis’ brilliant Organ Monk Trio at the Fat Cat, no joke

4/21, 10 PM wild psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia band Yotoco at Barbes

4/21, 10 PM hard-hitting bassist Dawn Drake & Zapote play hot Afrobeat-tinged funk grooves at Silvana

4/21, 10 PM trippy cinematic downtempo/boudoir soul instrumentalists House of Blondes at El Cortez, $10

4/21-22, 10 PM predictably tuneful Americana highway rocker Kevin Morby at Bowery Ballroom, $20

4/22, 11 AMish kinetic klezmer/cumbia/cinematic jambandIsle of Klezbos with singer Natalia Zukerman at City Winery, $10, no min, kids 10 and under free!

4/22, 2 PM the reliably entertaining, adventurous Chelsea Symphony play Michael Boyman — The Howling Wilderness (world premiere); Alan Hovhaness — And God Created Great Whales, op. 229, no. 1; John Luther Adams — Become Ocean in the ocean life section of the Museum of Natural History, free wmuseum adm

4/22, 2 PM violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Jeremy Denk play Ives sonatas at the Town Hall, $15

4/22, 2:30 PM an all-ages punk and punkish quadruplebill: dark second-wave style ska crew the Ladrones, intense charismatic danceable metal cumbia/skaragga/latin rockers Escarioka, girlpunks Babe Patrol & Ensemble Cavalera at Brooklyn Bazaar, $10

4/22, 7 PM a rare Sunday early evening show by the Crooked Trio with lyrical pianist Marta Sanchez, playing originals from their long-awaited debut album followed at 9:30  by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind Stephane Wrembel at Barbes

4/22, 7 PM cellist JunYi Chow plays his improvisational concerto Mountain Water with sho player Chatori Shimizu, singing bowl player Miyoko Satoh, and dancer Satoshi Haga at the Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave #2, $25

4/22, 7:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composer Nick Hempton leads leads a quartet at Smalls

4/22, 9:30 PM lyrical trumpet powerhouse Nadje Noordhuis leads an unorthodox quintet with Maeve Gilchrist…harp; Jesse Lewis…guitar; Ike Sturm…bass; James Shipp…synths/percussion at 55 Bar

4/22, 10 PM lyrically-fueled electric folk noir band Leland Sundries  at the Silent Barn, $10

4/23, 6:30 PM Lusterlit play their ominous, noirish literary chamber pop; cellist Leah Coloff,evokes Patti Smith with her acerbic parlor rock; and others at Theater of the Apes production company’s monthly ”low-budget variety show – visual art, skits, music, and surprises” – this month based on Marie of Romania’s 1916 memoir. memoir My Country –  “wine and light refreshments will be served” at the Society Library of NY, 53 E 79th St. (Madison/Park), $20, rsvp reqd 

4/23, 9:30 PM ex-Chicha Libre keyboard sorcerer Josh Camp’s wryly psychedelic cumbia/tropicalia/dub band Locobeach at Barbes

4/24, 6:30 PM New York Baroque Incorporated play works for two and three viols by Schenck, Couperin, and Marais, with musicians Wen Yang, Sarah Cunningham, and Shirley Hunt at the Morgan Library, $25

4/24, 7:30/9:30 PM tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock’s Anti-House 4 with Mary Halvorson – guitar; Kris Davis – piano at the Jazz Gallery, $15

4/24, 8 PM the Columbia University Orchestra play Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony, Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to “Candide” and the Griffes Poem for Flute and Orchestra, featuring soloist Aimee Tomer at Symphony Space, free

4/24-28, 8:30 PM playfully soaring pan-latin avant jazz songstress Sofia Reileads a series of ensembles at the new Stone, $20.. Choice pick: 4/26 with “lides, Stills & Snapshots: Sara Serpa, Kyoko Kitamura, JD Walter, Monika Heidemann, Aubrey Johnson, Grecia Albán (vocals)

4/24, 8:30 PM quirky, smartly lyrical, female-fronted avant cello-rock with the Icebergs at Pete’s

4/24, 8:30 PM adventurous Velocity Duo avant jazz singer/pianist Lauren Lee followed by the amazing Miriam Elhajli – who switches effortlessly from Venezuelan-influenced folk to classic Appalachian sounds at the Postcrypt Coffeehouse

4/24, 9 PM cinematic Quincy Jones-style B3 gutbucket organ jazz with Underground System’s Colin Brown and his band at Freddy’s

4/24, 9 PM sharply lyrical janglerock/Americana/soul songwriter Matt Keating and guitarist Steve Mayone’s catchy new project the Bastards of Fine Arts at 11th St. Bar

4/24, 10:30 PM charismatic, adventurous postbop/avant garde trombonist/crooner Frank Lacy leads his  quintet at Smalls

4/24 enigmatically soaring orchestral rock songwriter Juliet Quick at the Silent Barn

4/25, 6 PM koto player Masayo Ishigure with fellow kotoist Chris Vancil and shamisen player Tomoko Kerr at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm

4/25, 7 PM a rare duo appearance by cult favorite powerpop/indie Americana band the Silos’ Walter Salas-Humara with Pete Galub taking a rare turn on bass at Barbes

4/25, 7 PM legendary Sexmob drummer Kenny Wollesen’s twin-vibraphone Uzupis project with singer Laima Griciute at National Sawdust, $25 adv tix rec

4/25, 7:30 PM  the amazing, haunting, otherworldly NY Andalus Ensemble – who play ancient Middle Eastern and North African Jewish sounds from as far back as a thousand years ago – at La Nacional Benevolent Society, 239 W 14th St., $20

4/25, 8:30 PM brilliant oldtime blues guitar/banjo/piano genius Jerron Blind Boy Paxton at Iridium, $25

4/25, 9 PM high-energy twin-guitar ska-rockers Finn Miler & His Rustkickers – whose latest single is the deliciously funky Impeach the President – play the album release show for their new one at LIC Bar  

4/25, 10 PM inscrutable, tropically-tinged psychedelic singer/bandleader Renata Ziegeur at Elsewhere, $12

4/25, 10:15 PM intense, brooding Turkish jazz pianist Burak Bedikyan leads his trio at Drom, $10 adv tix very highly rec 

4/25, 10:30 PM Arcoiris Sandoval’s Sonic Asylum Quintet at Smalls. One of the most darkly melodic, intense, captivating pianists in jazz

4/25 Austin Americana/powerpop supertrio Nobody’s Girls – BettySoo, Grace Pettis, Rebecca Loebe – at the Rockwood

4/26, 6 PM fearlessly smart, eclectic, avant garde-inclined Toot Sweet accordionist Mary Spencer Knapp – who brings to mind Rachelle Garniez early in her career – at the small room at the Rockwood

4/26, 7 PM a rare Brooklyn appearance by spellbinding Israeli avant singer and BIg Lazy collaborator Victoria Hanna with Gershon Waiserfirer on electric oud and trombone at Arete,, 67 West St. in Greenpoint, G to Greenpoint Ave, $15

4/26, 7 PM sharp, composer and pianist Daniel Kelly and his trio reinterpret texts from Shakespeare’s most beloved plays with powerhouse jazz vocalist Frederick Johnson at Stella Adler Studio G, 31 W 27th St, Floor 3, free, get there on time, no late seating!

4/26, 7:30 PM edgy jazz cellist Tomeka Reid leads her awesome quartet with Jason Roebke, bass; Mary Halvorson, guitar; and Tomas Fujiwara, drums at the Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St., $18/$15 stud/srs, Includes museum admission.

4/26, 7:30 PM toy piano icon Margaret Leng Tan premires works by George Crumb, Suzanne Farrin and Kelly Moran at Merkin Concert Hall, $25

4/26, 7:30 PM, repeating on 4/28 at 8 the NY Philharmonic play Sibelius’ Pohjola’s Daughter and Dvorak’s Concerto for Orchestra plus Debussy’s Fantaisie with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes  at Avery Fisher Hall, $30 tix avail

4/26, 7:30 PM hard-hitting rising star saxophonist Chet Doxas leads his quintet at Smalls

4/26, 7:30 PM not necessarily in this order: a-cappella neosoul singer Madison McFerrin, psychedelically ripping hammered dulcimer power trio House of Waters and piano-based, Aimee Mann-style chamber pop group Elizabeth & the Catapult, plus a funny-ha-ha phony-Americana dude at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

4/26, 8 PM art-rocker Pierre de Gaillande’s Bad Reputation playing witty chamber pop English translations of Georges Brassens classics followed at 9 by psychedelic tropicalia allstars Combo Chimbita and then psychedelic Colombian cumbia reinventor Kiko Villamizar at Barbes

4/26, 8 PM brilliant Middle Eastern percussionist April Centrone with ney flutist/multi-instrumentalist Bassam Saba and NY Arabic Orchestra members at Greenwich House Music School, $27

4/26, 8 PM hilariously acerbic, perennially relevant purist rock/Americana songwriter Amy Rigby  at Little City Books, 100 Bloomfield St. in Hoboken, a block from City Hall and about three from the Path train, $25

4/26, 8 PM cutting-edge guitar/sax duo: Mary Halvorson & Maria Grand at Happy Lucky No. 1 Gallery

4/26, 8 PM guitarist Alyse Lamb’s fiery, subtly witty, tightly psychedelic jazz-inspired postpunk band Parlor Walls play the album release show for their new one at Alphaville, $10

4/26, 8 PM deviously theatrical oldschool C&W/rockabilly parodists Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co at Otto’s

4/26, 8 PM moodily lyrical, politically savvy Irish folk-rocker Niall Connolly and soaringly lyrical dark Americana songwriter Lara Ewen at Fawkner, 131 Smith St. in Cobble Hill, F to Bergen St.

4/26, 8 PM lyrical, Balkan-inspired pianist Uri Caine – just back from Dave Douglas tour – at Russ & Daughters, free

4/26, 8:15 PM the lush, intense Bobby Spellman Nonet with torchy, spectacular blue-eyed soul singer Sami Stevens set Charles Bukowski poetry to music at Shapeshifter Lab. A woman singing Bukowski: he would have liked this. 

4/26, 8:30 PM sarodist and Hindustani carnatic singer Samarth Nagarkar at the Jalopy, $15 

4/26, 10 PM popular, purist blue-eyed soul crooner Eli Paperboy Reed at Brooklyn Bazaar, $12

4/27, 6:30 PM angst-fueled blue-eyed soulstress and Americana singer Jessi Robertson – a real force of nature – at the American Folk Art Museum

4/27, 7:30 PM Gustavo Dudamel conducts the LA Philharmonic in a performance of Esa-Pekka Salonen: Pollux (New York premiere); Varèse: Amériques; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 at Avery Fisher Hall ,$35 tix avail

4/27-28, 7:30 PM perennially tuneful tenor saxophonist John Ellis leads his quartet at Smalls. This era’s most intensely powerful tenor guy, JD Allen is there for a rare official after-hours set or two at 1 AM on 4/27 (actually wee hours of 4/28)

4/27, 7:30 PM the Alcott Trio play Ives’  Piano Trio and Beethoven’s Archduke Trio at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, 122 W. 69th St., $25

4/27, 8 PM wryly cinematic, cleverly lyrical noir swing band the Black Tails at the Bitter End 

4/27, 8 PM intense, cinematic Mexican jazz singer Magos Herrera leads an amazing quartet with Luis Perdomo (piano); Sam Minaie (bass) and Alex Kautz (drums) at Symphony Space, $22 adv tix highly rec

4/27, 8 PM catchy, fiery, female-fronted janglerockers/powerpop band Above the Moon – like a more forceful take on Versus – at Arlene’s, $10

4/27, 8 PM a rare NYC appearance by Afghani rubab lute virtuoso Homayoun Sakhi at Roulette, $30

4/27, 8 PM a rare duo show by uneasy Transylvanian jazz pianist Lucian Ban  and baritone saxophonist Alex Harding at Barbes, $10 cover

4/27, 8 PM the Barnard-Columbia Chamber Singers perform the Verdi Requiem at Church of the Ascension, 221 W. 107th St, $5/$3 stud/srs

4/27, 8 PM the Washington Square Ensemble play new and recent chamber works by Fennelly, Karchin, Kern, Krzywicki, Thorvaldsdottir, and Wuorinen at the Tenri Cultural Institute, 43 W 13th St., $15/$8 stud

4/27, 8 PM the NYU Jazz Orchestra with Combo Novo play Rich Shemaria’s One World Suite at the Loewe Theatre, free

4/27, 9 PM dark latin/Russian ska/tropicalia/dub band Karikatura play the album release show for their new one at C’Mon Everybody, $12

4/27, 9ish irrepressible, historically informed, crystalline-voiced folk noir/art-rock songwriter Elisa Flynn at Picasso Machinery, 43 Broadway at Wythe in South Williamsburg

4/27, 9ish stoner boogie band the Judex and ferociously dynamic, tuneful, female-fronted power trio Castle Black at the Well in Bushwick

4/27, 9ish enigmatic experimental indie vets Wet Tuna with Matt Valentine and P.G. Six at Wonders of Nature

4/27, 10 PM hard-hitting, brass-fueled, deviously witty newschool latin soul/boogaloo dance band Spanglish Fly at Barbes

4/27, 10ish charismatic Afrobeat singer Blitz the Ambassador at Bric Arts, free w/rsvp 

4/28, 11 AM an allday concert featuring virtually all of Beethoven’s string quartets – but not his first – performed by Juilliard ensembles at the Library for the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Ave behind Lincoln Center, free

4/28, 2 PM the amazingly eclectic Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble play Shostakovich Piano Trio no. 2, T.J. Tario’s Between the River Styx, plus works by Tina Kenny Jones and a world premiere piano trio by the Shostakovian Andrew Rosciszewski at the S. I. Museum (1000 Richmond Terrace, Building “A”, Staten Island). $15 

4/28, 6 PM saxophonist Arun Luthra’s Indian-inspired Konnakol Jazz Project with James Francies – piano, Evan Gregor – bass, Kenny Grohowski – drums at Flushing Town Hall, free w/rsvp  

4/28, 7 PM ruthlessly hilarious, fearlessly political Mexican chanteuse Astrid Haddad – whose satires of Mexican music, culture and stereotypes are sort of a Spanish-language mashup of Weird Al Yankovic, Madonna and Tenacious D – at the Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, $35 

4/28, 8 PM brisk, edgy new Neapolitan and Turkish string band sounds with Newpoli and Dolunay at the Jalopy, $12 adv tix rec

4/28, 8 PM perennially tuneful, dark, soaring noir soul singer/bandleader Nicole Atkins  at Baby’s All Right, $20

4/28, 8 PM eclectic, globally-inspired violinist Dina Maccabee at Pete’s

4/28, 8 PM Mary Kate Small – who wrote the classic parody hit White Christians – and the boisterously amusing David Dodson at the People’s Voice Cafe, sugg don, $20, “more if you choose; less if you can’t; no one turned away”

4/28-29, 8 PM the perennially intense, tuneful godfather of edgy, lyrical, anthemic downtown NYC rock, Willie Nile at City Winery, $30 standing room avail

4/28, 8 PM epic sitarist Ustad Shahid Parvez at Roulette, $30

4/28, 8 PM poignant soprano and intrepid impresario Jessica Gould leads a quartet in a rich survey of the musical paradigm shifts during notorious Cardinal Mazarin’s regime in pre-Revolutionary France, including works by Rossi, Mazzocchi, Carrissimi and their contemporaries at he Church of St. Jean Baptiste, 184 E 76th St, $35/$25 stud/srs

4/28, 6 PM NYC’s answer to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hugh Pool and band at 55 Bar

4/28, 8 PM the Canticum Novum Singers perform Josquin Des Prez’ Missa Pange Lingua plus works by Handel at Advent Church, 93rd/Broadway, $25/$20 stud/srs  

4/28, 8:30 PM Day So Far with the magical microtonal Sarah Bernstein: vox/violin/keys; Stuart Popejoy keys; Danny Tunick drums at Troost. Bernstein is also at Holo on 4/29 at 9ish preceded at 8 by violinist Dina Maccabee and followed at 10 by haunting, purposeful violist Jessica Pavone for $10

4/28, 9 PM edgy lefty guitarist Damian Quinones and his psychedelic latin soul band at Camaradas El Barrio, 2241 1st Ave b/t 116th St & 115th St , $10

4/28, 9:30 PM legendary Irish crooner Pierce Turner – sort of the missing link between the Pogues and the Moody Blues – at Joe’s Pub, $25

4/28, 10:30 PM hilarious, smartly political faux-French retro 60s psych-pop band les Sans Culottes  followed by creepy, psychedelic circus rock/Russian folk band Mad Meg at Freddy’s

4/28, 11ish feral psychedelic guitarslinger Debra Devi and her power trio at the Fox & Crow, 594 Palisade Ave, Jersey City Heights 

4/29, 2 PM the Juilliard String Quartet play works by Haydn, Dvorak and Bartok’s harrowing String Quartet No. 5 at the Town Hall, $15

4/29, 2:30 PM the Greenwich Village Orchestra play Verdi’s Requiem Aeternam at Church of the Incarnation, 209 Madison Ave

4/29, 3 PM Chinese Music Ensemble of New York – the only full-size Chinese orchestra in the Americas – play their 2017 annual spring concert at Merkin Concert Hall,  $25

4/29, 4 PM  singer Nora Fischer, the Ragazze Quartet and Remco Menting perform Morris Kliphuis’ harrowing, dystopic The Secret Diary of Nora Plain, examining surveillance and police-state monitoring as experienced by an ordinary teenage girl, at National Sawdust, $30 adv tix rec.

4/29, 5 PM the Jack Quartet play a program TBA at Our Savior’s Atonement, 178 Bennett Ave one block west of Broadway at 189th St in Washington Heights, free

4/29, 7 PM a killer melodic jazz triplebill: poignantly lyrical pianist Emma Grace Stephenson’s trio with popular singer Kristin Berardi followed at 8;15 PM by pianist Richard Sussman‘s sweeping, enveloping Sextet feat. Tim Hagans – trumpet; Rich Perry – tenor sax; Zach Brock – violin and then at 9:30 by the auspiciously tuneful Notet with saxophonist Jeremy Udden, trombonist JC Sanford, guitarist Andrew Green and guests playing the album release show for their new one at Shapeshifter Lab. Up the slope at 7 PM at Barbes beforehand, trombonist Ryan Keberle joins forces with Udden for some electroacoustic improvisation

4/29, 7 PM Hossein Omoumi, virtuoso of the Persian ney flute, makes a rare NY appearance joined by evocative vocalist Jessika Kenney, Amir Koushkani on setar and tar lutes, and Hamin Honari  on tombak and percussion at Roulette, $30

4/29, 8 PM creepy lo-fi horror-folk band Lucky Witch & the Righteous Ghost followed eventually at 10 by sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies and 11 by edgy female-fronted funk band Eliza & the Organix – feat. swirly alto sax player Kristen Tivey – at Sidewalk 

4/29, 8 PM the Phalanx Trio: Matt Mitchell – piano; Kim Cass – bass Kate Gentile – drums followed by guitarist Ryan Blotnick’s KUSH with Michael Blake – saxophones; Ross Gallagher – bass; RJ Miller – drums at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15

4/29, 8:30 PM Blythe Gruda sings her enigmatic art-rock and parlor pop at Pete’s

4/29, 9 PM torchy, riveting, erudite countrypolitan songwriter Drina Seay, rockabilly/honkytonk guitar maven Monica Passin a.k.a. L’il Mo , the Lonely Samoans‘ Samoa Wilson and well-liked, fearlessly political LES soul-rock songwriter/chanteuse Dina Regine at the Treehouse at 2A

4/30, 7 PM the Momenta Quartet play rarely performed works by Argentinian composers Graciela Paraskevaídis and Mariano Etkin plus Guatemala’s Jorge Sarmientos’ String Quartet no. 1, op. 37 at the Americas Society, 680 Park Ave, free

4/30, 7:30 PM cleverly lyrical, coolly intriguing jazz chanteuse Dorian Devins leads her trio at the Bar Next Door, 

4/30, 8 PM acerbic, epic jazz guitarist composer Chris Jentsch’s No Net play the ostensibly final live performance of his intensely relevant suite Topics in American History at Greenwich House Music School, $10

4/30, 8/10 PM  ageless, perennially hard-hitting jazz piano sage and ex-Coltrane bandmate McCoy Tyner at the Blue Note, $30 standing room avail.

4/30, 9 PM Fuck You Tammy play amazingly spot-on recreations of themes from Twin Peaks and David Lynch films followed by careening original surf punks the Squeegee Men at LIC Bar 

5/1, 7 PM hotshot young bluegrass stars in an unexpected venue: Yonder Mountain String Band’s Jacob Jolliff (mandolin) & Max Johnson (double bass) at Barbes followed at 9 byclever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs Slavic Soul Party at Barbes

5/1. 8 PM unpredictably fun, funny psychedelic art-rock band the Academy Blues Project at Shrine. They’re also there on 5/8

5/1, 8 PM allstar Romany guitar jazz royalty: the Django Festival Allstars (guitarist Dorado Schmitt, his sons Samson and Amati, accordionist Ludovic Beier, violinist Pierre Blanchard, guitarists Doudou Cuillerier and Francko Mehrstein with Antonio Licusati and Gino Roman on bass) plus special gests singer Melody Gardot and reedman Ken Peplowski at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall

5/2, 9 PM hypnotically psychedelic Saharan desert rockers Imharhan at Rough Trade, $15. Or you could go see them for free on 5/3 at 7:30 PM at the Lincoln Center Atrium

5/3, 8 PM eclectic, edgy soul/art-rock/funk/chamber-pop cellist/singer Marika Hughes’ new string quartet at Greenwich House Music School, $15/$12 srs

5/3, 9 PM high-energy retro soul/Americana band the California Honeydrops  at Bowery Ballroom, $20 adv tix avail. at the Mercury

5/4, 7 PM pianist Anna Khanina plays works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov and Chopin at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St, free

5/4, 7:30 PM Crampsy ghoul-surf/noir garage band Twin Guns  and noir cabaret/goth rock legend David J at Berlin, $12. Mr. Haskins (if you’re a Bauhaus fan, you get that) is also at the Owl the following night, 5/5 at 8 with this era’s greatest dark rock pianist, Botanica‘s Paul Wallfisch for two bucks less in the tip jar

5/5, 7:30 PM the Dover String Quartet with violist Steven Tenenbom play works by Haydn, Borodin and Mozart at Irving HS Auditorium, 17th/Irving Place, $15

5/5, 9 PM smartly lyrical, politically fearless Detroit underground art-rock legends Discipline – the American Genesis, at least if you count The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway as that British band’s peak – at Spectrum, $10 

5/6, 4 PM the Parthenia Viol Consort play works by Taverner, Purcell and their predecessors William Byrd, Robert Parsons, Orlando Gibbons, Giovanni Coprario, and John Jenkins, at St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson St, $25

5/6, 9 PM diverse, upbeat, lyrical Americana/bluegrass string band and Steve Martin collaborators the Steep Canyon Rangers at Bowery Ballroom, $17 adv tix avail. at the Mercury

5/7, 8 PM composer/performer Elliot Cole & percussionist Peter Ferry team up with NYU percussionists for The Future is Bright, a suite for 100 flowerpots – will they get smashed? – along with Cole’s Hanuman’s Leap, “a dramatically percussive retelling of the ancient Indian Hanuman myth, which draws on epic song, hip hop, reggae, throat singing, choral, and experimental music to create something both ancient and new” at the NYU Loewe Theatre, 25 W 4th St., free

5/8, half past noon Scottish organist Kevin Duggan plays a program TBA at Central Synagogue, 54th/Lex, free

5/10, 7:30 PM high-voltage oldschool-style Detroit soulstress Thornetta Davis at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/10, 8 PM tuneful, terse guitarist/singer Camila Meza  and pianist Aaron Goldberg explore themes of justice, equality and social awareness in songs from the Latin America diaspora at Greenwich House Music School, $15/$12 srs

5/11, 7 PM early music ensemble Tenet play music of 12th and 13th century French troubadours at King Manor Museum, 150-03 Jamaica Ave,  Queens, $15/$10 srs. The program repeats on 5/12 at 7:30 PM at Christ Church Riverdale,  5030 Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx for $10 more

5/11, 8 PM the Cecilia Chorus of NY perform the Mozart Requiem and the US premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth’s final, similarly harrowing 1930 large-scale work, The Prison at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $25 tix avail

5/11, 9 PM jangly Dylanesque acoustic dude Hiss Golden Messenger followed by lush, artsy Americana band Trampled by Turtles at the Nokia Theatre, $25

5/13. 2 PM ish sardonically catchy powerpop/janglerockers the Hell Yeah Babies and long-running, wickedly jangly, tuneful Americana rockers the Sloe Guns in Tompkins Square Park

5/14, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, Ensemble Signal plays works by Helmut Lachenmann at the Miller Theatre, free

5/15, 7:30 PM  pianist Tamara Cashour and ensemble play works by Frederick Boyle, Richard Brooks, Cashour, Robert Cohen, Kevin McCarter, Timothy Lee Miller, Dary John Mizelle, Dana Dimitri Richardson and David See Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E. 29th Street $20

5/18, 7 PM cleverly lyrical, witty saxophonist Daniel Bennett with guitarist Nat Janoff and Matthew Feick on drums at Bloomingdale School of Music, 323 W 108th St (off of Broadway), free

5/18, 9 PM broodingly lyrical Nashville gothic band Leland Sundries at Bowery Ballroom, $15 adv tix avail. at the Mercury. Avoid the putrid headlining poser-rock band at all costs.

5/18, 10:30ish alternately ambient and swirlingly ferocious guitar looper Ben Greenberg aka Hubble and the even more feral Reg Bloor playing the album release show for her deliciously assaultive new one Sensory Irritation Chamber at Muchmore/s, $10

5/19, 7 PM magical Persian/Turkish improvisations with kamancheh fiddle icon Kayhan Kalhor and baglama player Erdal Erzincan at the Schimmel Center at Pace University on Spruce St. in the financial district, $30 tix avail

5/19, 8 PM the Centre Symphony Orchestra play Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, plus Beethoven’s Triple Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 with Muneko Otani, violin, Elizabeth Anderson, cello and Kaoru Fukuda, piano, at St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave., at 54th St, $10 sugg don

5/24, 7:30 PM newschool Cuban salsa jazz quintet Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

5/29, 7 PM accordionist/sitarist Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood/cumbia/psychedelic rock band Bombay Rickey – a launching pad for her spellbinding four-octave voice – play the album release show for their new one at the Cutting Room

5/30, 8ish violinist Laura Ortman, fearlessly relevant no wave-ish songwriter Emilie Lesbros and the magical microtonal Sarah Bernstein’s Unearthish playing the album release show for their new one at Wonders of Nature

5/31, 7:30 PM Punjabi-American soul with Zeshan B at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival advised

6/5, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the Spektral Quartet play works by George Lewis, David Fulmer and Eliza Brown at the Miller Theatre, free

6/12, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6 the Mivos Quartet’s Olivia De Prato plays solo violin works by Ned Rothenberg, Missy Mazzoli and others at the Miller Theatre, free

6/12, 8 PM the NY Philharmonic plays a program TBA at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. The program repeats on 6/13 on the great lawn in Central Park (enter at 79nd St. in the west side), 6/14 at Cunningham Park in Queens – enter at 193rd Street, near 81st Avenue or Union Turnpike, concert is at the 193rd St. field; and 6/15 in Prospect Park (use the 9th St. entrance). They’re also at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island for free at 3 PM on 6/17.

6/21-24, 8 PM dancer Molissa Fenley and Company join with percussionist Frank Cassara and violist Ralph Farris for an evening ofwater-themed scores by Linda Bouchard, Andrew Toovey, Frank Cassara and Tigran Mansurian at  Danspace Project, 131 E 10th St, $22