Tegan And Sara Cover The Rolling Stones’ “Fool To Cry”

at Mehanata Fridays at 11 PM flamenco guitarist Ian Banks with special guests each week at St. Mazie’s (the old Rose Bar) on Grand St. just off the BQE in Williamsburg Saturdays in October at 4 PM at  there are impromptu free classical concerts, 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 October, 6 PM badass resonator guitarist and delta blues/oldtime hillbilly music maven 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, show starts around 11:30 AM – 2 PM, $10 cover, no minimum, lots of good bands. Sundays in November, 2 PM play their deliriously fun mix of original eco-warrior gospel and edgy street theatre at Joe’s Pub, $15 Sundays at 3 PM at the a rotating cast of familiar faces from John Zorn’scircle perform from Zorn’s characteristically exhaustive, marathon collection of 300 works titled Bagatelles, recently composed between March and May 2015. “Each concert will be introduced by John Zorn, often in conversation with the musicians,” $15 Sundays in October, 5 PM Afro-Peruvian jazz pianist/chanteuse leads a rotating series of bands at Barbes Sundays in October, 7:30 PM spine-tingling art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop singer – pretty much everybody’s choice for best singer in all of NYC – with hypnotically luminous pianist Matt Kanelos – at Pangea on 2nd Ave. btw 11th/12th Sts, $20. Several special guests are promised: on October 11th, Rachel Mason AND Lorraine Leckie with Czech violiln wizard Pavel Cingl, wow! Every Sunday the , led by trumpeter  and (frequently) guitarist  play NYC’s only weekly hot jazz session starting around 8 PM at the Ear Inn on Spring St. Hard to believe, in the city that springboarded the careers of thousands of jazz legends, but true. This is by farthe best value in town for marquee-caliber jazz: for the price of a drink and a tip for the band, you can see world-famous players (and brilliant obscure ones) you’d usually have to drop $100 for at some big-ticket room. The material is mostly old-time stuff from the 30s and 40s, but the players (especially Kellso and Munisteri, who have a chemistry that goes back several years) push it into some deliciously unexpected places. Sundays in October, 8:30 PM purist guitarist  – who gets the thumbs up from bop-era legend Gene Bertoncini – leads a series of trios at the Bar Next Door. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 6 PM Tristan Honsinger, Nicolas Calioa and Josh Zubot join forces as an improvising string trio at Downtown Music Gallery 6:30 PM a wind/strings octet from the ‘s plays music by Beethoven, Strauss, and Nielsen at the Brooklyn Historical Society. 128 Pierrepont St, downtown Brooklyn, free. The program repeats on 10/3 at 5 at the Rubin Museum of Art and then on 10/4 at 2 PM at the QueensMuseum in Corona Park across the way from where Shea Stadium used to be 6:30 PM a relatively rare NYC appearance by smart, purposeful highway rocker/Americana songwriter Eric Stuart at the Bitter End. If you couldn’t afford the BoDeans at City Winery, this guy will do just fine. 7 PM a typical amazing triplebill at Barbes: edgy psychedelic tropicalia chanteuse/bandleader y Su Banda , dark, charismatic, mischieviously witty literate keyboardist/chanteuse  and accordionist/chanteuse Kamala Sankaram’s hot surfy Bollywood project, 7 PM balmy, sardonically individualistic vocal jazz stylist and her trio play a celebration of Harlem jazz at Settepani:,196 Malcolm X Blvd, (Lenox Ave) at 120th St., free 7 PM guitarist – who’s been known to jazz up Patsy Cline classics – leads his trio at Shapeshifter Lab, $8 7:30 PM subversively hilarious cabaret personality/chanteuse leads an all-star chamber-rock band playing her twistedly brilliant Marianne Faithfull parody/homage at Pangea, $20 7:30 PMlyrical jazz piano icon leads his trio at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes 7:30 PM otherworldly, rustic, haunting folk tunes and originals from the Reupblic of Georgia with at Drom, $15 adv tix rec. Followed at 9:30 PM (separate adm, $15 adv tix available) by fiery female-fronted Russian Romany trio 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist Michael Blake leads a killer quartet with Frank Kimbrough – piano , Ben Allison – bass , Rudy Royston – drums followed at 10:30 by fellow tenorist and his similarly good quintet with Paul Gill – bass , Steve Einerson – piano , Josh Bruneau – trumpet , Jason Tiemann – drums at Smalls 8 PM sharp (get there a little early to make it easy on the host), a rare Manhattan house concert with poignantly lyrical, velvet-voiced southwestern gothic/tropicalia/psychedelia songwriter at a convenient Upper West location (close to 1/2/3 trains at 96th), for info/location 8 PM the with pianist Gilbert Kalish play “The Concert from Hell” withworks by Julián Carrillo, Eugène Ysaÿe, Philip Glass, George Crumb’s Black Angels and Charles Ives’ Halloween at the Tenri Institute, 43 W13th St, $15 8 PM soundscaper and with his field recordings and his trusty processed Walkman, mashing up kinetic improvisations at Emily Harvey Foundation: 537 Broadway #2 (Spring/Prince), $15. The show repeats on 10/2 8 PM rustic guitar-and-washboard duo at the Jalopy, $10 9 PM weird segue, good twinbill: hypnotic Indian-flavored soundscapes and grooves with followed by the reliably excellent folk noir/circus rock at Rough Trade, $15 9ish torchy intense southwestern gothic songwrite and her excellent band at Bar Lunatico 9ish – Eula guitarslinger Elyse Lamb’s catchy, swirling noiserock/postpunk collaboration with drummer/organist Chris Mulligan at Aviv, $8 9 PM a smaller subset of mighty 75-woman Brazilian drum battalion at Meridian 23 9 PM honkytonkn night, in reverse order: Johnny Pinhook & the Tobaccoaires, Americana songwriter – trucker songlegend Red Sovine’s grandkid – and the Loretta Lynn-influenced at the Cobra Club in Bushwick, $5 9 PM in reverse order; skronky, angular postpunk experimentalists, the bludgeoning Chris Pitsiokos Duo, the baritone sax-driven, assaultive o, and some serious shredding with Branxon Seabrook/Tim Dahl at Muchmore’s, $7. Also see 10/2. 9 PM the play guitar-and-harmonica Americana inspired by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee at Moto in south Williamsburg 9:30 PM a super rare solo acoustic show at Bowery Electric, $10. Saw the legendary noir psychedelic songwriter/guitar duellist play solo many, many years ago at Westbeth and the show was amazing. 9:30 PM mesmerizing, lickety-split tabla ensemble at Joe’s Pub, $15 adv tix rec 9:45 PM devious, charismatic, subversive comedic songwriter followed at 10:20 by lyrically intense avant garde chanteuse and then 11 PM the brand-new, ostensibly water-drenched – with edgy power trio ‘ Mallory Feuer on drums and vocals! – at Sidewalk 10 PM a killer twinbillat the Knitting Factory with Romany punk/latin rock band the followed by high-velocity British punk-folk band – sort of the UK version of the Pogues – at the Knittting Factory, $15 adv tix rec. guessing 10ish ageless dub reggae pioneer Lee Scratch Perry at Brooklyn Bowl, $20, celebrating 40 years of burning spliffs and burning down the Black Ark, maybe? 10 PM the Super Friends Band play surf and soul classics at Hank’s FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 5:30 PM play their distinctive mashup of latin jazz, classical and klezmer at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, 895 Shore Rd. in the Bronx, $10/$8 stud/srs 7 PM pianist (of Bearthoven) and cellist Ashley Bathgate (of the Bang on a Can All-Stars) perform the works of first-class bass clarinetist Ken Thomson at Spectrum, $15 7:30 PM Glass Farm Ensemble plays works by Kaija Saariaho, Salvatore Sciarrino, Ian Wilson, Balz Trumpy and others at Symphony Space, $20/$15 stud/srs 8 PM a killer triplebill at Sidewalk of all places: country blues guitar genius LennyMolotov’s swing band followed by & the Kidd Twist Band playing their fiery, sometimes unexpectedly poignant Pogues-ish punk and folk noir and then Joe Yoga, frontman of ferociously tuneful southwestern gothic rockers the 8 PM badass oldschool-style blues belter and her similarly purist band play the album release show for her new one at City Winery, $20 standing room avail. 8 PM the two-marimba Cisum Percussion Duo: Nicholas Hall and Josh Zaid followed by the heavier at the Firehouse Space, $10 8 PM Quebec-based bassist leads his Quintet with Donny McCaslin on tenor sax at Flushng Town Hall, $16 9 PM subtle, misty bossa-pop singer/bandleader followed eventually at 11 by high-energy acoustic oldtime Americana band the at Pete’s 9:30 PM in reverse order: skronky, angular postpunk experimentalists , Michael Coleman’s rainy-day bedroom pop project t, clarinetist ‘s Abebbe, and drummer ‘s smoky, enveloping firestorm at Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St , Bushwick, L to Morgan Ave., free 10PM this era’s greatest cinematic noir guitar instrumentalists, at Barbes 10 PM long-running, wickedly jangly, tuneful Americana rockers at Desmond’s 10:30 PM gorgeously cinematic surf/soundtrack/twang instrumental band the at Lucille’s, $10 10:30 PM cutting-edge B3 organ and trombone soul/jazz grooves with the and Dave Gibson Band at the Fat Cat 11 PM Mauritanian folk music reinventors at Freddy’s 1:30 PM play their cosmopolitan, carnivalesque take on Balkanica, swing and torch song at Joe’s Pub, $15 midnght and 2 AM psychedelic tenor saxophonist/composer with Juini Booth, and Jochen Rueckert at Nublu. The show repeats on 10/3. SATURDAY OCTOBER 3 4 PM – whose charming, psychedelic tributes to weirdness in the animal kingdom are suitable for adults as well as children – followed at 6 by badass resonator guitarist and delta blues/oldtime hillbilly music maven , then otherworldly, rustic, haunting folk tunes and originals from the Reupblic of Georgia with aat 8 and Mexican ranchera/bolerobrass crew at Barbes. Note $10 cover for the two later acts 5 PM Fizz – murderously intense noir Americana chanteuse and Ollabell’s Fiona McBain, whose specialty is murder ballads sung in harrowing harmony – followed eventually at 10 PM by terse, tuneful, witty artsong bassist/composer at Pete’s  5 PM hypnotic, high-energy Garifuna dance-rock bandleader.guitarist Aurelio Martinez and band at the Brooklyn Museum, free He’s also at the Lincoln Center Atrium at 7:30 PM on 10/15 6 PM searing, theatrical Romany/Balkan punk rockers B acoustic ?!? at Radegast Hall. Even without amps, they have the energy to drown out the tourists. If you couldn’t afford Gogol Bordello, these guys and girls will hit the spot. 7 PM crystalline-voiced Portland, Maine acoustic Americana chanteuse – who moves seamlessly and compellingly between original New England front-porch folk, jaunty Prohibition swing, French chanson and oldtimey/bluegrass stylings – at Caffe Vivaldi 7:15 PM  dark psychedelic acousticblues/klezmer/reggae/soca jamband at Terra Blues  8 PM synthy 80s-style goth/darkwave singer ,  singer/guitatarist Mia Wilson’s haunting, blues-infused, angst-ridden, psychedelic project with brilliant lead guitarist Quincy Ledbetter, the and and catchy, popular female-fronted powerpop band tat Union Hall, $10  8 PM oudist and the Alfaia Quartet play their Middle Eastern jazz at Alwan for the Arts, $20 8 PM darkly catchy piano-and-guitar art-rock duo at Matchless, $8 8 PM the with guest Marcy Rosen on cello play the Debussy String Quartet plus George Crumb’s Sonata for Solo Cello and works by Michael Small, Luigi Boccherini, Tomas Luis de Victoria:at the Tenri Institute, 43 W13th St, $15 8 PM one of Spain’s leading flamenco guitarists, , in a rare Brooklyn show at Roulette, $30/$26 stud/srs 8 PM pianist eads his moody, globally inspired third-stream jazz quartet at Flushng Town Hall, $16, reception to follow 8ish skronky, angular postpunk experimentalists, the defiantly uncategorizableand bewitchingly assaultive art-rock duo – violinist Natalia Steinbach and cellist Valerie Kuehne – at Panoply Performance Lab 8 PM the Acoustic Duo and fast-fingered oldtimey blues/gospel guitarist at the People’s Voice Cafe, $18, “no one turned away” 8:30 PM Koyt far dayn Fardakht (The Filth of your Suspicion) play “Yiddish revolutionary punk rock” followed eventually at 10:30 by Brown’s Syndrome featuring members of brilliant latin-tinged art-rock band playing darkly assaultive improvised rock and then the amazingly multistylistic, fun, original at Rock Shop, $10  9 PM ‘s monthly surf rock extravaganza at Otto’s begins at 9 with allstar Link Wray cover band the Wraycyclers, the absolutely brilliant, eclectic at 10, purist reverbtoned at 11 and amusingly futuristic-themed surf punks at midnight or so midnight highly regarded Turkish art-rock/foli-rock guitarist/bandleader at Drom, $20 adv tix a must 2 AM ish (actually wee hours of 10/4) the ferocious, politically-inspired play their“real Alabama R&R” at Baby’s All Right, $12 SUNDAY OCTOBER 4 11 AM community day at the newly opened National Sawdust in Williamasburg, free. Australian violinist Jon Rose engages the public with a ten-foot-tall, interactive electronic musical instrument, yikes! Via sensors and radio transmission, the movements and speed of the ball determine the sonic results. Puppeteer/designer/director Julian Crouch and musician/composer Saskia Lane—Birdheart collaborators and booking agents at the venue —join forces with for an interactive puppet parade to the East River at 3 PM. supply mobile studios throughout the parade for the public to make free recordings. The concert there that night with sets at 7 PM/9 PM features ’s Abbeyozzud and Beyond with Gyan Riley, Zach Brock (violin), David Cossin (percussion), Travis Laplante (saxophone), Matmos (electronics), Benjamin Verdery and guitarists from the Yale School of Music, and Evan Ziporyn (saxophone), $25 3 PM the play Brahms’ Academic FestivalOverture, the Elgar Cello Concerto and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 at Washington Irving HS Auditorium, 16th St./Irving Place, $15 sugg don., reception to follow  4 PM a free all-ages triplebill at Paperbox with carnivalesque tropical Romany cutups followed at 5 by snarling punk blues duo and at 6 by neo glamrockers the 4 PM the play their new arrangements of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie material at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 4 PM early music ensemble Rebel perform a medieval program tracing “the Path to Enlightenment at , 529 W 121st St, $10 seats avail. 6:30 PM the play music by Peter Schickele and Antonín Dvorák at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave at 183rd St., $12 sugg don, reception to follow.. 7:30 PM a wild windup to this year’s NY Gypsy Festival with – in reverse order -trumpet icon ’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars featuring singer Eleanor Reissa; NYC’s long-running, eclectic ; the similarly eclectic, Ellington andhip-hop-influenced and the , who veer from the Balkans to the Mediterranean to New Orleans, at the Schimmel Auditorium at Pace Univ. on Spruce St. in the financial district, $20 730 PM the play fun, playful improvisations with flute, trumpet, piano and bass at the Firehouse Space, $10 8 PM the with guest pianist Gordon Beeferman play improvisational works by Borey Shin, Wilfrido Terrazas, Gordon Beeferman, Yusef Lateef: and Arthur Kampela, many of them world premieres, at the Tenri Institute, 43 W13th St, $15 9 PM a killler noir twinbill upstairs at 2A with the Orbisonesque blue-eyed soul of and the ghoulabilly/protorock menace of 9 PM boisterously funny oldschool 60s C&W and brooding southwestern gothic with the at Skinny Dennis 9 PM intense improvisation with the Public Speaking Quartet: (voice, electronics, objects), Johnny Butler (saxophone), Valerie Kuehne (cello), Jeanann Dara (viola) at Jack, $12 MONDAY, OCTOBER 5 6 PM the – who shift between art-rock and indie classical –followed at 9 by vibraphonist and his combo at the Fat Cat 7 PM string orchestra String Power play everything from Earth Wind & Fire to global styles at Branded Saloon 7:30 PM fiery, gospel-infused belter leads a brilliant pickup band – comprising most of the people who played that awesome New Marble Giants tribute last month – in a performance of Paul McCartney’s Ram album at Bowery Electric, $10 8 PM snide boogie power trio psychedelic, artsy doom metal band and Pentagram (most of the original mid-70s US lineup) at St. Vitus, $25. Be aware that the 10/6 show is sold out 8/10:30 PM hip-hop lyricist par excellence does his hip-hop jazz thing at the Blue Note, $20 standing room avail. 8 PM the self-explanatory at Radegast Hall 9 PM 70s freak-folk legend at – get there early TUESDAY OCTOBER 6 7 PM a sensationally eclectic multi-performer bill with haunting all-female Bulgarian vocal choir performing with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus plus string quartet; other composers/performers on thebill include at National Sawdust, $25 7:30 PM an all-star lineup: and Georgy Valtchev, violin; Dov Scheindlin and Danny Kim, viola’ Joel Noyes and Wolfram Koessel, cello; Troy Rinker, bass; Anna Stoytcheva and Lora Tchekoratova, piano plays works by Mozart, Dobrinka Tabakova plus Schubert’s Trout Quintet at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25 10/6-7, 7:30/9:30 PM pianist leads her lush, cinematic sextet at the Jazz Standard, $25 7:30 PM digital prepared piano project with So Percussion, percussionist Adam Sliwinski and pianist Cristina Altamura at le Poissoin Rouge, $15 adv tix avail. 8:30 PM the towering, majestic, art-rock/symphonically neoromantic at Shapeshifter Lab, $10 10 PM edgy female-fronted funk band – feat. swirly alto sax player Kristen Tivey –at the Way Stattion WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7 6 PM (sitar) Jonathan Singer (percussion) at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm 7:30 PM OMG one of the most exciting free concerts of the year – the Chamber Orchestra of the with theGerald Cleaver – drums at Smalls 7:30 PM Mark Olson, late of the Jayhawks, followed by well-loved 90s Americana/garage rock road warriors at Bowery Electric 10/9-10, 7:30 PM the premiere of ‘s Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera, based on the Tom Wolfe bestseller, at El Teatro at El Museo del Barrio, 1230 5th Ave. at 104th St, $30 8 PM cult favorite Romany chanteuse (and Berthold Brecht descendant) and her killer band followed by pianist and band, who reinvent cumbia classics with a jazz and classical tinge, at Barbes 8 PM noir rocker at Webster Hall.. JD McPherson – who should be opening for her, not the other way around – plays afterward, $20 8 PM not making this up: Thelonious Monk classics played tango style, featuringy, bass; Nick Danielson, violin; Tito Castro, bandoneon; Gustavo Casenave, piano; Reno Padilla, vocals, plus dancers, at Flushing Town Hall, $16 8 PM bass clarinetist/saxophonist and singerunveil relevant new electroacoustic new works responding to the Occupy Movement,Whistleblowers, and the reportage of Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald and others at the Firehouse Space 8 PM the first of a two-day John Zorn festival at National Sawdust with the world premiere of Madrigals Books I-II sung by Lisa Bielawa, Jane Sheldon, Sarah Brailey, Mellissa Hughes, Rachel Calloway and Kirsten Sollek perform this world premiere. The 10 PM set has Asmodeus featuring Marc Ribot (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass) and Tyshawn Sorey (drums), $25 8 PM indie classical group plays an enticing program of works by Frederic Rzewski, Enda Bates. Keeril Makan, and comductor/impersario Moon Young Ha at Mise-En Place Bushwick, 678 Hart St 1B in Bushwick, L to Dekalb Ave, $20/$15 stud/srs includes a drink 8:30 PM a cool string jazz twinbill: violinist with pianist Kris Davis and drummer Mike Sarin followed by cellist with bassist Adam Hopkins and Craig Weinrib on drums at I-Beam, $15 9 PM consdiering the spae, a cool-temperatured night with (trumpet), Richard Wyands (piano), PeterWashington (bass) at Mezzrow, $20 10/9, 10 PM cabaret & tarot fortunetelling with Shelley Hirsch, lyrically intense avant garde singer/poet , acoustic art-rock/folk noir songwriter/chanteuse/force of nature , performance activist , jazz pianist , Darcey Leonard, Michael Wiener @ The Red Room, 3rd floor above KGB bar, 85 E 4th St. (near 2nd Ave), $15 10:30 PM , NYC’s first and arguably most deeply authentic, explosive Balkan brass band, at Drom, $10 SATURDAY OCTOBER 10 3 PM the play their explosive New Orleans roots music followed by the and their pillowy four-part oldtime C&W harmonies at Madison Square Park 3 (yes, three) PM smart, clever ex Chicha Libre timbalera and vocalist teams up with lyrical Colombian pianist and composer at the small room at the Rockwood 5 PM up-and-coming pianist Brian Le plays music by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Bartok, Chopin, Ravel and Prokofiev at the DiMenna Center, $5 6 PM badass resonator guitarist and delta blues/oldtime hillbilly music mavenfollowed at 8 by sultry retro Franco-American torch jazz/chamber pop/ukulele swing band at Barbes 6 PM the Bogmen’s at Pete’s. He’s also here on the 24th 6:30 PM the Third Annual t Tuba Competition – featuring Jose Davila, Clark Gayton and Steffen Granly  – followed by performances by the man himself, PUBLIQuartet and more at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, $15 7 PM hard-rocking psychedelic cumbia/surf dance band , anthemic Celtic-flavored punk rockers the and popular 90s ska bandat Grand Victory, $15 7 PM Chicago-style blues guitar monster at Terra Blues. 7 PM pianist plays works by Debussy, Beethoven, Franck and Schoenberg at Third Street Music School Settlement, free 7:30 PM play the world premiere of Eleanor Cory’s Rikers Island, inspired by texts written by women inmates and compiled in the new anthology, These Are Hard Times for Dreamers; Frederic Rzewski’s iconic minimalist epic Attica, in memory of the 1971 upstate New York prison riot; and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for theEnd of Time, at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker St., $20 . 7:30 PM diverse, purist up-and-coming jazz chanteuse and her combo at Ginny’s Supper Club, $15 standing room avail. 8 PM day two of the John Zorn festival at National Sawdust has Zorn reprising his legendary Met Museum improvisation a couple of years ago with Wadada Leo Smith (trumpet) and Milford Graves (drums). The 10 PM set has Cobra featuring Mark Feldman (violin), Okkyung Lee (cello), Jeffrey Zeigler (cello), Ikue Mori (electronics), Sylvie Courvoisier (piano), Brian Marsella (keyboards), Eyal Maoz (guitar), Marc Ribot (guitar), Trevor Dunn (bass), Cyro Baptista (percussion), Ches Smith (drums/vibes), Kenny Wollesen (drums/vibes) and Zorn himself as “prompter,” $25 8ish Red Metal: Patrick Breiner, tenor sax – Chris Hoffman, cello – Emilie Lesbros, – voice, Sana Nagano – violin at New Revolution Art, 7 Stanhope Street, Bushwick, J to Kosciuszko St 9 PM pyrotechnic, theatrical art-rock/blues/ragtime pianist/songwriter atSidewalk 9 PM hypnotic cello-and-marimba duo play the album release show for their new one at Caffe Vivaldi 10 PM wryly swirly newschool psychedeliic garage rockersat the Cameo Gallery, $10 SUNDAY OCTOBER 11 4 PM play their original recorder-driven arrangements of Balkan, Middle Eastern and Armenian tunes at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 4 PM pianist plays works by Chopin, Mozart, Tschakovsky, Liszt, Scarlatti and de Falla plus his own intense, neoromantic Variations d’Heybeli at Greenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St., $20 6 PM dark low-register reedman with ensemble TBA followed by playing solo baritone sax at Downtown Music Gallery, free 7 PM composer/clarinetist s’ pastoral jazz group followed at 9 by Romany jazz/psychedelic rock guitar mastermind . 8 PM recorder player and composer spar and combine atmospheric textures, followed by a rare NYC appearance by keyboardist/composerbalanced on the high end with sax by Dan Blake and on the lowby Josh Sinton at the Firehouse Space, $10 8 PM guitarist leads a quartet (Shayna Dulberger, Mike Pride, Jonathan Moritz) followed by Air Ceremony (Dustin Carlson​, Mike Baggetta, Nathaniel Morgan, Danny Gouker, Kate Gentile) at Jack, $12 9 PM – who mash up creepy, explosively cinematic postpunk with noir soul and a fearless, confrontational anti-surveillance state political stance- at Rough Trade, $15 9ish psychedleic cumbia/reggaeton bandledaer and lyricist at Webster Hall, $20 10:30 PM sweeping, swinging, ambitous vibraphone jazz with the Quartet feat. Nate Radley – guitar , Paul Gill – bass , Jason Tiemann – drums at Smalls 11 PM dark, smart, edgy post-Velvet rock songwriter and former Band of Susans guitarist and band at Otto’s midnight, edgy Russian art-rock/indie classical keyboardist/songwriter plays the album release show for her new one Incitation with violinists Mari Kimura and Jon Rose at National Sawdust, $25 MONDAY OCTOBER 12 6 PM Haitian brass band on the terrace at 1Penn Plaza, 34th St. close to 8th Ave., free 6 PM some fascinatingly textured improvisations with Miya Masaoka, koto; Nate Wooley, trumpet; , cello, voice at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10 minimum. 7 PM intense, darkly politically-fueled Tunisian-born art-rock chanteuse at National Sawdust, $25 7:30 PM edgy, fun, original Bay Area Romany guitar jazz trio at Joe’s Pub, $20 7:30 PM pianist Judit Gabos plays an all-Bartok program at the Hungarian Consulate, 223 E 52n d St., free, 8 PM an awesome acoustic guitar twinbill: wryly virtuosic Americana/jazz songwriter followed by the thinking person’s Tom Petty, at City Winery, $20 standing room avail. 8 PM fun, edgy, eclectic bluegrass/newgrass band the Steve Martin’s backing unit – at Bowery Ballroom, $20 8/10:30 PM moody but kinetic third-stream pianist with bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Nate Wood at the Blue Note 8 PM new electroacoustic works by performed by the composer with Ashley Bathgate, cello; Ted Nash, alto saxophone; and KathleenSupové, piano. at Roulette, $20 8:30 PM balmy, sardonically individualistic vocal jazz stylist and her trio with Lou Rainone on piano and Tom Hubbard on bass at the Bar Next Door, $12 TUESDAY OCTOBER 13 Be advised that this year’s Colossal Music Joke a.k.a. CMJ starts right about now. If there’s any week to stay out of the clubs, this is it. There are, however, some gems hidden amidst the garbage, just remember that set times are very fluid and can’t be trusted: a trip far from home to see somebody you love might turn out to be disappointing. It’s a good week for brass bands, though, with in progress. half past noon acclaimed Belgian organist performs a program tba at Central Synagogue, 54th and Lexington Ave., free 5 PM atmospherically towering marching band jazz with the Himalayas feat. on drums and gongs on the High Line, enter at 34th St. btw 11/12 Aves and follow the sound 5:50 PM (wtf?) a brief set by the Clean’s Hamish Kilgour at Pete’s 7 PM droll, amazingly eclecticjazz/ragtime/stoner folk quartet the followed at 9 by ten-piece funky Balkan brass/Ellington jazz monsters at Barbes 7 PM a rare US appearance by Moroccan trance-folk ensemble in collaboration with Abdellah El Gourd and jazz piano legend Randy Weston at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, University Center 63 Fifth Avenue, Room U100, free, get there early 10/13-14, 7:30/9:30 PM deviously edgy, eclectic, paradigm-shifting B3 jazz organist leads his trio at the Jazz Standard, $25 8 PM intense contralto singer and punk-inspired noir cabaret songwriter at the Way Stattion  8 PM a true Americana original: glampunk/ghoulabilly guitarist with Mike Watt on bass at Grand Victory, $15 10/13-18, 8/10 PM intense improvisational bassist plays with a pretty scary series of ensembles at the Stone, $15. Choice pick: 10/14, 8 PM his dystopic “cut-up opera,” based on William Burrough’s The Ticket That Exploded, with a massive 18-person cast 8 PM the play works by Grieg and Bartok plus Sibelius’Symphony No. 5 at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $21 tix avail. 8 PM inventive Austalian art-rock/jazz pianist (and Greta Gertler collaborator) in a rare duo show with Matt Clohesy on bass at Mezzrow, $20 8 PM brilliant indie classical pianist plays Terry Riley works at Roulette, $20/$15 stud/srs 11 PM P– Eula guitarslinger Elyse Lamb’s snarling, catchy, noiserock/postpunk collaboration with organist/drummer Chris Mulligan – at Muchmore’s. 10/14 at 8 they’re at Tender Trap (66 Greenpoint Ave/Greenpoint), then at 10 on 10/15 at Our Wicked Lady (153 Morgan Ave /Bushwick), then on 10/30 at 9:30 they’re at Aviv WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14 3:45 PM .k.a. guitarist Ellen Kempner plays her catchy, biting retro 80s-inflected but not blatantly imitative postpunk at Cake Shop. 10/15 she’s at Union Pool at 7:30; on 10/16, at Palisades at 10:45 and on 10/16 at Baby’s All Right at 2 PM. 6 PM massive carnivalesque horn-driven street band at 1 Penn Plaza, 34th St. close to 8th Ave., free 6 PM charmingall-female newgrass/southern pop harmony trio the s ollowed eventually at 1 AM (wee hours of 10/15) by singer/guitatarist Mia Wilson’s haunting, blues-infused, angst-ridden, psychedelic project with brilliant lead guitarist Quincy Ledbetter, the at the small rooom at the Rockwood 6 PM the with the Catalyst Quartet and composer Gabriela Lena Frank at the piano perform works by Frank, Jennifer Higdon, Jessie Montgomery, Rachel Barton Pine, Daniel Bernard Roumain at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25 6:30 PM the NYC debut of Puglia, Italy’s playing their intoxicating, original “psychedelic trance tarantella” at Dron, $15 adv tix rec 7 PM mesmerizing, hypnotic indie classical/jazz sax ensemble at Bric Arts, free 7:30 PM a free screening of the documentary film Sister at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 7:30 PM tenor saxophonist and his new band – with trumpeter Jason Palmer, bassist Kim Cass and drummer Ian Froman – perform half-hour, hard-swingingvisions of Bukka White’s “Parchman Farm Blues” and “Fixin’ to Die Blues,” with “the sound channeling the Mississippi Delta via Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz” at Smalls 8 PM haunting, eclectic art-rock/psychedelic songwriter and the similarly soaring at Branded Saloon 8 PM in reverse order: Balkan brass, latin soul, second-line marches and French anarchy: , , and at Littlefield, $12 8 PM luminous indie classical singer/composer ‘s Prisoner Songs – a harrowing collaboration with visual artist Erik Ruin about life behind bars – with shadow puppetry, at Roulettte, $20/$15 stud/srs 8 PM singer/pianist/accordionist ‘s Mr. Wau-Wau with Rinde Eckert, vox, accordion, pump organ; Doug Wieselman, clarinet, sax, guitar Marcus Rojas, tuba and Kenny Wollesen, drums. plays Berthold Brecht at Barbes, $10 cover 8 PM a throwback to Glenn Branca in the 80s: 121 guitar students , faculty members, and friends from the Third Street Music School Settlement perform the world premiere of 121 Guitars & More by atthe World Financial Center, free 8:30 PM edginess in an intimate space: the Out Louds with – guitar; Ben Goldberg – Clarinets; Tomas Fujiwara – Drums at Seeds, $10 9 PM smartly pensive, minimalistically-inclined, lyrical acoustic singer followed by brilliantly brooding guitarslinger and then the creepy, psychedelic at Union Pool, $tba 9 PM one of the most original, smartly eclectic songwriters in swinging, noir-tinged, occasionally psychedelic music, at the Way Station  9ish purist, straightforward, warmly tuneful front-porch folk songwriter g at Bar Lunatico. 10/15, 8 PM she’s at Barbes 9ish kinetic Icelandic female-fronted postpunk/janglerockers at Black Bear Bar, 70 N Sixth St. in Wililamsburg, free 9 PM irreverent oldschool Williamsburg vocal jazz crew the at Freddy’s THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 6:30 PM one of the most interestingly lyrical, eclectic young jazz guitarists around, with Marty Isenberg on bass and Rodrigo Recabarren on drums at the Bar Next Door, free 6:30 PM French pianistand American violist Kyle Armbrust play works by Bach, Prokofiev, Brahms, and Kodály at the French Consulate, 934 5th Ave., $30, all proceeds to benefit the French-American Piano Society 7 PM hypnotic, psychedelically funky hammered dulcimer instrumentals with at Club Bonafide, 2112 E 52 nd St., $20 7 PM the plays music by emerging composers Viet Cuong, Reena Esmail, Michael Gilbertson, Gity Razaz, Steven Snowden and Dan Visconti at the Greene Space, $20 includes a drink 7:30 PM smart, diverse art-rock pianist/songwriter sort of the Manhattan counterpart to Greta Gertler – at Pete’s 7:30 PM pianist/composer plays her homage to Russian painter Ivan Aivazofsky and his portrayal of Istanbul at Drom, $20 gen adm. 10/15-18, 7:30/9:30 PM tenor saxophonist leads his quintet at the Jazz Standard, $30 8 PM probably in reverse order: a subset of mighty all-female Brazilian drum troupe , massive carnivalesque horn-driven street band , French punk brass unit , New Orleans second-liners and NYC’smost epic, intense, battle-ready original Balkan brass group, at WFMU Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery St (Greene/Washington), Jersey City $10, Path train to Exchange Place tasty fresh-fermented Vermont ciders 8-11 PM, the Quartet (a Sister Sparrow family thing) at 9, free (the band that is) at Jimmy’s No. 43 at 43 E 7th St. 8 PM the play works by Mendelssohn, Rihm and Schumann at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $15 tix avail. 8 PMerforms rarely heard vocal music of cult favorite, individualistic early third-stream composer (and Holocaust victim) Viktor Ullmann at Merkin Concert Hall, $30 8 PM lively improvisation with pianist with Sayun Chang: percussion, On Ka’a Davis: guitar/eectric violin,; Ben Stapp: tuba at the Firehouse Space, $10 8 PM electric guitar quartetplus special guest guitarist Mark Stewart from the Bang on a Can All-Stars for a performance of Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint at the World Financial Center, free 9 PM the play hi-energy oldtime Appalachian tunes at BarChord  9:30 PM the ‘s Joel Forrester and Dave Hofstra play a stripped-down piano/bass show at Mezzrow, $20 10 PM fun, quirky, skronkily kinetic female-fronted  post-new wave band at Grand Victory, $10 10 PM popular dark Americana duo in the back room at Jimmy’s No. 43, 43 E Seventh St. (Bowery/Second Ave) 11 PM – who veer between catchy gutter blues, boogie rock and new wave and somehow make it all work – at the Shop in Bushwick FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 noon, a very rare daylight show by NYC’s most haunting, inscrutable, lyrically brilliant noir band at the big room at the Rockwood noon – whose take on 60s psychedelia and garage rock has a welcome, hard-hitting terseness – at Bowery Electric, free 1 PM ish darkly watery dreampop band at the Delancey, downstairs. They play a second set upstairs toward the end of one of those ridiculous CMJ bills, free w/ 7 PM the Brooklyn New Music Collective play premieres from Kallembach, Roven, and Stubblefield, plus songs from Matheson and Gerbe at the OldStone House in Park Slope, $20/$10 stud/srs 7:30/9:30 PM edgy, Balkan-inspired alto saxophonist leads a quintet with Jonathan Finlayson on trumpet at the Jazz Gallery, $22 8 PM probably in reverse order: increasingly funky, awesome low-register original vintage-style Cuban groove band , the intense parade-ready s, the more eclectic but also more punk, massive carnivalesque horn-driven street band , French punk brass unit , mighty all-female Brazilian drum troupe ,and more at Gowanus Ballroom, 37 9th Street, Brooklyn, $20, F to Smith/9th St., just take 9th a couple of blocks across the canal 8:30 PM the original cello rockers, , as fearless and funny and relevant as ever, playing the album release show for their new one at Highline Ballroom, $17.50 adv tix rec 9 PM a wild night of hot swing jazz: followed at 10 by their alter ego Banjo Nickaru & His Western Scooches and then at 11 the doing their album/dvd pre-release party? at the Jalopy, $10 9 PM hard-hitting funk/Afrobeat band at atC’Mon Everybody 9/10:30 PM tersely tuneful, popular jazz guitarist leads a quartet at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10 minimum. 9:30ish if you’re out in Bushwick and you feel like seeing a free show, you could do worse than gutter blues/garage rockers at the Wick. Darkly watery dreampop band play after at around 1:30 in the wee hours of 10/17. 10 PM ferociously tuneful brass-and-guitar-fueled southwestern gothic rockers the followed by psychedelic art-rock bandleader at Sidewalk 10 PM fiery, hard-grooving Balkan band at Silvana 10 PM New Orleans shuffles and funky second line beats with at Shrine 1:30 AM (actually wee hours of 10/17) a wild, deep-Brooklyn style postbop night with tenor sax powerhouse , Benito Gonzalez – piano , Essiet Essiet – bass , Kyle Poole – drums at Smalls SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 noon, free, otheworldly all-female Balkan choral trio and the premiere brilliant, haunting singer/composer/multi-instrumentalist ‘s new seven-part suite. Plus other composer-performers “tooamazingly prolific and talented” to announce yet, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, early arrival a must. The program repeats at 8 PM; $26 tix available. 2 PM play their distinctive mashup of latin jazz, classical and klezmer at Brooklyn Heights Branch of the Brooklyn Public Librarym 280 Cadman Plaza West (@ Tillary St) in Brooklyn Heights, free, A/C to High St., free 2:30 PM the , Seriously Noisy Marching Band, French punk brass unit , Kings County Pipes and Drums, New Orleans’ , mighty all-female Brazilian drum troupe , and massive carnivalesque horn-driven street band , plus a 4 PM performance of “Hello Folly” by with music by Ken Field: a twenty person theater troupe, a “ burlesque costumed romp on the mad idea of not drilling in the Arctic” at the at Ave. C and 9th St.   5:45 PM lyrically-fueled electric folk noir band at Leftfield 7 PM the – whose wry, cleverly lyrical New Orleans sounds come across somewhere in between Dr. John and Brother Joscephus – followed eventually at 11 by bouncyAfrobeat orchestra – who’re going in a harder funk direction lately -at the big room at the Rockwood 7 PM undulating ecstatic Pakistani grooves with at Flushing Town Hall, $16 7:30 PM massive, paradigm-shifting indie classical choir perform works by Ted Hearne, Anna Clyne, Missy Mazzoli, William Brittell, Eric Dudley and Caleb Burhans at Natoinal Sawdust, $25. The 10 PM show (separate $25 admission) features the world premiere of Memory Palace, with ‘s music performed by percussionist Jonny Allen, and film by Francesco Simeti; Listen, Quiet, with Paola Prestini’s music performed by cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, percussionist David Cossin, and film projections by S. Katy Tucker; and the world premiere of a new collaboration by the amazingly multistylistic, haunting pianist/sound sculptor Bora Yoon and multimedia artist Joshue Ott. Then at midnight (separate $15 admission) there’s another show with the JG Ballard-inspired and the strangely, intriguingly kinetic 7:30 PM indie classical chambergroupplay premiere pieces by composers Jeff Nichols, Julie Harting, Chi-hin Leung, and Inés Thiebaut whose compositions were inspired by graphs showing income inequality. The graphs will be projected during the performances, with commentayr and conversation with Chad Kautzer, author of Radical Philosophy. Sugg. don “half your hourly wage,” no one turned away, at the Tenri Institute, 43 W 13th St. 8 PM French punk brass unit , New Orleans’ , Luminescent Orchestrii mastermind eclectic, Balkan/latin/funk brass group the and Brazilian percussionist , location TBA (probably Gowanus Ballroom), watch this space, $20 10/17-18, 8 PM legendary first-wave UK punk-reggae band the at the Acheron, $15 8 PM Andalucian and Persian-tinged flamenco sounds with guitar virtuoso and the Espiritu Gitano Ensemble at Alwan for the Arts, $20 8 PM atmospheric, cinematic, minimalist female-fronted art-rock bandat Matchless 8 PM could be a really smoldering night of noisy improvisation with saxophonist BonnieKane’s with Dave Miller: drums, Reuben Radding: bass, Anais Maviel – vocals/ percussionat the Firehouse Space, $10 9 PM the – who specialize in funny oldtimey acoustic covers of cheesy 80s radio pop – electric, lyrically-fueled folk noir band and and 90s-style alt-country act at Hank’s 9 PM Italian percussion sorceress ‘s trancey, witchy tarantella rock band at Mehanata, $10 9 PM – sort of a second-generation Slackers, blending roots reggae with a healthy dose of oldschool soul and some cool, wry original tunes – followed eventually at midnight by charming Italian 50s swing harmony trio at the Way Station 9ish another of this week’s wild brass band extravaganzas, artists probably in reverse order: Luminescent Orchestrii mastermind , a subset of mighty all-female Brazilian drum troupe , eclectic, Balkan/latin/funk brass group the ,the intense parade-ready s, massive carnivalesque horn-driven street band at the Wick, $20 10 PM Sweet Tits, “the punk raw lesbo Spinal Tap” – you heard ithere first – at Freddy’s SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 11:30 AM ish NYC’s most eclectic klezmer/latin/cumbia band, for klezmer brunch at City Winery, $10, kids free, no minimum. 1 PM free tacos on the roof at the Delancey, not a music event but if you’re in the hood and hungry… 2 PM savagely lyrical, enigmatic great plains gothic chanteuse and her similarly brilliant lead guitarist Bob Bannister at Union Pool, free 3 PM organist plays works by Jeanne Demessieux, Marin Marais (her own transcription), a Pamela Decker world premiere plus pieces by Ibert, Ad Wammes and a heroic finale with Franck’s Piece Heroique at the church of St. Ignatius Loyola on the upper west, $20 3 PM pianist plays Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition with live drawing by Doug Fitch at National Sawdust, $25 3 PM a six-hour marathon of music by composers under 40 including Caroline Shaw, Jason Treuting and many, many others performed by the , , and more at Merkin Concert Hall, $15 4 PM early music group make their US debutwith a fascinating, rare performance of “Bailes, Tonadas & Cachuas, Songs and Dances from 18th Century Trujillo, Peru” at , 529 W 121st St, $10 seats avail. 4 PM a fascinating, diverse cross-pollinating with music of 14 Japanese and American composers including David Del Tredici, Fernando Otero and Ippo Tsuboi and played by clarinetist Thomas Piercy with Chatori Shimizu, koto player Jun Ando, pianist Taka Kigawa and pianist Judith Olson at the Tenri Instittue, 43 E 13th St., $25/$15 stud.srs, reception to follow 4 PM pianist plays Wang Jianzhong’s Five Yunnan Folksongs, Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 and Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 4 PM the – devoted to music on double-reeded instruments – play a program TBA at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $tba 4:30 PM the intense, minor-key, Middle Eastern tinged at Smalls 5 PM an eclectic triplebill: Afro-Peruvian jazz pianist/chanteuse and band at 5,– who shift from hypnotic, slowcore Americana to creepy circus rock – at 7 and psychedelic rock/Romany jazz guitarist at 9 at Barbes 5 PM the play a Frank Foerster world premiere plus Scandinavian works by Johan Helmich Roman, Carl Nielsen and Niels Gade at Our Saviour’s-Atonement, 178 Bennett Ave (one block west of Broadway at 189th St, free 6 PM sensational accordionist ‘s Velvet Jubillee play their “cajuny, bluesy, bar hoppin’ music” at Silvana 8 PM sardonically hellraising multistylistic string band the – heirs to the throne of the Asylum Street Spankers – at the Jalopy 10 PM brilliantly lyrical dark oldtimey songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and band at Littlefield, $12 MONDAY OCTOBER 19 7:30 PM art-rock bandleader and witheringly funny social critic Anthony Haden-Guest reprise their haunting, devilishly lyrical, sardonic chamber pop album Rudely Interrupted at Pangea 7:30 PM the play works by Szymanowski, Tchaikovsky and Tan Dun at , Advent/ Broadway Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rdSt., free. 7:30 PM the with Anton Nel, piano play works by Mozart, Bartok and Dohnanyi at Borden Auditorium at Manhattan School of Music, free 8 PM creepy noir chamber pop/murder ballad duo – Jeff Morris of Kotorino and Ellia Bisker from Sweet Soubrette – host a night of murder ballads feat. inscrutable cellist/art-rocker and others including but not limited to Jessi Robertson, Bobtown, Andrew Vladeck (Fireships), Pearl Rhein, Karen Poliski, Erica Di Loreto, and Orphan Jane at Branded Saloon 8 PM , piano plays works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Chopin and Liszt at the Bulgarian Consulate, 121 E 62nd St., free  9 PM charming all-female newgrass/southern pop harmony trio the at Union Hall, $8 9 PM NYC jazz legend and twin-reedman leads a quintet at the Fat Cat tersely poignant acoustic tunesmith at the Mercury TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 half past noon , organ: plays Jean Langlais’ Suite Medievale at the charming little Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, $5 sugg don 2 PM ahotshot  klezmer duo– violinist accompanied by Pete Rushefsky on tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) Poe Park Visitor Center, 2640 Grand Concourse in the Bronx 7 PM perennially clever, entertaining Monk-influenced pianist followed at 9 by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacs at Barbes 7/11 PM the 24-piece with special guests Archie Carey, electric bassoon; Brian Walsh, baritone saxophone; Richard Valitutto, piano play new works by innumerable indie classical and jazz composers (and a cover of Fear’s New York’s All Right If You Like Saxophones to open the show) at Roulette, $20/$15 stud/srs, cover charge includes admission to both early and late sets. 8 PM “explores the sonic qualities of a decrepit alto sax uncovered from Bradley Eros’ basement, with a live collage of 35mm slide and 16mm film projections by Eros. Anthony Saunders, of seminal harsh noise group Bastard Noise, performs with Bertucci on bass clarinet, celebrating the duo’s first cassette” at the Walker Space, 55 WalkerSt. in Chinatown, $15 10/20-25, 8/10 PM trumpeter plays with a series of ensembles at the Stone. Choice pick: 10/21 at 8, the premiere of his  Psalms from Hell Cycle with Megan Schubert (soprano) Christopher Hoffman, Mariel Roberts, Shanda Wooley, Eleanor Norton (cellos) 10/20-25, 8:30/10:30 PM lyrical jazz piano icon leads his trio at the Vanguard, $25 8:30 PM plaintive Portuguese fado star with Juan Andrés Ospina, piano; Petros Klampanis, bass; Marcelo Woloski, percussion at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10 minimum 9 PM Czech jazz guitarslinger at the Way Station 9:30 PM edgy, funky, fearlessly populist female-fronted latin rock/art-rock band at Drom, $5 adv tix rec! 9:30 PM saxophone powerhouse ‘s two-guitar No No Nonet at Smalls. WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21 starting at 3ish Mexico’s massive, sweeping, purist at the street fair at Brook Ave. @ 163rd St. in the Bronx 6 PM koto/shamisen player and singer and cellist Hikaru Tamaki at the Rubin Museum of Art, free w/museum adm 7 PM (charismaticsinger Erica Ramos’ new funky latin soul band – get it?) play the birthday party for the East Village’s valuable at Webster Hall 7:30 PM tuneful third-stream jazz pianist leads a quintet with Noah Preminger – tenor sax , Nir Felder – guitar , Aidan Carroll – bass , Colin Stranahan – drums at Smalls 7:30 PM plays solo violin and viola works by Elaine Barkin, Mei-Fang Lin, Taylor Brook, Nina C. Young, Arthur Kreiger and Carl Bettendorf at Dixon Place, free 8 PM the Klez Dispensers’ h & the German Goldenshteyn Memorial Band, with Jake Shulman-Ment, Mike Cohen, Patrick Farrell, Brian Glassman, and Yiddish dance leading by Avia Moore at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min 8:30 PM from Hem and Ray Rizzo’s new band Three Ring Bender (in which Ray plays guitar) joined by special guest Sohrab Habibion from dark indie legends Obits at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglas @ 4th Ave in Gowanus, free 8:30 PM cinematic violinist/composer ‘s oceanically-themed psychedelic/jazz instrumental unit Mother Octopus atSeeds, $10 10 PM pianist s tropical jazz/indie classical nonet followed by the Eco-Music Big Band with special guest accordionist Melissa Ellledge playing jazz compositions by conductor Marie Incontrera plus numbers by Zach O’Farrill, Livio Almeida, Felix Del Tredici at Drom, $15 THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 1 PM the bridge the gap between bluegrass, Celtic music, newgrass and indie classical violin music at Trinity Church, free 8 PM ’s Bad Reputation plays witty chamber pop English translations of Georges Brassens classics followed at 10 by the Moroccan folk-funk of Innove Gnawa at Barbes 8 PM plays new music by Texu Kim, Charlie Piper, Jeremy Podgursky, Kate Soper and John Orfe at Merkin Concert Hall, $25 10/22, 8:30 PM the jangly, bristling psychedelically-tinged , at 9:15 PM the who reach back toward a driving postpunk vibe whent they’re not aping New Order – and then rainswept 80s dreampop/postpunk band at Matchless 9 PM the directed by the ageless Marshall Allen and his ewi horn atBrooklyn Bowl, $15 9:30 PM Dan Finnerty’s hilarious, viciously sarcastic top 40 cover band the at Joe’s Pub, $22 10 PM tuneful, first-rate original postbop jazz sextet at the Fat Cat. If you don’t want the poolhall background noise, they’re at Smalls 10/30-31 at 10:30 PM for $20 FRIDAY OCTOBER 23 5 PM pianist Jose Garcia-Leon plays music by Earl Wild, Poulenc, Debussy, Albeniz, Gershwin and Carlos Surinach at the DiMenna Center, $5 5:30 PM minimalist piano-based gothic art-rock act , elegant and hauntingly intense Americana/chamberpop chanteuse and the increasingly darker, more Americana-oriented, lyrically brilliant at the American Folk Art Museum, free 10/23-24, 8 PM the play a world premiere by Aaron Dai plus Gerard Schwarz: A Journey; Artie Shaw: Concerto for Clarinet with Angela Shankar – clarinet and George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue at the DiMenna Center, $20 10/23-24, 8 PM the world premiere of‘ Persona – based on the Bergman film, a “complex depiction of human frailty, crueltyand identity” with music by Keeril Makan directed by Evan Ziporyn, at National Sawdust, $25. On 10/23 at 10 there’s also a performance of Makan works by the , $25 8 PM with “Brazil’s oldest popular music with deep groove and a love for improvisation, feat. Hadar Noiberg – flute; Vitor Gonçalves – accordion; Kahil Nayton – cavquinho; Cesar Garabini – 7 string guitar and Ranjan Ramchandani – pandeiro. followed by brass band Chia’s Dance Party with Ben Stapp – tuba; Alex Terrier – soprano saxophone; Justin Wood – alto sax and flute; Rafi Malkiel – Bombardino and Martín Vejarano – drums & compositions.,” reinventing classic and rare tunes at Barbes 8:30 PM catchy psychedelic pop band – who blend Big Star jangle and balmy Zombies tunefulness – at Union Hall, $10. Popular indie jangle guy Chris Mills plays after. 9 PM pianist Misha Piatigorsky and eleven-piece string ensemble the play their dark, quirky, Balkan-tinged, individualistically lush sounds at Zinc Bar, $20 9:30 PM two generationsof dark Americana: X’s John Doe and brilliantly jangly Canadian gothic rockers the s at Hill Country Brooklyn, $5 9/10:30 PM bassist plays his edgy Middle Eastern-tinged originals and jazzed-up Mediterranean tunes from years past with a stellar quintet: Gilad Hekselman, guitar; John Hadfield, percussion; Keita Ogawa, percussion at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10 minimum 9:30 PM a rare duo show between two longtime, lyrical collaborators: bassist T with pianist Bill Mays at Mezzrow, $20 SATURDAY OCTOBER 24 5 PM up-and-coming pianistplays music by Franck, Weber, Debussy and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at the DiMenna Center, $5 . 6 PM a screening of the zombie classic Night of the Living Dead with live soundtrack by latin jazz percussion genius and his band at BMHC Lab, 1303 Louis Niné Blvd. in the Bronx, free 7 PM pianist plays works by Chopin, Haydn, Liszt and Scriabin at Third Street Music School Settlement, free 7:30 PM the with Yefim Brontman at the piano play Bartók: Suitefrom The Miraculous Mandarin and Piano Concerto No. 3 plus Stravinsky: The Firebird at NJPAC in Newark, a short ten-minute walk from the Path train, $25 tix avail. 8 PM luminous, ethereal jazz composer/singer – her cutting-edge vocal harmony/guitar-driven septet – at the Cell Theatre 8 PM the – who are pretty much unsurpassed at creating dark, surrealistically swinging big band jazz by the seat of their collective pants – at the Firehouse Space, $10 8 PM, repeating 10/25, 3 PM the play Rimsky-Korsakov’s Schéhérazade with violinist Bela Horvath, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, and Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor with piano soloist Jeffrey Biegel at All Saints Church, 60 th St just weast of First Ave., free 8 PM west African kora virtuoso – a one-man orchestra of circular rhythmic riffage and intricate ornamentation – with his group at Roulette, $30/$26 stud/srs 8ish 90s-style alt-country act play the album release show for their new one at Hifi Bar 9/10:30 PM alto sax; NateRadley, guitar; Gary Versace, organ and piano make a tuneful trio at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10 minimum 10 PM the mysteriously impossible-to-find Carvels (hiding behind the Tastee Freeze? followed by garage rock guitar maven at Hank’s, note $8 cover 10 PM play oldschool roots reggae at Shrine SUNDAY OCTOBER 25 4 PM guitar/violin/piano trio play classic and nuevo tango at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 4 PM pianist plays music by Rachmaninoff, Rimsky-Korsakov and Kreisler at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $20/$10 stud/srs 4:30 PM the make a return appearance at Smalls with their lush new arrangements of old standards, $20 6 PM twin bass duels with and William Parker at Downtown Music Gallery 7 PM the supergroup with Daniel “Danik” Kahn, Psoy “Pasha” Korolenko, Michael “Meyshke” Alpert and Jake “Yankl” Shulman-Ment play the album release show for their debut album, a tribute to obscure/legendary klezmer-punk precursor Nathan “Prince” Nazaroffand his wild cult favorite 1954 lp in the back room at the Ukrainian Village Restaurant, 2 nd ave. btw St. Marks/9 th Sts., $15 7 PM r violinist Johnny Gandelsman plays solo Bach partitas and sonatas at National Sawdust, $25 8 PM ex-Railroad Jerk lead guitarist and eclectically tuneful Americana/folk noir/garage rocker at Silvana 8 PM “two classic Halloween retellings of Poe’s “The Raven” with puppetry and narration by Daniel Patrick Fay and music by Whitney George and “The Tell-Tale Heart”, a 1920’s avant-garde and experimental film with a modern rescoring by  plus Nick Omiccioli’s chilling “Funeral Symphony” for string quartet and projections, Christopher Cerrone’s “The Nightmare” for chamber ensemble and electronics, the premiere of Pat Muchmore’s aggressive and brutalist “2ⁿ-ion 3 or 2^n-ion 3”, and a theatrical staging of George Crumb’s mysterious and illusive “Madrigals, Book I” at the South Oxford Space, 138 S Oxford St in Ft. Greene, $15 8:30 PM two sets by hellraisingalt-country pioneer ll at the Jalopy, $10 9 PM percussive postrock pioneer and erudite, dark psychedelic guitarist/bandleader i at Bowery Electric, $9 MONDAY OCTOBER 26 8 PM play their carnivalesque Weimar cabaret at Pangea, $20 9 PM intense dark garage/psychedelic bandleader at the Knitting Factory, $12 adv tix rec. 10/27, 10:30 PM she’s at the Mercury, same deal NYC’s most haunting, torchily mysterious, lyrically brilliant noir/psychedelic/janglerock band at Berlin under 2A TUESDAY OCTOBER 27 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, solo performances by memnbers of ; powerhouse violinist Olivia De Prato plays a Clemens Gädenstatter U.S. premiere, and Nicholas Tolle plays two cimbalom works by György Kurtág, plus compositions by Brad Lubman and Oliver Knussen at the Miller Theatre, free 8:30 PM guitarist – whose take on Bill Frisell-style pastoral jazz tends toward the atmospheric and cinematic – leading a trio with Brad Whiteley, piano; Kenneth Salters, drums at Cornelia St. Cafe, $10 $10minimum 8:30 PM ambient improvisation with – flower vase and Hans Tammen-synthesizer at Freddy’s 9:30 PM J trumpeter leads 15-piece his big band at Smalls 9:30 PM – violin; Mat Maneri – viola; Lucian Ban – piano explore dark improvisational terrain at I-Beam, $15 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28 7 PM doo-woop groups the Diplomats and the Super Girls Group sing a homage to the Chantels’ Arlene Smith at the Pregones Theatre, 571-575 Walton Ave. in the Bronx, $5 sugg don 7:30 PM rising star classical pianist plays a program TBA at Greenwich House Music School, free 8 PM high-voltave, eclectic klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals and the accordion-fueled, Bulgarian-flavored Ensemble with Brian Glassman, Aaron Alexander at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min 8:30 PM luminous, individualistic soprano sings portions of Frances White’s newly released chamber opera ‘w’, for solo soprano with electronic sound, plusshakuhachi player Elizabeth Brown performs material that influenced the new cd; at Spectrum, free, receptionto follow. . 9 PM Balkan night at Freddy’s with bands TBA 9ish(the Kenny Wollesen vibes trio) at Bar Lunatico THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 1 PM indie classical/art-rock band at Trinity Church, free. They’re at the Bitter End the same night at 7 for $10.  7:30 PM oud virtuoso at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. 7:30 PM darkly acerbic, enveloping keyboard/violin/vocal duo and bouncy Mexican chamber pop band at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free, early arrival a must 8:15 PM coyly satirical Japanese kitchen-sink klezmer/circusrock/quirkpop sister duo (meaning half-assed in Japanese) make their New York debut at the Japan Society at the Japan Society, 333 East 47th Street, between First and Second Ave, $25 10/29-30, 9 PM state-of-the-art jamgrass with the at Brooklyn Bowl, $15 on Thurs, $20 on Fri 9ish dark, sardonic, brilliantly tuneful jazz pianist and his Trio at Bar Lunatico 10 PM lush, pensive, eclectic noir cabaret/Romany rock/steampunk chamber pop band atBarbes FRIDAY OCTOBER 3O 10/30-31, starting at 5ish adventurous indie classical string quartet Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Kip Jones, violin; and Tema Watstein, violin) play the balcony bar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm. 7:30 PM explosive brass-driven circus-rock monstrosity at the Cutting Room, $15 7:30 PM adventurous indie classical/art-rock/cinematic ensemble the at Littlefield, $15 8 PM – torchy Americana/soul/jazz siren who is to NYC now what Neko Case was to Portland in 1999 followed eventually at 10 by edgy lefty guitarist and his psychedelic latin soul band at Silvana 8 PM brilliant bassist/singer Felice Rosser’s perennially vital groove band opens for Richard Lloyd at Bowery Electric 8 PM the most powerful, socially aware rapper on the planet, e followed by the most stoned, most reslient rappers on the planet, Cypress Hill playing their annual Halloween show at the Nokia Theatre, $33.50 8 PM perennially adventurous electroacousticvocalist/composer/performance artistat the Firehouse Space, $10 8:30 PM 90s ska and more recent punk, in reverse order, at the Mercury: the kinda-creepy , the bouncier , hard-hitting garge punks and the completely miscast death-metal Hymen Holocaust, $20 adv tix rec 9 PM a reprise of what was arguably the year’s best twinbill: velvet-voiced guitarist Paula Carino’s transgressively fun first band, and Elvis Costello-esque underground powerpop heroes  at Rock Shop, $10 9 PM eclectic, electric C&W/blues band the at Bar Chord 9:30 PM sultry, torchy, creepy noir soul bandleader/chanteuse e at Union Hall, $12. 10 PM play their lively Mexican take on fiery Romany and Balkan sounds at Barbes SATURDAY, HALLOWEEN 2015 5 PM catchy original newgrass string band at Pete’s. the Bogmen’s l plays after at 6; after that, he’s gotta hustle over to Warsaw to open for the murderously noir at around 9. 6 PM ish brilliant, deviously funny trumpeter ‘s Dead Zombie Band play their annual Halloween showoutdoors at the street fair on Waverly Avenue, between Willoughby and DeKalb Ave.in Ft. Greene 8 PM edgy female-fronted Romany/Middle-Eastern-tinged groove rockers plays their annual Halloween shindig at Branded Saloon 8 PM Arabic-tinged, keyboard-driven art-rock/stadium rock from Beirut with at le Poisson Rouge, $25 adv tix avail. 8 PM the with Paul Watkins, cello play Schumann’s String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 41, No. 1, Dutilleux’s Ansi la Nuit amd Schubert’s Cello Quintet in C Major, D. 956 at Irving Auditorium, 17th St. and Irving Place, $14 9 PM an Americana Halloween at the Jalopy starting at 9 with the gruff, carnivalesque, banjo-fueled , Tara Mills & Jimmy Stelling of the bluegrass s, harmony trio and finally at midnight deviously fun oldtimey swing guitarist/crooner 9ish best Halloween show of the year: NYC”S most haunting, inscrutable, lyrically brilliant noir band open for circus rock legends at Warsaw, $25 10 PM and his fiery, politically aware, Peter Tosh-inspired Africanroots reggae band at Shrine SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1 3 PM a rare performance of Astor Piazzolla vocal music with pianist Pablo Zinger and a global cast of vocalists including , Leonardo Granados (Venezuela) and Diana López (Honduras-USA) at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker St (Elizabeth/Mott), $30 8 PM a rare NYC appearance by pianist/songwriter – one of the few guys who deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as Eivis Cotello -at Sidewalk. Nobody writes about dead-end suburban angst better than this guy. MONDAY NOVEMBER 2 7:30 PM a memorial concert for the late great Bob Belden featuring the surviving members of his groups the Treasure Island Band, Animation/Imagination and Animation, at le Poisson Rouge, free 8:30 PM theplay an all-Czech program: Martinu: Fantasie for Theremin, Oboe, Piano and Strings; Ullmann: String Quartet No. 3; Elisa Cilkova: String Quartet No. 3, Kalabis: String Quartet No 5. Op. 63, “In Memory of Marc Chagall”; Jezek: Bugatti Step at the 92nd St. Y, $30 10:30 PMsultry, torchy, creepy noir soul bandleader/chanteuse at Cake Shop, $10 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 7 PM a killer triplebill at Bowery Electric: purist, golden-roiced Americana songwriter r, – the catchy, smart, literate new wave/psychedelic rock project from Ian and Liza of the WonderWheels and the Larch – playing the album release show for their new one and well-loved Americana duo the playing the album releaes show for theirs, $9 7 PM badass stars of klezmer violin Deborah Strauss and Alicia Svigals: at the Eldrigdge St. Synagogue, on Eldridge just north of Division in Chinatown, $20/$14 stud/srs WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 8 PM powerhouse klezmer clarinetist leads his band at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min adventurous indie classical string quartet play works by women composers Julia Wolfe, Missy Mazzoli, Aleksandra Vrebalov, Lainie Fefferman, Mary Ellen Childs, Anna Clyne, Pamela Z, Paola Prestini and ETHEL’s own Dorothy Lawson at National Sawdust THURSDAY  NOVEMBER 5 7 PM the Olympus Piano Trioplay Rachmaninoff’s immortal, haunting Trio Elegiaque plus works by Ravel, Hatis and Mendelssohn at Merkin Concert Hall, free but required 7:30/9:30 PM sassy, torchy oldtimey swing/saloon blues pianist/chanteuse at B.B. King’s, $15 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6 7:30 PM the Brooklyn Art Song Society with Miori Sugiyama on piano perform “Songs of the Great War” by Vaughan Williams, Browne, Finzi and Gurney at the Old Stone House in Park Slope, $20/$10 stud.srs 8 PM firebrand, brilliantly lyrical noir blues rockers and his ferocious band the Accomplices followed by & the Kidd Twist Band playing their hard-charging, sometimes unexpectedly poignant Pogues-ish punk and folk noir after at 9, at Sidewalk 8 PM moody Austin Americana/border rock chanteuse and edgy Romany/latin/ska rockers at at Bowery Electric, $10 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 – who put a quirky motorik spin on trebly bass-fueled 80s inspired postpunk and postrock – at Secret Project Robot SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 4 PM Cappella Pratensis perform medievalchoral works by Josquin at at , 529 W 121st St, $10 seats avail. 4 PM intense neoromatic/nuevo tango/noir soundtrack pianist leads a quartet at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no under-sixes. MONDAY NOVEMBER 9 The – who put an elegant chamber pop spin on folk noir – at Bowery Ballroom TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, the with soprano Alize Rozsnyai play Schoenberg’s immortally creepy Pierrot Lunaire at the Miller Theatre 8ish haunting, intense, wickedly tuneful Nashville gothic songwriter and her band at Hifi Bar FUTURE DATES 11/11, 1 PM wildly popular early music choir sing Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Dixit Dominus; Jean-Joseph de Mondonville: Dominus Regnavit; George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus at Trinity Church 11/11, 6:15/830 PM the with special guest saxophonist Dave Liebman play a progarm including a new arrangement of Bartok’s Allegro Barbaro at Symphony Space, $16 adv tix rec 11/11, 7 PM well-liked all-female Americana/newgrass harmonytrio at the third stage at the Rockwoodk, $12 gen adm $10 drin min 11/11, 7 PM Czech-born chanteuse play their kinetic yet swirling mashup of Middle Eastern, Balkan and Celtic sounds at Drom, $15 adv tix rec 11/11, 8 PM whirlwind clarinetist Dimitri Zisl Slepovitch leads an allstar cast playing a Yiddish folk dance party at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min 11/13, 8 PM the New York Classical Players perform Piazzolla’s Four Seasons in Buenos Aires plus Brazilian composer Ney Rosauro’s Marimba concerto, performed by Tomoya Aomori at Flushing Town Hall, free w/rsvp, watch this space for info 11/13 edgy, kinetic Balkan brass unit and NYC’s most epic, intense, battle-ready original Balkan brass ensemble, playing the album release show for their new one at Littlefield 11/15, 4 PM pianist Sofya Mellikyan plays works by Armenian composers Aram Khachaturian, Komitas Vardapet, Eduard Sadoyan , Alexander Arutunian, Jirayr Shahrimanyan and Arno Babadjanian to commenorate the 100th anniverary of thegenocide in Armenia at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free, no 11/15, 5 PM and Yuliya Basis play violin and piano sonatas by Vivaldi, Schubert, Milhaud, and Didorenko at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave at 183rd St., $12 sugg don, reception to follow. 11/6, 8 PM plays new chamber works by New England composers: Keith Kirchoff, Beth Wiemann, Hiroya Miura and William Matthews at Mise-En Place in Bushwick (678 Hart St 1B), $20/$15 stud/srs includes a drink, L to Dekalb Ave 11/15, 8 PM a rare US apprearance by Hungarian pianist playing music by Liszt, Ligeti, Beethoven and Bartok at Symphony Space, free 11/17, 8 PM irrepressible, historically informed, folk noir/jangly rock songwriter leads an evening of “songs of antagonism and rivalry” with Lys Guillorn, Maharajah Sweets, Dan Cullinan, Wifey, Sarah Bisman, Neville Elder, John LaPolla, plus a eading by Kevin Kinsella at the Way Station 11/17 dark, charismatic, mischieviously witty literatekeyboardist/chanteuse  plays the album release show for her new one at Dixon Place 11/18, 8 PM Klezmerfest! w/saxophonist/”jazz rabbi” Greg Wall, Jordan Hirsch, Zev Zions, Brian Glassman, Aaron Alexander at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min 11/19, 8 PM Ensemble Mise-En plays exciting new works by Danish composers Per Nørgård, Hans Abrahamsen, Bent Sørensen, Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen, and Simon Steen-Andersen, at Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave, $15 11/20, 7 PM Naoko Shimizu, viola with Anna Stoytcheva, piano play works by Schumann, Schubert and Franck at the Bulgarian Consulate, 121 E 62nd St., free 11/20, 8 PM popular garage-psych/janglerock/powerpop band the at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (the BMCC auditorium on Chambers east of the highway), $15 11/20 the Midwestern Willie Nile: dramatic, Celtic-tinged anthemic four-on-the-floor rockers the at the Mercury 11/22, 2 PM a historically-rich multimedia program with two international tsimbl (Balkan/Ukrainian Jewish hammered dulcimer)players, Pete Rushefsky and Walter Zev Feldman plus special guests performing rare Polish klezmer music from across the centuries at the the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th St, $10/$7 stud/srs 11/22, 3 PM the play Verdi: Forza del Destino Overture; Mahler: Songs of the Wayfarer; Strauss: Death and Transfiguration at Washington Irving HS Auditorium, 16th St./Irving Place, $15 sugg don., reception to follow 11/22, 9 PM 60s/70s powerpop/proto-punk legends the Flamin’ Groovies’ first-ever Williamsburg show at Baby’s All Right, $20 11/24, drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, Ensemble Signal play works for cello and percussion by David Lang, Caroline Shaw, Ken Thomson and Iannis Xenakis at the Miller Theatre, free 11/24, 6:30 PM performances by Colombian vocalist and cuatro player Johanna Castañeda and harpist Vidal Garzón; Gambian kora player and jail (praise singer) Alhaji Papa Susso; and members of stark, haunting Central Asian group Ensemble Shashmaqam.and a discussion of the currentcrisis in US immigration reform at Elebash Hall at CUNY, 365 5 th Ave. just north of 34 th St., free but rsvp reqd 11/25, 8 PM Briitish klezmer songstress Polina Shepherd and band at Mehanata, $10 1 drink min 12/2, 7 PM a rare performance of works by noted Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova at the Bulgarian Consulate, 121 E 62nd St., free 12/8 drinks at 5:30 PM, show at 6, Tilt Brass play works by Anthony Coleman, Tilt co-founder Chris McIntyre, James Tenney, Liza Lim and Catherine Lamb at the Miller Theatre, free 12/9, 7 PM pianist Pablo Zinger backs a series of first-rate Latina singers: Brenda Feliciano, h, Virginia Herrera, and Maribel Salazar, to perform a program dedicated exclusively to the powerful and immensely varied vocal music of Mexico from olero to classical, passing through rancheras, huapangos, habaneras and danzones. Featured composers include “the father of Mexican music”, Manuel M. Ponce, and Tata Nacho (Ignacio Fernández Esperón) to the composer of “Granada”,Agustín Lara, to Armando Manzanero (creator of “Somos novios” – “It’s Impossible”).at the Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker (Elizabeth/Mott, $30 12/13, 4 PM early music group Juilliard415 with harspichorist Richard Egarr perform a holiday choral celebration at , 529 W 121st St, $10 seats avail. 12/13 creepy, accordion-fueled Balkan psychedelic rockers , no wave jamband and postpunk supergroup at Bowery Electric. 12/14, 10 PM a subversive holiday tradition: Xmas songs by Jewish songwriters. Subtext, anybody? Performers include host Steven Blier on piano with chanteuse Lauren Worsham, clarinetist Alan Kay, cantor Joshua Breitzer, many others at Henry’s Restaurant, 2745 Broadway at 105th St, $10; Reservations requred to 212-866-0600 if you want to eat but not for bar seating 12/20, 3 PM the play Handel’s Messiah at NJPAC in Newark, $30 tix avail. 12/26, 8 PM stars of the klezmer and Yiddish world including , Sarah Gordon and Michael Winograd present an evening of music from singer/musicologistAdrienne Cooper’s cult classic 1999 album In Love and In Struggle: The Musical Legacy of the Jewish Labor Bund at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl. north of Batttery Park 1/31/16, 5 PM jazz chanteuse Suzanne Lorge and her combo at the Lounge at Hudson View Gardens, 128 Pinehurst Ave at 183rd St., $12 sugg don, reception to follow.