All these concerts are free of restrictions on entry. Weekly events first followed by the daily calendar. If a venue is unfamiliar, look for it on the old guide to NYC music venueshere, which is more of a worksheet now, but it has links to most of the places on this calendar.
Tuesdays in April, inspired, latin-influenced postbop trombonist Conrad Herwigand his septet at the Django, $25.
Thursdays in April, 5 PM poignantly lyrical, eclectic pianist Marta Sanchez at Bar Bayeux.
Three Fridays in April, 8 PM hauntingly cinematic Lynchian/southwestern gothic instrumentalistsSuss at Culture Lab
Sundays at around 8 PM trumpeter Jon Kellso and (frequently) guitarist Matt Munisteri lead theEar-Regulars in NYC’s only remaining weekly hot jazz jam session at the Ear Inn
Sundays in April at 8 PM cheery, kinetic 20s hot jazz crewBaby Soda Bandat St. Mazie’s
4/1, 6 PM soulful reedmanPaquito D’Rivera teams up with pianist Alex Brown at Bethany Baptist Church, 275 W Market St, Newark, free
4/1, 6 PM Colin Carr, cello and Kyungwha Chu, piano play Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D.821 and Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor, Op.19 at Bargemusic, $35
4/1, 7 PM dark psychedelic acoustic blues/klezmer/reggae/soca jambandHazmat Modineat Terra Blues. They’re back on 4/29
4/1, 7:30 PM tuneful oldschool soul/jazz trombonistDave Gibson leads his quartet followed at 10:30 by purist postbop saxophonistTK Blue at the Django, $25. Gibson is also at Smalls on 4/13 at 10:30
4/1, 8 PM surf night at Otto’s with the hard-charging, eclectic Underwater Bosses, followed at around 9:30 by the more trad Tsunami of Sound and then the space-theme inclined Blue Wave Theory
4/1, 9 PM outrageously entertaining colorful, Bowie-esque female-fronted glamrockers theManimalsat Gold Sounds, $14
4/1, 10:30 PM wildly erudite tenor saxophonistEric Wyattand band at Smalls for a set and then the jam session, $25
4/2, 3 PM the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, classical chorale theDowntown Voices, and NOVUS NY, play works inspired by the seven last words of Christ on the cross, by Jane Hawes, Michael John Trotta, Richard Burchard, Gounod, Haydn and Joel Thompson at Trinity Church, free
4/2, 3 PM fiery Spanish sounds withCuadro Flamencoat the Triad Theatre, 158 W 72nd St (Bwy/Amsterdam), $25
4/2, 6 PM a free reunion show by early 80s LA punk band Channel 3 (original members) at Berlin. They didn’t record a lot but they were more tuneful than most of their contemporaries.
4/2, 7 PM iconic, hilariously charismatic Americana songstressAmy Allisonat Pangea, $25
4/2, 7 PM fantastic story-songwriterLara Ewen, the enigmatically tunefulShira Goldbergand Nashville honkytonk/southern rock songstressMercy Bellshare the stage at the downstairs room at the Rockwood, $10
4/2, 7:30 PM haunting classical Iraqi crooner Hamid Al-Saadi with iconic trumpeter/santooristAmir Elsaffar’s Two Rivers Ensemble at Drom, $20 adv tix recd
4/3, 6:30 PM drummer Leonid Galganov, trumpeters Kenny Warren and Aquiles Navarro and tenor saxophonist David Crowell at Downtown Music Gallery
4/3, 10:30 PM smartly impressionisticpostbop pianistMiki Yamanakaleads a trio at Smalls, $25. She’s back on 4/10
4/4, 7:30 bassist Giacomo Merega, guitarist Andrew Smiley and drummer Raf Vertessen improvise at Downtown Music Gallery
4/4, 7:30 PM the Balourdet Quartet play works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Hugo Wolf and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $30
4/4, 8 PM psychedelic Silver Arrow funk-jazz crew theSilver Arrow Bandat Drom, free. They’re back o 4/18
4/4. 8 PM a dadaesque collaboration between the Bang on a Can All-Stars’ guitarist Mark Stewart and thereminist Rob Schwimmer‘s Polygraph Lounge project at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/4, 9 PM singer Veronica Davila’s twangy, Bakersfield-flavored hard honkytonk bandLow Rollerat Skinny Dennis
4/5, 1 PM purist oldschool jazz guitaristBill Wurtzel with bassist Jay Leonhart at the American Folk Art Museum. He’s back on 4/19
4/5, 8 PM anthemic speedmetal bandCold Dice, then a mystery band who call themselves Peace Sign (GREAT branding, dudes) and then stoner boogie road warriors the Golden Grass at Our Wicked Lady, $14
4/5, 8 PM International Contemporary Ensemble play new chamber works by Mazz Swift and Murat Çolak at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/5, 10 PM nigmatically tuneful, psychedelically abstract rock bandGold Dime at TV Eye, $10
4/6, 7:30 PM adrenalizing postbop vibraphonist Mark Sherman leads a quartet at Smalls, $25
4/6, 8 PM a Randy Weston tribute with his ex-bandmates, bassist Alex Blake, pianist Danny Mixon, and gnawa musicians Ma’alem Hassan Ben Jaafer on sintir and his Innov Gnawa bandmates Amino Belyamani and Naoufal Atiq at the Dreck Center at the Brooklyn Public Library, free
4/6, 8 PMhaunting, cinematic Mediterranean art-rock/postrock themes withXylouris White at the Poisson Rouge, $20 adv tix rec
4/6, 8 PMethereal, raptly haunting singerSara Serpa and her Encounters and Collisions chamber jazz quartet at Seeds
4/6, 8 PM jazz violinistSara Caswell with similarly lyrical pianist Julian Shore at the Owl
4/6. 8 PM wild noise/rock trio Loren Connors & the Electric Nature at P.I.T., 411 S 5th Street, Williamsburg, J/M to Marcy
4/6, 8:30 PM catchy all-female luddite punks Tracy City at Otto’s
4/6, 8:30 PM Glass Clouds Ensemble – Raina Arnett (violin), Lauren Conroy (violin), and Marisa Karchin (soprano) – perform works by Telemann, Vaughan Williams, Melissa Dunphy, Forrest Eimold, and Christian Quiñones exploring themes of nature and the meaning of home, at the Tenri Institute, $10 sug don
4/7-8, 7:30 PM perennially tuneful piano improviser Jean-Michel Pilc leads a trio at Smalls, $25
4/7, 9 PM colorful, lyrical pianistDanny Fox leads his trio playing the album release show for their new one at the Owl
4/6, 10:30 PM psych-funk/disco groupPeople of Eartha at the Django, $25
4/7, noon, innovative harpsichordist Bálint Karosi, orchestra and choir play his reimagined version of Bach’s unfinished St. Mark Passion at St. Peter’s Church, 53rd/Lex, $30
4/7-8, 6 PM theCatalyst Quartet play works by Germaine Tailleferre and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel in galleries TBA at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, free w/museum adm, follow the sound
4/7, 7:30 PM sizzling postbop saxophonistMike DiRubbo with his quartet followed at 10:30 PM by lyrical, thoughtful tenor saxophonistEric Alexander with his quartet at the Django, $25
4/7-8, 7:30 PM colorful jazz organist Larry Goldingsleads a trio at Mezzrow, $25
4/7, 8ishblazing all-female street band theBrass Queens and psychedelic Afrobeat band Emefe at the Sultan Room, $20
4/7, 8 PM haunting folk noir/Americana songwriterEmily Frembgenat the small room at the Rockwood
4/7, 8 PM a great improvisational evening: Ken Filiano on bass with Santiago Liebson on piano followed by Horse’s Mouth with Ricardo Gallo on piano, Ben Goldberg on clarinet, Sam Kulik on trombone and Ricardo Ricabarren on drums at Soup & Sound
4/7, 10 PM the jangly Big Star-influencedHasbrosat Otto’s
4/7, 10:30 snarling highway boogie/heavy psych band One Way Out at Lucky 13 Saloon, $13
4/8, 4:30 PM neofolk violinist Kite joined by her aunt, superstar klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals at Cara, 225 West 13th St. free
4/8, 7:30 PM multistylistic bassist Max Johnsonwith his trio at the Django, $25
4/8, 7:30 PM incisive, mesmerizing ragas with Apratim Majumdar on sarod with Amit Chatterjee on tabla at the Chhandayan Center for Indian Music$25
4/8, 8 PM an intriguing improvisational lineup: Jeong Lim Yang – bass / Christopher Hoffman – cello / Billy Mintz – drums at Downtown Music Gallery
4/8, 10:30 PM prolific postbop composer and tenor saxophonist Ken Fowserleads a quintet at Smalls, $25
4/9, 7:30 PM a rare NY return show by brilliantly lyrical early zeros cult favorite Americana songstress Florence Dore at City Winery, $25
4/9, 7:30 PM charmingly retro Americana jazz chanteuseSasha Dobson with her quartet at Smalls, $25. 4/24, 10 PM they’re at the Ear Inn for the tip jar
4/9, 8:30 PM intense, cinematic, politically fearless jazz flutistElsa Nilsson and her Band of Pulses at the Owl
4/10, 7 PMintense, charismatic oldschool soul belterSami Stevens at the small room at the Rockwood
4/10. 8 PM noir-inspired honkytonk croonerSean Kershaw at Cowgirl Seahorse
4/10. 8 PM Amy Irving – the Crossing Delancey star, who as it turns out is an inspired and competent jazz singer – plays the album release show for her new one at City Winery, $25
4/10, 8 PM cellist Amanda Gookin’s multimedia Forward Music Project featuring works for solo cello by composers Pamela Z, Jessie Montgomery, Sarah Hennies, Camila Agosto, Seong Ae Kim, at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/10, 9 PM Melissa Gordon ofMelissa & the Mannequins – one of the best purist janglerock songwriters in NYC – at the big room at the Rockwood. free
4/10, 9 PM oldtimey string swing crew the Buck and a Quarter Quartetat Skinny Dennis
4/11, half past noon Polish organist Gedymin Grubba plays a program TBA at Central Synagogue, 54th/Lex, free
4/11, 7ish macabre metal band Castle Rat and 90s/zeros metal legends Firebreather at St. Vitus, $20
4/11, 7:30 PM Timothy Chooi, violin and Michelle Cann, piano play works by Amy Beach, Grieg, Silvestrov, Debussy and others at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $23
4/11, 8 PM rockabilly veteransEmy & the Epix followed by wickedly jangly surf/twang/country instrumentalists theBakersfield Breakersat 11th St. Bar
4/11, 8:30 PM trumpeter Brad Henkel, violist Joanna Mattrey and drummer Lesley Mok jam at Downtown Music Gallery
4/12, 8 PM timeless nonagenarian vocal jazz legend Sheila Jordansings the album release show for her new one with Jacob Sacks, David Ambrosio, Vinnie Sperrazza at Bar Bayeux
4/12, 8 PM trombonistCurtis Hasselbring’s playfully cinematic Curhestra at the small room at the Rockwood
4/12, 9 PM electrifying vibraphonistSimon Moullierand band at Bar Lunatico
4/12, 10 PM guitar goddess Barbara Endes’ exhilarating psychedelic janglerock bandGirls on Grass at Skinny Dennis
4/13, 7 PM theNew York Composers Circle feat. the Bergamot Quartet (Ledah Finck, violin, Sarah Thomas, violin, Amy Huimei Tan, viola, Irène Han, cello), along with Valerie Gonzalez, soprano, Adam C. J. Klein, tenor, Craig Ketter, piano, Haig Hovsepian, violin and Nara Avetisyan, piano play new works by Eric Heilnert, Carl Kanter, Thomas Parente, Susan J. Fischer. Marina Shmotova and Christopher Kaufman at Church of the Transfiguration, 1 E 29th St, $20
4/13, 7:30 PM Americana soul veteran Joe Henry at City Winery, $28 standing room avail
4/13, 7:30 PMtuneful postbop pianistJim Ridlleads a trio at Smalls, $25
4/13, 9 PM otherworldly French-Algerian singerOuridaat Bar Lunatico
4/13, 9:30 PM Scottish folk trio the Highland Divas at the Cutting Room, $25 adv tix rec
4/13, 10 PM psychedelic soul-rockersMadam Westat Bar Freda, $10
4/13. 3 PM Mayuki Fukuhara and Kae Nakano, violins; Liuh-Wen Ting, viola; Benjamin Larsen, cello play works by Beethoven and Grieg at Concerts on the Slope, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 139 St. John’s Place downhill from 7th Ave, $25
4/14, 7:30 PM jazz organistMike LeDonne with his quartet at the Django, $25
4/14, 8 PM ska night at Otto’s: Mephiskapheles spinoffBarbicide, the edgy, female-fronted Penniless Loafers and trombone legendBuford O’Sullivanand the Roosters
4/14, 9:30 PM Americana songstressKaren Hudsonand and her band play Linda Ronstadt’s 1978 album Living In the USA all the way through at the Triad Theatre, 158 W 72nd St (Bwy/Amsterdam), $15
4/14, 10 PM ambient avant-garde singer/harpist Kitba at the Owl
4/15 the reconfigured Sadies at Union Pool are sold out
4/15, 11 AM (in the morning) a family show by clever, fiery, eclectic ten-piece Balkan/hip-hop/funk brass maniacsSlavic Soul Party at the Lincoln Center Atrium. There’s another show at 7:30 PM with fearlessly multistylistic pipa virtuosoMin Xiao-Fen‘s White Lotus featuring guitarist Rez Abbasi
4/15, 6 PM catchy, anthemic, female-fronted janglerock band the Belle Curvesat the small room at the Rockwood
4/15, 7 PM lavish Indonesian bell orchestra Gamelan Dharma Swara at Ridgewood Presbyterian Church, 59-14 70th Ave (Forest/60th), J to Seneca Ave, $25 adv tix rec
4/15, 7:30 PM theNew York Virtuoso Singers perform Bach cantatas at Merkin Concert Hall, $30/$10 stud. They’re back with a similar Bach program on 4/29.
4/15, 8 PM elegantly ferocious Iranian tar lute star Sahba Motallebiat Roulette, $30 adv tix rec
4/15, 8 PM the Boston Modern Orchestra Project play works by Andrew Norman, Lei Lang and Lisa Bielawa at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hal., $21 tix avail
4/15, 8 PM theNY Scandia Symphonyplay dynamic Nordic works by Hugo Alfven, Friedrich Kuhlau, Carl Nielsen, Jean Sibelius at Alice Tully Hall, $25 tix avail
4/15, 9 PM Afrobeat all-star crew Armo – feat. members of Antibalas – at Bar Lunatico
4/16, 3:15 PM Ken Corneille plays his own colorful works on the organ at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
4/16, 4 PM gutter blues/punkabilly band James Godwin and the Ultrasounds at Mama Tried
4/16, 5 PM pyrotechnic clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski’s ferociously kineticNY Gypsy All-Starswith Ara Dinkjian on oud at Our Saviour’s Atonement, $25
4/16, 7 PM flutist Tessa Brinckman, violinist/violist Allyson Clare, trombonist Taylor Peterson and pianist Brian Mark perform works by Meredith Monk, Brian Mark, Brinckman, Messiaen, Ted Hearne, and Randall Woolf on themes of embattled individualism, accompanied by digital audio and video at Theatre 71, 152 West 71st St, $17.50
4/16, 7ish purist oldschool tenor sax player Craig Handy leads his New Orleans-flavored band at the Django, $25
4/16, 8 PM violinist Terry Jenoure leads a fantastic chamber jazz quintet playing compositions inspired by her grandfather’s harrowing experience being detained at the Canadian border in the 1930s at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/17, 1 PM erudite jazz drummerWinard Harper& Jeli Posse at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/17, 7:30 PM the Merz Trio play works by George Lewis, A. Mahler, Berg, Bingen, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Brahms, and Ravel at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, $25
4/18, 1 PM Aletheia Teague plays the organ at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/19, 7 PM at Willow Place Auditorium. 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn Heights. repeating 4/21 at 7 PM at Bohemian National Hall. 321 E 73rd St off First Ave, the S.E.M. Ensembleplay works by Petr Kotik, Petr Bakla, Christian Wolff, improvisations by Roscoe Mitchell, Thomas Buckner and guests, Jana Vörösová, Pavel Zemek Novák, Rudolf Komorous and Pauline Oliveros, free
4/19, 8 PM imaginatively techy female-fronted acts:Nebula the Velvet Queen on theremin followed by the dissociatively drifting Sick Din, the Bjork-esque Linda Gardens andnew wave/powerpopstressKira Metcalfat Bar Freda, $10
4/19, 8 PM shapeshifting art-rock/no wave band Heroes of Toolik at the Zurcher Gallery, $20
4/19, 9 PM excellent new Brooklyn Middle Eastern band Baklava Express at Radegast Hall
4/19, 9 PM clever, purist B3 jazz organistAkiko Tsurugaat Cellar Dog
4/19, 9:30 PM slinky psychedelic reggae-tinged jambandAce Bandageat Hart Bar
4/20, 1 PM the NOVUS NYString Quartet, featuring Melissa Attebury, mezzo-soprano play works by Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger, Schubert. Juhi Bansal. Samuel Barber and Respighi at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/20, 7 PM ish epic NWOBHM twinbill: Shadowland and Tanith playing the album release for their new one at St. Vitus, $20
4/20, 8 PM a fiery Ukrainian female-fronted folk-punk twinbill: Balaklava Blues and Dakh Daughters at the Poisson Rouge. $30 adv tix rec
4/20, 7 PM rustic Piedmont-style blues guitar duoGordon Lockwoodat Terra Blues, $20
4/20, 7:30 PM the mighty, stunningly eclectic, Middle Eastern-tingedEyal Vilner Big Bandat the Lincoln Center Atrium.
4/20, 7:30 PM Drew Petersen, piano, plays works by Chopin, Schumann, Ravel, and more at the 92nd St. Y, $30
4/20, 8 PM pianist Beatrice Rana plays works by Bach and Debussy plus Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata at Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, $30 tix avail
4/20, 8:30 PM violinist Ludovica Burtone Ben Rosenblum (USA) on accordion, and bassist Eduardo Belo at the Owl
4/20, 9 PM noir guitar legendJim Campilongoleads his trioat Bar Lunatico
4/20, 9:30 PM Hannah vs. the Many’s fierce, lyrically brilliant frontwoman Hannah Fairchild & Megan Sperger work up material from their upcoming rock musical Stars In My Eyes / Food On the Table at Greenroom 42, inside the hotel at 570 Tenth Ave south of 42nd St.,, expensive,$36 but worth it
4/21, 7 PM Czech chamber ensemble Ostravska Banda play works by Roscoe Mitchell, Petr Kotik, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Jana Vörösová and others at Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd St,, free
4/21, 7 PM the Low Frequency Trio play new pieces by Latin American female composers at the Americas Society. 680 Park Ave, free
4/21, 7:30 PM an interesting duo:Geoffrey Keezeron piano and bassist John Patittuci at Mezzrow, $25
4/21-22, 7:30 PM indie classicalchamber orchestraWild Up play surreal Julius Eastman works at the 92nd St. Y, $25
4/21, 7:30 PM smart, thoughtful vibraphonistSasha Berliner leads a trio followed at 10:30 by eliably powerful tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard at Smalls, $25
4/21, 7:30 PM timbalero Tito Rodríguez, Jr.’s salsa band at the Lincoln Center Atrium.
4/21-22, 7 PM cellist Matt Haimovitz plays solo works by Bach, David T. Little, Annabelle Chvostek, Tyshawn Sorey, Niloufar Nourbahksh, Roberto Sierra and others at Bargemusic, $35
4/22, 2 PM bassist Santi Debriano leads a quintet with vocalist Nina Shankar at Faber Park Recreation Center, 2175 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island
4/22, 4 PM bass goddess/soul singer Felice Rosser’s ageless reggae-rock-groove bandFaithat the community Garden, 311 East 8th St between Ave B and C
4/22, 4 PM Quintet of the Americas play an ecologically-themed concert of works by Shanyse Strickland, Samuel Barber, Christopher Kaufman, Alexandra Molnar-Suhaida, Frank Ticheli and Julio Medaglia at Gallery 9B9, 9 Avenue B, free, res req
4/22, 7 PM New Andalusia play flamenco and arabic themes at the Bronx Music Heritage Center, 1303 Louis Nine Blvd,, $10, 2/5 to Freeman St
4/22, 7 PM the environmentally conscious Jhoely Garay Jazz Orchestra at Culture Lab, free
4/22 10 PM the fiery, string-drivenSedi Donka Balkan Bandat St. Mazie’s
4/23, 3:15 PM organist Simon Leach at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
4/23, 7 PM nuanced jazz and chamber pop singer Kari van der Kloot at the small room at the Rockwood
4/23, 9:30 PM lyrical pianist Bennett Paster‘s Understated Trio at the Django, $25
4/23, 10ish the 3rd Street Band – fronted by Billy Miller, son of iconic freedom fighter Mark Crispin Miller – at Hart Bar. So new they don’t have a website yet but word on the street is that they’re kind of retro and lyrically brilliant.
4/24, 7:30 PM theCatalyst Quartetplay African American spirituals, Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in E Minor (with Aaron Wunsch) and a new setting of Langston Hughes’s poem, Kids Who Die, for soprano, piano, and string quartet – how appropriate for 2023! at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free
4/24, 8 PM Dervisi feat. psychedelic guitarist George Sempepos play an acoustic set of haunting 1930s Greek underground anthems and hash-smoking tunes at Troost
4/24, 8 PM avant garde singer Dafna Naphtali airs out her voice with a jazz duo and octet at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/25, 1 PM Thomas Mellan plays the organ at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/25, 7:30 PM acerbic, versatile tenor saxophonist Julieta Eugenio leads a trio at Smalls, $25
4/25, 7:30 PM glimmering, noir-inspired vibraphonistTom Beckhamleads a trio with Henry Hey on piano and Matt Clohesy on bass at Mezzrow, $25
4/25, 8 PM pianist Florian Noack plays his transcriptions of the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade, works by Liszt and more at Merkin Concert Hall, $35
4/25, 8 PM pianist Alison Deane plays her son Adam O’Farrill’s new suite followed by the O’Farrill Family Band at Roulette, $25 adv tix rec
4/25, 9 PM vicious noiserock jamband the theSkull Practitioners– led by Steve Wynn sparring partner/genius guitarist Jason Victor – at Union Pool, $10
4/25, 9ish perennially haunting, atmospheric folk noir/art-rock chanteuseMarissa Nadlerat Public Records, $26
4/26, 1 PM Alcee Chriss, organ; Sandra Miller, flute; Sarah Stone, cello play an all-Bach program at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/26, 7:30 PM Lun Li, violin & Janice Carissa, piano play works by Poulenc, Sciarrino, Messiaen, Bartok and others at Merkin Concert Hall, $24
4/26, 7:30 PM noir-inspired alto saxophonist/composerNick Hempton with his quartet at Smalls. $25
4/26, 8 PM edgy chromatic vocalists: Palestinian singer Mona Miari and Greek chanteuse Nefeli Fasouli at Drom, $25
4/26, 8 PM energetic ragtime/Romany swing guitaristFelix Slimat St. Mazie’s
4/26, 8 PM saxophonistCaroline Davis leads a killer quartet with Matt Mitchell, Chris Tordini, Allan Mednard at Bar Bayeux
4/27, 1 PM NOVUS NY play chamber works by Messiaen, Biber, Andrew Yee, Elena Kats and Mel Bonis at St. Paul’s Chapel downtown
4/27, 7:30 PM Trio Fadolín (featuring violinist Sabina Torosjan, cellist Valeriya Sholokhova, and cinematic composer Ljova on fadolín), with lustrous klezmer singer Inna Barmash, clarinetists Sam Sadigursky and Zisl Slepovitch; and Ljova’s parents, Soviet-era freedom fighters Alexander Zhurbin and Irena Ginzburg, who bedeviled the authorities back in the 70s and 80s, at the Lincoln Center Atrium, free
4/27. 7:30 PM brilliant baritone saxophonistLauren Sevian at the Django, $25
4/27, 7:30 PM theExperiental Orchestra play Xenakis’ challenging classical duel piece Linaia-Agon and works by Julius Eastman at the Church of the Advent Hope, 111 E 87th St, $29
4/27, 7:30 PM conversational pianistJeffrey Siegel plays works by Chopin and Grieg at Scandinavia House, $25
4/27, 10 PM lo-fi newschool psychedelic bandGringo Star at TV Eye, $15
4/28, 7 PM piano trio Longleash performs music by James Díaz, Igor Santos, Vicente Hansen Altria, Linda Catlin Smith, and Jimena Maldonado at the Americas Society, 680 Park Ave, free .
4/28, 7 PM Yoko Reikano Kimura on shamisen, Sumie Kaneko on koto and James Nyoraku Schlefer on shakuhachi play classic and new music for Japanese instruments at Bargemusic, $35
4/28, 7:30 PM fearlessly political jazz poet/vocalistMoor Motherat Merkin Concert Hall, $25
4/28, 8:30 PM Cape Verde morna torch singer Fantcha at Drom, $20 adv tix rec
4/28, 10 PM edgy lead guitaristDamian Quinonesand his psychedelic latin soul band at Freddy’s
4/28, 10:30 PM fiery, latin-inspired trombonistMariel Bildsteinat the Django, $25
4/29, 4 PM darkly torchy southwestern gothic/Europolitan songwriter/guitaristMiwa Gemini, with taiko drummer/pianist Midori Larsen and Shoko Morikawa at Freddy’s
4/29, 7:30 PM carnatic singer Sangeetha Swaminathan with Sriram Raman on mridangam, Siddharth Ashokkumar on violin and Kabilan Jaganathan on kanjira at the Chhandayan Center for Indian Music, 4 W 43rd Street #618, $25
4/29, 7:30 PM the Modus Operandi Orchestra play Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 7 plus Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 and other works with soprano Laura Leon at St. Mary Church, 1008 49th Ave, Long Island City, $25
4/29, 7:30 PM picturesque jazz pianistMichael Weiss and his trio at the Django, $25
4/29, 8 PM Changing Modes– NYC’s funnest, most unpredictable, sharply lyrical new wave art-rock band – at Connolly’s
4/30, 3:15 PM organist Clayton Roberts at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
4/30, 4 PM the Argus Quartet and Steven Beck, piano play the NY premieres of Michael Shapiro’s Yiddish Quartet and Piano Quintet at Bargemusic, $35
4/30, 7 PM spine-tingling, darkly mystical art-rock/avant-garde/chamber pop songwriterCarol Lipnik with Gordon Beeferman on piano at Pangea, $25
4/30, 7:30 PM purist vocal jazz stylistMelissa Stylianou leads a trio with Ike Sturm on bass and Gene Bertoncini on guitar at Mezzrow, $25
4/30, 9 PM thrash metal band Wizard Rifle and then the sludgy immersive riff-heavy Bongzilla at St. Vitus, $27
5/1, starting at noon, New Yorkers come out to protest the New York City Parks Department crackdown against independent vendors. Protests at Union Square Park & Washington Square Park. Why is the city persecuting vendors? Vendors add individual character to neighborhoods, they don’t work for Jeff Bezos, and they’re a cash business.
5/4, 8 PM Max Lifchitz conducts theNorth/South Chamber Orchestra playing his own works plus pieces by Brian Banks, Carlos Chavez, Manuel Enriquez, Eduardo Mata & Silvestre Revueltas at the National Opera Center, 330 7th Ave,. free
5/4, 8 PM eclectic violinist Dana Lyn’s protean, psychedelic Animal Revenge at Greenwich House Music School, $20
5/8, 7:30 PM the Jupiter Quartet andEast Coast Chamber Orchestra play works by Schubert, Jessie Montgomery, Adolphus Hailstork at Music Mondays, Advent Church, northwest corner of 93rd and Broadway, free
5/15, 6 PM Ensemble Pi play works inspired by banned books by Lenny Bruce, Art Spiegelman and others, from composers Richard Brooks, Louis Goldford, Laura Jobin-Acosta, Laura Kaminsky, Tamar Muskal, and Damian Norfleet at the NYPL for the Performing Arts, 111 Amsterdam Ave (64/65), free, res req
5/17, 7:30 PM the amazing, haunting, otherworldlyNY Andalus Ensemble – who play ancient Middle Eastern and North African Jewish sounds from as far back as a thousand years ago – at La Nacional, 239 W 14th St, $28
