El Coro Acardenchado and the vocal group Roomful Of Teeth perform on Nov. 7 at the Met Museum’s Grace Rainey Rogers auditorium.

Composer and pianist Kelly Moran has often played the prepared piano as well as conventional piano, and piano with electronics. She plays an album release show at Roulette on Nov. 6.

The legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band has carried the joyful spirit of New Orleans around the world for more than 60 years. They play at City Winery on Nov. 4.

Carminho, one of Portugal’s leading singers in the soulful, almost bluesy style of music known as fado, performs new songs from her latest album, in-studio.

Dutar master Oghlan Bakhshi, with spike fiddler Abdolghaffar Geldinejad and dutar player Zyyada Jumayeva, perform Turkmen music rarely heard in the US on Nov. 1 at Roulette.

Toshi Reagon and Friends present 'Songs of the Living', on themes of community, protest, and resistance. They're joined by the New York Arabic Chorus on Oct. 30 at Flushing Town Hall.

Richard Thompson’s mastery of acoustic and electric guitar will be combined with Tommy Emmanuel’s jaw-dropping fingerstyle playing when they play at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 30. 

Brazilian pianist and composer Amaro Freitas offers futuristic and avant jazz, preparing the piano and incorporating polyrhythms in both of his hands. He plays at DROM on Oct. 29.

Ethiopian-American singer and songwriter Meklit combines the sounds of jazz, pop, and Ethiopian music in her music. She and her band play songs from her latest, A Piece of Infinity.