Mexican songwriter Silvana Estrada crafts heartfelt, elegant, and melodic songs about love, lost love, and what it takes to just keep on keeping on. She plays on Nov. 23 at Webster Hall.

Momma makes immaculately composed yet immediately potent songs by matching the rawness of rock with sticky melodies and taut pop arrangements. They play at Brooklyn Steel on Nov. 20.

Singer and songwriter Joy Oladokun has a directness and depth to her songwriting and is widely celebrated for her uniquely vulnerable voice. Oladokun plays at Blue Note on Nov. 19.

Clarinetist Stuart Bogie and organist Buck McDaniel bring back their free meditative concert series, November Variations, at Church of Our Savior, Nov. 17-21.

There's new music for Man Ray films composed & performed by SQÜRL, who are filmmaker/musician Jim Jarmusch & drummer Carter Logan. SQÜRL plays these scores at The Met on Nov. 14-15.

Prolific chamber sextet yMusic and pop-soul songwriter Emily King, play their a one-of-a-kind collaboration at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on Nov. 13.

English singer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf plays at the New York Society For Ethical Culture’s Adler Hall on Nov. 13.

The 20th Annual NY Gypsy Festival runs from Nov. 9-19 at DROM. Slavic Soul Party, "NYC’s official #1 brass band for BalkanSoul GypsyFunk", are part of the lineup on Nov. 14.

Australian-born Nashville-based Tommy Emmanuel, Certified Guitar Player, plays and tells tales, rough edges and all, in our studio for the latest Soundcheck Podcast.