There’s music of exuberant defiance from London Quintet Ezra Collective, New Orleans-based Chief Adjuah, Senegalese musician Alune Wade, and the Mardi Gras Indian funk band Cha Wa.

Alphonso Horne and the Gotham Kings play the feel-good music of Mardi Gras in New Orleans to Dizzy’s Club for two sets on Feb. 17. 

Poet, musician, and activist Moor Mother, together with the Chicago-based underground dance producer Hieroglyphic Being play and sculpt sounds at Paragon on Feb. 19.