Singer-songwriter Pearla writes strange but lovely songs; seeing the world in all its beauty and weirdness, and using music to make sense of it. She plays them at Purgatory on April 23.

Brooklyn band Red Baraat's influences are rooted in Punjabi wedding music, jazzy horns, funky bass, and vocals that draw on rap and Indian pop. They play on April 23 at Barbès.

All-male choir Chanticleer gives Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame a long overdue East Coast premiere at Trinity Church this week. See them live on Wednesday night, April 22.

Guitarist Mary Halvorson is always up for an adventure and Canis Major is her brand new quartet. They’re playing on Tuesday night, April 21, at Dizzy’s Club at Jazz At Lincoln Center.

The contemporary folk music and theater group from Ukraine, Yagody, is performing on Friday, April 17, at the Local in Saugerties in Upstate New York, and on Saturday, April 18, at DROM.

Chinese pipa virtuoso Min Xiao-Fen and Ukrainian bandura master Julian Kytasty perform at Lincoln Center's Rubinstein Atrium on April 17 to celebrate their new album, Boundless.

Since 2008, Buke & Gase have been making experimental, pop-adjacent music. But now, the duo has announced their farewell shows. See them live one last time on April 15 at Public Records.

MacArthur Fellow, member of the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, and violinist Johnny Gandelsman has a collaborative dance/music show opening on Tuesday, April 14, at Joyce Theater. 

The frontman of the alt-rock band Soul Coughing, Mike Doughty, is the latest guest of the Soundcheck podcast with fellow bandmember from Ghost of Vroom, Andrew "Scrap" Livingston.