Vocalist and composer Galeet Dardashti mixes traditional and contemporary sounds in "Monajat", a collaboration with her grandfather's recorded voice on Sept. 28 at B’Nai Jeshurun.

Pianist, producer, and arts activist Lara Downes plays music from her 2024, "This Land", which reflects on the contrasts and contradictions of American history, at Joe's Pub on Sept. 26.

Brooklyn singer-songwriter Xenia Rubinos plays new music commissioned by Latin New Wave on Sept. 26 at the Rubinstein Atrium. 

ETHEL, the GRAMMY®-winning electrified string quartet joins forces with composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull for a quintet program of new commissions at Merkin Hall on Sept. 24.

Bronx-born jazz singer Samara Joy is only 24, but her voice somehow sounds like it’s been around since the 1950s. Her latest, "Autumn Nocturne" is part of our Weekly Music Roundup. 

Jazz-trained, indie-rockers Deerlady (Mali Obomsawin and Magdalena Abrego) make shoegazey songs that take on "intimacy under colonialism". They play Public Records on Sept. 20. 

The band Etran de L’Aïr (“stars of the air”) is a family collective from Agadez in northern Niger. They bring their hypnotic electric guitar riffs to Brooklyn Bowl on Sept. 19.

My Brightest Diamond is the project of Shara Nova, who is a singer, a contemporary classical composer, and an art-pop songwriter. My Brightest Diamond performs on Sept. 19 at Elsewhere. 

American composer and pioneer of electronic music Carl Stone performs an intimate live show, joined by Brooklyn-based punk ensemble YHWH Nailgun at Public Records on Sept. 18.