Appalachian folk, gospel, and blues artist Valerie June plays a free concert at the Santa Fe Railyard Plaza, 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24.

At 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27, Boz Scaggs brings old favorites and new songs from his latest album to the Santa Fe Opera as part of the Out of the Blues tour.

The cello-and-vocal duo Branden & James hits the stage at the Lensic Performing Arts Center 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, with At the Corner of Symphony and Soul. 

From 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 25, Felix y Los Gatos bring their Latin beats, blues, Tejano, outlaw country, and zydeco to Santa Fe Brewing Eldorado Taphouse.

Dylan Montayne comes home to celebrate the release of a new EP, Mudhouse, at Meow Wolf, 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 23, with guests Dylan Huling and Outstanding Citizens Collective.

More than an outdoor concert, Taos Vortex is designed to be an “immersive art experience.” There you can hear dozens of local and national bands and DJs — and, if you choose, dip into a world created to elicit joy and wonder.

The world premiere of A Shattered Vessel for String Quintet by the American composer Richard Danielpour is a featured event in Music from Angel Fire’s opening-night concert at 6 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16. 

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s “Britten Serenade” looked especially inviting on paper, thanks to its innovative programming, and it was just as satisfying to experience in performance at San Miguel Chapel.

The legendary funkster George Clinton is on his final tour with Parliament-Funkadelic and appears at Taos Vortex before his imminent retirement. 

Susan Graham’s many virtues were on almost full when she and pianist Jon Kimura Parker performed on Wednesday, Aug. 7, as part of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s new Music at Noon Wednesday series.

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s third major program of the summer, “Luminosity: The Nature of Celestial Light,” was well executed from start to finish, with three of the four pieces providing real musical satisfaction, and the fourth not lacking in interest.

For the Santa Fe Opera 2019 season, 42 apprentice singers get a chance to shine during the opera’s Apprentice Showcase Scenes on two days in August. The singers perform scenes from the SFO’s repertoire in the Crosby Theatre beginning at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11 and Aug. 18. 

The Denver-based band DeVotchKa plays a free show, with guest Korvin Balkan Orkestar, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 10, at Railyard Plaza. 

Works by Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert are on the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival program 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

The final weekend of the 2019 Santa Fe Bandstand program on The Plaza begins Friday, Aug. 9, with a Native-music double-header. First up, from 6 to 7 p.m., is a mighty Native drum circle. Then Grammy-winning flutist Robert Mirabal has the stage for an hour and a half, beginning at 7:15. 

The appropriately named FLUX Quartet performs world premieres of three string quartets during its Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concert on Friday, Aug. 2. at 6 p.m. at St. Francis Auditorium, with a pre-performance talk by the composers at 5 p.m. 

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale’s “In the Court of the Sun King” offers a cross section of sacred music by French Baroque-era composers, including the stellar figures Marc-Antoine Charpentier, François Couperin, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.  The next performances are 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 (pre-concert talk 2:30 p.m.) and 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 8 (pre-concert talk 6:30 p.m.) at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel. 

Jazz trumpeter Michael Morreale leads a quartet gig at the Museum Hill Café on 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2.

Stanley Clarke, the colorfully virtuosic bassist best known as a co-founder of the groundbreaking fusion band Return to Forever, is the final Santa Fe act of the 2019 New Mexico Jazz Festival, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27.

Virtuoso finger-style guitarist Leo Kottke plays the Lensic Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30 p.m.

The fast-rising Canadian-Italian opera singer Emily D'Angelo is summering in Santa Fe; see her at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 28, at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival hosts a free summertime Youth Concerts series at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 29, with Dvoˇrák Piano Quintet in A Major, Op. 81, and at 10 a.m. on Aug. 5 with selections by Bach and Schubert. Concerts are held at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Bass-baritone Philippe Sly is a celebrated interpreter of the work, and this concert for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival should be one of the summer’s most satisfying musical events. 

Toots and the Maytals appear at The Bridge at Santa Fe Brewing on Wednesday, July 24.

Erich Wolfgang Korngold isn’t exactly a household name. But if you’re a fan of Errol Flynn, you’ve certainly heard his music.

The Colombian virtuoso harpist Edmar Castañeda is featured in a free New Mexico Jazz Festival concert Tuesday, July 23, at 6 p.m. on the Santa Fe Plaza.

The Santa Fe Desert Chorale opens its 37th annual summer season this weekend with two chamber concerts at The Church of the Holy Faith, one at 2 p.m. Friday, July 19 and the second, at 4 p.m. Saturday, July 20; the latter is followed by a post-concert dinner at La Posada de Santa Fe. 

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival continues on at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, with a concert featuring Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor and noted pianist Kirill Gerstein, at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

The colorful brass band/Mardi Gras Indian group Cha Wa plays Music on the Hill in Santa Fe at St. John’s College, 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, and at Albuquerque’s Outpost Performance Space at 8 p.m. Thursday, July 18.

Joseph Johnson steps outside his orchestra roles this weekend in a pair of solo concerts that will test his instrumental voice: 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 13, at SITE Santa Fe and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 14, at Las Puertas Event Center in Albuquerque.

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival launches its 2019 season Sunday, July 14 with a concert highlighted by the New Mexico premiere of IF, a monodrama for soprano and ensemble by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison.  Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert are also on the program, which will be repeated on Monday, July 15.

Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) for Three Masked Players and more.

Members of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, along with American and international musicians, will appear in various unexpected combinations as the second season of Chambe…

It’s not your imagination. The catchy Guster song that you’ve been hearing on the radio, “Overexcited,” does sound remarkably like the 1982 Madness hit “Our House.” And Guster front man Ryan Miller really is singing in a British accent as he narrates a neighborhood walk.

AMP coordinated the 4th of July Music Weekend Getaway in Taos’ Kit Carson Park, where Lake Street Dive plays on Friday, July 5. The band is part of a multi-day lineup that kicked off with WAR and Ozomatli on July 4 and finishes on Saturday, July 6, with The Mavericks and Los Lobos.

David Berkeley plays at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, July 5, as part of the Sunset in the Garden concert series at Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

Canadian-Portugese musician Awna Teixiera plays Gig Performance Space at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 5. 

At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3, the original lineup of X plays at The Bridge Patio at Santa Fe Brewing Co. This is a 21-and-older event.

WAR and Ozomatli play a free concert at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 4, at Taos’ Kit Carson Park.

The Santa Fe Music Collective presents the Bob Fox Trio at the Museum Hill Café, 7 p.m. Friday, June 28.

Béla Fleck & the Flecktones play Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Road in El Prado, on Saturday, June 22. 

Mary Springfels and her six-member contingent known as Severall Friends will offer excerpts from an enormous music manuscript as she imagines they were performed 700 years ago; the performances are at Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2.

Oliver Prezant, music director for the Santa Fe Community Orchestra, conducts the season finale on Sunday, June 2, at the James A. Little Theater in a concert that also features the world premiere of Suite l’Montgolfière by Los Alamos musician Ted Vives.

For music director Grant Gershon, the Los Angeles Master Chorale's Santa Fe performance of Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro (Tears of St. Peter) Friday, May 31, will be a special occasion — a homecoming of sorts.

Although Bard Edrington promotes himself as a solo artist, he likes to include his friends and many collaborators in almost everything he does musically. 

Albuquerque is the first stop on Brad Paisley’s world tour, which kicks off at the Isleta Amphitheater on Thursday, May 30. 

From Friday, May 24, through Sunday, May 26, Silver City's Gough Park (at the corner of North Pope and 13th streets) hosts performers like legendary Houston musician Guitar Shorty, the 79-year-old showman who introduced Jimi Hendrix to the wah-wah pedal. 

For Guillermo Figueroa, a young violin student at Juilliard back in the early ’70s, it was just another gig. He was wrong. “It still rings with me all these years later,” he said of his introduction to the powerful music of Hector Berlioz. “It changed my life.”