Rocker Melissa Etheridge plays the Isleta Resort & Casino in Albuquerque at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9; doors open for 21+ show at 7 p.m.

The Miguel Zenón Quartet plays at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at GiG Performance Space. 

San Fermin has grown into a nine-piece indie-pop outfit with layers of percussion, brass, violin, and lead vocalists Allen Tate and Karlie Bruce. They’ll play Meow Wolf on Sunday, Nov. 10; doors open at 7 p.m. and the concert starts at 7:30 p.m. 

Hear Beethoven’s early, lighthearted Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola (Op. 25), Mozart’s late, autumnal Clarinet Quintet, and Sibelius’ autobiographical septet En Saga, as well as Zhou Tian’s 2015 Viaje (Journey) for flute and string quartet when Santa Fe Symphony plays at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 10 at St. Francis Auditorium. 

Santa Fe Pro Musica music director Thomas O’Connor will share responsibility with Anne-Marie McDermott at 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3; McDermott will play soloist and conductor for two Mozart piano concertos. 

Stars of the Future: Olga Kern International Piano Competition Finals are held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, Popejoy Hall, University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque.

Judy Collins plays at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 3, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

The Grammy-nominated artist, best known for his songwriting prowess and mastery of the hammered dulcimer, has a decades-long catalog rooted in traditional Appalachian music. He brings a sampling to the Lensic Performing Arts Center for a fundraiser Sunday, Oct. 27.

Flugelhornist Matheny is joined by Phoenix-based vocalist Holly Pyle and backed by Bert Dalton on piano, Andy Zadrozny on bass, and John Trentacosta on drums, for the Friday, Oct. 25, concert.

Giovanni Bottesini’s Alì Babà is presented by Opera Southwest, 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20 and 27; 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25, at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque.

The OutBach Festival of [Mostly] Women’s Music's concerts begin at 7 p.m. and are held at San Miguel Chapel. The first, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, is A Love Supreme, with music by Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms.

Honey Harper opens for the English rock band Temples at Meow Wolf, 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19. 

At just 22, the guitarist-singer-songwriter Clementine Creevy has helmed Cherry Glazerr since she was 15. The melodic punk band is at Meow Wolf at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23. 

You can witness Christone “Kingfish” Ingram's stunning skill on guitar and blues storytelling at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20, at Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery. 

Indigenous Sámi Mari Boine sings at the Lensic Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15.

In the pantheon of hipster pop stars, Rufus Wainwright has got to be one of the princes of the realm. Son of all-time hipster singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, …

“You think when you’ve played with someone for over 25 years that you would get used to it,” bassist Christian McBride says about the veteran jazz pianist Chick Corea. “But playing with Chick I never cease to be amazed, and I’m still starstruck.” McBride and drummer Brian Blade join Corea for a performance at the Lensic.

The Canadian icon has always been a politically engaged musician, focusing on First Nations and Native American issues, ecology, and anti-violence. She plays a fundraiser concert for Indigenous Solutions, Tewa Women United, and the Friendship.

The Seventh Annual Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (AFMX) features appearances by two stars of the music world: Dave Grusin and Neil Giraldo. For a schedule of film screenings and tickets, visit abqfilmx.com or call 505-265-7866. 

Piano and vocal recitals. Chamber works. Operas, new and historic. Symphonic pieces of all sizes. And some notable performers. Fall in Santa Fe brings with it the start of a new classical music season. This year, nine performance organizations within The City Different present a smorgasbord of offerings — from Bach and Beethoven to Philip Glass and George Gershwin. 

Drummer Loren Bienvenu’s Tonic Backline Band plays its last two gigs on Friday, Aug. 30, and Saturday, Aug. 31, at Tonic, 103 E. Water Street. The culmination of the quartet’s summer house-band residency, these will be live recording sessions, featuring all original material. 

10-time Grammy Award-winner Bobby McFerrin performs at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, at the Santa Fe Opera.

The Santa Fe Traditional Music Festival, or TradFest, runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 23 to 25, at Camp Stoney, near the edge of the Santa Fe National Forest. Now in its third consecutive year, headliners include Chris Jones and the Night Drivers, the South Carolina Broadcasters, and Cedric Watson.

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.