Thursday, Nov. 17
1. Chris Botti: Some folks may regard him because the Kenny G of the trumpet. However the suave jazz man is de facto the following Ed Sullivan. Botti presents a beneficiant, extremely entertaining, musical selection present, with one shock visitor after one other. It’d an opera singer, a flamenco guitarist or a jazz saxophonist. And the collaborators fluctuate from evening to nighttime. Botti is so versatile, which can clarify why he is performed with a who’s who of recent music, together with Sinatra, Streisand, Sting, Bocelli, Gaga and Yo-Yo Ma. (9 p.m., additionally 6:30 & 9 p.m. Fri.-Sat., 3 & 7 p.m. Solar. the Dakota, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., $85-$160, dakotacooks.com)
Additionally: Clint Black, the “Killin’ Time” hitmaker whose sizzling streak did not final so long as these of different 1989 rookies Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson, returns along with his spouse, singer/actor Lisa Hartman Black (7:30 p.m. Ames Middle, $60-$110); New York singing piano man Peter Cincotti simply dropped a brand new single, “Killer on the Keys,” wherein he salutes Jerry Lee Lewis and Elton John and his personal aptitude for mixing blues and Bach, jazz and rock (7:30 p.m. Crooners, $50-$60).
Friday, Nov. 18
2. Plains: After the non-public tumult and triumphant tour behind her 2020 document “Saint Cloud,” Katie Crutchfield — the Alabama singer alternately generally known as Waxahatchee — paired up with pal and fellow Americana strummer Jess Williamson to create this extra light-hearted and twangy duo. Their document, “I Walked With You a Methods,” is an actual charmer, loaded with catchy twang-pop, golden harmonies and impressed songs about transferring on. They have been enjoying some enjoyable covers and a pair Waxahatchee tunes to spherical out their setlist on tour. (9 p.m. First Avenue, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., $25-$30, axs.com)
3. Steve Vai: The guitar hero — who first got here to prominence within the ’80s enjoying with Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth’s first post-Van Halen solo band and Whitesnake — is touring behind his 10th solo album, “Inviolate.” For the undertaking, Vai created created a far-out new instrument, with three necks (12-string and 7-string guitars and 4-string bass) that is featured within the putting video of “Tooth of Hydra,” an absorbing instrumental piece that is equal elements medieval and space-age. The guitarist was the topic of a 2022 movie, “Steve Vai — His First 30 Years: the Documentary.” This month, he promised one other new album in January referred to as “Vai/Gash”, initially recorded in 1991 with the late singer Johnny “Gash” Sombrotto. (8 p.m. Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Trade St., St. Paul, $45, axs.com)
4. “Our Tune, Our Story”: Subtitled “The New Era of Black Voices,” this live performance will function two rising opera singers, mezzo soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis and soprano Raven McMillon, accompanied by a string quartet and pianist Damien Sneed, who created this salute to Marian Anderson and Jessye Norman. This system will function works by Handel, Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Strauss, Gershwin and others in addition to a newly commissioned piece from the versatile Sneed, who has labored with Aretha Franklin, Stevie Surprise, Donnie McClurkin, Wynton Marsalis and Norman, amongst others. (7:30 p.m. Ordway Live performance Corridor, 345 Washington St., St. Paul, $13 and up, ordway.org)
Additionally: Christmas establishment Mannheim Steamroller celebrates early this 12 months (8 p.m. Mystic Lake On line casino, $39-$110); Matt Wilson & His Orchestra, that includes the previous Journey Shakespeare co-leader with acoustic harp, banjo and piano, ought to sound mighty elegant on the Parkway Theater with Bleek and Grimm, aka Aaron Seymour and Craig Teiken (8 p.m., $22-$30); depraved and wild Atlanta psyche-rock band the Black Lips all the time pack a wallop in live performance and have a robust new album so as to add to the combination, “Apocalypse Love” (9 p.m. Turf Membership, $25); St. Paul indie-pop strummer Lucy Michelle’s rock band Little Fevers pairs up with Sam Cassidy (7:30 p.m. Hook & Ladder Mission Room, $10-$15).
Saturday, Nov. 19
5. Rodney Crowell: Certainly one of Texas’ most poetic and penetrating songwriters has been identified with dysautonomia, a nerve illness that typically slows him down. It did not cease him from delivering final 12 months’s aptly titled “Triage,” a low-key, reflective album about mortality, sin and redemption. Highlights embody the darkish, Dylanesque “One thing Has to Change,” the blues shuffle “I am All About Love” (wherein he mentions Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Greta Thunberg, Jessica Biel and the satan multi functional stanza), and the swish “Hymn #43,” cowritten with John Leventhal, husband of Crowell’s ex, Rosanne Money, who sings backup. Crowell is attempting to heal the world — and himself. (8 p.m. Hopkins Middle for the Arts, 1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, $29-$44, hopkinsartscenter.com)
6. Minnesota Opera: To launch its intimate new Warehouse District house, Minnesota Opera makes a uncommon enterprise into Baroque-era opera by presenting George Frideric Handel’s “Rinaldo,” his tuneful tackle struggle, love and sorcery. However count on no chain mail: This staging strikes the motion to mid-’80s Wall Road, the place outdated cash is doing battle with new. Singing the title position is countertenor Patrick Terry, a College of Minnesota alum who’s gone on to carry out at London’s Royal Opera. (7:30 p.m. additionally 2 p.m. Solar., Sat.-Solar. by Dec. 3; Luminary Arts Middle, 700 First St. N., Mpls., $50-$80, mnopera.org.)
Additionally: Veteran Twin Cities people duo Curtis & Loretta have a good time their new album, “Raise the World,” with friends Tom Schaefer on fiddle and Sandy Njoes on bass, who each performed on the document (8 p.m. Gingko Coffeehouse, $15); the custom of esteemed Minnesota singer-songwriter John Gorka on the Cedar the Saturday earlier than Thanksgiving resumes after a pandemic hiatus (8 p.m Cedar Cultural Middle, $25-$30); after drumming up hundreds of donated {dollars} each week at their Driftwood Char-Bar gig, Terry Walsh and the complete Belfast Cowboys ensemble are throwing a giant pre-Thanksgiving charity live performance for his or her neighbors-helping-neighbors nonprofit Foothold Twin Cities with friends together with Curtiss A, Davina Sowers, Gini Dodds, Dan Israel and extra (7:30 p.m. Hook & Ladder Theater, $15-$20); native twang/grit-rock guitar wiz Erik Koskinen heads up a terrific mish-mash of Americana singer/songwriters additionally that includes Texas vet Will Sexton and his associate Amy LaVere and the Lengthy Mamas (7:30 p.m. Uptown VFW, $20-$25); Honky Tonk Bounce explores the Western swing of Bob Wills (4 p.m. Crooners, $25-$35).
Sunday, Nov. 20
7. Womenfolk: An inveterate champion of girls musicians, Minneapolis DJ/musician/activist Ellen Stanley is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of her KFAI radio program, “Womenfolk,” in an ideal approach. Like her program, her live performance will function a few of the greatest roots and acoustic performers that Minnesota has to supply. Slated to carry out are Molly Maher, Jonatha Brooke, Ann Reed, Becky Schlegel, Mary Cutrufello, Ellis Delaney, the OK Issue and Stanley’s personal alter ego, Mom Banjo. Proceeds will go to KFAI, aka Recent Air, the neighborhood radio station. (7 p.m. Parkway Theater, 4814 Chicago Av. S., Mpls., $15-$30, theparkwaytheater.com)
8. Sa-Roc: Probably the most promising new star on Minneapolis’ indie-rap imprint Rhymesayers Leisure, this Washington, D.C.-raised rapper born Assata Perkins issued her debut for the label, “Sharecropper’s Daughter,” within the darkest days of the pandemic and is lastly getting round to selling it. The deeply lyrical however infectiously funky assortment options the Roots’ Black Thought amongst its friends and is thematically primarily based round generational trauma handed down from slavery. Her longtime DJ/manufacturing associate Sol Messiah is on tour together with her selling his personal new album, “God Cmplx.” (8 p.m. seventh St. Entry, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., $18-$20, axs.com)
Additionally: Southside Aces go to the trad jazz of New Orleans with type and spirit (4 p.m. Crooners, $20-$30); Minnesota singer-songwriter Michael Monroe celebrates his seventieth birthday with an evening of James Taylor songs (7 p.m. Chart Home, $35); Twin Cities jazz bassist Graydon Peterson’s new undertaking, ThoughtCast, toasts its debut album, “Nimbus in Movement” (9 p.m. Icehouse, $10).
Monday, Nov. 21
The Monday evening visitor curators this month for Icehouse’s weekly jazz collection are a household duo, Ivan and Chris Cunningham, who this week are bringing alongside the Creatures of Promethius with JC Sandford in addition to cellist Michelle Kinney’s Herbaceous for an evening of improv and experimental enjoying (8 pm., $12-$15).
Tuesday, Nov. 22
Traditional American Rockers, aka the Petersons, discover the basic rock that they’ve performed on tour with Steve Miller Band, Peter Frampton, Stevie Nicks and others (7 p.m. the Dakota, $35-$45).
Wednesday, Nov. 23
9. Ike Reilly Assassination: Neither rain nor sleet nor snow alongside I-94 has ever sidelined this Thanksgiving Eve gig with steely-eyed Libertyville, Ailing., rocker Reilly, his brutish band and their diehard Twin Cities viewers, an annual custom which dates again to the fanatic native reception for his or her 2001 album “Salesmen & Racists.” Then got here COVID. After a considerably tepid return with masks final 12 months, the floodgates — and all of First Ave’s bars — will open once more for one more full-bore singalong and opening units by American Scarecrows and Flip Flip Flip. (7:15 p.m. First Avenue, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., $22-$25, axs.com)
10. Sparta Sound Triple Launch: Someplace “Out There” on the chilly Iron Vary — to make use of the title of Wealthy Mattson & the Northstars’ fuzzy-warm new album — there’s an incubatory studio and document label named after the small city of Sparta, the place Mattson works out of a former church. The newest LP by the veteran of Twin Cities-loved rock bands Ol’ Yeller, Glenrustles and Drained Eyes, appears like a enjoyable, quarantine-fighting tear by CCR, Son Volt and Monkees influences. He is celebrating its launch, together with two different bands with new albums produced there: rootsy and bluesy psychedelic trio Chemistry Set and twang-tinged Americana rockers Edie Rae & the Blaze Kings. (7:30 p.m. Parkway Theater, $16-$21, 4814 Chicago Av. S., Mpls., theparkwaytheater.com)
Additionally: The tribute present Reunion presents the music of Frankie Beverly & Maze, Chaka Khan, the O’Jays, Anita Baker, Whitney Houston and different R&B mainstays, interpreted by a few of the Twin Cities best, together with Kathleen Johnson, Cornisha Garmon, Len Jones and Samantha Moon (7 p.m. the Dakota, $20-$35); digital and experimental U.Okay. rock band Sorry have struck up buzz with their new album “Wherever However Right here,” produced by Portishead’s Adrian Utley (9 p.m. seventh St. Entry, $15-$18); Minneapolis pop-rocker Colin Bracewell is stepping out at age 21 with a brand new Thomas Abban-produced EP and a Jeff Buckley-ish emo soul-rock sound (8 p.m. Turf Membership, $15).
Classical music critic Rob Hubbard contributed to this column.
