Critics' picks - pop music

CATIE CURTIS
This longtime local favorite released her new folk-rock album, ``Sweet Life,'' back in September, and we had been feeling abandoned by her tour schedule. She remedies that with a CD-release party featuring Lucy Wainwright Roche. 8 p.m. Nov. 14. $27. Regent Theatre, 781-646-4849, www.regenttheatre.com JAMES REED


SHEILA JORDAN DUO WITH STEVE KUHN
Uncompromising bebop-rooted vocalist Jordan, among the last of the great jazz singers, celebrates her 80th birthday with longtime duo partner Kuhn, the noted modernist pianist. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 14. $16-$18. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., Cambridge. 617 577-1400, www.cmacusa.org KEVIN LOWENTHAL


PAUL GEREMIA
Perpetuating the legacy of such blues legends as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Robert Johnson, and Blind Willie McTell, Geremia has been called ``one of the best country blues finger-pickers ever'' by Acoustic Guitar magazine. 8 p.m. Nov. 14. $15. Peeptoad Coffeehouse at North Foster Baptist Church, 81 East Killingly Road, Foster, R.I. 401- 647-3105, www.fosteringarts.org/peep.htm K.L.


DANIEL LANOIS
He's brought his gifts to bear as a producer on some watershed albums by folks like U2, Bob Dylan, and Peter Gabriel. But the Grammy-laden Lanois is also an artist of uncommon skill and delicacy in his own right. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16. $30. Berklee Performance Center. 617-931-2000, www.ticketmaster.com SARAH RODMAN


ANI DIFRANCO
The folky righteous babe celebrates her 18th studio album, ``Red Letter Year,'' and 18 years of following no one's orders but her own. 8 p.m. Nov. 16. $39. Symphony Hall. 617-266-1200, www.bso.org S.R.