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MARTINA McBRIDE Amid last year’s chatter about a pair of blond country girls next door (Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood), McBride released “Shine,’’ one of her strongest country-pop records in recent memory. Now she’s on a second victory lap for it, bringing along fellow platinum-selling star Trace Adkins to get the party started.7:30 p.m. Jan. 30. $44.75-$59.75. DCU Center, Worcester. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com (Kristin Barlowe) |
Music: the week ahead
POP & ROCK
MARIAH CAREY It’s hard to imagine but the cross-format diva, who recently returned to the curly tresses of her “Vision of Love’’ youth, turns 40 this year. We have a feeling that that upcoming milestone will not be reflected in her stage wardrobe. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 30. $59.75-$250.75. Citi Wang Theatre. 800-432-7250. www.telecharge.comANI DIFRANCO Coincidentally, the indie folk firebrand also turns 40 this year. The pride of Buffalo, N.Y., brings her hard strum, verbose musical flights, and righteous babe-a-liciousness to Foxborough Saturday. 8 p.m. Jan. 30. $30. Showcase Live. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com
GALACTIC This is a band that knows how to celebrate. So hold on to your hats because the New Orleans improv-rockers have plenty to celebrate with the release of their star-studded new album, “Ya-Ka-May,’’ Feb. 9 and special tour guest Cyril Neville. Laissez la bon temps and all of that. 8 p.m. Feb. 3. $22.50. Paradise. 877-598-8689. www.livenation.com SARAH RODMAN
FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY
EILEN JEWELL BAND She’s opened for Loretta Lynn, so it makes sense that this local sweetheart of the rodeo will be recording some of the coal miner’s daughter’s songs on an upcoming album. For its two-night stand, the Eilen Jewell Band will pepper the set list with a bit of that material along with good-time roots rock and classic country from the group’s other albums. 8 p.m. Jan. 28-29. $16. Club Passim. 617-492-7679. www.clubpassim.comBRENDAN HOGAN We’re among the many fans who already miss Hogan’s weekly Blues on WGBH radio show, which got axed recently when the station dropped its folk and blues programs. On a happier note, though, Hogan is celebrating the release of his new debut, “Long Night Coming,’’ featuring a mix of lean folk-blues indebted to both past and present. 9 p.m. Jan. 29. $8. Lizard Lounge. 617-547-0759. www.brownpapertickets.com
SHARON VAN ETTEN She’s a Jersey girl who spent time in Tennessee and now lives in Brooklyn, but Van Etten carries the sweep of desolate cornfields in her heart-on-sleeve folk songs. She’s opening for Cambridge slowcore heroes Damon & Naomi, who will perform with longtime collaborator Michio Kurihara in a special evening that includes a screening of Naomi Yang’s films and a Q&A hosted by Haden Guest, director of the Harvard Film Archive. 7:30 p.m. Jan. 31. $15. Brattle Theatre. 617-876-4275. www.worldmusic.org JAMES REED
JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET
LASZLO GARDONY QUINTET The incisively lyrical, Boston-based pianist helms a world-class trio with bassist John Lockwood and drummer Yoron Israel. Add saxophonist Stan Strickland and trombone and tuba player Bill Lowe and something special is sure to occur. 9 p.m. Jan. 29. $10. Ryles. 617-876-9330, www.rylesjazz.comTHE MAKANDA PROJECT WITH CARL GRUBBS The invaluable Makanda Project, 12 of Boston’s finest, keep alive the compositions of the late, great composer/multi-instrumentalist Makanda Ken McIntyre, a Hub native and unsung participant in the 1960s jazz revolution. Saxophonist Grubbs, a relative of John Coltrane and among today’s foremost upholders of his legacy, joins them for this concert. 7 p.m. Jan. 30. Free. Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren St., Roxbury. 617-442-6186
LARRY CORYELL A solo performance by the revered guitarist, among the most influential players of the past four decades. Master of many styles, he first gained acclaim in Gary Burton’s 1967 band, before pioneering the jazz-rock fusion of the late ’60s and early ’70s. 8 p.m. Jan. 31. $20-$25. The Bull Run Restaurant, 215 Great Road, Rt. 2A, Shirley. 877-536-7190, www.bullrunrestaurant.com
BILLY NOVICK’S BLUE SYNCOPATORS The tradition-steeped clarinetist and his band will preview the score he created for the Washington Ballet’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,’’ to be performed in February at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 7 p.m. Feb. 2. $10. The Sherborn Inn, 33 North Main St., Sherborn. 800-552-9742, www.sherborninn.com KEVIN LOWENTHAL
CLASSICAL
SYMPHONIC RELIEF FOR HAITI The Longwood Symphony Orchestra and the New England Conservatory are joining forces to present this benefit concert, which aims to raise $250,000 for post-disaster relief in Haiti. Among the performers will be flutist Paula Robison, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, A Far Cry chamber orchestra, and the Boston Children’s Chorus in music by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Jobim, and others. 12:30-2 p.m., Jan. 31. $25. Jordan Hall. 617-667-1527, www.longwoodsymphony.orgBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA After an extended leave for back surgery, music director James Levine returns to the BSO podium to lead a mostly French program devoted to Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloé’’ (Second Suite) and Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (with pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard); Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy’’ (with violist Steven Ansell); and Carter’s “Dialogues’’ for piano and orchestra. Jan. 28, 29, and 30. $29-$115. Symphony Hall. 617-266-1200, www.bso.org
HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY Harry Christophers, in his second program as H&H artistic director, leads works by Gluck (excerpts from “Orfeo ed Euridice’’) and Mozart including the latter’s Mass in C minor. Vocal soloists will be Gillian Keith, Iestyn Davies, Tove Dahlberg, Thomas Cooley, Nathan Berg. Jan. 29 and 31. $18 to $75. Symphony Hall. 617-266-3605, www.handelandhaydn.org
SEQUENTIA Benjamin Bagby’s impressive medieval music ensemble returns to town for a performance of “The Rheingold Curse: A Germanic Saga of Greed and Revenge From the Medieval Icelandic Edda.’’ Presented by the Boston Early Music Festival. 8 p.m. Jan. 30. $19-$100. Sanders Theatre. 617-661-1812, www.bemf.org
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF The probing German violinist performs a rare solo recital on Sunday afternoon, with works by Bach, Paganini, Ysaye, and Gyorgy Kurtag. Presented by the Celebrity Series. 5 p.m., Jan. 31. $45-$58. Jordan Hall. 617-482-6661, www.celebrityseries.org
NEW ENGLAND STRING ENSEMBLE Music director Federico Cortese has chosen an intriguing program for the group’s next concert: Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue (K. 546), Beethoven’s “Grosse Fuge,’’ Luciano Berio’s “Chemins IV’’ (with Dennis Shafer, soprano saxophone), and Piazolla’s “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires’’ (with Irina Muresanu, violin). Jan. 29 at Rogers Center for the Arts at Merrimack College, North Andover, and Jan. 30 in Jordan Hall. $25-$47. 617-566-0430, www.newenglandstringensemble.org JEREMY EICHLER 
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