Chamber music, French chanson, West African folk, and jazz all mix freely in music by two virtuoso duos of Sissoko-Segal and Peirani-Parisien. They play at Joe's Pub on March 23.

Los Angeles-based new music collective Wild Up breaks their acclaimed Darkness Sounding festival out of LA for the first time, premiering it in New York City at 92NY on March 21-23.

L.A. singer Angélica Garcia draws on Latin pop and electronic music, and writes mostly in Spanish about spirituality and especially the feminine spirit. She plays at BAMcafé on March 19.

London-based Sona Jobarteh, the first female Kora virtuoso from a West African Griot family, is also a singer, producer, composer, and educator. She plays at Brooklyn Bowl on March 18.

Berlin-based techno/electro-musician and songwriter Jan Blomqvist considers silence and connectivity, in new songs from his latest album, MUTE, in-studio. 

Trumpeter, arranger, composer, and bandleader Steven Bernstein leads his nine-piece Millennial Territory Orchestra for a 25th anniversary concert at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on March 14.

Combo Chimbita, a quartet based in New York City by way of Colombia, channels the spirits via a future-funk-trancey-cumbia dance party. They play at Baby's All Right on March 13. 

Twyla Tharp presents a Diamond Jubilee of two New York premieres, one called SLACKTIDE, features Philip Glass’s Aguas da Amazonia performed live by members of Third Coast Percussion.

Pink Must is the duo project by Brooklyn based sound artists and musicians Mari 'More Eaze' Rubio and Lynn Avery. They play at TV Eye on March 11.