The Big Gigs: 10 top concerts to see in the Twin Cities this week

Harmonious country and folk tunes have been a part of this Twin Cities trio’s DNA since Honeydogs frontman Adam Levy first met up with fellow singer/songwriters Savannah Smith and Barb Brynstad as a for-fun supper-club cover band. Their upcoming third album accentuates those rootsier roots. Coyly titled “All Hat, No Cattle,” it’s a far twangier and folkier LP than the group’s previous two, but the old-school sound can’t hide the modern themes in songs like the Gram Parsons-y “Solid State” and “Antietam.” The band is performing each Thursday in February leading up to the record’s March 6 release, with violin-rocking pal Jillian Rae. (7 p.m. Icehouse, 2528 Nicollet Av., Mpls., $17-$22, icehousempls.com)

· Spirited and spiritual Atlanta pianist/singer Avery Sunshine returns to the Dakota, promoting her 2024 project “So Glad to Know You,” which merited a Grammy for best progressive R&B album (7 p.m., $50-$65).

· Omnipresent club DJ Cristian Baca is leading the “In Defense of Our Community” fundraiser concert for the ACLU with Lady Midnight, Gustavo Villegas, Mickey Breeze and Jada Brown (7 p.m. Fine Line).

· In conjunction with Trylon Cinema’s monthlong series of movies scored by Giorgio Moroder, Berlin nightclub is hosting a live tribute to the synth music pioneer with Leopard Tree Dream and more (7:30 p.m., $20).

· Minnesota folk/roots music stalwarts Sarah Morris and Becky Schlegel team up at Excelsior’s 318 Cafe (8 p.m., $15).

· Duo Corda, the local combo of cellist Jacqueline Ultan and guitarist Pavel Jany, celebrates its new album (6 p.m. Crooners, $25-$35).

A new twist on the old Monkees model, this quintet of young, bright-eyed, all-American boys were real musicians brought together as a band to star in a TV show of the same name by a co-creator of “Outer Banks.” The series has become something of a sleeper hit on Prime Video, with a storyline about them living out their rock ‘n’ roll dreams upon graduating high school in North Carolina. Now, the band is graduating to the road in real life, playing feel-good pop-rock songs variously reminiscent of All-American Rejects and the 1975. (7:30 p.m. First Avenue, 701 1st Av. N., Mpls., all ages, $59, axs.com)

Ever since Ohlsson triumphed at Warsaw, Poland’s International Chopin Competition in 1970, he’s been among America’s foremost stars of the piano, employing both thunderous power and profound subtlety in his masterful interpretations of solo piano repertoire and chamber music. He’ll offer some of each at these Schubert Club International Artist Series concerts with violist Richard O’Neill, a 2021 Grammy winner for best classical instrumental solo. Music by Franz Schubert, Florence Price and Sergei Rachmaninoff is on the program, some performed solo, others in duet. (7:30 p.m. Feb. 6, 10:30 a.m. Feb. 7; Ordway Concert Hall, 345 Washington St., St. Paul, $28-$82, students and children free, schubert.org)

· Local indie-folk vet Mason Jennings is settling in for two nights and four intimate sets at the Dakota with local string man Dan Lawonn helping him reinterpret songs from throughout his career (6:30 and 9 p.m., also Feb. 7, $30-$55).

· After surprise appearances at the Turf Club last week with both the Cactus Blossoms and Trampled by Turtles, Minnesota country-rock hero Erik Koskinen and his elegantly rambling band kick off their annual February residency at Icehouse (8 p.m., $30-$35).

· Kenni Holmen and Yohannes Tona, saxophonist and bassist in Cory Wong’s touring group, respectively, are heading up their own jazz-funk band two nights in a row at Berlin nightclub (6:30 and 8:30 p.m., also Feb. 7, $20-$30).

· Crooners will screen the 1921 Charlie Chaplin movie “The Kid” accompanied by a live chamber orchestra, with an opening set by vocalist Maud Hixson (7:30 p.m., $37.89 and up).

In 2021, country’s marathon man released a triple album, “Heart & Soul,” with 24 new songs. So the maverick known for tossing Nashville curveballs surprised fans when his follow-up album, last year’s “Evangeline vs. the Machine,” contained only eight new songs, including the gospel/soul “Darkest Hour” and a haunting cover of Tom Waits’ “Clap Hands.” Well, Church, who is known for his Springsteenian hourslong concerts, is stepping up with “Evangeline vs. the Machine Comes Alive,” due on Feb. 13, with 19 selections including the hits “Sinners Like Me” and “Springsteen.” Church’s Free the Machine Tour lands in St. Paul ahead of the live release, with must-see opener Ella Langley, the “Choosin’ Texas” hitmaker who has collected a shelf full of awards for her duet with Riley Green, “You Look Like You Love Me.” (7:30 p.m. Grand Casino Arena, 199 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $117 and up, ticketmaster.com)

Could a violin-bowing singer/rapper performing by herself wind up being one of the most electrifying shows of the year? That seems like a good bet after hearing Cincinnati native Brittney Parks’ third album as Sudan Archives, “The BPM,” which landed on many critics’ 2025 year-end lists. The record added dance beats and other electronic elements to her already mad-swirling blend of soul, R&B and rock music, while also serving up emotional tunes inspired by her parents’ Midwestern roots. Kentucky-raised Colombian American pop collagist Cain Culto opens. (8 p.m. Fine Line, 318 1st Av. N., Mpls., resale tickets only, first-avenue.com)

Songs that were written in the shadow of Jamaica’s civil infighting and racial reckonings of the 1970s, Bob Marley’s calls for peace, justice and one love might resonate a little more powerfully in Minnesota this year. This 33rd annual birthday tribute to the Rasta Man will once again be helmed by the International Reggae All-Stars, a truly intercontinental Twin Cities unit featuring American citizens born in Jamaica, Venezuela, St. Croix and Ghana. They’ve been playing every Tuesday at Bunker’s since 2022 so have as tight a grasp as ever on the material. Fellow scene vets New Primitives also perform. (8:30 p.m. Cabooze, 913 Cedar Av. S., Mpls., $17-$27, cabooze.com)

· Mexico-based Minnesotan Martin Zellar is back for a varied series of gigs, this one with his rock band, the Hardways (5 & 8 p.m. Crooners, $35-$45).

· High-adrenaline punk trio Battery Eyes celebrates its new album, “Zero Three,” with a stacked lineup also featuring In Lieu, Unstable Shapes and Scrunchies’ Laura Larson (7:30 p.m. Cloudland, $12-$15).

· Local ’70s/’80s tribute band Lonesome Losers heads up the Winter Breeze Yacht Rock Party (8 p.m. Hook & Ladder, $15-$35).

On last year’s Grammy-nominated “Tribute to LJK,” Gales saluted his late older brother Little Jimmy King, aka Manuel Gales, who taught him how to play guitar. Manuel was left-handed so he taught young Eric, who is right-handed, how to play left-handed, in other words, upside down. Produced by Joe Bonamassa, “Tribute” explores Memphis blues, funky blues, a vintage Fleetwood Mac number and tunes by King, with guests Buddy Guy, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram and Bonamassa. Gales also can be heard on the blues-heavy score to the Oscar-nominated “Sinners.” He’ll be playing an acoustic concert this time around. (7 p.m. the Dakota, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., $52.25 and up, dakotacooks.com)

With her genre-defying adventures, the veteran music-maker has challenged herself and her audiences. In 2016, she celebrated James Baldwin’s work with a stage musical in New York City, and eight years later, she adapted it into an album project, “No More Water/The Fire Next Time: The Gospel of James Baldwin,” braiding some of the author’s words with her inimitable blend of funk, folk, jazz, soul and Afrobeat. That album earned a Grammy for best alternative jazz album as did her previous album, 2023’s equally distinctive “The Omnichord Real Book.” While prideful in her artful, iconoclastic ways, Ndegeocello, an in-demand bassist and vocalist, dipped into the commercial side of things early in her career, collaborating with John Mellencamp on the 1993 hit remake of Van Morrison’s “Wild Night.” (7 & 9 p.m. the Dakota, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., $58.43 and up, dakotacooks.com)

· A band of brothers from Dublin, Ye Vagabonds are making noise as a harmonious Irish folk act (7:30 p.m. Cedar Cultural Center, $20-$25).

This Italian guitar prodigy has a unique style of fingerpicking. Mixing classical, jazz and rock chops, he can play as maniacally fast as Joe Bonamassa, as space-agey as Steve Vai and as nuanced as Al Di Meola. In fact, the 29-year-old son of a professional guitarist arrives with his trio for his second U.S. tour with cosigns from Vai, Bonamassa and Di Meola, Minneapolis’ new favorite jazz guitarist since he played at First Avenue on Jan. 30 with Steve Morello and Bruce Springsteen. (7 & 9 p.m. the Dakota, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls., $25-$45, dakotacooks.com)

· Louisiana music heir CJ Chenier, son of zydeco music pioneer Clifton Chenier, returns to the Dakota to fire up Mardi Gras vibes with his red-hot dancehall band (7 and 9 p.m., $25-$35).

· Poliça’s “Practice as Show” residency run to record a new live album continues (8 p.m. Icehouse, $15-$22).

· Dan Navarro, half of Lowen & Navarro and first cousin to rocker Dave Navarro, returns (7 p.m. Pour Wine Bar, Champlin, $25).