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.
AVERY*SUNSHINE
FEB 5 • 7PM
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Local indie-folk vet Mason Jennings is settling in for two nights and three intimate sets at the Dakota with local string man Dan Lawonn helping him reinterpret songs from throughout his career
MASON JENNINGS
FEB 6 • 7PM
FEB 7 • 6:30 & 9PM
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Eric Gales
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.
ERIC GALES: A SPECIAL EVENING OF ACOUSTIC BLUES
FEB 8 • 7PM
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Meshell Ndegeocello
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.”
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO
FEB 9 • 7 & 9PM
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Matteo Mancuso
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.
MATTEO MANCUSO
FEB 10 • 7 & 9PM
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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.