Cornelia Street Café

Bennington Writers Series

Fiction, Nonfiction, Short stories

• $

Bennington grads—including Oona Patrick, Jamie-Lee Josselyn, Julia Pistell and Megan Galbraith—share the stage to read essays, short stories and bits of novels.

Classical at the Cornelia

Chamber

• $$

Pianist Kyungmi Nam enlists at least two friends for what's billed as an evening of piano trios spanning the Classical, Romantic and contemporary eras.

Graduate Poets Series

Poetry

• $

Poets, either in or just out of graduate school, constitute the lineup for this evening of readings.

John Hébert Trio

Categories, Jazz & Experimental

• $$
• Critics' pick

John Hébert, an excellent progressive-jazz bassist whose résumé includes work with Andrew Hill and Mary Halvorson, leads a trio featuring gritty tenor veteran Bennie Wallace and masterful drummer Billy Drummond. Sounds like a potential stunner to us.

John Hébert Trio

Categories, Jazz & Experimental

• $$
• Critics' pick

John Hébert, an excellent progressive-jazz bassist whose résumé includes work with Andrew Hill and Mary Halvorson, leads a trio featuring gritty tenor veteran Bennie Wallace and masterful drummer Billy Drummond. Sounds like a potential stunner to us.

Musica Nuova

Classical opera, Baroque opera

• $$
• Critics' pick

Skillful and unorthodox, this early-opera troupe hits watering holes in Brooklyn and the Village with "Men, Maids and Mischief," a lively mix of dirty-minded songs from the English Renaissance and Restoration. The superb lutenist Grant Herreid accompanies...

Perfect Sense Reading Series

Poetry

• $

On the fourth Wednesday of every month, Alissa Heyman packs a bill with poets and puts them up at Cornelia Street.

Carnatic Sundays: Arun Ramamurthy

Indian music

• $$

Cornelia's Indian-classical series presents violinist and series curator Arun Ramamurthy, performing with vocalist Varun Ganesan and mridangam player Bala Skandan.

Rhythm in the Diaspora Festival

Jazz & Experimental, African music, Latin music

• $$
• Critics' pick

Drummer Harris Eisenstadt celebrates a handsome new disc by his September Trio, The Destructive Element, as part of a globe-trotting two-night percussion festival. The June 19 bill features Senegalese drum group Sing Sing Rhythms (10pm), as well John...

Tony and Peter Scherr

Blues, Roots & Country

Part-time jazz bassist (he's worked with Sex Mob and Bill Frisell) and dependably soulful journeyman singer-guitarist Tony Scherr plays a rare gig in the company of his brother Peter, also a bassist, who's in town from his home in Hong Kong.