Friday

Youssou N' Dour at Terminal 5
Few living singers match Senegalese legend Youssou N'Dour: a global superstar and an astonishingly versatile musician who can command a stage whether in orchestral recital or late-night dance party. Expect the latter—and prepare to move as N'Dour celebrates the domestic release of his latest album, the reggaefied Dakar–Kingston.

Undead Jazzfest
Like its sister event, Winter Jazzfest, the multivenue Undead Jazzfest emphasizes volume, mobility and discovery. Don’t expect to stay planted in a comfy seat, but if you’re up for a little legwork, you’ll witness an awesome concentration of talent, from esteemed veterans (David S. Ware, Oliver Lake) to rising stars (Marika Hughes, Ches Smith). This year's second annual edition runs through Sunday and spreads out from the West Village to Williamsburg, Gowanus and beyond. Check out our preview here.

Dee Dee Bridgewater+ Chrisette Michelle at The Town Hall
You name it, Dee Dee Bridgewater has done it: Theater…film…nightclubs…TV—at some point, it has all stoked her take-no-prisoners approach to live performance. Tonight she fires up Lady Day’s canon to celebrate her most recent album, the Grammy-winning Eleanora Fagan (1915-1959): To Billie with Love from Dee Dee. Sharing the stage is fellow Grammy honoree Chrisette Michelle, a young R&B star who's digging her roots by honoring Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan.

Roy Hargrove Big Band + The Badwagon featuring Jason Moran's Bandwagon and the Bad Plus at the Prospect Park Bandshell
Brash trumpeter Roy Hargrove rocks the Prospect Park Bandshell in this engagement with his roaring, grooving big band. And as if to compensate for their smaller girth, two premier modern-jazz trios—pianist Jason Moran's quirky Bandwagon and wily collaborative combo the Bad Plus—take the stage together in an old-fashioned shooting match à la First Time: The Count Meets the Duke.

Florence and the Machine + Twin Shadow + Bubbles at Central Park SummerStage
Over the past year, 24-year-old British singer Florence Welch has gone from being a hit in her native England to international stardom with her debut album, Lungs. Welch is the latest in a long line of British lady-eccentrics with a penchant for tribal drum-thwacking and whirling-dervish dance moves (see also Kate Bush, Bat for Lashes), but it’s her live shows that have turned her into a bona fide pop star; expect stage antics and fantastical costumes galore at tonight's show.

Saturday

The Body with the Assembly of Light Women's Choir at Le Poisson Rouge
On record, Providence doom duo the Body weaves strings, a female chorus and disorienting samples into its creeped-out epics, yielding a high-order sonic tableau of the macabre. Typically you get a more stripped-down presentation onstage, but tonight, at a show presented by the Blackened Music Series, the band will be joined by a 30-member choir. In short, this promises to be one of the year's coolest heavy-music happenings. Read our preview here

Lee Fields and the Expressions + Fitz and the Tantrums + Andreya Triana + Rich Medina at Central Park SummerStage
Soul singer Lee Fields leads his band the Expressions into retro-leaning grooves on 2009's My World. Joining up tonight is L.A. combo Fitz and the Tantrums, which make deliciously shuffly, crisply authentic ’60s beat pop.

Sade + John Legend at Nassau Colliseum
Sade Adu and John Legend are R&B crooners of different countries (U.K., U.S.), pop eras (’80s, ’00s) and genders (woman, lover man). But both artists dive into R&B with classy, old-school charm, gently escorting listeners from candlelit dinners to steamy dance floors and, finally, to silk-adorned bedrooms. Take a look at our preview here.

Jeff the Brotherhood + Iceage at 285 Kent Ave
Despite the overt simplicity of the lyrical content, Jeff the Brotherhood’s style-sampling punk can be viewed in several ways: as sharpened, gutted psychedelic-rock jams, or as reverb-soaked pop meditations with some blues shuffled in. Whatever you call it, it’s compelling, face-melting stuff on the duo's latest, We Are the Champions. Also on the bill are Danish punk revivalists Iceage. Before you go, check out our preview for Iceage here.

Tammy Faye Starlight: Chelsea Madchen at The Duplex
Tammy Faye Starlite, who usually plays high-concept country, detours into wildly different territory in this tribute to the glacial German singer Nico, whose bored baritone vocals added eerie Continental glamor to the first Velvet Underground album.

Sunday

Bootsy Collins + Freekbot at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill
As legend and a lot of anecdotal evidence would have it, William “Bootsy” Collins invented the slinky bassline that locked James Brown’s “Sex Machine” into one of the most ecstatic funk grooves of all time—but then, of course, Collins had to go and join Parliament-Funkadelic, George Clinton’s sprawling band of acid-funk explorers. Cleaner living prevails on his latest album, but the music still packs a punch; with guest shots from Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Chuck D and Clinton himself, Tha Funk Capital of the World is intent on keeping the fun in funk music. Have a peak at our preview for Bootsy Collins here.

The New NRBQ at Iridium
In its original three-and-a-half-decade existence, NRBQ was truly in a class of its own. Filtering a bottomless well of genres through its own iconoclastic sensibility and loopy sense of humor, the band made effortlessly transcendent rock & roll that was equal parts expertise and mischief. So it was big news among loyalists when keyboardist and cofounder Terry Adams recently announced that he was reviving the NRBQ name. Judging from the just-released Keep This Love Goin’ and 2009’s live Crazy 8’s, the fresh foursome possesses sufficient talent, personality and versatility that it hardly needs to trade on a predecessor’s formidable reputation. Check out our preview here.

Noveller + unFact + U.S. Girls at Bruar Falls
Noveller—Brooklyn guitarist Sarah Lipstate—creates aural sculptures that range from placid and glassy to harsh and unstable. Tonight she's celebrating the release of Glacial Glow, her most blissfully lovely creation to date. Joining her are unFact—a.k.a. Jesus Lizard bassist David Wm. Sims, who issued a split LP with Lipstate last year—and U.S. Girls, a vehicle for Megan Remy's mesmerizing out-rock minimalism.

Justin Vivian Bond at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater
After a nation-trotting tour promoting V's new album, Dendrophile, the iconic performer once again settles into Joe's Pub on Sunday nights.

Hugh Masekela + Freshlyground + Somi at Central Park SummerStage
Among the earliest prominent figures in what would later become known as world music, South African pop-jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela is a national treasure who's worked with the Byrds, Paul Simon, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and countless others.

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Photograph: wagz2it

Welsh singer Marina Diamandis cruised into Webster Hall for a victory lap with her band, playing cuts from last year's The Family Jewels. TONY photog stalwart wagz2it was there to take it in. Check out his slide show up top.