Live music shows in New Orleans from June 18-24 | Music

It’s a good week to catch up with some standout local musicians in New Orleans music venues.

CHA WA

SATURDAY, CHICKIE WAH WAH

The New Orleans ensemble Cha Wa is rooted in Mardi Gras Indian culture. But as evidenced by Cha Wa’s most recent album, “Rise Up,” R&B, funk and more factor into the band’s sound; the chorus of “Freedom of the City,” with its massed voices and horns, evokes Sly & the Family Stone.

Available on clear vinyl, “Rise Up” is a polished, multilayered recording with robust production. Spyboy “Honey” Irving Banister Jr. is Cha Wa’s lead vocalist, but the microphone gets passed around. Irma Thomas sings lead on “Why You Wanna Do Me Like That,” John Boutte cruises through the smooth contemporary R&B/soul of “Revival,” and Danica Hart struts her stuff on “Music Is My Medicine.” Founding drummer Joe Gelini, who has sustained Cha Wa through various lineup changes, co-wrote every song on this ambitious, contemporary extension of Mardi Gras Indian music.

Cha Wa will likely play songs from “Rise Up” and more on Saturday at Chickie Wah Wah. Matt Wilson opens the show. Tickets start at $25.

GOOD ENOUGH FOR GOOD TIMES

FRIDAY, TIPITINA’S

Good Enough for Good Times was a product of Hurricane Katrina necessity. In fall 2005, whole bands were hard to come by, as many had lost members to post-storm displacement. To help fill holes in music clubs’ calendars, Galactic bassist Rob Mercurio and guitarist Jeff Raines teamed up with drummer Simon Lott, who hails from more of a jazz background and is also well-versed in hip-hop beats, as well as keyboardist Joe Ashlar to form Good Enough for Good Times.

They started off playing instrumental, old-school New Orleans funk, especially songs by The Meters. They expanded to include jazz-funk and rare groove instrumentals, drawing from 1960s and ’70s Blue Note Records releases and classic albums by the likes of guitarist Grant Green and saxophonist Lou Donaldson. The repertoire also spans original compositions, improvisations and more obscure New Orleans funk cuts by such largely forgotten local acts as Salt.

On Friday, Good Enough for Good Times headlines this week’s installment of the summer-long “Free Fridays” series of no-cover shows at Tipitina’s. Daria & the Hip Drops open the show at 9 p.m.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY SHOWS

THURSDAY

Blues-based Australian guitar phenom Taj Farrant plugs in at Chickie Wah Wah. Tickets start at $35.

Author John Radanovich hosts a discussion and signing for his new book “Pérez Prado: King of the Mambo” at the Broadside’s indoor Pavilion. The free event from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. includes a performance by Charlie Halloran & the Tropicales.

Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band are featured for the weekly Zydeco Night at Rock ‘N’ Bowl ($17).

New Orleans vocalist Christien Bold presides over shows at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro ($30).

FRIDAY

Shape-shifting Americana singer and guitarist Shannon McNally returns to New Orleans, a city she called home for a time, for a show at Chickie Wah Wah. Tickets start at $20.

Saxophonist, clarinetist and educator Victor Goines, a longtime collaborator with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, performs at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor ($40).

For more than 30 years, Sister Hazel, from Gainesville, Florida, has churned out Southern pop rock highlighted by the 1997 single “All For You.” Sister Hazel headlines the House of Blues on Friday.

Ace cover band the Mixed Nuts hits Rock ‘N’ Bowl. General admission is $20, but there is also a VIP option for $75 that includes cocktails and finger food with the band from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Rock ‘n’ Bowl’s Grande Hall and reserved seating near the stage for the show (VIP purchasers must be at least 21).

SATURDAY

Unlike many acts in the electronic music genre, Thievery Corporation strives to stage a truly live performance, with a cast of instrumentalists and singers contributing to the multicultural blend at the core of the compositions. Experience Thievery Corporation at the House of Blues on Saturday.

Master New Orleans drummer Herlin Riley powers his own quartet at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor ($45).

SUNDAY

Piano player, singer and songwriter Joe Jackson initially came across as a New Wave Billy Joel, a pop-jazz cocktail lounge singer-songwriter with an inherent British polish and restraint. He introduced himself with the 1979 hit “Is She Really Going Out With Him?” and followed it three years later with the even bigger hit “Steppin’ Out.” Over a dozen-plus albums since then, he has worked with various collaborators and ensembles and in various genres, including classical music. Jackson and his band arrive at the Joy Theater on Sunday as part of the Hope And Fury Tour. Tickets start at $63.

Charlie Halloran & the Tropicales intermingle Afro-Caribbean rhythms, classic Latin jazz, and modern New Orleans grooves at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. as part of a monthlong Sunday residency at Snug Harbor ($30).

TUESDAY

Tom McDermott, a New Orleans piano master by way of St. Louis, is fluent in ragtime, traditional jazz, Brazilian choro and other styles. In a show dubbed “Tom McDermott Plays Tom McDermott,” he’ll present a program of original piano compositions done in the traditional style at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor ($20).

WEDNESDAY

New Orleans songwriter Ned Henry, whose songs are informed by the same Gulf of Mexico currents that inspired Jimmy Buffett and others, performs at Chickie Wah Wah with Doyle Grisham of the Coral Reefer Band, guitarist John Fohl, keyboardist John “Papa” Gros, bassist René Coman and drummer Russ Broussard. Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $20.

Ilana Glazer, the comedian whose credits range from the series “Broad City” to the Hulu special “Human Magic” to the socio-political video podcast “It’s Open with Ilana Glazer,” holds court at the Joy Theater. Tickets start at $52.