Wednesday, Sept. 13: Legendary writer, natural performer, a formidable interpreter and kickass guitarist on a guitar that has truly had its ass kicked, Willie Nelson comes to the Mid-Hudson Civic Center.

Friday-Sunday, September 8-10: The Meltasia Festival offers much to differentiate itself from ordinary music festivals: B-movies, a haunted mansion, wiffleball games, pool parties and goats, to name a few. Last year, Meltasia was held in the high-concept setting of the long-abandoned Catskill Game Farm. Great in theory, but this year they’ve upgraded the digs to the Blackthorne Resort in East Durham.

Friday-Sunday, Sept. 15-17: Basilica Hudson’s Melissa Auf der Maur and Tony Stone are working in collaboration with The Creative Independent editor-in-chief and former Pitchfork director Brandon Stosuy to program the weekend. Notable musical performers this year include Zola Jesus, Priests, Bing & Ruth, Jlin and many more.

Friday, Sept. 1: You need to accept – acquiesce to – Sting’s default pieties and pretensions. That’s just him. Get over it. Once you’ve done that, be prepared to be impressed both by the musical craftiness of these new confessional songs, and ultimately, by their courageously awkward honesty.

Saturday, September 2: The funky and reggae-inflected jam/rock band are supporting their spanking-new release Magic, which was produced in Ohio by Joe Viers (Blues Traveler, Twenty-One Pilots).

Saturday, September 2: Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger and their All-Star Octet to honor the great experimental jazz trumpeter

Saturday, August 26: “People may say, ‘they need the money,’ well I don’t think any of us need the money,” singer Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd says. “It’s just that we love the music, it’s bigger than the money.”

Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: Silencio will be making two regional appearances in tribute to the music of the enduringly popular and recently revived television show Twin Peaks, which is to say the music of Angelo Badalamenti. Badalamenti’s evocative soundtracks (and songs co-written with series creator David Lynch) combine unironic sentimentality with jet-set swank and all kinds of creeping menace, which is just another name for “Lynch.”

Saturday, August 26: He jumps on as the headliner of an already well-stocked Americana lineup at the Livestock Music Festival in Bovina.

Friday-Saturday, August 25-26: The lineup is impressively hip (downright awesome, actually), featuring the likes of chimey indie-rock sensation Real Estate, the great songwriter Cass McCombs, retro soul and blues dynamo Charles Bradley, Marissa Nadler and many more.