Random Acts Evet and Korvin Orkestar play Balkan music at Paradiso; Ley Line comes to Kitchen Sink Recording Studio; Chatter performs Mozart at SITE; and Tony Furtado brings his banjo to Gig Performance Space

I Get lit up with the completely lively music of the Balkans as the bands Evet and Korvin Orkestar perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Paradiso (903 Early St.). “Music and dances from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, and the Roma nation will be performed, with an emphasis on some tasty, connective dances like and even a and a or two,” Evet leader Polly Tapia Ferber said. Char Rothschild, a member of Korvin Orkestar, added, “More and more people are drawn to the multigenerational community experience that is Balkan dancing. It really plugs you in. The dance is made to hold the steps of the youthful and the steps of the elders all at once. We hope that this evening will be elevating all the way around.” Tickets are $15 at the door, and kids 12 and under get in free. Call 505-930-1194 for more information. — Paul Weideman A ley line is a spiritually significant alignment of landmarks that connects people and places across time and space. Such lines unite the living and the dead and can represent a kind of transcendence or vital merging. The four women from Austin who call themselves Ley Line sing a folky mixture of crosscultural multilingual music that fuses the light feel of buskers on a street corner with the singer-songwriter chops of Gillian Welch or Neko Case. Ley Line plays at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 11, at the Kitchen Sink Recording Studio (528 José St.). Tickets are $20 at brownpapertickets.com, and doors open at 7 p.m. — Jennifer Levin