The excellent folk and Americana band Passerine is venturing northward into chillier climes from its native Sarasota, Fla. The five-piece outfit, celebrating its debut album, “Another Song About a Bird,” will be at the Broad Street Cafe on Thursday, Aug. 9. thebroadstreetcafe.com

John Howie Jr., late of the Two Dollar Pistols, brings his high lonesome swing and his current band The Rosewood Bluff to the American Tobacco Campus for a Music on the Lawn concert at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 11. And it’s free! americantobaccohistoricdistrict.com

Jo Gore will tune up for her gig opening for Al Green next month at the DPAC with a show Friday, Aug. 10, in the considerably more intimate confines of the Casbah. She’ll be at the Casbah with her band The Alternative, plus the Jason Adamo Band and Bo Lankenau. casbahdurham.com