Palaver Strings
3 and 7 p.m. Saturday. Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland, $15, $22 preferred seating. mayostreetarts.org
You’ve got two chances to see Portland’s Palaver Strings perform their bold chamber music at Mayo Street Arts. The performances feature Caroline Shaw’s “Entr’acte,” which was composed as a response to a Haydn quartet. You’ll also hear some new fiddle tunes written by Palaver Strings violinist Elizabeth Moore. The show winds down with Florence Price’s A Minor String Quartet, a fusion of 20th-century compositional ideas and African American vernacular music.

GoldenOak
8 p.m. Saturday. Portland House of Music, 25 Temple St., Portland, $15, 21-plus. portlandhouseofmusic.com
Portland-based indie-folk act GoldenOak released the exceptional album “Room to Grow” last year. Lead vocals are traded off between sister and brother Lena and Zak Kendall, and the rest of the band is Mike Knowles and Jackson Cromwell. Folk singer-songwriter and Maine native Louisa Stancioff opens the show.

Annie & The Fur Trappers
7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St., Kittery, $15 in advance, $18 at the door. thedancehallkittery.org
Annie and the Fur Trappers are a Boston-based traditional jazz and blues band that has been keeping the music of the 1920s and ’30s alive since 2016. They got together in St. Louis before landing in Beantown in 2020, and their music features the clarinet, cornet, trombone, bass, banjo, guitar, washboard and violin. They’re led by Annie Linders on cornet and vocals. You can expect to enjoy a fabulous evening of jazz, delta blues, ragtime and swing music.

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