Live show picks: R. Kelly, Freakwater & more

Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ
8 p.m., Saturday, $57-$127

The world's ickiest R&B love man, who recently revealed himself to be a dirty-minded foodie on his 2015 album Buffet plays in Atlantic City on Valentine's Day weekend.

Kimmel Center's Perelman Theater, Broad and Spruce streets.
8 p.m. Sunday at the $30-$65

As the daughter of nationally treasured Brazilian guitarist-composer João Gilberto and singer Miúcha, Bebel Gilberto has never shied from her roots in softly spun Brazilian music. She is the past, present and future of bossa nova. Consider 2009's swiveling acoustic All in One, or her signature album, 2000's slow-dancing Tanto Tempo, which famously wandered into electronic territory. That wasn't enough for the younger Gilberto however. Tudo, her most recent album, is a quirky mix of traditional Brazilian folk, smooth jazz, electronica and adult contemporary tunes sung in Portuguese, English and French. Along with jazzy sambas new ("Novas Ideias" cowritten by Gilberto and Seu Jorge) and old (a stewing cover of Luiz Bonfá's classic "Saudade Vem Correndo"), Bebel Gilberto interprets Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" as a sensual, romantic treat, perfect for a Valentine's night celebration. --A.D. Amorosi

Ardmore Music Hall, 23 E. Lancaster Ave., Ardmore.
8 p.m. Tuesday, $30 advance; $35 day of

Bill Frisell is on a hot streak. The guitarist, whose liquid tone is immediately identifiable, plays a major role on excellent new albums from jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd (I Long to See You) and singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams (The Ghosts of Highway 20). He's nominated for a Grammy for last year's Guitar in the Space Age!, which found him reimagining perky surf instrumentals and pop songs from the early Sixties. And he comes Tuesday to the Ardmore Music Hall in a show that shares a title with his new album, When You Wish Upon a Star, which focuses on soundtrack music, including themes from Psycho, The Godfather, and To Kill a Mockingbird and songs like the title track and "Moon River." He'll be joined by most of the players on the new record: vocalist Petra Haden, violist Eyvind Kang, bass player Thomas Morgan and drummer Kenny Wollesen. --Steve Klinge

Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St.
8:30 p.m. Wednesday. $15

As Freakwater, the duo of Catherine Irwin and Janet Beveridge Bean -- from Louisville and Chicago, respectively -- were way ahead of the nouveau old-time-country curve when they released their self-titled album in 1989. The duo have recorded together steadily since, but the new Scheherazade, named after the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights, is their first album together in 11 years. The songs are as gothic and sorrowful as ever -- if there's a baby, it's probably falling down a well -- and the ragged but right harmonies on songs like "The Asp and the Albatross" and "Bolshevik and Bollweevil" are as affecting, but the instrumentation is a bit more fleshed out on this particularly satisfying return to action. --Dan DeLuca