guitar virtuoso Charlie Hunter hits Newmarket: Few active guitarists in the jazz genre are as consistently innovative and prolific as Charlie Hunter. 

Since emerging in the early 1990s, Hunter has released close to 20 albums, wowing audiences with his virtuosic style. He’s known to experiment on a custom seven-string guitar and simultaneously play bass and rhythm lines as he solos. He released “Public Domain,” a solo album consisting of 11 classic covers, last September.

Hunter will play in a duo format at the Stone Church in Newmarket  on Friday, April 5 with drummer Eric Kalb, whose résumé includes work with John Scofield and Sharon Jones and who appears on Hunter’s 2009 album “Gentlemen, I Neglected to Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid.” 

The show begins at 9 p.m. on April 15 at The Stone Church, 5 Granite St., Newmarket, 603-659-0878. Tickets are $15. 

fiddle legend Kevin Burke heads to Rollinsford: A man the Village Voice has called “probably the greatest Irish fiddler living” will offer an intimate live show at the Elysium Arts Folk Club in Rollinsford on Saturday, April 16.

Kevin Burke built a name as one of Ireland’s top fiddlers in the 1970s as a member of the Bothy Band. He moved to Portland, Ore., in the 1980s and started the band Patrick Street, which has released 10 albums. Burke also recorded several albums with the band Open House and has toured extensively with The Celtic Fiddle Festival. He received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002. 

The show takes place from 8 to 10 p.m. on April 16 at the Elysium Arts Folk Club, Lower Mill at Salmon Falls, 3 Front St., Rollinsford, 603-743-4700. Tickets are $20 for adults or $5 for kids.