JAN. 29

Folk music icon Judy Collins (“Both Sides Now”) appears with special guest Ari Hest. She also performs Jan. 26 at Kauai Community College, Jan. 27 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center and Jan. 28 at the Honoka‘a People’s Theatre on Hawaii island.

7 p.m. / Mamiya Theatre / $45-$65 / lazarbearproductions.com or 896-4845

FEB. 11

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and activist Sarah McLachlan, known for her albums “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” and “Surfacing,” and as founder of Lilith Fair, appears in a benefit for the Hawaii Theatre Center.

7:30 p.m. / Hawaii Theatre / $150-$250 / hawaiitheatre.com or 528-0506

FEB. 14

How are we supposed to live without Michael Bolton, whose pop-rock and soul ballads filled the airwaves in the ’80s and ’90s? His soaring vocals hit it big with his remakes of “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” “Georgia on My Mind,” and “When a Man Loves a Woman.”

7:30 p.m. / Blaisdell Arena / $39-$129 / ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000

FEB. 14

Ailey II, a modern dance troupe that started out as the repertory of the groundbreaking Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and is now billed as “The Next Generation of Dance,” steps into town for Valentine’s Day.

7:30 p.m. / Blaisdell Concert Hall / $30-$75 / ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000

FEB. 25

Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, composer of country crossover hit “Me and Bobby McGee” and classic songs including “For the Good Times,” comes to Honolulu. Kristofferson, 80, has a home on Maui.

7:30 p.m. / Blaisdell Concert Hall / $30-$65 / ticketmaster.com or 800-745-3000

Stella-a-a! It’s time to get tickets to Hawaii Opera Theatre’s “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Jan. 27, 29 and 31, Blaisdell Concert Hall. $34-$135. hawaiiopera.org

Roots reggae band Steel Pulse, the first non-Jamaican group to win a Grammy in reggae, visits the islands. 8 p.m. Feb. 6, The Republik, $37.50. seetickets.us or 941-7469