It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day, so it must be time for the Dropkick Murphys to take over House of Blues. This year, Boston’s Celtic-punk favorites will actually spend the holiday performing in Ireland, but the band will still pack House of Blues this Thursday through Sunday. It’s been three decades since jazz guitarist Pat Martino suffered an aneurysm that took away his memory and ability to play, but at age 70, he’s seemingly on an upswing with his fluid, spidery, post-bebop facility and back at the Regattabar with his organ trio on Friday. Willie Nile settles in over at Club Passim the same night. He’s best known as a veteran rock ‘n’ roll songwriter (who’s joined onstage by Bruce Springsteen on occasion), but he’s also trading guitar for piano to sing some of his newer material this tour. And speaking of guitar, Singapore-bred and Boston-based acoustic virtuoso Shun Ng pops into Club Passim for a 1 p.m. Saturday afternoon show that promises special guests (J. Geils harmonica ace Magic Dick being likely for starters). Check out Ng’s recent solo cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that drew online praise from Queen’s Brian May.

When Saturday night rolls around, the annual Reykjavik Calling concert at the Middle East Downstairs presents the rising Icelandic bands Kaleo and Beebee & the Bluebirds opposite Boston-based outfits Love in Stockholm and George Knight with Pablo Palooza for some cross-cultural collaboration. It’s free but with an RSVP through www.eventbrite.com). Over at the Brighton Music Hall the same night, Scott Weiland (of Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fame) fronts his new band the Wildabouts. And the Airborne Toxic Event commands the Paradise Rock Club both Saturday and Sunday, performing its more experimental, synth-based recent album Dope Machines as well as old hits led by “Somewhere Around Midnight” in a relatively intimate space for that LA band. And Sunday offers two fine sax encounters, in the jazz realm with Either Orchestra leader Russ Gershon leading a trio at Somerville’s new space the Green Room, while ex-James Brown and Parliament-Funkadelic alto king Maceo Parker gets funky up at Rockport’s intimate Shalin Liu Performance Center.