Something about live music makes everything okay.

Maybe it’s that anything can happen, or that a chaos is being put into order by nothing more than a single idea which, for a few minutes at a time, drives this handful of machines and voices into not only your ears but also the ears of everyone around you.

Or maybe it’s just because music sounds good.

The Dick Schindler Celebration Concert on Aug. 22 won’t be your only opportunity to take in some live tunes next weekend. The ArtWorks Festival will once again include outdoor and indoor stages, and we have some new groups slated to perform as well as a few returning favorites.

Peter Jacobs and his jazz combo, who put on a show to remember at the ArtWorks Center earlier this summer, kicks things off at 10 a.m. on Saturday. Also returning to the outdoor stage are Full Circle (11 a.m. Saturday), Cosmic (3 p.m. Saturday), Whalen & the Willows (11 a.m. Sunday), and The Last Revel (4 p.m. Sunday). Revel, who were newcomers to the festival last year, will bring a solid close to this year’s festivities with their soul-stirring “front porch Americana.”

Newcomers include award-winning accordion composer Paddy O’Brien (1 p.m. Saturday), the Mankato-based Good Night, Gold Dust (3 p.m. Sunday), and up-and-comer Reina del Cid (noon Sunday), who is currently the DJ-in-residence at 89.3 The Current and whose voice is known to send shivers down the spine — whether covering Van Morrison or the lyrics to her own most recent album, “The Cooling.” MAGNET Magazine calls del Cid’s sophomore effort “Satisfying, familiar, and adventurous all at once . . . A simple idea blossoms into a rollicking anthem,” while the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune lends their own adjectives to the mix: “infectiously folksy and fiendishly fun.”

Regardless of why you come out next weekend — be it to support your favorite artist, hear a new author speak, or just to get a walk in — I can tell you one thing: you’ll have an excellent soundtrack to keep you company.

See you next week, folks.