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MUSIC vised musical aimed at kids, with a free Sunday afternoon show. Af- ter this show and until it’s sched- Pop & Rock uled end April 30, the ticket price is $15. Feb. 26, 3 p.m. Free. Im- THE JOY FORMIDABLE This joy- prov Asylum, 216 Hanover St., fully noisy Welsh trio is billing its . 617-263-6887, tour as “semi-acoustic,” but last www.improvasylum.com year’s EP “Sleep Is Day” indicates that unplugging will do little to FREE COMEDY NIGHT AT ARTI- tamp down the intensity; acous- CLE 24 It’s a good deal when you tic versions of songs from the can see Lamont Price headline a group’s recent album, “Hitch,” free show, even better when the bristle and vibrate, propelled by lineup is rounded out by Emily singer-guitarist Ritzy Bryan’s ar- Ruskowski and Jere Pilapil. Host- dent leadership. March 2, 7 p.m. ed by Deadair Dennis Maler. Feb. $28, $25 advance. ONCE Somer- 26, 8:30 p.m. Free. Article 24, 458 ville. 617-285-0167, www.once Western Ave., Brighton. 617-254- somerville.com 2424, www.article24boston.com

ARIANA GRANDE She may pos- BRYAN CALLEN The hyperactive sess one of pop’s most potent former “MADtv” star and current voices, but the Nickelodeon star co-host of the “Mixed Mental turned next-generation top-40 di- Arts” podcast comes to Boston on va is also stubborn about follow- the heels of his second stand-up ing her muse to far-flung places, album, “Never Grow Up,” which as indicated by last year’s some- he released in December. March CHARLES CLARY what thrillingly uneven “Danger- 2 at 8 p.m., March 3-4 at 8 p.m. ous Woman” and her charmingly and 10:15 p.m. $25-$39. Laugh odd Jingle Ball set in December. Boston, 425 Summer St., Boston. March 3, 7:30 p.m. $29.95- 617-725-2844, www.laugh $199.95. TD Garden. 800-745- Deep Cuts: Contemporary Paper Cutting boston.com 3000, www.ticketmaster.com Ranging from small-scale to monumental, from flat to sculptural, works by more than 30 artists demonstrate how this NICK A. ZAINO III traditional art is updated for the 21st century. Artists include Julian Opie and Sarah Sze. Pictured: detail of Charles Clary’s NONAME The Chicagoan slam Family poet-turned-rapper’s 2016 mix- “Meticulous Excavations Movement #3.’’ Through May 21. Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash St., Manchester, N.H. tape “Telefone” became a hot 603-669-6144, www.currier.org CATE McQUAID MAKE A MESS: KITCHEN download thanks to her sharply CHEMISTRY You spend half your observed, intricately written life cleaning up after your kids rhymes that gently untangle her (or at least it feels like it). Why feelings about the world and her Orleanian vocalist Henri Smith. TALEA ENSEMBLE The superb Repertory Theatre and the Boston change. Through April 1. Carroll not let them make a mess in a place in it. March 3, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. $22. Regat- contemporary music ensemble Center for American Perfor- and Sons, 450 Harrison Ave. productive way? They’ll get a $15. Middle East Downstairs. tabar. 617-395-7757, comes to Harvard University for mance. At Black Box Theater, 617-482-2477, www.carrolland chance to make kid-friendly solu- 617-864-3278, www.mideast www.regattabarjazz.com the annual Fromm Players con- Mosesian Center for the Arts, sons.net tions and see the bubbling, fizz- offers.com MAURA JOHNSTON certs, offering two programs Watertown. 617-923-8487, ing, appeal of science firsthand. IF YOU COULD SEE ME NOW: curated by composer Hans www.newrep.org DON AUCOIN I.M.A.G.I.N.E. PEACE NOW March 3, 2-4:30 p.m. $12.50. Dis- Folk & World THE MUSIC OF TADD DAMER- Tutschku. March 3-4, 8 p.m., “Can’t art defuse violence?” asks covery Museums, 177 Main St., ON The NEC Jazz Orchestra, di- Paine Hall. 617-495-2791, Dance artist Boris Bally in a catalog es- Acton. 978-264-4200. discovery JON LANGFORD The Welsh Chi- rected by Ken Schaphorst, pays www.music.fas.harvard.edu say. Bally orchestrated this juried museums.org/event/make-mess- cagoan wears a multitude of mu- tribute to perhaps the most influ- DAVID WEININGER JOSÉ MATEO BALLET THEATRE exhibition of art fashioned from kitchen-chemistry sical hats — the Mekons, the ential composer-arranger of the The company’s latest program, guns taken off the streets, made Waco Brothers, the Pine Valley bebop era with a concert includ- “Love’s Pull,” features three of the by artists from around the world. GIRLS DAY AT THE MIT MUSE- Cosmonauts, and many more — ing such classics as “Good Bait,” ARTS composer’s works on the more Through June 10. Society of Arts UM Robots, soccer, and dancing. and when he isn’t making music, “Hot House,” “Our Delight,” and romantic end of the spectrum, in- + Crafts, 100 Pier Four Blvd., The common thread among he’s drawing his singular por- more. March 2, 7:30 p.m. Free. Theater cluding “In Our Minds.” The bal- Suite 20. 617-266-1810, www.so- them? Math. Come to one of the traits of honky-tonk icons. This NEC’s Jordan Hall. 617-585- let features music by contempo- cietyofcrafts.org world’s premier centers of mathe- show combines both: a rare solo 1260, www.necmusic.edu REALLY In this regional pre- rary Cuban composer Juan Pi- matical thinking and learn just acoustic performance that will miere of a quietly piercing if over- ñera. Also on the program are DIAGO: THE PASTS OF THIS AF- how fun algorithms can be. It will survey 40 years of musical en- CHARLIE KOHLHASE QUINTET ly enigmatic drama by the gifted “The Sirens” and “Vanished,” set RO-CUBAN PRESENT In instal- be way better than math class, I deavors, along with art on display REUNION Composer, multi-saxo- Jackie Sibblies Drury (“We Are to Bach’s Cello Suite in D Major. lations, mixed-media works, and promise. March 4, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and for sale. Feb. 28, 9:30 p.m. phonist, broadcaster, and educa- Proud to Present . . .’’), a photog- Through March 5. $42. Sanctu- photographs, Juan Roberto Dia- $5-$10. MIT Museum, 265 Mas- $15. Atwood’s Tavern, Cam- tor Kohlhase is a Boston jazz rapher has either died or disap- ary Theatre, Cambridge. 617- go, an Afro-Cuban artist, re- sachusetts Ave., Cambridge. 617- bridge. 800-838-3006. mainstay. In the 1990s, his quin- peared, and now his mother and 354-7467, www.ballettheatre.org frames history by examining rac- 253-5927. mitmuseum.mit.edu/ www.brownpapertickets.com tet was among the Hub’s most ex- girlfriend are trying to get at the ism’s pervasive impact in Cuba. calendar/girls-day citing jazz bands, touring nation- truth of who he was. Along the INVISIBLE: IMPRINTS OF RAC- Through May 5. Ethelbert Coo- NIKKI LANE One of the more ally and recording four acclaimed way, they start to figure out a few ISM This latest project by An- per Gallery of African & African MUSICAL ANIMALS Before buzzworthy artists on the left-of- albums. The immensely accom- things about themselves. As the na Myer and Dancers and American Art, Harvard Universi- Drake, Elvis, and even Beethoven mainstream country landscape plished players reuniting with mother, Kippy Goldfarb delivers BeHeard.World examines racial ty, 102 Mount Auburn St., Cam- came along, the animal kingdom has just released her third album, Kohlhase include John Carlson one of those indelible, can’t-take- and psychosocial issues of con- bridge. 617-496-5777, was the hitmaker of the world. “Highway Queen,” which offers (trumpet and flugelhorn), Matt your-eyes-off-her performances. temporary American life through www.coopergalleryhc.org This concert will look at how na- plenty of Lane’s recipe of high- Langley (tenor and soprano saxo- Sensitively directed by Shawn La- movement and spoken word. In CATE McQUAID ture mirrors, inspires, and even test and spitfire, but also the phones), John Turner (bass), and Count. Through March 4. Compa- its Boston stage premiere, the creates music. Renditions of Rim- slow, sad beauty of “Forever Lasts the marvelous Matt Wilson ny One Theatre with Matter & hourlong work features three ar- Museums sky-Korsakov’s classic “Flight of Forever.” Brent Cobb and Lane’s (drums). March 3, 8 p.m. Light Fine Art. At Matter & Light ea poet-storytellers and nine the Bumblebee” and other songs record co-producer and beau Jon- $10-$15. Third Life Studio, 33 Fine Art gallery, Boston. 617-292- dancers fusing a variety of urban LUMINOUS LACE: COSTUME will keep the parents pleased, athan Tyler also perform. March Union Square, Somerville. 7110, www.companyone.org movement styles. March 3-11. AND TEXTILES Lacework is al- too. March 2, 10:30-11:30 a.m. 3, 8:45 p.m. $20. The Sinclair, www.thirdlifestudio.com $20-$35. Semel Theater at Emer- ready labor-intensive and a sym- Free. David French Music Com- Cambridge. 888-929-7849. KEVIN LOWENTHAL THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEEN- son College’s Tufte Performance bol of luxury, but when it’s made pany Recital Hall, 53 B Otis St., www.axs.com ANE Director Garry Hynes dem- and Production Center. 617-824- from metals such as gold and sil- Westborough. www.chamber Classical onstrates a knack for keeping the 8000, www.aestages.org ver the dazzle escalates. On view, musicmetrowest.com/index BALLAKE SISSOKO AND VIN- audience off balance and on edge metallic lace fashions from the ALEX FRANDSEN CENT SEGAL A true melding of TRIBUTE TO SOFIA GUBAIDULI- in this first-rate production of SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY 16th century to today. Through musical worlds, Ballake Sissoko NA Fresh off the premiere of a Martin McDonagh’s break- Founded in 1969, this troupe is July 30. RISD Museum, 20 North and Vincent Segal bring together new concerto by the Boston Sym- through play about the toxic rela- considered one of Australia’s Main St., Providence. 401-454- MARK YOUR their respective backgrounds and phony Orchestra, the eminent tionship between 70-year-old most influential contemporary 6500, www.risdmuseum.org talents — the former, a Malian Russian composer will receive an Mag and 40-year-old Maureen, dance companies. For its Boston CALENDAR master of the kora, the latter, a honorary doctorate from New the daughter Mag is grimly deter- debut, the company brings artis- CHARLOTTE MOTH: SEEING French cello virtuoso — to pro- England Conservatory. The con- mined to keep under her thumb. tic director Rafael Bonachela’s WHILE MOVING Moth finds her March 11 Los Campesinos! at duce a nonpareil hybrid where cert that will follow includes Through Feb. 26. Production by “Frame of Mind,” as well as Jaco- way to the magical through the Paradise Rock Club www.ticket West African meets Western ba- three of her works, as well as We- Druid Theatre Company, present- po Godani’s “Raw Models” and mundane, in particular domestic master.com roque. March 4, 8 p.m. $28. Villa bern’s Bagatelles for String Quar- ed by ArtsEmerson at Robert J. Gabrielle Nankivell’s riveting objects and details in architec- March 18 The Expendables at Victoria Center for the Arts. 617- tet and Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lu- Orchard Stage, Paramount Cen- “Wildebeest.” March 4-5. $65- ture that usually go unnoticed. Brighton Music Hall www.ticket 876-4275. www.worldmusic.org naire.” Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., Jordan ter, Boston. 617-824-8400, $75. , Boch Cen- Her works — sculptures, photo- master.com STUART MUNRO Hall. 617-585-1260, www.nec www.artsemerson.org ter. 617-482-6661, www.celebrity graphs, a film — seek to examine March 19 Maluma at House of music.edu series.org KAREN CAMPBELL and shift perception. Through Blues concerts1.livenation.com Jazz & Blues BRECHT ON BRECHT A tren- April 16. MIT List Visual Arts March 19 Kodo at Boston Sym- MAYA BEISER The venturesome chant collage of excerpts from Galleries Center, 20 Ames St., Cambridge. phony Hall celebrityseries.org REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE EN- cellist, currently a visiting artist works by German playwright-po- 617-253-4680, listart.mit.edu March 21 A Great Big World at SEMBLE MARDI GRAS PARTY at the Massachusetts Institute of et Bertolt Brecht, tweaked by di- SAGE SOHIER: WITNESS TO CATE McQUAID Brighton Music Hall www.ticket Boston’s own New Orleans-in- Technology’s Center for Art, Sci- rector Jim Petosa to give it an an- BEAUTY Over many years, the master.com spired brass band, known for its ence & Technology, is the soloist ti-Trump thrust. The versatile artist has photographed her March 24 Simple Plan at House electrifying improvisations and in an arrangement of David Bow- cast includes Christine Hamel, mother, capturing the ways she EVENTS of Blues concerts1.livenation.com irresistibly funky beats, hosts its ie’s final album, “Blackstar,” by Carla Martinez, Jake Murphy, embodies femininity, ritualizes March 27 Bastille at Agganis annual Fat Tuesday celebration, MIT faculty member Evan Zi- and Brad Daniel Peloquin, with beauty, and wrestles with aging. Comedy Arena www.ticketmaster.com with guest saxophonist Charles poryn, featuring his Ambient Or- piano accompaniment by musical With her camera, Sohier also wit- March 31 Anjunabeats at House Neville, of the legendary Crescent chestra. March 3, 7:30 p.m., MIT director Matthew Stern. Through nesses familial relationships FRANNIE Improv Asylum kicks of Blues concerts1.livenation.com City brothers, and soulful New Kresge Auditorium. arts.mit.edu March 5. 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