Seth Rogovoy

Habbina Habbina, led by guitarist Amit Peled, brings its signature style of Mediterranean surf music to Park Theater in Hudson, N.Y., tonight at 8pm. The trio takes its inspiration from Egyptian pop, Greek tunes as well as all sorts of retro-Mediterranean-hits, Dick Dale surf guitar, James Bond soundtracks, Umm Kulthum, Aris San and many others. (Fri, Apr 12)

Woodstock, N.Y.-native Simi Stone will be joined by guitarist Jack Petruzelli and Friends at the Local in Saugerties, N.Y., tonight at 7pm, to perform her patented style of original music she calls “Mountain Motown” -- an infectious, soulful blend of rootsy singer-songwriter music with a heavy dose of R&B. Stone is a multitalented artist with a background in classical violin, ballet, and various musical genres, including Afro-punk and dance music.

Kingston-based multi-instrumentalist and folk-pop singer-songwriter Francesca Hoffman and Hudson-based dream-pop singer-songwriter Stephen Bluhm showcase their homegrown sounds at Park Theater in Hudson, N.Y., tonight at 7pm.

Legendary downtown performance artist Penny Arcade brings the curtain down on Bridge Street Theatre’s 2024 SoloFest in Catskill, N.Y., with her one-woman show Longing Lasts Longer with three performances, tonight through Sunday.

Celtic baroque band Makaris brings its singular Irish-accented twist on the music of J.S. Bach to the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington, Mass., on Sunday at 4pm, in a presentation by Close Encounters With Music. Scottish music proved creatively productive and financially lucrative for several composers during the 18th century. Haydn and Beethoven alone arranged hundreds of these traditional songs for home performance. Makaris shows why this repertoire proved so popular with audiences and artists. (Sun, Mar 17)

Adventurous early music ensemble Ruckus, a shapeshifting group with a playful approach to classical music, brings its program, The Edinburgh Rollick: Music from the Niel Gow Collections, to the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., tonight at 7pm. The concert explores the legacy of Niel Gow, eighteenth-century Scotland’s most celebrated fiddler. (Fri, Mar 8)

Nicholas Brooke brings his latest experimental theater piece, Ten Transcendental Etudes, to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., tonight at 8pm and again on Saturday at 8pm, for a work-in-progress showing.

Touki Delphine, an artist collective of musicians, performers, and visual artists, brings its multimedia work FIREBIRD, inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite,” to the Hunter Center at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass., with viewings today and Saturday. The “rule-breaking” concert program includes an “orchestra” of light -- over 600 recycled car taillights sourced locally in the Berkshires -- that will illuminate the dance of the firebird. (Fri-Sat, Feb 2-3)

An exhibition featuring design sketches, models and watercolors for film and theater by the award-winning designer Carl Sprague, a native of Stockbridge, Mass., is on view at Opalka Gallery at Russell Sage College in Albany, N.Y., now through Friday, February 23. Carl Sprague’s career as a designer spans stage and screen. He has worked in the art departments of more than 40 films, which between them have a combined total of 35 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture-winner 12 Years a Slave.

Trailblazing pianist and composer Conrad Tao combines repertoire from the Western canon as well as provocative contemporary works in “Poetry & Fairy Tale,” a program featuring works by Johannes Brahms, Todd Moellenberg, David Fulmer, Rebecca Saunders, and Maurice Ravel, in EMPAC Concert Hall at RPI in Troy, N.Y., tonight at 8pm. (Fri, Jan 19)