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Noah Garabedian
Jazz bassist and composer Noah Garabedian brings his quartet, featuring Dayna Stephens on saxophone, Carmen Staaf on piano and Jimmy Macbride on drums, to Palo Alto for a concert presented by Palo Alto’s Earthwise Productions. Garabedian’s new album, titled “Quartet and Solos,” is due out Sept. 19 and he will perform compositions from that project at his Palo Alto show. The music “wrestles with the tension and harmony between solitude and community — a push and pull at the core of his creative philosophy,” according to his Bandcamp page.
Aug. 23, 8 p.m., Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto; $23.18; tinyurl.com/GarabedianPAartcenter.
Weird Al Yankovic
The accordion-playing, curly-coiffed, multiple-Grammy Award-winning, parody-and-polka-medley-prone musician behind songs such as “Pancreas,” “White & Nerdy,” “Eat It” and so many others – yes, the one and only Weird Al Yankovic – brings his “Bigger and Weirder” tour to Shoreline. He’ll be joined by Puddles Pity Party, described as “the saddest clown in town.”
Aug. 22, 7 p.m, Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View; ticket prices vary; tinyurl.com/WeirdAlShoreline.
Palo Alto Festival of the Arts
Downtown Palo Alto’s annual festival of art and entertainment returns for its 42nd year along nine blocks of University Avenue, featuring 250 artist booths representing a variety of media; live music; a street painting expo; foods and drinks; a kids’ chalk zone and more. New this year is Ramona Beats & Brews, a DJ and microbrew zone on Ramona Street. Musical acts include a ukulele jam, Charged Particles, Nancy Cassidy and many others.
Aug. 23-24, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., University Avenue, Palo Alto; free; paloaltochamber.com/festival-of-the-arts-about.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Fest
The Museum of American Heritage serves up a little something sweet to mark the summer drawing to a close. The whole family is invited to celebrate the simple but iconic dessert — the chocolate chip cookie — by enjoying cookies and milk during an afternoon in the museum’s garden also featuring historic games, plus the opportunity to tour the museum’s exhibits of antique tech.
Aug. 23, 1-4 pm., at the Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto; free; moah.org.
‘Cloud Songs’
Pamela Walsh Gallery presents “Cloud Songs,” an exhibition of lyrical landscape paintings exploring clouds, color and light by Don Scott Macdonald and Jeffrey Beauchamp. Macdonald is inspired by the dramatic skies and horizons of Colorado, while Beauchamp channels the natural beauty of Marin County, according to the gallery’s website. Both artists are longtime musicians, which shines through in their visual art as well, the website states. An opening reception takes place Aug. 23
Opening reception Aug. 23, 5-7 p.m.; exhibit is on view Aug. 23-Oct. 4, Tuesday-Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pamela Walsh Gallery, 540 Ramona St., Palo Alto; free; pamelawalshgallery.com.
Orianthi
Australian-raised, multiplatinum guitarist-singer-songwriter Orianthi has been honing her musical skills from a young age, playing with the likes of Carlos Santana, Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper over the years, along with releasing multiple albums. Her most recent release, “Some Kind of Feeling,” came out earlier this year. She drops by the Guild for a concert this week.
Aug. 23, 8 p.m., at The Guild Theatre, 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park; general admission $58; VIP tables $446; guildtheatre.com.
