Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday Thursday 1 LA MUSGAÑA. Folk music, as the term implies, is usually pretty down-to-earth stuff. You hear enough of it and it all starts to sound familiar. But the talented Spanish quartet La Musgaña has taken traditional music and turned it on its ear with a unique blend of music from old Castile merged with Gypsy, Moorish and Celtic influences. Their latest release, Las Seis Tentaciones, pits electric bass alongside bagpipes on one song while featuring Basque accordion, gaita charra y tamboril (a three-hole flute and drum played simultaneously) and Arabian hand drums on the next. In live performances, they're known for switching instruments mid-song, either with each other or from an elaborate display on stage. They describe their selection of music from the western and central provinces of Castile, León, Madrid and northern Extremadura as "dance tunes, love songs and music for rituals." La Musgaña performs at 8 p.m. at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. Tickets are $12 in advance, $13 at the door, with a $2 discount for seniors, TFTM and KXCI members. Outlets include Hear's Music, Loco Records and Piney Hollow; or charge by phone at 327-4809. Call 327-1779 for information. CONTEMPORARY DANCE. The second annual Arizona Contemporary Dance Festival opens tonight with modern dance performances by prominent Arizona companies including Ann Ludwig Dance Theatre, Canyon Movement Company, Movement Source and ORTS Theatre of Dance. Performances continue through Saturday, February 3, with Center Dance Ensemble, Desert Dance Theatre and Tenth Street Danceworks featured on Friday and all seven companies performing in a modern dance extravaganza on Saturday. See Margaret Regan's articles in the Review section for preview information. All performances are at 8 p.m. at the PCC Center for the Arts, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets range from $7 to $15, available at Dillard's and the PCC West Campus cashier's office. Call (800) 638-4253 for reservations; or 884-6458 for recorded information. Friday 2 WIDE OPEN COUNTRY. He's been called a "folk/country/Tex-Mex/Bluegrass legend." He was lead singer in father-of-bluegrass Bill Monroe's band, though he's best known for his work with Old And In The Way, the bluegrass group that consisted of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Vassar Clements. He penned the favorite "Panama Red," recorded by New Riders of the Purple Sage; and was the driving force behind the political satire of the Free Mexican Air Force. Does any of this ring a bell? One that sounds like the tune from Jeopardy? The correct answer, country fans, is "Who is Peter Rowan." Take Special Events for $17. Also, see Pam Parrish's article in the Music section. Rowan performs (solo and together) with dobro master Jerry Douglas at 8 p.m. at the Berger Performing Arts Center, 1200 W. Speedway. All seating is reserved, with tickets ranging from $16 to $18. Advance ticket outlets include Loco Music, Hear's Music and Zip's on Speedway. Call 881-3947 for tickets and information. MERGED REALITIES. It all began when David Lane, UA undergraduate student of molecular biology, started substituting musical notes for genetic sequence data on his synthesizer. Gail Hewlett, who runs the non-profit Central Arts Collective downtown, heard the strange compositions and asked if she could play them during an upcoming juried show at the gallery. What happened next can only be described as the genesis of a "totally integrated performance of art and science," incorporating music, choreography by the UA School of Dance's Nina Janick and John Dahlstrand (as performed by UA dance students), and spoken-word performance by Dr. Martin Hewlett, published novelist, poet and UA molecular biology prof. International installation artist Roger Feldman, a juror for the Merged Realities exhibit, will give a short talk on why it's important for artists to think about science; to be followed by artificial intelligence pioneer Chris Langton, visiting from the Santa Fe Institute, who will speak on why it's important for scientists to think about art. See this wrinkle in the space/time continuum at 8 p.m. at Crowder Hall on the UA campus. Tickets are only $3, $2 for students, available at the door or in advance from the Fine Arts box office. Call 621-1162 for tickets and information. The national juried exhibition Merged Realities: A Synthesis of Art and Science, opens Saturday, February 3, at Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway. Show includes 70 pieces from 22 states, and will be housed both at the gallery and at the Flandrau Science Center on the UA campus. Call 623-5883 for gallery information. Saturday 3 HOMO VITREUS. The ultimate glass house, Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, celebrates the human form in Southwest Invitational IX: Homo Vitreus, a showcase of 20 nationally recognized artists exhibiting works focusing on figurative glass. The exhibit opens today, with a guest lecture from 4 to 5 p.m. by visiting artist Leah Wingfield, followed by a reception from 5 to 9 p.m., featuring a flameworking demonstration by New York artist Milon Townsend. Other exhibiting artists include Richard Eckerd, Renato Foti, Susan Batian Gott, Nancy Langston, Tom Philabaum, Kimball Trump and Kate Vogel. Homo Vitreus continues through April 27, with regular gallery hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, at Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Call 884-7404 for information and glass-blowing times. Sunday 4 MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN. Kick us, we must be dreaming. An international soccer match in Tucson? With world-renown soccer stud Hugo Sanchez playing against his native Mexico City? All rumors that we're falling behind in global trends can now safely be dispelled: Soccer has reached the Old Pueblo. Today inaugurates the first International Soccer Festival, with Austria's F.C. Linz taking on Club Atlante A.C. (Mexico City). The festival begins at 11:30 a.m. with a youth clinic on the field immediately north of the stadium; but be sure to take your soccer enthusiasts to the main event to see Sanchez, five-time top-scorer in all of Spain during his tenure with the Real Madrid team, multiple World Cup winner and recipient of Europe's Golden Boot Award (this is a serious thing in the rest of the world, where wars are fought for lesser causes than the outcome of a soccer match). Game time is 3 p.m. at Arizona Stadium, Sixth Street west of Campbell Avenue. Tickets are available at the McKale ticket office, ranging from $5 to $8, with family passes (good for six) for $16. Tucson's USISL team, the Amigos, leads off the afternoon against the Arizona Phoenix at 1 p.m. Call 621-2287 for tickets and information. Monday 5 PIANO MAN. If all you know about George Winston stems from his season-inspired recordings, you're about to be pleasantly surprised. In concert, this versatile musician also plays stride piano, New Orleans R&B, your favorite "Peanuts" selections by late jazz-pianist Vince Guaraldi, solo harmonica and slack key guitar. He will, of course, oblige with the self-styled "rural folk" piano featured on his previous recordings, including his latest release, Forest (1994), but be prepared for the unexpected. Winston tours extensively, and thrives on the spontaneity of live performance. His enigmatic personality combines serious musicianship with a not-so-serious stage presence, allowing this mild-mannered musician to transform a concert hall of any size into a living room in which, miraculously, we can all somehow sit comfortably. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at the TCC Music Hall, 260 S. Church Ave. All seating is reserved, with tickets ranging from $15 to $20. Attendees are encouraged to bring a non-perishable food donation for the Community Food Bank. Call 791-4266 for reservations and information. Tuesday 6 POETRY IN BLACK. Actor James Oliver returns to Tucson to deliver the spellbinding, dramatic one-man character study Poetry in Black, a poetic presentation of African American history in which Oliver portrays God and the preacher, mother, father and child. Tonight's presentation, put together by the Tucson-Pima Public Library, kicks off a series of programs celebrating African American History Month. Show time is 7 p.m. at the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. Admission is free. Call 791-4393 for information. Open 10 a.m. Wednesday 7 BAROQUE 'N' HARPS. It sounds like a bad pun, but we're really just trying to interest you in a little Early Music Society concert featuring the Harp Consort, a quintet of dedicated musicians playing a program that includes ballads from Spain, South America, Italy and Africa, improvised Baroque dance and Spanish ballad songs including a concert version of Luz y Norte (Light and Guiding Star), performed with a "typical Spanish Baroque ensemble of plucked and bowed string instruments and percussion." Step back in time at 8 p.m. at St. Philip's In The Hills Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Tickets are $10 and $13, $3 for students, available at the door. Call 889-4310 for information. SOBIN READS. Postmodern poetry isn't for everyone, but if that's your thing then you owe it to your suffering soul to head over to the UA Modern Languages Building auditorium on the UA campus to hear Gustav Sobin, author of five volumes of poetry and two novels, and an expatriate in France, besides. The critically acclaimed poet/author reads from selected works at 8 p.m., as part of the ongoing reading series brought to you by the UA Poetry Center. Admission is free, with an informal reception following the program. Call 321-7760 for information. City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Mari Wadsworth. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc.

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