- Pop-rock singer-songwriter-pianist Jon McLaughlin - best known for Oscar-nominated song "So Close" from Disney's "Enchanted" - plays tonight at 6:30 at the Avalon Theater, 3605 S. State St., South Salt Lake. Tickets are $14, at the door.

- Trolley Square, at 700 East and 600 South in Salt Lake City, will be celebrating its 100th anniversary Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with barbershop and choir singing, silent-movie screenings and food at 1908 prices - and a firework display at 8 p.m. Free.

- The African Children's Choir performs Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Kingsbury Hall, 1395 E. Presidents Circle on the University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City. Tickets are $22.50-$32.50, $10 for children 18 and under, at the Kingsbury Hall web site.

- Pavement lead singer Stephen Malkmus brings his new band, The Jicks (featuring Janet Weiss, drummer for Sleater-Kinney and not the Susan Sarandon character from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"), to the Urban Lounge, 241 S. 5oo East, Salt Lake City, on Saturday. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $16.50 in advance, $17 on the day of show, at SmithsTix.

- Danielson, a New Jersey-based gospel-influenced indie pop band that wears nurses' outfits (to symbolize healing), plays Sunday at Kilby Court, 741 S. 330 West, Salt Lake City. Cryptacize and Skeletons are also on the bill; show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 day of show, at SmithsTix.

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