• HOT TICKETS

Ferrick rocks on … and out at One Longfellow

MELISSA FERRICK came on the scene in the mid-’90s, along with women like Liz Phair and Paula Cole, to help usher in a new wave of female rockers. Well, she’s still at it, and at times has funded her own records and played all the instruments. Talk about an independent artist. She’ll be at One Longfellow Square Saturday.

WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland

HOW MUCH: $23

INFO: Onelongfellowsquare.com

Bach and friends on for Sunday Classical

THE PORTLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA welcomes the Choral Art Society for a performance of Bach’s “Sleepers, Wake!” as part of the PSO’s Sunday Classical series. Hugh Floyd, a PSO guest conductor, will lead the performance with Robert Russell, director of The Choral Art Society. In addition to Bach’s Cantata No. 140, the concert will open with Respighi’s Suite 1 from “Ancient Airs and Dances,” followed by Biber’s “Battalia” and a “Christmas Concerto” from Corelli.

WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Sunday

WHERE: Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland

HOW MUCH: $25 to $75; porttix.com or 842-0800

INFO: portlandsymphony.org

Mark this big day in the world of wine

CELEBRATE THE RELEASE of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau with a three-course French dinner prepared by a French chef.

WHEN: 5 p.m. Sunday

WHERE: Petite Jacqueline, 190 State St., Portland

HOW MUCH: $45, includes wine pairing and Beaujolais Nouveau

INFO: 553-7044

Awesome show should be hypnotic

YOU ARE GETTING very sleepy. Wow, imagine if you could use that old trick on your crying 1-year-old? Well maybe you can, at the “Family Hypnosis Show with Roderick Russell” this weekend at Freeport’s Theater of Awesome.

WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday; 7 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Freeport Theater of Awesome, 5 Depot St., Freeport

HOW MUCH: $12 to $17

INFO: awesometheater.com

• CHEAP THRILLS

Eclectic as usual at Mayo Street Arts

IT’S BEING BILLED as an “all-Portland music kind of night.” Specifically, it’s electronic sounds from Leveret, Erik Nielsen of Lorem Ipsum Recordings, and some “spaced-out ethereal dirges” from Lisa/Liza. It’s all happening Friday at Mayo Street Arts.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday

WHERE: Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland

HOW MUCH: $7

INFO: Mayostreetarts.org

Lorem Ipsum to stage original play

THE LOCAL THEATER COMPANY Lorem Ipsum presents the original play “Gargantua,” a play within a play written by company member and Portland resident Ian Carlsen. The company will transform an East Bayside warehouse into a performance space.

WHEN: 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday

WHERE: Urban Farm Fermentory, Bay One, 200 Anderson St., Portland

HOW MUCH: $10

INFO: 400-1764

A world of food at USM’s ‘Husky Harvest’

SAMPLE INTERNATIONAL FOODS at the first “Husky Harvest” featuring Asian, Mexican, Greek and Indian cuisine, and watch Chinese dumplings and Italian pasta being made on site.

WHEN: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today

WHERE: Woodbury Campus Center, USM Portland campus

HOW MUCH: Free

INFO: on.fb.me/18aGtSP or usm.maine.edu/tourism/husky-harvest

‘Seven Women’ author at Nonesuch

ELIZABETH LYDIA BODNER’S newest novel is about a couple in a second marriage, who settle in Maine. It’s about how meeting seven women “would change their lives” and is therefore titled “Seven Women in Maine.” Bodner will be signing her new book Saturday in South Portland

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Nonesuch Books and Cards, Mill Creek Shopping Center, 50 Market St., South Portland

HOW MUCH: Free

INFO: Nonesuchbooks.com