• Lancaster Roots & Blues, music that brings joy to your soul, is set to take place Friday to Sunday. The weekend in downtown Lancaster will be filled with 80 concerts across 10 stages and eight venues. Ticket prices start at $69. For more information, go to lancasterrootsandblues.com/.
• Carín León is set to perform Friday at 8 p.m. in the Santander Arena in Reading. This triple threat possesses a rich, dramatic, tenor voice, a storyteller’s gift for narrative and dazzling instrumental skills. Leon is the chief songwriter, guitarist and producer of the charting Mexican regional band Grupo Arranke, a songwriter for artists including Christian Nodal, Cutaes de Sinaloa and Adriel Favela and a successful solo artist. Ticket prices start at $80. For more information, go to santander-arena.com/events/.
• Discover Ag Podcast Live, two women discussing what is going on in the food industry, is set to take place tonight at 7 p.m. at the Miller Center for the Arts at Reading Area Community College. Their podcast is where agriculture meets pop culture, aimed at those who want to stay connected and up to date with the expanding world of western culture, food and agriculture. Hosts Natalie Kovarik and Tara Vander Dussen provide a weekly breakdown of the latest trends and innovations at the intersection of agriculture and culture. From the heart of the Nebraska sandhills, Kovarik is a fourth-generation cattle rancher turned social entrepreneur who weaves western and urban living to feature agriculture in a unique and alluring fashion. Hailing from New Mexico, Vander Dussen, a fifth-generation dairy farmer, has built her career as an environmental scientist out of a love for the land and her roots in agriculture. Ticket are $20. For more information, millercenter.racc.edu/discover.
• Live Dead & Brothers: An All-Star Celebration of Grateful Dead & Allman Brothers, a throwback to the classics of the 1960s and ’70s, is set for Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Sellersville Theater in Bucks County. Prepare to embark on a mesmerizing journey through the golden era of psychedelic blues and the seeds of the jam band scene. Composed of actual and legacy members from the extended Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers Band families, this exceptional ensemble is set to revive the timeless magic of the late ’60s and early ’70s. Performers include Les Dudek from the Allman Brothers, original Grateful Dead pianist Tom Constanten (retiring after this tour), Berry Duane Oakley from The Allman Betts Band, Mark Karan from Bob Weir & Rat Dog, Scott Guberman from Phil Lesh & Friends and Pete Lavezzoli from Oteil & Friends. Together, they re-create the magic of the Grateful Dead’s and Allman Brothers’ co-billed concerts from 1969 to 1973. Their performances capture the raw energy, improvisational prowess and soul-stirring melodies that defined an era of musical innovation. Whether you’re a lifelong devotee of the Grateful Dead and Allman Brothers or discovering their magic for the first time, this is a live music experience that transcends generations. Ticket prices start at $35. For more information, go to st94.com/events/.
• Comedian Rafi Bastos is set to perform Friday at 7 p.m. at SoulJoel’s in Pottstown. Bastos is a Jewish-Brazilian comedian with an accent like Dracula and a rapidly growing social media presence of stand-up clips, mostly filmed at the prestigious Comedy Cellar in New York. In his home country of Brazil, Bastos is a trailblazer of comedy and media. He helped pioneer the art of stand-up comedy in Brazil. His 17-year comedy and acting career before coming to the United States garnered many firsts and was covered in an interview on The Joe Rogan Experience. Bastos set records, created controversy through freedom of speech and used the power of the internet to reach an astronomical social media following. His videos with stage performances, music videos, interviews and sketches have more than 370 million views on his YouTube channel alone. In 2011, he was considered by The New York Times as the most influential man on Twitter, at the time with 7 million followers, now at 11.4 million. In 2013, he won the Shorty Award, also known as the “Oscars of Social Media,” for best comedian. Bastos’ quick-witted observational humor has made him a hit online and the first Brazilian comedian to become a regular at the most renowned comedy clubs globally. He is the first Brazilian comedian to headline at Montreal’s “Just for Laughs,” the largest comedy festival in the world. He has three comedy specials on Netflix. He has starred in movies, had his own controversial talk show, been an in-field journalist and hosted reality shows (“Ultimate Beastmaster” for Netflix). He is the co-founder and owner of the largest comedy club in South America. Bastos has done almost everything in Brazil, and now he’s in the U.S. to do it all with a fresh perspective in unfamiliar territory. Ticket prices start at $25. For more information, go to souljoels.com/.
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