Hot Tickets Around Town

Friday, July 6 Sunday, July 8

Jean Carne and Tom Browne (soul vocalist and trumpet)

8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

Blues Alley, 1073 Wisconsin Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.

For ticket information visit http://bluesalley.com/events.cfm.

Friday, July 6

Tuahine Troupe

6 p.m.

The Kennedy Center Millenium Stage

The University of Hawaii ensemble performs a program of traditional Hawaiian music and dance. Part of the 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. For information on this free performance visit ttp://www.kennedycenter.org/programs/mil lennium/schedule.html.

Saturday, July 7

Santiago Rodriguez solo piano recital

8 p.m.

Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland College Park

Santiago Rodriguez, first-place winner in the 1975 Kapell International Piano Competition, has been described as "a phenomenal pianist" by The New York Times. For ticket information visit http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/performances/performance?rowid=15661.

Through September 30

Open City: London, 1500-1700

10 a.m. 5 p.m. MondaySaturday; 12 p.m. 5 p.m. Sunday

Folger Shakespeare Library Great Hall, 201 East Capitol Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

This free exhibit explores activities and pressures that altered Londoners’ sense of community through church, theater, and market. For details visit http://www.folger.edu/index.cfm.