Bars and Clubs.

Axis. 13 Lansdowne St. Boston. 262-2437. Psychedelic Soul Shack on Thursday, March 17

Black Rose. Harvard Square. 492-8630. Smokehouse Blues Band Jam on Sundays. Rob Jarrett Trio and Jazz Jam on Mondays. Machinery Hall on Friday, March 18.

House of Blues. Harvard Square. 491-BLUE. Toni Lynn Washington on Thursday, March 21. Dirty Dozen Brass Band on Tuesday, March 22.

ManRay. 21 Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. Campus for Gay Men on Thursdays. Underground House Alternative Dance on Thursdays. Underground House Alternative Dance on Saturdays. Orbit Gothic Industrial Techno Mayhem on Wednesdays.

The Middle East. 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Stub Junkmen on Thursday, March 17. Jawbox on Friday, March 18. Green Magnet on Saturday, March 19 MTV Spoken Wurd four on Sunday, March 20. Kerouac Festival on Tuesday, March 22. Upstairs: The Friggs on Thursday, March 17. Kudgel on Friday, March 18. Truman's Water on Saturday, March 19. Tsunmai on Wednesday, March 23.

Paradise. 967 Comm. Ave., Boston. 254-2052. Cliffs of Dooneen, Lir, Pooka Stew on Thursday, March 17.

Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 937-4020. The John Abercrombie Trio on Thursday, March 17 and Friday, March 18. The Geri Allen/Wallace Roney Quartet on Saturday, March 19 and Sunday, March 20. The New Black Eagle Jazz Band with Butch Thompson at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 20.

Ryles. Inman Square, Cambridge. 876-9330. Joe Maneri Quartet on Thursday, March 17.

Scullers Jazz Club. Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Storrow Drive, Boston. 562-4111.

Venus de Milo. 11 Lansdowne St., Boston. 421-9595. Techno and House music with DJs Debo and Tim Ryan on Thursdays.

Western Front. 343 Western Ave., Cambridge. 492-7772. I-Tones on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19.

Concert

Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass. Ave., Boston. 266-1200. Performs Stravinsky's "Petrushka" and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Erotica" on March 17 at 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.; March 18 at 1:30 p.m. and March 19 at 8 p.m.

The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and the Harvard university Jazz Band. Perform an open rehearsal with Orange Then Blue and George Schuller. Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 West Newton Street, Boston. Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m. Free. Call 262-1342 for more information.