Saturday: Babes Fest at Empire. Boss Babes ATX launched in 2015 as a feminist networking group. Their Austin event, Babes Fest 2017, a three-day celebration of comedy, art, film and music created and curated by women, culminates with a two-stage extravaganza featuring a diverse selection of artists including Femina-X, Sam Lao, Sailor Poon, Aleisa Lani and former Austin360 Artists of the Month Magna Carda and Mélat. $19 (adv.) 606 E. Seventh St. Babesfest.com — D.S.S.
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Saturday: Festival de Cumbia en la Capital at Barracuda. Over the past 20 years or so, the Afro-Colombian folk music known as cumbia has grown into the dominant Pan-Latin dance form, with hundreds of local variations and traditions celebrated around the world. This festival, anchored by local heavies El Tule, features nearly a dozen different groups from Austin, Mexico and beyond on two stages. $10. 9 p.m. 611 E. Seventh St. barracudaaustin.com — D.S.S.
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Saturday: The Alarm at 3Ten. Only frontman Mike Peters is left from the original lineup of the anthemic British new-wave/punk band that kicked up a storm in the 1980s. But his vocals were always a big part of the group’s appeal, and he now has local ties: A decade ago, he and Austinite James Chippendale, both leukemia survivors, started the Love Hope Strength Foundation to raise money and awareness for those with leukemia and cancer. Good Field opens. $26.50-$30. 8:30 p.m. 310 Willie Nelson Blvd. 3tenaustin.com. — P.B.
Magna Carda plays Babes Fest on Saturday at Empire. Erika Rich for American-Statesman
ALSO PLAYING
Friday
TLC, Blackstreet, Mark McGrath, Rob Base, C+C Music Factory at HEB Center
Firefall at One World Theatre
King Yellowman & The Sagittarius Band at Flamingo
Kreayshawn (DJ set) at Empire
Scott H. Biram, Homer Henderson at Continental Club
Cha Wa, Giulia Millanta, Shawn Pander at Antone’s
Cale Tyson, Carson McHone at Cactus Cafe
Black Heart Saints album release at One-2-One Bar
KVRX presents ‘Do You Feel It’ Holy Wave tribute at Hotel Vegas
Mama K & the Shades at Stubb’s (inside)
Super Thief at the Sidewinder
Vesperteen, The Please Please Me at Mohawk (inside)
Think No Think, John Wesley Coleman III at Barracuda
Sour Bridges, Bond Twins at Threadgill’s South
Two Hoots and a Holler at ABGB
Saturday
Beer Soaked Bash with Diiv, Curtis Roush at the Mohawk (outside)
Idina Menzel at Bass Concert Hall
Ray Wylie Hubbard at Antone’s
Eminence Ensemble at the Parish
Randy Rogers Band, Flatland Calvary at Nutty Brown Amphitheater
Adam Levy & Anthony Da Costa, Jaimee Harris at Cactus Cafe
Jai Malano, Cornell Hurd Band at Continental Club
Johnny Nicholas, Robynn Shayne, Kim Deschamps at Saxon Pub
Bluebonnets, Tiarra Girls at Threadgill’s South
Heaven or Hotel Vegas Manchester United: Tributes to Smiths, Joy Division, Oasis
Hickoids, Chicken Snake at ABGB
Rosie Flores, Patricia Vonne, Damn Torpedoes at One-2-One Bar
Cornerstone Reggae at Flamingo Cantina
Sunday
Michelle Branch at Emo’s
Ohio Players at Empire
Miss Lavelle White at Antone’s
Queue Queue, Pong at Kick Butt Coffee
Total Abuse at Hotel Vegas
Megafauna, Human Circuit at the Electric Church
