GOINGS ON / SANTA BARBARA : Barter Patrol : Moroccan-style bazaar will offer wide range of goods and music nonstop, with proceeds going to El Salvador relief effort.

In Santa Barbara, there’s a festival for just about everything. There’s a Greek Festival and a French Festival and a festival celebrating the longest day of the year. And coming this weekend will be “a shop till you drop kind of festival,” said Dan Smith, one of the organizers of the fourth annual Beachside Festival. The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday on Helena Street, near State Street and Cabrillo Boulevard.

The Beachside Festival is a colorful Moroccan-style bazaar that features clothing, jewelry and accessories by manufacturers such as Esprit, Patagonia and Tabra. Everything will be on sale at wholesale or below prices. In addition, there will be free nonstop jazz and ethnic music such as Raw Silk, Los Barbaros and the country sounds of Floyd County Boys and the Russian folk rock group Lim Popo. For even more free entertainment, jugglers, clowns, magicians, mariachis and other strolling entertainers will be on hand to entertain the shoppers.

The festival will be staffed entirely by volunteers and most of the gross proceeds from the sale of merchandise will go to relief efforts in El Salvador, Smith said. “This festival is a fun kind of relief effort and the great thing is that it’s benefiting people who don’t have the opportunity to enjoy something like this.”

Last year’s festival attracted about 30,000 people and raised more than $60,000. This year, like others, most of the money will be given to Direct Relief International, which will caravan to El Salvador taking food, clothing and medical supplies, Smith said. A portion of the money will also be used for the Tibetan studies program at UCSB.

Admission to the festival is free. Call 893-2097.

Also with hopes of helping the people of the world, the Santa Barbara County chapter of the American Red Cross will be holding five benefit shows the following weekend featuring the music of theatrical composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Musical numbers and specially arranged orchestral suites from shows such as “Phantom of the Opera,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “Evita,” “Cats” and “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” will be performed by a choral ensemble of 12 vocalists, all of whom have appeared in previous Andrew Lloyd Webber productions, and a 37-piece orchestra.

Five shows are scheduled for the Arlington Theatre: Friday, July 17, opening night gala at 8 p.m.; Saturday, July 18, at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, July 19, at 2 and 8 p.m.

Tickets are $34 and $42, and Gold Circle seating which includes an after-show reception with the cast, are $150. Call 688-6628 or 963-4408.

As part of the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival Concert Series, Sergiu Comissiona will conduct music by Schubert, Berg and Mahler at the Lobero Theatre on Saturday. Tuesday’s concert will be at Abravanel Hall in the Academy and will feature music by Reinecke, Bloch and Beethoven.

Both shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets for each are $15. Call 963-0761.

Santa Barbara’s Museum of Natural History will present a series of seven arts performances by Chumash Indians as alternatives to celebrations of the anniversary of Columbus’s voyage. These shows are intended to remind people that cultures were thriving on this continent long before Columbus arrived.

The series will kick off Saturday with traditional dances, music and stories by the Dolphin Dancers from the Indian reservation at Santa Ynez. Admission to the 2 p.m. show is included in the $3 museum admission. The other shows in the series will be presented throughout the summer. Call 682-4711.