Music City Show Sunday to Benefit Local Musicians

Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers will headline a benefit concert Sunday afternoon at his Fountain Valley club, Music City. Proceeds will go to the Orange County Musicians Foundation, the charity organized to help uninsured local musicians pay medical bills.

Country singer Bob Gulley, soul band Derek Bordeaux & Friends and rock oldies act Greg Topper & the Upsetters are among the other performers in the show, which runs from noon until about 3:30 p.m. Bill Medley’s Music City is at 18774 Brookhurst St. Donation: $20. Information: (714) 362-4200 or (714) 963-2366.

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Radio station KROQ (106.7 FM) is sponsoring a day-long alternative-rock fest at Irvine Meadows on June 12 that promises to be a heck of a lot more melodious than this year’s Lollapalooza tour.

Terence Trent D’Arby, Dramarama, Gin Blossoms, the Lemonheads, Stone Temple Pilots, Suede, The The, X and Bettie Serveert are on the bill for what’s being dubbed the first annual Weenie Roast & Sing-Along.

The concert is a benefit for the environmental organization Heal the Bay. A few more performers may be added to the show, which starts at 2 p.m. and runs through the evening, a station spokesperson said . Tickets go on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. through Ticketmaster: (714) 740-2000.

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Area folk and soul performers will be featured in a benefit concert Saturday in Dana Point that will raise money for a Guatemalan relief project.

Jeff Joad & the Joads, a folk group from Ojai, and soul singer Murial Vanessa Walker are the featured artists in the show, which starts at 8 p.m. at the Dana Point Youth and Group Facility, 33451 Ensenada Place, off Dana Point Harbor Drive. The benefit is dubbed “Xela-Aid,” after the town in Guatemala being assisted by the show’s sponsor, St. Matthew American Catholic Church in Orange. Donation: $10. Information: (714) 526-3808.

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Choreographer and UCI dance professor Donald McKayle will create a new work for the San Francisco Ballet, to premiere Oct. 19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. The new piece is as yet untitled.

Known for such classics as “Games,” “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder,” “District Storyville” and other works, McKayle presented his “Ring-a-levio”, created for UCI students in 1990, last week as part of the Black Choreographers Moving Toward the 21st Century festival in Los Angeles. He was appointed a tenured professor of dance at UCI in 1989 and received the $25,000 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award in 1992.

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Newport Harbor Art Museum will hold a reception for prospective docents on May 24 beginning at 10 a.m. Anyone interested may attend. The museum’s docent training program is nine months long. (714) 759-1122.

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A series of workshops on issues in music and the visual arts will be jointly presented by the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and the Southwest Chamber Music Society, which splits its concert season between Chapman University in Orange and the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.

The first series of workshops, “Breaking the Code of Contemporary Music,” will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and May 22 at the Armory Center, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena.

At the first workshop, composer William Kraft will talk about his “Weavings” for strings and percussion. The work also will be played. On May 22, painter Matthew Thomas will discuss the visual arts in relationship to music.

A second series on different topics will be held at the Armory on July 17 and 24.

Admission is $5 to each event. Information: (818) 792-5101 or (800) 726-7147.