UP THE COAST : Food, Wine Enhance Stroll Among Artists : Sixteen shops, restaurants and galleries in Montecito will participate in tonight’s art walk.

For those who tend to zoom past Montecito on the way to or from Santa Barbara, tonight is a good time to see what that little town is all about.

Coast Village Business Assn., an organization of merchants along Coast Village Road, will host an art walk with hors d’oeuvres, desserts, wine and live music from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Sixteen shops, restaurants and art galleries are scheduled to participate in the walk, with some of the exhibiting artists on hand to do some meeting and greeting.

The event will begin at First American Title, 1150 Coast Village Road, and conclude up the street at Costa Villa Courtyard. Tickets are $10. Call 565-2032 for more information. Proceeds will benefit Direct Relief International, which provides medical training and funds to charitable health organizations around the world.

In conjunction with the art walk, White Wind Studio will present an “Art From the Heart” concert by Fred Karlin and Friends, beginning at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $15. Call 969-5718. The studio is at 113 Middle Road.

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For many local music lovers, Labor Day Weekend in Santa Barbara is truly something to celebrate.

And beginning Saturday, that’s what they’ll be doing down at Stearns Wharf, where the Sixth Annual Santa Barbara International Jazz Festival will be held. This year’s three-day music fest will include its share of blues and salsa to go along with the jazz.

The lineup of headline performers includes Sonya Jason, Gregg Karukas, Kleber Jorge, Susie Hansen and Mike Gealer on Saturday; Kevyn Lettau, Rain-Bo Tribe, the Arthur Adams Blues Band and Sensacion on Sunday, and Zack & A Modern View, Pressed for Time, the Jeff Elliot All-Star Band and Tejas on Monday.

Festival hours are Saturday and Sunday noon to 10 p.m., Monday noon to 6 p.m. General admission is $5 daily or $10 for all three days. Children under age 12 are free. Call 962-4636.

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Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak star in the Otto Preminger film “The Man with the Golden Arm,” which will be shown Saturday at Santa Barbara’s Riviera Theatre. The screening is part of the theater’s weekly Encore Collection of classic American and foreign films. The movie will begin at 11 a.m. Tickets are $5. The Riviera is at 2044 Alameda Padre Serra. Call 965-3886 or 966-4556.

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What’s Up? Doc.

Trumpeter Doc Severinsen will join the Santa Barbara Symphony in a concert at the Santa Barbara County Bowl on Sunday.

Best known as the former longtime band leader on the Tonight Show, Severinsen is the principal pops conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Milwaukee Symphony. He has received acclaim for his performances of symphonic, jazz and big band works.

Among the pieces to be performed at the concert are “When the Saints Go Marching In,” “The Tonight Show Theme,” a “Phantom of the Opera” medley and the fourth movement of Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4.”

Show time is 6:30 p.m. (gates open at 5:30 p.m.) Tickets are $12 to $35. Call 963-4408 or 568-BOWL. The bowl is at 1122 N. Milpas St.

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Technical note No. 1: The Santa Barbara Museum of Art has changed its admission prices slightly. Getting in will now cost $4 for adults 18 to 61, $3 for seniors 62 and older, $1.50 for students and children 6-17, and free for children younger than 6. Thursdays and the first Sunday of each month are still free admission days for all. The museum is at 1130 State St. Call 963-4364.

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Technical note No. 2: Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre will be closed through Oct. 9 while the facility undergoes Phase II of its scheduled three-year preservation project. These latest upgrades will involve booths for sound and lighting and the installation of 35-millimeter film projection equipment. The box office will remain open while the theater is dark. The next show on the Lobero schedule will be the Santa Barbara Treble Clef variety show “Jazz and Pazazz,” set for Oct. 14.