FRIDAY: SPRING CONCERTMoorpark High School’s acclaimed concert...

FRIDAY: SPRING CONCERT

Moorpark High School’s acclaimed concert band and wind ensemble, under the direction of Bob Hackett, will perform Friday night in the first of a two-part spring concert series. The program will include pieces by Hugo Montenegro, Gustav Holst, Richard Wagner, Norman Dello Joio and Charles Carter. In the second concert of the series, Moorpark High’s two jazz bands--along with Lane 29, a big-band orchestra made up of top high school and college musicians from throughout the county--will perform March 21. Both concerts will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for the two-concert package, $3 for a single concert. Moorpark High School is at 4500 Tierra Rejada Road. Information: 378-6305.

IRISH MUSIC

Get a jump on St. Patrick’s Day festivities Friday night at the Camarillo Cafe. The McFadyen family will provide an eclectic evening of traditional Irish music beginning at 8 p.m.

Husband John plays guitar while wife Eve plucks the bass and son Ian plays banjo--and everyone sings in the McFadyen family. Opening will be Jane Chacon, who plays the harp, Celtic harp and hammer dulcimer. Chacon sings traditional English and Irish folk ballads.

The venue is located at 515 Eubanks St. in Camarillo off Las Posas Road. Call 482-0978 to find out more about this $5 show.

SUNDAY: BIG-BAND MUSIC

We rarely find big bands playing in clubs these days, for obvious reasons: limited space and the stress of economics. But there are enough lovers of the tradition, among musicians and listeners, to keep the music alive. So it will be a special event when drummer Chuck Flores brings his 16-piece big band to the cozy quarters of 66 California for a St. Patrick’s Day show from 6 to 10 p.m. Sunday. Flores, who has played with Carmen McRae and is a veteran of the big bands of Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, will lead the musical charge. Tickets are $10.

UP THE COAST

* The 11th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival continues through this weekend, closing its 10-day, 100-plus-film festival with a screening of the French comedy “French Twist” at 5 p.m. Sunday at the Paseo Nuevo. Among the special events: Tom Selleck will be toasted after a screening of his new film, “Ruby Jean and Joe” (7 p.m. tonight at the Fiesta Five); there will be a tribute to Kevin Spacey with a screening of “The Usual Suspects” (9:15 p.m. Friday at the Fiesta); and a tribute to Christine Lahti, with a screening of her film “Housekeeping” (7 p.m. Saturday at the Fiesta). A seminar on film scoring will be held at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Santa Barbara Art Museum. Most screenings are $7; (800) 800-4408.

* The Santa Barbara International Orchid Show will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Earl Warren Showgrounds, just off Highway 101 at Las Positas Road. Find out where corsages come from, and why they cost so much. Find out the differences among cattleya, cymbidium, odontoglossum and other varieties of orchids, many of which will grow outdoors in our area.

* Orchids of every type will be on sale at the event. The doors open at 10 a.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission is $6. Call 687-0766 for information.