7:30 pm / Pop Music
In the ‘60s, who could have foreseen that the enigmatic Bob Dylan would turn out to be the road warrior, while regular guy Paul Simon would be the one to shun the touring life? Pooling their stature, the two pop icons are teaming up for a series of concerts that figures to feature more famous couplets than “Bartlett’s Quotations.”
* Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, Arrowhead Pond, 2695 E. Katella Ave., Anaheim, 7:30 p.m. $50-$125. (714) 704-2500. Also Tuesday at the Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., 7:30 p.m. $25-$129. (323) 850-2000.
7pm / Swing
You’ll think you died and woke up in 1943 at the Satin Ballroom, a monthly swing extravaganza that draws all the best vintage-dressed dancers and big bands around to the gymnasium-like auditorium of Culver City’s Veterans Memorial Building. The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra will provide the tunes for a contest commemorating the 60th anniversary of a 1939 jitterbug dance-off at the Los Angeles Coliseum that promoters say is history’s biggest.
* The Satin Ballroom, Veterans Memorial Building, 4117 Overland Blvd., Culver City. 7 p.m.-12:30 a.m. $15. (310) 358-6935 or https://www.satinballroom.com.
noon / Pop Music
Imagine a soul music lineup featuring Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Otis Redding and Clyde McPhatter. The reggae counterpart is the Reggae Old School Jam, an annual concert that showcases some of the Jamaican music’s influential pioneers. The third edition features rare appearances by Johnny Osbourne and Brigadier Jerry, along with Ken Boothe, Charlie Chaplin and others.
* Reggae Old School Jam, Queen Mary Park, 1126 Queen’s Highway, Long Beach, noon. $28. (310) 515-3322.
11am / Music
The young and already acclaimed Rossetti String Quartet continues the Brunch Classics series at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre with a program offering quartets by Beethoven (Opus 18, No. 4) and Debussy and, with pianist Armen Guzelimian, Brahms’ Quintet in F minor, Opus 34. Members of the ensemble are violinists Nina Bodnar and Henry Gronnier, violist Thomas Diener and cellist Eric Gaenslen--replacing Cecilia Tsan for the quartet’s June engagements.
* The Rossetti String Quartet, John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, 11 a.m. $20. Brunch buffet: $12. (323) 461-3673.
4pm / Music
The 19th annual Baroque Music Festival in Corona del Mar--an enclave of Newport Beach--begins Sunday with a program of Baroque concertos played on period instruments. Festival founder Burton Karson conducts works by Corrette, Sammartini and Vivaldi, performed by recorder player Marianne Pfau, violinist Rob Diggins and organist Gabriel Arregui.
* The Baroque Music Festival, St. Michael & All Angels Church, 3233 Pacific View Drive, Corona del Mar, 4 p.m. $25. Subsequent festival events: Monday, Wednesday and June 25 at 8 p.m.; June 27 at 4 p.m. (949) 760-7887.
2 and 8pm / Theater
British Shakespeare impresario Sir Peter Hall will direct repertory productions of “Measure for Measure” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with a cast featuring Richard Thomas, David Dukes, Kelly McGillis, Brian Murray and Anna Gunn.
* “Measure for Measure” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Ahmanson Theatre, 135 N. Grand Ave., Los Angeles. “Measure for Measure”: Sunday, 2 p.m., $15-$52.50. Also June 23-24, 30, July 6, 9, 13-15, 22-23, 27, 8 p.m.; July 1, 2 p.m.; July 11, 7:30 p.m. $15-$47.50. June 26, July 3, 17, 8 p.m.; June 27, July 10, 18, 24, 2 p.m. $15-$52.50. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: Sunday, 8 p.m. $15-$52.50. June 22, 25, 29, July 1-2, 7-8, 16, 20-21, 28-30, 8 p.m.; July 15, 29, 2 p.m.; July 25, 7:30 p.m. $15-$47.50. June 26, July 3-4, 11, 17, 25, 31, Aug. 1, 2 p.m.; July 10, 24, 31, 8 p.m. $15-$52.50. Ends Aug. 1. (213) 628-2772.
Freebies
The Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra performs at Knox Presbyterian Church, 5860 La Tijera Blvd., Los Angeles, 4 p.m. (323) 850-2000.
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The African dance and music troupe Sona Sane performs at the Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. 5th, downtown L.A. 2 p.m. (213) 228-7000.