7 pm: Pop Music

It’s a day late, but who’s counting when the screaming cream of the L.A. rock scene gather for the inaugural Iggy Pop Birthday Bash. As an indicator of the honoree’s influence, one of the bands performing, the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs, even took its name from a Stooges lyric. Also on hand are Texas Terri & the Stiff Ones, Hangmen, Third Grade Teacher, Motochrist, Motorcycle Boy, Libertine and others. Proceeds benefit the Covenant House.

* Iggy Pop Birthday Bash, Spaceland, 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., 7 p.m. $7 minimum donation. (213) 833-2843.

8 pm: Jazz

Jack Wood is a singer out of the saloon-crooner tradition, a guy who knows how to keep an audience entertained. His last album, “Baby, Baby All the Time,” found him in good voice at a number of tempos. He’ll team with pianist Larry Jackstein and bassist Luther Hughes in Ca’ del Sole’s lounge, a very non-saloon-like room with all the character of an Italian country home.

* Jack Wood at Ca’ del Sole Ristorante, 4100 Cahuenga Blvd., North Hollywood, 8 p.m. No cover. (818) 985-4669.

10:30 am & 8pm: Music

The Culver City Chamber Orchestra gives two performances of the same program, the first for a young audience, the second for all. Andres Cardenes conducts Mozart’s “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” the Clarinet Concerto and the Symphony No. 33 in B-flat. Soloist in the concerto is Mark Nuccio.

* Culver City Chamber Orchestra, Culver City Presbyterian Church, 11269 Washington Blvd., Culver City. “Just for Kids--Just for Fun” at 10:30 a.m., $3; children, $1. 8 p.m. concert, $12 to $18. (310) 397-2490.

8 pm: Theater

To celebrate the centennial of Noel Coward’s birth, Pacific Resident Theatre presents music, romance and comedy in “Tonight at 8:30,” a bill of fare featuring Coward’s one-act plays “The Astonished Heart,” “We Were Dancing” and “Ways and Means.”

* “Tonight at 8:30,” Pacific Resident Theatre, 703 Venice Blvd., Venice. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends June 25. $20 to $22. (310) 822-8392.

11 am & 1 pm: Theater/Family

The colorful marionette cast of Minikin Puppets Productions presents five familiar “Aesop’s Fables”: “The Grasshopper and the Ant,” “The City Mouse and the Country Mouse,” “The Fox and the Crow,” “The Fox and the Grapes” and “The Tortoise and the Hare.”

* “Aesop’s Fables” at Santa Monica College, Concert Hall, 1911 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. $5. (310) 434-3000.

8 pm: Dance

Percussive dance takes many forms around the globe and “Soul to Sole: A Celebration of World Dance” brings three major types onto the same stage for displays of traditional expertise as well as experiments in collaborative fusion. The participants include the members of Anjani Ambegaokar’s Kathak Dance of India: exponents of an antique, classical, storytelling style. Then there are the artists from Adam and Laila Del Monte’s Teatro Flamenco: specialists in a Spanish Gypsy idiom renowned for its volatile emotionalism. And also watch for the intricate, swinging footwork of Lynn Dally’s Jazz Tap Ensemble: pros practicing a dance form born and raised in urban America.

* “Soul to Sole: A Celebration of World Dance,” Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos, 8 p.m. $27 to $47. (562) 916-8510.

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FREEBIES: An egg hunt, art sale and live music are highlights of the Brentwood Spring Fine Art & Crafts Fair at the VA Medical Center park grounds, Wilshire and San Vicente boulevards, Brentwood. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Also Sunday. (626) 797-6803.

The Sonic Circuits Festival VII features electro-acoustic music and video by Reynold Weidenaar, Jose Halac, Mark Applebaum, Tom Flaherty and Al Davis. L.A. Harbor College, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington. 4 p.m. (310) 522-8235.