7:30 pm: Pop Music

Baaba Maal recorded his newest album, “Missing You--Mi Yeewnii,” outdoors at night in Toubab, a village in Senegal where Maal is a superstar. The setting allowed Maal to capture the sounds of acoustic Africa--crickets and the sounds of village nightlife--as a backdrop for his evocative traditional African music. It’s music that should benefit from the moonlight setting of the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday.

* Baaba Maal, Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood, 7:30 p.m. $1 to $90. (323) 850-2000.

all day: Pop Music

The Dirty South is rising, and Outkast is leading the way. The Atlanta rap duo is at the fore of the Dirty South sound that has become a true force in hip-hop. It’s not just the fans who are noticing--the group’s album “Stankonia” was named the best album of 2000 in the national poll of music critics conducted annually by the Village Voice. The flamboyantly funky Andre 3000 and his partner Big Boi earn the props with their clever, rolling raps and combustible stage shows, such as the one that tops the bill at the KKBT Summer Jam.

* The KKBT Summer Jam, featuring Outkast, Musiq, Tyrese, Jagged Edge, Sunshine Anderson, David Hollister, Nicole, Usher, Erick Sermon, Lil’ Mo, Jimmy Cozier and Ray J, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, 11 a.m. $35.50 to $57.50. (949) 855-2863.

2 pm: Music

Mickey Katz was the Weird Al of his day. The clarinetist and bandleader (of the Kosher Jammers) fused Jewish music and humor in his popular parodies in the 1950s and ‘60s. His popular hits were “The Barber of Schlemiel” and “Borscht Riders in the Sky,” but his real love was what he called Jewish jazz. Not surprisingly, Katz has been embraced by klezmer music revivalists. For the Central Library’s Soundings series, music writer Josh Kun presents his musical portrait of Katz in “The Yiddish Are Coming: The Music of Mickey Katz.”

* “The Yiddish Are Coming: The Music of Mickey Katz,” Richard Riordan Central Library, Mark Taper Auditorium, 650 W. 5th St., downtown L.A., 2 p.m. $8. (213) 228-7025.

8 pm: Theater

Marc Wolf performs his solo show “Another American: Asking and Telling,” a multi-character theater piece about the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, based on three years of interviews with current and former servicemen. It will run in repertory with Charlayne Woodard’s solo show “In Real Life.”

* “Another American: Asking and Telling,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Aug. 18, 23-24, 26, 28, 31 at 8 p.m.; Aug. 19, 25, 29 at 2:30 p.m. Also Sept. 2, 5-6, 8, 12-14 at 8 p.m.; Sept. 1, 9, 15 at 2:30 p.m. $30 to $44. (213) 628-2772.

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Freebie

* The Harmony Statesmen Barbershop Chorus and the barbershop quartet the Energizers appear on the Second Sunday series at the Pasadena Public Library, 285 E. Walnut St., Pasadena, 2:30 p.m. (626) 398-0658.