6:30 pm: Pop Music

PJ Harvey comes to town just after winning the prestigious Mercury Music Prize, which honors the year’s best British album, for her latest: “Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea.” The singer precedes her sold-out Hollywood Palladium date with a hit-and-run club show.

* PJ Harvey, with Moris Tepper, Knitting Factory Hollywood, 7021 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, 8 p.m. Sold out. (323) 463-0204. Friday at the Hollywood Palladium, 6215 Sunset Blvd., L.A., 6:30 p.m. Sold out. (323) 962-7600.

8 pm: Dance

On its first local visit since the death of its founder last November, Amalia Hernandez’s Ballet Folklorico de Mexico performs its array of regional suites tonight at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and from Friday through Sunday at the Universal Amphitheatre. The U.S. premiere of “Sugar Harvest in Tamaulipas” is featured, along with a revised version of Hernandez’s 16-year-old “Carnival in Tlaxcala” with new choreography by her daughters: company artistic director Norma Lopez and director of the company school Viviana Hernandez. A special children’s performance sponsored by The Times takes place Friday at 11 a.m. in the Universal Amphitheatre.* Ballet Folklorico de Mexico de Amalia Hernandez, California Center for the Arts, 2411 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido, 8 p.m. $15 to $45. (800) 988-4253. Also at the Universal Amphitheatre, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City. Friday-Saturday, 8:15 p.m.; Sunday, 3:15 p.m. $28.50 to $43.50. (818) 622-4440.

8 pm: Theater

Christopher Lloyd and Holland Taylor star in “The Unexpected Man,” Yasmina Reza’s play about a series of exchanges that forge a bond between two strangers: a novelist and a woman who admires his work. The talks reveal the characters’ deepest thoughts and hidden passions.* “The Unexpected Man,” Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Ave., Westwood, 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 and 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 and 7 p.m. Ends Oct. 21. $30 to $46. (310) 208-5454.

8 pm: Pop Music

Universal Records launched the “Organic Soul” series in New York three years ago to showcase the label’s emerging rap and R&B; artists. Now they’re setting up a West Coast outpost, inaugurating the L.A. edition of “Organic Soul” at B.B. King’s Blues Club with a show by Warren G (who is new to Universal Records, if not to L.A. hip-hop fans) and Ms. Toi, who was the only female rapper on last summer’s Up in Smoke tour.

* Warren G and Ms. Toi, B.B. King’s Blues Club, CityWalk, Universal City, 8 p.m. $10. (818) 622-5464.

Freebies

* Gloria Contreras’ Taller Coreografico de la UNAM dances contemporary ballets from Mexico atCalifornia Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A., 8 p.m. Also Friday, noon (1-hour program) and 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 p.m. (213) 687-2159.

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* The art galleries of Silver Lake, Echo Park and Los Feliz will host their fourth annual Art Crawl this weekend. The self-guided tour encompasses 14 galleries and coincides with the Silver Lake Film Festival. Today and Friday, 7 to 11 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. A map is available at https://www.ceart.com/artcrawl. (323) 666-7667.