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Café Samo

Feb. 4 to 5, 7:30 p.m., Friday

4 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, $10

Humanities Center Theatre, second floor,

English Building, Santa Monica High School, 601 Pico Boulevard, www.samohichoir.org

Café Samo is a cabaret show produced by Samohi Choir Program, featuring talented student performers who create and produce their own musical acts. Food, dessert, and drinks will be for sale before shows and during intermission.

Robert Pinsky with Bobby Bradford

And His Mo ‘tet

Feb. 10, 7 p.m., free

Hammer Museum,

10899 Wilshire Boulevard

Los Angeles, www.english.ucla.edu.

Poetry and jazz together-what a concept! Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet laureate and jazz enthusiast, will read poems with accompaniment by renowned jazz musician Bobby Bradford and his Mo’tet (Bobby Bradford on cornet and trumpet; Vinny Golia on winds; Roberto Miranda on bass; Chris Garcia on drums).

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