Best Bets

Today

Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships, noon-9 p.m., South Park.

Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band Open Jam, 1 p.m.-5 p.m., Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester, Kansas City, Mo.

Y’allapalooza, featuring Montgomery Gentry and Jo Dee Messina, 2:30 p.m., Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Mass.

Crossroads Music Festival, featuring The Down Trunks, Pendergast and more, 3 p.m., Grinders Sculpture Park, 18th and Locust.

The Heebie Jeebies, 6 p.m. (early show), The Gaslight Tavern, 317 N. Second.

The Crumpletons, 7:30 p.m., Abe & Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth.

Eumenides by Aeschylus, 7:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Parkville Days Riverfest, featuring Bobby Carson and Back Porch Blues Band, 7:30 p.m., Main Street, Parkville, Mo.

Tech N9ne (above), Kutt Calhoun, Potluck, SG, 8 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mass.

Sleeping Dogs, 8 p.m., Vermont Street BBQ, 728 Mass.

Baliroot, 9 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St.

Vibralux, Mercury Mad and Her Dolls, Stilborn, One Million Tiny Jesuses, 9 p.m., The Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

Buffalo Saints, Gourmet Mushroom X, 10 p.m., The Replay Lounge, 946 Mass.

Dead Girls Ruin Everything, The Spitting Cobras, 10 p.m., The Jackpot Saloon, 943 Mass.

James Brown Party, 10 p.m., The Gaslight Tavern, 317 N. Second St.