BEST BETS JUNE 7-13

BEER

The Orléans Craft Beer Festival runs through Saturday at Centrum Plaza (255 Centrum Blvd.). The event will feature 28 Ottawa-area beer, wine and spirit vendors plus fare from local restaurants and a full lineup of bands, including festival headliner the Barstool Prophets, who play at 8 p.m. Thursday. The event runs from 3 to 11 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, and from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday. Tickets are $20 at orleansfestivals.ca. Food and beer samples not included in entrance ticket price. Tokens for food and beer available for purchase on site.

THEATRE

Almost two dozen lawyers get into the act Thursday to Saturday at the Great Canadian Theatre Company as the cast of Agatha Christie’s set of three short plays, The Rule of Three. The production will raise funds for the GCTC, and Inuit service provider and resource centre Tungasuvvingat Inuit. The fundraisers begin each night at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, available at gctc.ca or the GCTC box office, are $110 or $75 for new lawyers and include a post-show reception by Thyme & Again and Coconut Lagoon ($60 tax receipt).

JAZZ

The young Quebec Citybased trio Nouvelle R (Sylvain St- Onge on guitar, Carl Mayotte on electric bass and Olivier Bussières on drums and percussion) makes a stop in Ottawa on Friday in support of its latest release, Sénescence, a blend of jazz, folk and world music. At 8 p.m., the trio plays the intimate performance space at Record Runner Rehearsal Studios (159 Colonnade Rd. S., Unit 6). Tickets are $20 at recordrunner.ca.

The fourth annual Festival Folk et guitares d’Aylmer takes place on the Quebec side of the river, in Gatineau’s Aylmer sector, but you’ll recognize plenty of names from the greater music scene, including Rebecca Noelle, Moonfruits, Shadowhand, Bella Cat and Outside I’m a Giant. The concerts are free, starting today and running until Saturday, featuring more than 40 acts performing on five stages in the centre of the village. Participating venues include l’Autre Oeil, Bistro Vitalia, Antonyme, Café Mulligan and Bistro Mexicana 129. For more info go to ffga.ca.

FOLK

PEI’s Fluffy Little Cowboys are not fluffy, nor are they cowboys. The trio of Shelley Montreuil, Maureen Adams and Keelin Wedge are influenced by punk, spokenword poetry, country, folk, blues, and everything in between. They bring their Girl Power tour to the Ottawa area this week, with shows at Irene’s Pub on Friday ( by joined by Lanark singer-songwriter Ali McCormick), the Pembroke Pride Festival on Saturday afternoon and Burnstown’s Neat Cafe on Saturday night (with Shadowhand and Sparklesaurus). Admission is $15.

FUNK

For a big-band take on soulful funk join Ottawa musicians headed by trumpeter Ed Lister, 9:30 p.m. at Irene’s Pub on Saturday; $15 at the door.