GOING OUT FEB. 7 TO 13

THEATRE

Undercurrents, the Ottawa-based festival of contemporary theatre, began Wednesday and runs until Feb. 16. Produced by Ottawa Fringe, the event at Arts Court presents multiple performances of eight works, from Carmen Aguirre’s play-in-a-salsalesson Broken Tailbone to the one-man play Tales of an Urban Indian, staged on an OC Transpo bus. Single tickets are $20, day passes are $32 and a festival pass is $100. Schedule and tickets: undercurrentsfestival.ca.

CLASSICAL

In his last appearance as a soloist with an orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven set his hands on the keys in 1808 and premièred his fourth piano concerto. At Southam Hall on Feb. 7 and 8, renowned American virtuoso Yefim Bronfman, who has called Beethoven’s concertos the foundation of pianists’ existence, will bring that piece to life. Over the years, the orchestra has performed this work with such stellar pianists as Anton Kuerti, Garrick Ohlsson, Angela Hewitt and, in 2016, Rudolf Buchbinder. Under the baton of conductor John Storgårds, the orchestra will also perform Arvo Pärt’s Trisagion and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5 in D major. The concert begins each night at 8 p.m. Tickets starting at $35.25, including taxes and fees, are available at nac-cna. ca and the NAC box office.

FILM

Carleton University and the Canadian Film Institute present the fourth-annual African Film Festival of Ottawa, which runs from Saturday through Feb. 16 at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Curated by Carleton film studies professor Aboubakar Sanogo, the festival, which is being held for the first time during Black History Month, will screen five recent movies by filmmakers in Senegal, Morocco, Zambia, Nigeria and Kenya. General admission is $14, or $10 for students, seniors, children under 10, and members of the film institute and art gallery. Information: cfi-icf.ca/aff.

JAZZ

In 2017, Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Maya Rae made CBC’s list of the 35 best Canadian jazz musicians under the age of 35, even though she was barely into her teens. Now 16, Rae makes her debut in Ottawa on Saturday night at GigSpace (953 Gladstone Ave.), supported by the superb Vancouver pianist Miles Black, bassist Lauren Falls and drummer Morgan Childs. The music at the intimate, 46-seat venue begins at 7:30 p.m., and tickets are $25, available at gigspace.ca.

R&B

The funky, Ottawa-based tribute project 33z makes its annual reappearance at the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival on Friday when the band, co-directed by hornmen Ed Lister and Petr Cancura, tips its hat to the music of Aretha Franklin. A parade of singers including Kellylee Evans, Rebecca Noelle, Jeff Rogers, Doressa Dorcilhomme, Anna Campbell, Deedee Butters and Michael Curtis Hanna will tackle songs associated with the late Queen of Soul. The band’s concert is at 6 p.m. at La Nouvelle Scène on King Edward Avenue. Admission for the concert is $30 plus HST and fees at ottawajazzfestival.com. (Day passes for that night’s four concerts are sold out.)