Start your weekend like I do,

(Friday, October 23rd,) enjoying Occasional Jazz, 5 p.m., Contented Cow…

…then it’s Joe Meyer, 7 p.m., Tavern Lounge (riverside of the Archer House), Ah Wilderness!, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater, Contra Dance, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m., Northfield Armory, Bernard Allison (pictured), 8 to 11 p.m., The Grand, D J Music, Rueb’N’Stein, and Area 51 at the Contented Cow.

Saturday, October 24th, it’s the YMCA Fall Classic, 7:30 – 9 a.m. registration, the South Central Studio Tour, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with a couple of dozen artists in the Northfield Area participating, Nancy Carlson Book Event, 7 p.m., Northfield Public Library, John Carey, 7 p.m., Tavern Lounge, Ah, Wilderness!, 7:30 p.m., Northfield Arts Guild Theater, Dime-Store Watch, 8 p.m., Contented Cow, D J Music, 9 p.m. Rueb’N’Stein, and D J Music at Froggy Bottoms.

Sunday, October 25th, it’s the second day of the South Central Studio Tour, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Ah, Wilderness!, Northfield Arts Guild Theater, and then Politics and a Pint, 6 p.m., Northern Roots Session, 7 p.m., and Quiz Night, 8 p.m., all at the Contented Cow.