Indy Jazz Fest

When: Through Sept. 27.

Where: Various locations.

Tickets: $30 per day at the gate for outdoor concerts. Prices vary for indoor shows. (www.indyjazz fest.net).

On Tuesday, Charlie Hunter, Garaj Mahal and the Twin Cats play at the Vogue, and the Jazz Kitchen hosts a CD release concert featuring Mark Buselli and the Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra. Singer Claudia Acuna will perform Wednesday at the Jazz Kitchen. And a host of musicians will pay tribute to late trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Friday at the Madame Walker Theatre.

On Saturday and Sept. 27, the festival heads to The Lawn at White River State Park for performances by Branford Marsalis, Marcus Miller, Poncho Sanchez and others.

— Shelby Roby-Terry

Violin competition benefit concert

Where: Indianapolis Civic Theatre, 3200 Cold Spring Road.

When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Tickets: $22, $17 for seniors, $10 for students. Tickets for the private post-concert reception package are $75. For information, call (317) 637-4574 or visit www.violin.org.

It will be a family affair when violinist Jaime Laredo and his wife, cellist Sharon Robinson, open the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis’ Laureate Series with Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia for Violin and Cello.

The Miami String Quartet, which includes Robinson’s brother Keith and sister-in-law, Cathy Meng Robinson, will play Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1. All four will be joined by the rest of the Miami Quartet, plus violinist Ida Kavafian and violist Steven Tenenbom, for Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20.

— Jay Harvey

Bob Tom Comedy All-Stars

When: 7 and 10 p.m. Saturday.

Where: Murat Theatre, 502 N. New Jersey St.

Tickets: $40.50 and $30.50. For more information, visit www.livenation.com or call (877) 598-8703.

Having a TV show on WGN America has increased the profiles of Bob Kevoian and Tom Griswold, but the radio personalities have been familiar faces in Indianapolis for more than two decades.

The duo will work a late shift with Chick McGee and Kristi Lee — as well as hard-partying Donnie Baker — for two shows at the Murat.

Tim Wilson of “First Baptist Bar Grill” and “Church League Softball Fistfight” fame leads a roster of stand-up specialists that includes Costaki Economopoulos, Tim Bedore and Patti Vasquez.

— David Lindquist