Brad Paisley.Music: Brad Paisley got his start in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia, and since then he’s gathered up every important award in country music. He’s on the road a lot, too, and on Saturday afternoon, he’s at the Cruzan for a stop on his H20 World Tour. The tour will feature a “water world plaza” meant to evoke summer and water fun, as part of Paisley’s efforts on behalf of a campaign to bring clean drinking water to needy communities across the country and around the world.
Darius Rucker.His special guests include Darius Rucker, the Hootie and the Blowfish front man whose forays into country music have been well-received, and up and coming singer/songwriter Justin Moore. The concert is set for 4 p.m. at the Cruzan, and tickets are $23.25-$58. For more information, visit www.Live Nation.com.
A Su Salud, by Katherine Morgan.Art: Photographer Katherine Morgan focuses on the “true beauty” of flowers in her work, and starting tonight, the Boca Raton resident is launching a brief show at the Caldwell Theatre to raise funds for the theater company. Close Up: The Inner Beauty of Flowers features 25 for-sale prints of her flower portraits, and Morgan plans to donate 20 percent of all sales to the Caldwell.
The art show runs through Sept. 5 and opens along with The Comfort of Darkness, a world premiere play by Joel Gross based on the story of Dr. Anton Mesmer, who gave his name (mesmerism) to his theories of hypnosis, and his patient, the beautiful blind pianist Maria-Theresa von Paradis. Stevie Ray Dallimore and Jessalyn Maguire star. For more information, call 241-7432 or visit www.caldwelltheatre.com.
A scene from Woman Rebel.Film: Earlier this year, documentarian Kiran Deol’s 37-minute look at the Maoist female rebels of Nepal, Woman Rebel, screened twice at the Delray Beach Film Festival. Wednesday night, the film comes to HBO2 at 8 p.m., with a repeat showing at 11:45 a.m. Aug. 26. The film focuses on one of the members of the rebel army, which was 40 percent female, and her transformation into a government official seeking to make peace. Deol, a Spanish River High School graduate, began filming the movie in Nepal the day after she graduated from Harvard. The film’s executive producer is Robert Richter, whose credits include an Emmy-winning look at the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.