POP MUSIC
WYCLEF JEAN / / 9 p.m. Thursday. Rams Head Live, 20 Market Place. $27.50-$30. 410-244-1131 or ramsheadlive.com.
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One of the standout pop / hip-hop performers to emerge in the 1990s, Wyclef Jean made a name for himself as a rapper, songwriter and producer. Along with his old high school classmates Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel, Jean formed the Fugees and released The Score, the multiplatinum 1996 classic that spawned such hits as "Killing Me Softly" and "Fu-Gee-La." Last month, Jean released The Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant, the Grammy winner's sixth solo effort. Studded with several marquee names including Paul Simon, Norah Jones and Mary J. Blige, the CD is Jean's most sprawling, daring album.
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[RASHOD D. OLLISON]
CLASSICAL
KING TRIBUTE / / 8 p.m. Tuesday. Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, 1212 Cathedral St. $10-$55. 410-783-8000 or bsomusic.org.
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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Soulful Symphony and Morgan State University Choir are coming together for the State of Maryland's 22nd Annual Tribute to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday. Soulful Symphony founder Darin Atwater will host the concert, which features two conductors. Joseph Young, the first BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellow, will lead musicians from both orchestras in works by noted African- American composers, past and present -- William Grant Still, Duke Ellington, Adolphus Hailstork and Baltimore-based James Lee III (a movement from his brilliant Beyond Rivers of Vision, premiered by the National Symphony in 2006).
On the second half of the program, current Morgan State Choir music director Eric Conway will conduct the combined orchestral and vocal forces in works arranged or composed by his predecessor, the late, inspiring and inspired Nathan Carter.
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[TIM SMITH]
FILM
POE TALES / / 3 p.m. Saturday. Enoch Pratt Free Library Southeast Anchor branch, 3601 Eastern Ave. Free. 410-396-1580 or prattlibrary.org / calendar.
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