8 P.M. FRIDAY

GLOVES ON: Maybe you wanted to see them at SXSW but couldn't make it to Austin. Or Pitchfork in Chicago was just too far to drive. Maybe you were too busy catching up with Friday Night Lights reruns (go Dillon Panthers!). Now, you have to travel only to downtown Miami to see Voxtrot -- if you're 18 or older, that is. Hear cuts from the band's new album Kid Gloves and opening acts The Postmarks and Jesse Jackson at 8 tonight at Studio A, 60 NE 11th St., Miami. $10. 305-358-1625. If you're still in the mood for music, Longwave with Jacob Miller performs at 8 p.m Saturday; $15.

8 P.M. FRIDAY

NESTOR TORRES: Raymond Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; $20-$80; 561-832-7469 or 800-572-8471

There's a good reason to attend Torres' ''Let There Be Light'' performance: The show by the pop flute master, a classically trained musician who has played with just about every living jazz giant, benefits the John Wurm Rehabilitation Fund. The fund was established to help Kravis Center technical director John Wurm, who suffered an intracranial hemorrhage and requires extensive rehabilitation.

8 P.M. FRIDAY

Blues man plays Sunrise

OTIS TAYLOR: Sunrise Civic Center Theatre; 10610 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise; $8-$12; 954-747-4646 or sunrisefl.gov

Who is keeping the blues alive during these dark musical days, when presumably sane people willingly listen to The Pussycat Dolls and, for reasons that elude many of us, watch them on TV? Some might credit the velvety trance stylings of Otis Taylor with keeping it real. His latest release, Definition of a Circle, covers subjects both personal and political; you may have heard his song Nasty Letter on the Shooter film soundtrack. Can't make it tonight? Taylor performs at 9:30 p.m. Saturday at the Bamboo Room, 25 South J St. in Lake Worth; $22; 561-585-2583 or bambooroom.com 8 P.M. FRIDAY AN EVENING WITH THE STARS: Secret Woods Nature Center, 2701 W. State Road 84, Dania Beach; free; 954-791-1030. Speakers discuss the night sky and offer basic telescope techniques and general astronomy information. 5-10 P.M. SATURDAY

World's their stage

GLOBAL GROOVE: ArtsPark at Young Circle, U.S. 1 and Hollywood Boulevard; free; 954-921-3404

The point is fun -- and promoting diversity -- as Global Groove kicks off in downtown Hollywood's shiny new park, which will be heaven on Earth once they get that Starbucks open down there. Lattes for all! Appearing at the festival are the Spam Allstars; circus performers who will juggle and contort themselves into really wild positions, hopefully all legal; magic and dance acts; the Miami Steel Pan Symphony; Takada Venus Rising, a female world percussion group; flamenco acts; and Rose Max and Ramatis with Brazilian bossa and samba music.

6:30 P.M. SATURDAY

A TRIBUTE TO JUDY: Judy Garland's death 38 years ago today is said to have sparked the modern gay-rights movement: On June 28, 1969, grieving drag queens rebelled during a New York City police raid at Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Saturday night, the Miami-Dade Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce pays homage to Garland at its annual awards dinner. Jim Bailey, who made a career impersonating the legendary singing star, performs as her at the gala, which begins with 6:30 p.m. cocktails at the Radisson Miami Ballroom, 1601 Biscayne Blvd. Emmy-winner Sharon Gless (Cagney & Lacey, Queer As Folk) will introduce Bailey. Tickets are $140 per person, $1,150 per table of 10. Valet parking is included. Contact the chamber for details: www.gogaymiami.com or 305-573-4000.

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