Three to See Friday: Marriner and Gogo, Great Symphonies, Titane

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Steve Marriner and David Gogo: To quote Gord Downie, “the blues are still required.” Given this, Steve Marriner is one of Canada’s busiest, bluesiest artists, playing solo or in the blues trio Monkeyjunk, taking it as hard and low as it needs. The legendary David Gogo, meanwhile, is one of Canada’s grooviest blues rockers, and if you’re after a night of slick licks and wah-wah guitar wailing, these two will surely have what you’re after, so do catch some live music while you still can.

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Details: 7:30 p.m. Friday at Arden Theatre (5 St. Anne St., St. Albert), $34 at stalbert.ca

Haydn, Bach & Wagner: Alexander Prior conducts the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in this three-part concert in the Great Symphonies series featuring Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 “London,” Bach’s Largo from the Concerto for Two Violins where we’ll see Robert Uchida and Eric Buchmann thrive, and Wagner’s rousing Siegfried Idyll, one of his pieces outside of all the opera work — a birthday present to his second wife with the beautiful name Cosima.

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Details: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Winspear Centre (4 Sir Winston Churchill Square), $32 and up at winspearcentre.com

Titane (2021): When Alexia and her family get into a car crash, she has a titanium plate fitted in her head and in recovery, she shuns her parents in favour of the car, and it just gets wilder from there. Five years after bringing audiences Raw, director Julia Ducournau returns to themes of body horror in her sophomore film — winner of the 2021 Palme d’Or at Cannes — and offers up challenges of gender and identity, while taking many visceral twists and turns.

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Details: 7 p.m. Friday, 9:30 p.m. Saturday, 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Metro Cinema (8712 109 St.), $13

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