Saturday Happenings

Photo of Amadou and Mariam from Myspace.

Amadou and Mariam are a pair of blind pop stars from Mali who fuse traditional Malian music with sounds from throughout the African diaspora and beyond to create an idiosyncratic fusion music. Living in North Carolina these days, their tunes can still be heard on dancefloors from Berlin to Bamako. Performing with Club d'Elf and Anjulie. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 8 p.m. $30.

Beer

Harpoon Brewery opens its doors and its taps for the 2009 Harpoon Summer Session. Drink beer and listen to live entertainment by certifiably decent Boston DJs and bands including Baltimoroder, Red Foxx, and Three Day Threshold. Don't be surprised if there is a sharp discrepancy between the quality of the music and the quality of the beer. Harpoon Brewery, 306 Northern Ave., (shuttles available from South Station), 3 p.m. More information.

Food

Brookline's annual Food Festival and the annual Coolidge Corner Arts Festival join forces to stuff your gullet and your aesthetic sensibilities. Devotion School, 345 Harvard St., Brookline, 11 a.m. $2 donation.

Pride

Boston Pride gathers at Faneuil Hall to celebrate a "family friendly GLBT event," which, we guess, means that there won't be any leather chaps. With DJs and live performers including DJ Shpank, Salsa y Control, Big Moves, and Gays for Patsy. Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free.

Dancehall

While you've been jamming out to Boston's new crop of reggae throwback bands, have you ever wondered what's been popping off in Jamaica these days? The answer is Movado (spelled, in all his promotional material "Mavado" to avoid a copyright suit from the watch company). Between his gig as "Gangsta for Life" and cutting dubplates for Obama, Movado still had time to cut "On the Rock," a tune so huge that Jay-Z dropped bars on the remix. You have almost certainly heard his autotuned wail drifting from open car windows Washington St., Blue Hill Ave., Tremont St., or Mass. Ave. He's the real deal. Performing with Shaggy and locals Serani Mighty Mystic. Club Lido, 1290 North Shore Rd., Revere, 8 p.m. $35.

Local Reggae

Rocking a roots style, Boston's Dis-n-Dat band offer a peace and dub counterpoint to Movado's gunman lyrics. Western Front, 343 Western Ave., Cambridge, 10 p.m. $12.

Movies

The HFA launches its Early Almodóvar with one of his earliest and one of his best. Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap (1980) was shot on 16mm and offers a cheeky take on sexual mores that was aided and abetted by the best and brightest of Madrid's underground art scene. Think John Waters meets Jim Jarmusch. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984) stakes out Almodóvar's ironic claim on Douglas Sirk and was his first international breakthrough. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. $8/$6.

Rock

We liked P.J. Harvey better when she rocked, but who are we to begrudge an artist her aesthetic maturation? Performing in ensemble with John Parish and Pop Parker. House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St., 7 p.m. $25/$35.