SOUL MUSIC IN BROOKLYN The next installment of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert series features the O’Jays (tonight). Upcoming highlights: Hezekiah Walker (August 8), Chaka Kahn (August 15), and the Mighty Sparrow (August 22). Mondays through August 22, 7:30 p.m., Wingate Field, Winthrop Street between Brooklyn and Kingston avenues, Brooklyn, 718-469-1912, free.

UZBEK DEBUTS As part of a cultural exchange program between America and Central Asia, musicians from Uzbekistan make their New York premiere along with members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars at Tonic. The performers play traditional Uzbek instruments such as the doyra drum, the flutes surnay and kornay,and stringed dutar and tanbur. Tomorrow, 8 p.m., Tonic, 107 Norfolk St., between Delancey and Rivington streets, 212-358-7504, $10.

WHERE BLUEBIRDS FLY Caramoor presents “Sing My Heart: Celebrating Harold Arlen at 100” for the songwriter’s centennial, featuring Tony Award-winning singer Judy Kaye. Arlen wrote more than 400 songs, the most famous of which was “Over the Rainbow.” Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30 p.m., Caramoor, 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, N.Y., 914-232-5035, $55.

LAND DOWN UNDER CANAL STREET Singersongwriter Colin Hay performs with a full band at the Canal Room. Mr. Hay recently contributed a song to the “Garden State” soundtrack, but older fans may remember him as the front man for the ’80s band Men at Work. Thursday, 8 p.m., Canal Room, 285 West Broadway, between Canal and Lispenard streets, 212-941-8100, $24.

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