Cajun’s Wharf brings Fjord Mustang (above) for happy hour, 5:30 p.m., and Tragikly White for the night owls, 9 p.m., $5 after 8:30 p.m.
The ACAC (Arkansas Community Arts Cooperative) hosts its weekly night of verse in inVerse Open Mic Poetry Night, 6 p.m., $5.
The genre-bending, always entertaining Little Rock Jazz Quintet plays one of its first weekly stints at Ferneau in Hillcrest, 8 p.m., free.
Afterthought gets music led by a pathologist-by-day, musician-by-night with the Dr. Rex Bell Jazz Trio, 8 p.m., $5.
Winner of “America’s Funniest People” on ABC, Dante continues his stint at The Loony Bin, 8 p.m., $6.
Frown Pow’r (“Little Rock’s Black Lips,” fist pump), Iron Tongue and a few surprises take to stage for a last-minute show at Sticky Fingerz, 9 p.m., $10.
Back downtown, the Ted Ludwig Trio provides the Capitol Bar & Grill with its nightly dose of guitar jazz, 5 p.m.