• Catch live Latin music from
  local artists every Thursday at Zona
  Rosa Cafe at 8:30 PM. Call (626) 793-2334.
  
• Akbar's Dirty Dirty House Club features house grooves from DJ Tony
  Powell. Doors open at 9 PM; admission is free before 10 PM. Call (323) 665-6810.
  
• Singer-songwriter Peter
  Himmelman performs
  at Amoeba Records at 7 PM .
  
• Big Rockin’ Daddy & the Usual Suspects jam at Angelica’s
  Bar & Grill every Thursday at 9 PM. For more information, call (323)
  269-5745.

See a complete list of free gigs this week.

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are free:

• Catch live Latin music from
  local artists every Thursday at Zona
  Rosa Cafe at 8:30 PM. Call (626) 793-2334.
  
• Akbar's Dirty Dirty House Club features house grooves from DJ Tony
  Powell. Doors open at 9 PM; admission is free before 10 PM. Call (323) 665-6810.
  
• Big Rockin’ Daddy & the Usual Suspects jam at Angelica’s
  Bar & Grill at 9 PM. Call (323) 269-5754.
  

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a complete list of free gigs happening this week.

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Long weekends are relaxing, but they can also be daunting. To assuage the malaise, LAist has assembled a list of musical diversions that are kind to your wallet, while also providing a nice alternative to the crowded beaches. Unless otherwise noted, all performances are free.

SATURDAY, 9/3

• Joy Burnworth, plays a free concert at The
  Promenade at Howard Hughes Center.
  The performance starts at 6pm. Call (310) 641-8073.
  
• DJs Michael Stock and Benjamin White of Part Time
  Punks begin their two month residency at
  MOCA with tracks
  from the great haunts of Manhattan circa 1979-87. Stock and White perform
  at 6pm. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore performs at 8pm. The event is free
  with general museum admission. Call (213) 621-1734.
  
• Octavio Figueroa performs Latin jazz at the Levitt
  Pavilion in Pasadena.
  The show starts at 8pm. Call (626) 683-3230 for details.
• Dirty Dirty House Club returns to Akbar with
  house grooves from DJ Tony Powell. The show starts at 9pm and admission is
  free before 10pm. Call (323) 665-6810 for more information.
  

SUNDAY, 9/4

• 
  Violinist Endre Balogh, violist Steven Gordon, cellist Dennis Karmazyn and pianist
  Genevieve Lee perform Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 26
  for the LACMA Sundays Live Series .
  The show starts at 6pm. Call (323) 857-6234.
  
• Catch the 10th
  Annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival, located between 42nd
  and 43rd Streets. The festival hours are11am-7pm. Call 213-978-0333.
  

MONDAY, 9/5

• Run Run Run start their month-long
  Monday night residency at Spaceland.
  Doors open at 8pm and the show begins at 9pm. Call (323) 661-4380