Be there 7-8 tonight to meet the Comets' Cynthia Cooper. At 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, watch for autograph appearances by Michael Knight, who plays Tad on ABC's All My Children. On Sunday, be on hand for high-powered gymnastics demonstrations and, at 1 p.m., a children's presentation by the Company Onstage. The works of five nationally known folk artists will go on display this weekend, with appearances by the artists scheduled today and Saturday. Pasadena native P.J. Hornberger will be represented by her wood carvings and paintings of country scenes, while Wisconsin's Joel Huntley will show off his glazed stoneware and traditional redware bean pots and soup tureens.
Admission is free.
The concerts, being staged tonight and Saturday evening, will feature Johnson's Big Blue Sound Band in new arrangements of traditional big-band jazz numbers and salutes to such great women of jazz as Liz Gray, Carolyn Blanchard, Gloria Edward and Vickie Davis. Admission is free. Presented by the Houston chapter of the United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association, the free program will feature more than 40 ballroom-dance demonstrations by talented amateurs and top professionals, according to organizers. Admission is free. The free Texaco Fiesta Sinfonica Familiar program, under the direction of conductor in residence Stephen Stein, will be presented Sunday evening at Jones Hall.