Mad Trucker Gone Mad . The nine-time Grammy winner comes to the Pabst Theater on Sunday for a 7 p.m. show. The Center Street Celebration, running noon to 7 p.m. Sunday on Center Street between Humboldt and Fratney, features art, food and music from Les Lokey , the Mosleys , the Great Outdoors and other local acts. The tuba is featured at the 7 p.m. Wednesday Festival City Symphony performance. Tuba soloist Dan Neesley will highlights his weighty horn as an orchestral instrument at the Memorial Hall in the War Memorial Center.
Admission is free.
Bad Boy , perhaps the most popular rock band from Milwaukee in the '70s, will mark the release of its new best-of CD with a Friday night show at Shank Hall. Harper is touring in support of The Dream Society , his first studio album since 1992's Death or Glory . Intelligent new rock survived the grunge era in the form of Colorado's House of Large Sizes , a band drawing influence from Cheap Trick, X and Jane's Addiction. They play the Globe East Sunday. One of Milwaukee's heaviest new bands, Big Dumb Dick , plays the Globe West Friday with Madison's Kook .