Weekend music: an old favorite, and a new twist

Along with sweet corn, one of the Valley’s summer institutions for years has been a free concert staged by singer-songwriter Roger Salloom and his musical friends. This year is no exception: On Saturday, Aug. 17, Salloom will come to the Glendale Ridge Vineyard in Southampton for a 5:30-8:30 p.m. show that will see him sharing the stage with several other players, including Seth Glier, Rudi Weeks, Peter Grimadi and others.

Blues and gospel singer Ptah Brown of New York City, who has played with a veritable Who’s-Who of artists such as Wilson Pickett, Patti LaBelle and Buckwheat Zydeco, is also a special guest of the show. Singer-songwriter Nate Martell opens.

Salloom’s career stretches back to the 1960s, when he was part of San Francisco’s pop and psychedelic music scene alongside Santana, Van Morrison, BB King and other artists. A longtime songwriter whose music has embraced pop, folk and rock, he’s marked the later years of his career playing and sharing the stage with many other musicians, including the late Charles Neville.

And for 36 years, he’s offered a free concert every summer with the support of local businesses and organizations.

In the event of rain, Saturday’s show will be take place Sunday at the same time. Picnics at Glendale Ridge Winery are welcome, but no outside alcohol is permitted.

And there’s more music further north in the Valley on Saturday: “Barbès in the Woods” is a day-long (1 p.m. to 11 p.m.) festival in Montague that’s inspired by a bar/performance space of the same name in Brooklyn, N.Y. Saturday’s show features 11 bands and artists playing varied music that represents, organizers say, an “exploration of global musical genres and their transliteration into the North American musical bloodstream by way of the New York islands.”

The festival is co-produced by Laudable Productions of Easthampton, World Music Collider and the Brooklyn bar. It takes place at 27 Center St. in Montague on a 12-acre property of fields and forest that’s adjacent to the Sawmill Conservation Area. There will also be food and beverage on hand, art installations and pop-up theater performances. For more info and to purchase tickets, visit barbesinthewoods.com.

Can you see the real me?

In 1972-73, Pete Townsend of The Who was trying to come up with another concept album that would follow in the footsteps of 1969’s “Tommy” (and to some extent 1971’s “Who’s Next”).

The guitarist and chief songwriter for The Who eventually produced “Quadrophenia,” a double-album rock opera that explored the Mod subculture in Great Britain in the early 1960s, a trend that saw teens and young people obsessing over stylish clothes, music like American soul and blues, and Italian motorbikes.

The album met with critical and popular success, and it — as well as the great liner notes Townsend wrote for the record, which read like a short story — also inspired the 1979 film of the same name, which plays at the Amherst Cinema on Friday, Aug. 16 at 9:45 p.m.

The film captures the mood and sensibility of Britain in the early rock and roll era, following young Mod Jimmy (Phil Daniels) as he tries to wring meaning from his life. He’s got a dead-end job and a frosty relationship with his parents, but he’s got a cool motorbike and the potential for love with the girl of his dreams, Steph (Leslie Ash). He’s also revved up on amphetamines and looking to fight with some Rockers, the rival teen sub-culture of the era. But as the movie progresses, Jimmy’s world starts to fall apart.

If it all sounds like another story of teenage angst, it is — but it’s well done, has a great soundtrack and has held up well over the years. “Quadrophenia” also marked the first screen appearance of Sting, playing a hot-shot Mod, “Ace Face,” who ends up dashing Jimmy’s last hopes. Good stuff.

— Steve Pfarrer