Still Fab:The Fab Faux, a Beatles tribute band and a State Theatre audience favorite, returns to perform hits from the solo years plus a mix of Beatles’ favorites, 8 p.m. March 12, State Theatre Center for the Arts, Easton. The Fab Faux is known for its painstaking recreations of Beatles’ songs, including “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “I Am the Walrus” performed in complete part-perfect renditions, or such harmony-driven songs as “Because,” “Nowhere Man” and “Paperback Writer,” reproduced not only note-for-note, but with extra vocalists to achieve a double-tracked effect. The Fab Faux was founded in 1998 by Will Lee, bassist for Paul Shaffer’s CBS Orchestra on the “Late Show With David Letterman,” and includes Jimmy Vivino, music director-guitarist for “Conan’; lead-singer-drummer-producer Rich Pagano; guitarist Frank Agnello, and multi-instrumentalist Jack Petruzzelli. All five contribute vocals, enhanced on select shows by the four-piece Hogshead Horns and The Creme Tangerine Strings. “Amazingly, they’re so good at it you learn new things about the originals,” said Dave Marsh, rock critic and Sirius Radio Host. Tickets: State Theatre Box Office, 453 Northampton St., Easton; statetheatre.org, 1-800-999-STATE, 610-252-3132

“Bright Side”:John Gorka plays a concert at 7 p.m. March 11, Godfrey Daniel’s, 7 E. Fourth St., Bethlehem, in celebration of his 12th studio album, “Bright Side of Down,” out now on Red House Records. The first release in more than four years from the acclaimed songwriter widely regarded as “one of contemporary folk music’s leading talents” has guest vocals by Red House labelmates Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson, Claudia Schmidt and Michael Johnson. The 11 original songs and one cover (by Bill Morrissey) explore themes of winter-to-spring, unforgiving edges, saving beauty and being at the mercy of larger forces. The album opens with uptempo “Holed Up Mason City” and ends with a reflection on spring, “Really Spring.” Gorka experiences the “Procrastination Blues,” shares the charming “Honeybee” and the timely story of “High Horse.” “I think my experience living in Minnesota has brought a certain perspective to this record,” Gorka says. “You’ll find it in the images but also in the idea that in spite of bitter cold and wind, people find ways to hold each other up and keep going.” Tickets: godfreydaniels.org, 610-867-2390