Packs quite a “Punch”:Touchstone Theatre presents “Jakopa’s Punch Bowl,” 7-10 p.m. Feb. 18, Charles A. Brown Ice House, Sand Island, 56 River St., Bethlehem. The Mardi Gras-themed evening of eclectic music by three local bands; New Orleans-style lite fare, like jambalaya and king cake; beer, wine and Jakopa’s punch is a concert fund-raiser for Touchstone’s ‘The Jakopa’s Punch Processional,” an outdoor, free-to-the-public, spectacle-based performance premiering July 14 and 15 along the South Bethlehem Greenway near Touchstone. The fund-raiser features headliner Jakopa’s Punch, above, including Touchstone company members and guest artists Silagh White, Steven Barnett, Emma Ackerman, Dan Leathersich, Erick Black, Jp Jordan, Jason Hedrington and Christopher Shorr performing “reimaginings” of classic pop hits. Also performing: The Bastard Sons of Burt Sugarman, a local revolving door of singer-songwriters hosted by Mike Roi and Carter Lansing, and closing act The Charts Funk Band, composed of students from the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Arts. Tickets: at the door; touchstone.org; 610-867-1689

“Underground Voices”:A lecture and music program, “Voices of the Underground Railroad,” will be presented at 1 p.m. Feb. 18, Lehigh County Historical Society’s Lehigh Valley Heritage Museum, 432 W. Walnut St., Allentown. The program, observing African-American History Month, includes traditional African-American spirituals and accounts of escaping slaves. The “Underground Railroad,” as depicted in “A Ride For Liberty: The Fugitive Slaves” by Eastman Johnson, above, was a metaphor for a network of secret routes and safe houses used by black slaves to escape from slavery into freedom, according to Joseph Garrera, Executive Director of the Museum. As black abolitionist Frederick Douglass put it, spirituals were “a testimony against slavery and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.” Information: lehighvalleyheritagemuseum.org; 610-435-1074