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The Westhaven Center for the Arts presents a "psychedelic Indian hootenanny" at 7 p.m. as local 10-piece Kirtan plays an evening of music that includes classic spiritual hippie rock covers from the Forrest Gump generation, as well as funky grooves, blues jams and chanting. ($5-$20 sliding scale). It's a mini-orchestra of old-school crossover psychedelia designed to decalcify whichever gland you want awakened.

Over in Eureka at 9 p.m. Portland poet John Dooley and Humboldt's own Mister Moonbeam team up for an evening of words set to music as part of a CD and book release party at Synapsis showcasing the former's newest work ($5).