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EVENT: Carnegie Hall's Neighborhood Concert Series brings Kristoffer Saebo and Arthur Sato to the stage tonight. The two "collaborated on this interactive, educational concert that will feature music of the Baroque era and of various folk traditions." It's a great excuse to go to the Angel Orensanz Foundation.

7:30 p.m. // Angel Orensanz Foundation [172 Norfolk St] // Free

READING: Tonight Dave Eggers and Peter Orner present Underground America at 826NYC. This is the latest in Egger's "Voice of Witness" series which "allows those most affected by contemporary social injustice to speak for themselves. Using oral history as its foundation, Voice of Witness seeks to illustrate human rights crises through the voices of the victims." More details here.

8 p.m. // 826NYC [372 5th Ave, Brooklyn] // Free

MUSIC: The Jealous Girlfriends will celebrate their debut album tonight with the first of three NYC shows in one week (the other two are at Mercury Lounge next Tuesday and Wednesday). Joining them tonight at Union Pool are Sam Champion and I Am The Bison (Sam Cohen of Apollo Sunshine's one man band).

8 p.m. // Union Pool [484 Union Ave, Brooklyn] // $

THEATER: Damascus, by Scottish writer David Greig, concerns the disorienting journey of a middle-class Scotsman trying to sell an "integrated English language learning system" to the Syrians. He has a chance to mix business with romance when he meets his lovely and sophisticated client, but can’t seem to close the deal. Rachel Saltz’s mixed review for the Times says, “Greig wants to take us inside a world we don’t often see onstage: that of the Arab intellectual. [His] desire to integrate the comic and the darkly serious has urgency, but too often those impulses are at war with each other.” But The Scotsman insists it’s “a hugely entertaining contemporary comedy.” – John Del Signore

8 p.m. // 59E59 [59 East 59th Street] // Tickets cost $47.50