Buckets & Boots benefit: Given the increase in wildfires in our state in recent years, this event is more important than ever. Proceeds benefit volunteer fire departments in Palo Pinto County and surrounding areas, and you'll get to hear some great music. Headliner is Robert Earl Keen, with openers Charlie Robison, Cody Canada, Mickey and the Motorcars and others. All day Saturday at Rocker B Ranch, 1125 Chaney Lane, Graford. $75 (camping available). 817-984-8532; www.bucketsandboots.org
Shakespeare Dallas: Fort Worth's Trinity Shakespeare Festival opened this week, and next up is the 40-year-old Dallas Shakes, which still does it outdoors, for your picnicking pleasure. Twelfth Night opens Friday, and the rarely done Coriolanus the week after. The plays run in rotating rep, through July 15. Samuell-Grand Park Amphitheater, 1500 Tenison Parkway, Dallas. $10 Friday and Saturday; free Sundays and Tuesdays-Thursdays, although donation suggested. 214-559-2778; www.shakespearedallas.org
Solar Powered Music Festival: This free musical festival is cool for several reasons. First, '80s bands the English Beat and the Romantics, and more. Next, it benefits the DFW Pug Rescue. Doors open at 2 p.m., music starts at 3:15 p.m. Saturday at Panther Island Pavilion, 1048 Peach St., Fort Worth. Free admission, but donations encouraged. Pug Passes ($35) get you a backstage Rahr tour, T-shirt and two drink tickets. www.solarpoweredfest.com
Van Halen and LMFAO: Not together, of course, because that would just be cuckoopants. But both acts are at American Airlines Center in Dallas this week. The doofy dance-starters LMFAO headline the "Sorry for Party Rocking" tour, 7 p.m. Friday ($25-$65). Van Halen, which has done plenty of party-rocking in its day, turns up 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Kool and the Gang is opening, and, no, that isn't a misprint. ($29.50-$149.50). AAC is at 2500 Victory Lane, Dallas. 800-745-3000; www.ticketmaster.com
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra presents Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: As adorbs as the FWSO's conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya is (not to mention several of the players), the symphony can't pack in young female ticket buyers like the Depp can. The orchestra plays the score to the first "Pirates" film, while the movie plays overhead. 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Bass Hall, Fort Worth. $29-$75. 817-665-6000; www.fwsymphony.org
Oak Cliff Film Festival: Oak Cliff and the Aviation Cinema folks don't do things to anyone else's beat, so why should their first film festival be of the norm? That it ain't. Just check out the lineup. The fest runs Thursday through Sunday at the Texas Theatre, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd., and other venues in Oak Cliff (Bishop Arts Theater, Kessler Theater, Belmont Hotel, etc.). 214-948-1546; www.thetexastheatre.com
Dallas Arts District Block Party: Bollywood dance, progressive museum tours, music from Salim Nourallah and the Travoltas and an outdoor screening of 500 Days of Summer are part of this fourth annual happening, 6 p.m.-midnight Friday at Flora and Harwood streets in the Dallas Arts District. Free. www.thedallasartsdistrict.org/events/
Danny Boyle's Frankenstein: If you missed it last year, check out an encore screening of the National Theatre of London's production of Danny Boyle's (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) version of the Mary Shelley story Frankenstein. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternate in the roles of the doc and his monster. Presented by Amphibian Stage Productions at 2 and 7 p.m. Thursday and June 21 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. $18. 817-923-3012; www.amphibianproductions.org
The Cult: If you're not aware of the greatness of this post-punk, alt-metal band, we suggest you seek out 1985's excellent Love. Then get tix to this concert. 8 p.m. Wednesday at House of Blues, 2200 N. Lamar St., Dallas. $27.50-$49.50. 214-978-2583; www.houseofblues.com
Il Divo: The original "popera" supergroup returns to town, belting out the big hits from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as the 20th. 8 p.m. Wednesday at Verizon Theatre at Grand Prairie. $32.50-$129.75. 800-745-3000; www.ticketmaster.com
Oklahoma!: In case you need to be reminded why this 1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical is the most important work in the canon -- the first time story, music, dance and characters came together so seamlessly -- Lyric Stage revives it with a full orchestra (33 pieces!). Friday through June 24. Irving Arts Center, 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd., Fort Worth. $25-$50. 972-252-2787; www.lyricstage.org
"The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings From the Clark": It's the last weekend for the museum's big-hit show, so get those tickets and plan for line-waiting. Through Sunday at Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth. 817-332-8451; www.kimbellart.org