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Upset that Glenn Hughes and David Coverdale were turning Deep Purple a little to funkalicious for his liking, in 1975 guitarist Richard Blackmore formed Rainbow. In the last 35 years the band has undergone more facelifts than Joan Collins and been renamed more times than Prince, and so now they are embarking on a Eastern European tour under the name Over the Rainbow. Although none of the original members remain, alumni Joe Lynn Turner, Bobby Rondinelli, Toney Carey and Greg Smith return, while Blackmore’s son Jurgen Richard Blackmore Jr. completes the line up. Catch them tonight at B1Maximum at 9 p.m. Cover is 1,500 rubles.

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Starting today at the Krasny Oktyabr factory is the second exhibition produced by Baibakov Art Projects. “Miracles. New Art from London” welcomes works by 20 young artists who are currently making waves in the London art scene. Founder Mariya Baibakova has teamed up with London curator Nick Hakworth to bring over a huge selection of video installations, paintings and sculptures by the likes of Mark Leckey (who won the 2008 Turner Prize for his video art piece “Industrial Light and Magic”), Pakistani sculptor Shezad Dawood, Conrad Shawcross and Toby Ziegler. “Miracles. New Art from London” runs until April 5 and entry is 100 rubles.

Considering that foreign bands have now all but given up on coming to Moscow, it’s something of a coup for Tabula Rasa to snap up Canada’s undisputed kings of Scottish-influenced Celtic punk rock, The Real McKenzies. The band describe themselves as “Sex Pistols meets Scottish folk legend Robbie Burns,” blending electric guitar punk with the sound of the bag pipes, and live shows are, of course, carried out in full highland-punk attire — kilts, Mohawks and leather. Tonight they land at Tabula Rasa as part of their European tour. Find out if Celtic punks wear anything under their kilts by turning up for the 7 p.m. start and paying the 700-ruble cover charge.

The main draw at this year’s Jazz Town Festival at Jazz Town will be the velvet-smooth stylings of Puerto Rican saxophonist David Sanchez. A disciple of the great John Purcell, Sanchez grew up on the rumba beats of Afro-Caribbean and danza before his formal musical training turned him on to the work of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Since cutting his teeth with Dizzie Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra he has gone on to release seven solo albums, including “Coral” in 2004, which won Grammy Award for Best Jazz Ensemble Album. Tonight, see him jam with pianist Andrei Kondakov and the Jazz Town Band from 9 p.m. Cover is 1,000 rubles.

Today Russians celebrate all things manly in honor of Defender of the Fatherland Day, more colloquially referred to as Men’s Day, a holiday which marks the first mass draft of soldiers into the Red Army back in 1918 and now serves as an unofficial counterpart to Women’s Day on March 8. To mark the occasion Mayor Luzhkov has organized over 140 different celebratory events around the city during the course of the day, and the concert by the Alexandrov Red Army Academic Song and Dance Ensemble at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall is the one that involves the least standing around in the cold. It begins at 7 p.m. and tickets start at 1,200 rubles.

Azerbaijani painter Tahir Salahov was the progenitor of “surovy stil” (“severe style”), a movement among Soviet artists in the ‘60s reacting against the idealistic propaganda popularized by government-supported socialist realism art. The Yekaterina Cultural Foundation will host a personal retrospective of Salahov’s work, in which it will display a selection of new works by the artist, as well as charting his progression from a bitter anti-establishment painter reacting against the execution of his father in 1937 to the more sedate and Eastern-inspired pieces of his later years. Entry to the exhibition, which has been running from the beginning of January until March 1, is 100 rubles.