Your Weekend Top 5

Live music

Hard rockers E11th Hour are performing at 8 p.m. Saturday at Spurgeon’s Bay, 215 W. First St. in Dixon. Call 815-288-7229. ‎

Brush Fire Band and Knuckle Ride are playing Saturday night at Champs Sport Bar & Grill, 216 Locust St. in Sterling. Call 815-626-6003.

Pie Filler is playing from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. today and Saturday at Jeff’s Refs, 113 W. Mason St. in Polo. Call 815-946-2860.

Christian concert

STERLING – The trio Elysian will perform in concert at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at City of God, 912 W. Sixth St.

Admission is free, and free concert CDs will be available.

Call 815-535-0755 for more information.

Go to www.elysianband.com or www.facebook.com/ElysianQC to learn more about the group.

Fourth Fridays

STERLING – Artists and musicians will showcase their talents at 15 downtown venues as the 2012 season of Fourth Fridays: Where People and Art Collide kicks off tonight.

A complete schedule of events can be found at www.facebook.com/FourthFridaysPAC or call Janna Groharing, 815-625-1248, or Tim McNinch, 815-564-2787, for more information.

‘Mister Roberts’ ahoy!

BYRON – “Mister Roberts,” a rowdy, humorous saga of a group of American sailors aboard a Navy cargo vessel in the Pacific during WWII, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. today and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Byron Civic Theatre, 850 N. Colfax.

Tickets are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $6 for students at www.bctmagic.com, tickets@bctmagic.com or at the BCT box office, 815-312-3000, from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

The play runs again next weekend.

(Note: This production contains strong language that may not be suitable for some children.)

Karaoke and bags

DIXON – The public is invited to VFW Post 540’s Blind Draw Bags Tournament starting at 7 tonight. (It was postponed last week because of the weather.)

Admission is $10, partners will be drawn for the double-elimination tourney. Cash prizes will be give to first through third places.

Karaoke also starts at 7 p.m. Admission is free to singers and bags spectators.

The post is at 1560 state Route 38. Call 815-440-3054 for more information.