all day: Movies

The Reel Black Cowboy Film Festival honors the legacy of African American cowboys with two days of screenings at the Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage. “The Cowboys,” with Roscoe Lee Browne, “Silverado” and “The Tracker” will be shown Saturday. The miniseries “Return to Lonesome Dove” screens Sunday. On Saturday, at 1:30 p.m., there will be a panel discussion on “The Way and Life of the Cowboy.”

* The Reel Black Cowboy Film Festival, Gene Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 4700 Western Heritage Way, L.A., Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. $3 to $7. (323) 737-3292.

5 pm: Jazz

Guitarist George Benson, pianist Ramsey Lewis and percussionist Poncho Sanchez will headline the second annual Playboy Jazz Festival on Tour at the Santa Barbara Bowl. The Santa Barbara High School Jazz Band will also perform.

* Playboy Jazz Festival on Tour, Santa Barbara Bowl, 1122 N. Milpas Street, 5 p.m. $34 to $57. (805) 962-7411.

10am: Tour

There are walking tours, and then there are aerobic exercise workouts with scenery. The Historic Echo Park Walking Tour might lean toward the latter. The two-hour trek through the hilly neighborhood and neighboring Elysian Heights includes one of the city’s tallest public stairways, the 240-step Baxter stairs. The tour also includes Fellowship Park and a house designed by modernist Harwell Harris.

* Historic Echo Park Walking Tour. Meet at 10 a.m. at Elysian Heights Elementary School, 1562 Baxter St., at Echo Park Avenue. Limited to 20 people. $3. Free for age 12 and younger. Reservations: (213) 482-4458.

1:30 pm: Theater

In “Twinkle! Twinkle!,” a world premiere musical by Richard Erdman and composer Don Piestrup, a former “almost star” buys a dilapidated old mansion filled with memories of Hollywood’s Golden Age and more: It’s haunted by the spirits of Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper and James Cagney. The California Artists’ Radio Theatre cast includes Leslie Easterbrook, Alan Oppenheimer, William Windom, Linda Henning, Tom Hatten, Beverly Garland, Marvin Kaplan and other radio, stage and screen veterans.

* “Twinkle! Twinkle!,” California Artists Radio Theatre at the Cinegrill, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, 7000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Saturday at 1:30 p.m., Sunday at 1:30 and 7 p.m. $20. (213) 683-3422.

10 am: Family

Storyteller Leslie Perry and the Three Peace Ensemble team up for colorful tale-spinning, improvised new world music and audience participation in “Home Grown,” presented by the Ford Theatre’s outdoor “Big/World/Fun” series.

* “Home Grown,” John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, 10 a.m.; pre-show craft activities, 9 a.m. Adults, $4; children, free. (323) 461-3673.

8 pm: Music

Cliburn silver medalist Antonio Pompa-Baldi is soloist in the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Pacific Symphony, Carl St.Clair conducting, for “The Planets!,” part of the orchestra’s outdoor Irvine series. St.Clair also leads Holst’s “The Planets,” and, with fireworks, John Williams’ “Star Wars” music.

* “The Planets!,” Pacific Symphony, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 8808 Irvine Center Drive, Irvine, 8 p.m. $18 to $67. (714) 755-5799.

8 pm: Pop Music

With gossamer, wry songs that veer from celebrations of life’s random joys in the sunshine to heart-wrenching episodes of loss and grief, the Eels, who play the Roxy on Saturday, have carved out a singular spot in the Los Angeles music scene. The group’s leader, E, often channels a Beatle-esque sensibility that has earned sparkling reviews for its latest albums, last year’s “Daisies of the Galaxy” and the far darker “Electro-Shock Blues.”

* The Eels, Roxy, 9009 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, 8 p.m. $15. (310) 278-9457.

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Freebie

* Led by Gregory Maldonado, the Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra plays Handel’s “Water Music” on the outdoor Grand Performances stage at California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Ave., L.A., 8 p.m. (213) 687-2159.