Acclaimed soprano Andrea Edith Moore joins poet Jefferey Beam and special guests in a music/poetry collaboration, "American Song with Andrea Edith Moore and Friends," at 3 p.m. Sunday in Hill Hall on the UNC campus. Moore will singand Beam will read from his "Life of the Bee."

The superb singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards, who celebrated the release of her latest album "Voyageur" with a performance on "Late Night With David Letterman," will be at the Cat's Cradle, 300 E. Main St., Carrboro, Tuesday with guest Hannah Georgas. 967-9053, catscradle.com.

The Playwrights Roundtable at The ArtsCenter presents Paul Newell's imaginative rumination on what Mark Twain might have to say about the state of the world today, in "Mark Twain Now," at 8 p.m. Saturday. Newell's Twain turns his barbed wit on politics, religion, race, and the Gilded Age past and present, among other topics. 919-929-2787, artscenterlive.org.