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MUSIC: Brooklyn-based Antibalas has made a name for themselves for mixing Afrobeat and Latin jazz sounds into a potent musical concoction. They’re at the Black Cat, with DJ Neville C. $15, 8 p.m.

HAPPY HOUR: Non-profit DC Greenworks is hosting a fundraising party they’ve dubbed “Scene on the Green” tonight at Local 16. For a suggested $10 donation, you’ll get free tastes of Leinenkugel Amber beer and other Wisconsin-themed nibbles. You should RSVP to get on the list: e-mail events(at)dcgreenworks.org. 6 to 9 p.m.

MUSIC: The D.C. based Fuse Ensemble is a collaboration between composer Gina Biver and multimedia artist Edgar Endress. The ensemble performs classical music with influences from jazz, world, minimalism, avant-garde, and electronica. Fuse will perform tonight on the Millennium Stage. 6 p.m. Free.

TALK: History buffs will want to head to the S. Dillon Ripley Center tonight for a lecture by author and historian Tony Horwitz. Horwitz is promoting his new book, A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, and will deliver a talk on “present-day sites of the Vikings, Conquistadors, lost Colonists, and other adventurers in early America.” 7 p.m., $25.

MUSIC: Chicago electronica act Future Rock will be hitting the Rock and Roll Hotel with Shout Out Out Out Out. $10, 8:30 p.m.