FOLK: Joan Baez, above, released her first studio album of five years in 2008, and in 2009 is following it up with a tour, taking in Liverpool tonight. Day After Tomorrow received a 2009 Grammy Award nomination in the category of Best Contemporary Folk/American Album, proving her musical prowess after all these years.Philharmonic Hall, tickets £37.50-£42.50, 0151 709 3789.
THEATRE: The musical version of Helen Forrester’s autobiography, Twopence to Cross the Mersey returns to the Empire with a revised script. The show is a proven favourite with Liverpool audiences and promises to bring a tear to your eye.Empire Theatre until October 17, tickets £12-£26.50, 0844 847 2525.
THEATRE: RedCape Theatre presents The Idiot Colony, an inventive blend of physical theatre and text, based on real-life accounts of the treatment and incarceration of so-called “moral defectives” in 1940s England.Unity Theatre, tickets £6.50, 0151 709 4988.
