Entertainment

Who: Incubus with Simon DawesWhere: Save-on-Foods Memorial CentreWhen: Monday nightRating: 3.5 out of 5

Who: The Moody Blues When: Monday night Where: Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Rating: 2.5 out of 5 - - - Someone mean-spirited (never a rock critic) might classify the Moody Blues as hoary, irrelevant relics from the 1960s.

Who: Xavier RuddWhere: Royal TheatreWhen: Last night Rating: 4 out of 5

If you don’t know his music, maybe you’ll remember his face. Chris Botti is something of a day-time TV fixture, a modern-day Ed McMahon, except definitely prettier (he’s been one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful People), and much handier with a trumpet.

The elderly get such short shrift in our youth-obsessed age, it’s almost startling to see a 76-year-old musician play with tremendous joie de vivre.Such was the case Sunday night at the Royal Theatre.

Who: Loreena McKennitt Where: Royal Theatre When: Friday night and tonight at 8 Rating: 4 out of 5 There was cause for rejoicing among Celtic music fans last night.

She’s a nutter, but she’s a totally unique one. She’s a star, but perhaps the unlikeliest kind to come from Canada in some time. Captivating? She’s that, too.

He may be an old duffer, but George Carlin still has fire in his belly.The much admired American comic was in fine form Sunday night. Small, wiry -- wearing a long-sleeved black T-shirt and jeans -- Carlin skewered everything from Dr.

What: Lafayette String Quartet with bassist Gary KarrWhere: Alix Goolden HallWhen: Sunday nightRating: 4 out of 5