BEST BETS Saturday 10/21

HUNTINGTON BEACH

1pm

Pop Music

“West Coast House Party,” the third solo album from Anaheim blues guitarist Kid Ramos, is a high-powered salute to the blues form’s many West Coast practitioners. Whether in a duo setting with such frequent partners as harpist-singer Lynwood Slim or pianist-vocalist Gene Taylor, or with a full band (as will be the case in this free show at Huntington Beach Pier Plaza), Ramos draws upon a seemingly bottomless well of musical influences and inspirations.

* The Kid Ramos Band, Huntington Beach Pier Plaza, Pacific Coast Highway at Main Street. 1 p.m. Free. (714) 536-5486.

COSTA MESA

8pm

Music

Formed in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II, the NDR Symphony Hamburg (North German Radio Orchestra) will play Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola and Mahler’s First Symphony, under the direction of Christoph Eschenbach. The concert is part of the Eclectic Orange Festival sponsored by the Philharmonic Society.

* NDR Symphony Hamburg, Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. 8 p.m. $15 to $55. (714) 556-2787.

FOUNTAIN VALLEY

9pm

Pop Music

One of the leading lights of alternative country even before she was a member of the Screaming Sirens country-punk band in the early ‘80s, Rosie Flores continues to prize cliche-free country that aims for the most tender corners of the human heart. But the Texas-born, Southern California-reared singer-songwriter-guitarist knows how to kick up her heels and have a rockin’ good time too. Both are evident on her latest album, 1999’s “Dance Hall Dreams,” and should be in ample supply in this O.C. return date.

* Rosie Flores, Abilene Rose, 10830 Warner Ave., Fountain Valley. 9 p.m. $10. (714) 963-1700.

CYPRESS

8pm

Movie

Many fans and critics consider “The Bride of Frankenstein,” the sequel to “Frankenstein,” better than the original. Director James Whale’s 1935 film stars Boris Karloff as the monster and Elsa Lanchester as his bride. With its massive castle and laboratory sets, superb acting and quality script, “The Bride of Frankenstein” was the big-budget film of its day, said Brett Butler of Orange, whose Shock Theater will present a digital screening of the classic.

* “The Bride of Frankenstein,” A Captain Blood’s Village Theater, 1140 N. Tustin Ave., Orange. 8 p.m. $7.50 adults, $5.50 children. (714) 538-3545. “Bride” also will screen at the Family Twin Cinema, 9832 Walker St., Cypress. Saturday, 8 p.m. (714) 828-1660. The Cypress screening will feature Ray Ferry, publisher of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine, who will discuss the making of the film and its effects.