Goings On About Town

Night Life

August 9, 2010

ROCK AND POP

Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to check in advance to confirm engagements.

HIGHLINE BALLROOM

431 W. 16th St. (212-414-5994)—Aug. 7: The Saw Doctors, founded in County Galway in 1986, took an Irish-folk-song template—lilting melody, humor, pathos, anger, celebration—and added a strong backbeat and searing electric guitar.