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Pop music picks: Los Lobos, Ween, C.J. Chenier, and BeauSoleil

Los Lobos. The great Chicano rock-and-roll band from East L.A. will close out the 55th Philadelphia Folk Festival in style on a final-day bill that will also include Marty Stuart & the Fabulous Superlatives and C.J. Chenier & the Buckwheat Zydeco Band. Sunday at the Old Poole Farm in Schwenksville.

Ween, reunited, will play Festival Pier.
Ween, reunited, will play Festival Pier.Read moreDANA DISTORTION

Los Lobos.

The great Chicano rock-and-roll band from East L.A. will close out the 55th Philadelphia Folk Festival in style on a final-day bill that will also include Marty Stuart & the Fabulous Superlatives and C.J. Chenier & the Buckwheat Zydeco Band. Sunday at the Old Poole Farm in Schwenksville.

Ween. The return of Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, New Hope's own Chocolate & Cheese duo of inveterate jokesters and exacting musicians - otherwise known as Gene and Dean Ween - who split in 2012 after nearly three decades, and who are now back together where they belong. Sunday at Festival Pier.

Dick Dale. The King of the Surf Guitar, creator of the immortal "Miserlou," who has been uncommonly frank about his need to keep touring to pay for medical treatment for the various physical ailments that have put his life in peril. Monday at Ardmore Music Hall.

Joey Alexander. The 13-year-old Indonesian jazz piano prodigy, with seals of approval from Wynton Marsalis and Herbie Hancock, will play under the stars and amid the summer blooms. Tuesday at Longwood Gardens.

BeauSoleil. Making joyous Cajun music for nearly four decades now, master fiddler Michael Doucet's French- speaking dance band embodies the celebratory spirit of the people of their beloved home state of Louisiana, once again ravaged by natural disaster. Wednesday at World Cafe Live.