Arlo Guthrie: The Guthrie Family Rides Again — Featuring the storyteller and his family — and music from the Woody Guthrie archive, in the Mondavi Center’s American Heritage series. 8 p.m. April 22, Jackson Hall. PLUS Free Forum@MC: Ballads and Broadsides, about Woody Guthrie’s legacy and the protest tradition in American popular music, then and now. With Arlo Guthrie; Ari Y. Kelman, assistant professor, American studies; and Jesse Drew, director, Technocultural Studies; Moderated by Jeffrey Callison, host of KXJZ Radio’s Insight. 5 p.m., Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

Peter Schickele: P.D.Q. Bach — Performing in the With a Twist series, the musical satirist appears as his alter ego, the composer P.D.Q. Bach. 8 p.m. April 23, Jackson Hall.

Vladimir Feltsman, piano — Performing in the Concert series. Bach’s Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, op. 13 (Pathetique); and Chopin’s Four Ballades. 8 p.m. April 24, Jackson Hall. Preperformance lecture by Chris Reynolds, professor of musicology and chair of the Department of Music, 7 p.m., AGR Hall, Buehler Alumni and Visitors Center.

Lara Downes Family Concert: Mudpies and Lullabies — As Mondavi Center artist in residence, Downes celebrates her curatorship of the center’s newly expanded Young Artists Program with a concert featuring a broad spectrum of young musicians. The program, a mix of the nostalgic and the new, includes Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and songs from such musicals as The Wizard of Oz and The Sound of Music, plus a new version of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, created by Mindy Cooper, choreographer, and featuring narration by Loren Taylor and music by Samuel Barber, performed by Downes on piano. 1 and 3 p.m. April 25, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre.

Tickets: (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787, or mondaviarts.org.

April 10 open house at the Mondavi Center, for people who would like to learn more about the 2010-11 season and the various series, and about seating options and price levels.