Bill Ryan/The Gazette Society member Brad Eaton, of Harpers Ferry, inspects a train as it goes by at the Frederick County Society of Model Engineers' open house.

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Cafe Nola will welcome the Sharpsburg, Md,. song-spinning talents of Hucklebuck to the stage at 10 p.m. Saturday.

Founded in 2008, the alternative country and roots-rock quintet has made a name for itself thanks to its distinctive “all of the above” sound, a Hucklebuck hodgepodge of genres and time-honored tunes.

Admission is $3.

For more information, visit www.cafe-nola.com.

Before settling in for some hard-driving rock at Nola, however, music lovers can kick off an evening of diversity with the soothing piano talents of Irina Nuzova at Downtown Piano Works.

The concert, Nuzova’s second at the South Market Street venue, begins at 7:30 p.m. and will include works by Domenico Scarlatti, Sergei Rachmaninov, Johann Sebastian Bach and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Tickets are free, but seating is limited to 65.

For more information, visit www.downtownpianoworks.com.

For a family Sunday outing, kids and kids at heart can enjoy the awe-inspiring operating railroad exhibit at The Frederick County Society of Model Engineers’ open house from 1 to 4 p.m.

The society’s open houses continue Sundays through Feb. 5, featuring the exciting sights and sounds of big-time railroading housed inside a 70-foot, six-door Chesapeake & Ohio horse car.

There, standard and narrow-gauge trains cross bridges, pass over tall hills, dive into deep tunnels, creep into towns and fly by on lengthy mainline tracks.

Admission is free.

For more information, visit www.fcsme.com.

noravec@gazette.net