Byline: Mark Guarino Music critic

Brave Combo, 10 p.m. today and Saturday at FitzGeralds, 6615 Roosevelt Road, Berwyn. $10 (708) 788-2118.

The Texas combo is celebrating 20 years of performing alternative polka - yes, that is a genre. The band combines Tex-Mex, rockabilly and polka party music - a combo of sorts that is certainly brave, but that also has won them a few Grammy nominations as well.

G Love and Special Sauce with Dangerman, 10 p.m. Saturday at Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., Chicago. $15 (773) 549-0203.

Swampy blues, rap and hip-hop makes up the combination that has won this Philadelphia native a consistent college following. His fourth album is "Philadelphonic" (Sony 550).

Bruce Hornsby, 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Ravinia Festival, Lake-Cook and Green Bay roads, Highland Park. $30/$10 (312) R-A-V-I-N-I-A.

Bruce Hornsby's two-disc "Spirit Trail" (RCA) was the most overlooked album of 1998, probably...