BEST BETS Sunday 9/3:

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO

7 & 9pm

Pop Music

Scotland’s Battlefield Band, now in its 31st year, is back on a tour that reaches San Juan Capistrano on Sunday. The group is weathering the recent departure for health reasons of guitarist-bodhran player Davy Steele, but it has added singer-guitarist Karine Polwart for the current tour. The quartet’s latest album, “Leaving Friday Harbor,� has plenty of traditional tunes alongside originals by Steele, who left after the album was done, singer-keyboardist Alan Reid, fiddler John McCusker and piper Mike Katz. Among its delightful surprises is Katz’s “Jesse ‘The Body’ Ventura Reel,� surely the only bagpipe-led musical tribute to the flamboyant wrestler-turned-Minnesota governor.

* Battlefield Band, San Juan Capistrano Regional Library, 31495 El Camino Real. 7 and 9 p.m. $3 to $7. (949) 493-1752.

SANTA ANA

10am-4pm

Art

The “Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendor From China’s Imperial Palace� is in its final week. The exhibition offers a glimpse of the opulence and heritage of the Chinese imperial court under the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911. The exhibition brings together a selection of more than 300 objects from the Palace Museum in Beijing, including royal robes, warriors’ armor, jewelry, portraits, calligraphy and a complete throne room.

* “Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendor From China’s Imperial Palace,� Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana. Through Sunday. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $8 to $14 weekdays; $10 to $16 weekends. (714) 567-3600.