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Here’s Yeah New York’s run down of what to do and where to go this weekend in our favorite city.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21/2011

The New York Packet Singer offers a free concert, performing sea shanties and songs of tall ships at the Seaport Museum New York located at 12 Fulton Street (between Front Street and Water Street). The show starts at 6 PM and ends at 8 PM. [Hello New York]

The Queens Arts, Culture & Fun is screening the Emmy-award-winning PBS Independent Lens series. The film is about 28 musicians and singers with severe mental and physical disabilities performing in a group called the Spirit of Goodwill Band. [Official NYC Government Calendar]

The trio Young Buffalo will be performing at the Brooklyn Bowl. [Brooklyn Bowl]

The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College partners with independent theater promoter Anton Krylov to showcase the US premiere of “Бременские музыканты” (“The Bremen Town Musicians”), a Russian musical from Moscow. Based on the famous Soviet cartoon fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. The musical begins  at 7:00 PM this Friday. [Cititour]

Photographer Laurel Nakadate’s very first large-scale museum exhibition, Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely, has video works, feature films, and photography. It also includes early videos where she was invited into the homes of anonymous men to dance, pose, or play dead. The exhibition marks the launch of her most recent photographic series, 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears. [New York Magazine]

Mark Ballas of Dancing With The Stars, Alex York and Statespeed performs at The Studio at Webster Hall [Webster Hall, New York City]

SATURDAY,  JANUARY22/2011

The band, The Concretes is playing at The Bowery Ballroom. Doors open at 8:00 PM, show starts at 9:00 PM. [The Bowery Presents]

The Webster Hall holds Circus Saturday, dubbed as The Greatest Party on Earth, where 3,000 people party all night long. [Webster Hall, New York City]

The New York Comedy Club presents “Dustin Chafin’s Uncensored Comedy Show” featuring Kyle Grooms.  [BroadwayWorld.com]

Brooklyn’s Knitting Factory offers a free buffet of the best teeth-rolling Loops, Crunches, Pops and Jacks while running retro toons. [New York Metro Mix]

Rob Fernandez and Benny Soto presents the highly anticipated and attended party, Dance.Here.Now, featuring some of the best DJ’s in the planet. [New York Metro Mix]

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23/2011

Patent Pending with The Assembly Line plays their tunes this Sunday at The Hall. Doors open at 6:00 PM.  [Webster Hall, New York City]

Movies and booze fused into this Sunday Bloody Sunday that features two movies and snacks, free, plus $5 bloody marys all night. Showing starts at 8 PM. [New York Metro Mix]

Greg Johnson and the Comedians presents this free weekly comedy gig at 158 Ludlow Street at Stanton. Top-notch guests Todd Barry and Eugene Mirman drops by on occasion. [New York Magazine]

The Baruch Performing Arts Center presents the Forest Kings, the most recent choreography of Artistic Director Javier Dzul’s. Event setter says that “Dzul transforms his company of aerialists and dancers into breathtaking earthbound and airborne forces of nature, more than ever before.” [EventSetter New York City]