EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND SCOTT. Remember Singing Sadie, whose spunky, sometimes punky, song-and-dance routines inspire thoughts of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Little Red Riding Rabbit"? She's booked to open for the Raymond Scott Orchestrette at Makor at 8:00 pm on January 5, 2006.

Inventive musician Raymond Scott died in 1994 but his beat goes on. If you're a fan of Warner Brothers cartoons (and who isn't?), you'll recognize "Powerhouse," excerpted at the Raymond Scott website.

Performing in the Raymond Scott Orchestrette is Brian Dewan, who will ring in the New Year with Dewanatron at Pierogi in Williamsburg on Saturday night.

Leon Dewan and Brian Dewan are Dewanatron — a collaborative team who make hand-crafted, semi-automatic, electronic musical instruments. This exhibition will feature twelve wall mounted analog solid-state instruments that produce occasional electronic utterances at ever-shifting intervals of time. Also included in the show are parlor and concert instruments such as the Swarmatron and the Dual Primate Console. Visitors will be able to play the Coin-Op Melody Gin, an arcade instrument in which 25 cents buys the customer a four minute hands-on electronic music-making-odyssey with knobs and toggle switches.

I understand that it's best to get there by 9:00 pm.