You basically have two options this week. You could lay low, nurse your hangover and wonder why you’re starting yet another year painfully alone (or, y’know, whatever your personal variant on that theme may be). Or, you could forget that the countdown ever actually happened and spend the week in a perpetual, alcohol-fogged New Year’s Eve.

If you opt for the latter, make sure that Calgary’s First Annual Music and Art Expo is on your radar. The name is a bit odd — Calgary has plenty of events that fuse music and art, and it’s not exactly clear how this one is an expo — but if your goal is to steadfastly avoid reality, it’s a good start. Starting at noon on Saturday, January 2, Canada Olympic Park will host 20-plus DJs (including Titus 1, Digaboo, Rocswell and Contraband) over the course of 17 hours. Presumably, some sort of art will also be involved.

If that all sounds a bit ambitious, you could always take it a little easier by catching Saskatchewan bedroom-pop maestro These Hands and Beija Flor spinoff The Magnetic North at The Marquee Room that same night. It’s no 17-hour dance party, but a night of solidly crafted pop has its appeal, too. For example, you won’t have to stand outside for 17 hours in January. That’s something.

In fact, let’s drop the whole party idea altogether — the rest of the week is far better suited to folkier pursuits. Like Winnipeg’s Crooked Brothers, who’ll be at the Ironwood on Tuesday, January 5. If you’re a fan of mandolin, banjo and lovely, haunted three-part harmonies, this one’s a good bet.

And then there’s the always-reliable Blue Rodeo, playing on January 5 and 6 at the Jubilee. This time, you won’t even have to wait through that whole football-game thing that was around last time the band came through town — it’ll just be two solid nights of moderately twangy tunes.

If you really feel the need for spectacle, though, there’s always The Pink Floyd Experience on Thursday, January 7 at the Jack Singer Concert Hall. In addition to keeping alive the spirit of one of the most influential bands of all time, the Experience is also the leading modern source of giant, inflatable pigs. Are you really willing to pass that up?