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THURSDAY 10/19-SATURDAY 10/21
JOHNNY CASH HERITAGE FESTIVAL
5 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 12:15 p.m. Sat. Johnny Cash Adolescence Home, Dyess.
Thanks to a alternation of commemoration concerts captivated by Arkansas State University at Jonesboro, funds were aloft to restore Johnny Cash's once-dilapidated adolescence home in Dyess, the New Deal-era adjustment that Cash and his ancestors confused into during the winter of 1935. The abode reopened for tours in 2014, and on Saturday afternoon, in the acreage adjoining to it, Cash's babe Rosanne and longtime aide Kris Kristofferson will perform, capping off a three-day appointment of concerts, articulate history projects, films and discussions committed to the Man in Black. Kristofferson and Rosanne Cash are preceded by Joanne Cash and Tommy Cash, Johnny's two siblings, whose memories served as the base for the house's renovation, 1:30 p.m., and by Buddy Jewell, the Lepanto-born songwriter whose benevolent and affectionate grandparents were additionally colonists at Dyess, 12:15 p.m. There's a abundant calendar on Friday night for "KASU Music Nights," a alternation of concerts presented by the station's "Arkansas Roots" program, at the Dyess Colony Commissary Stage: Beale Street mainstays Queen Ann Hines & The Memphis Dejection Masters, 9 p.m.; The Legendary Pacers , 8 p.m.; The Zyndall Wayne Raney Band, 7 p.m.; The Creek Rocks, 6 p.m.; and Wil Maring and Robert Bolin, 5 p.m. On Thursday night, there are sets from Drive South, 8 p.m.; Apple, Setser & Rounds with Tim Crouch and Earl Hees, 7 p.m.; The Vikki McGee Three, 6 p.m.; and Rockin' Luke Stroud, 5 p.m. If you're an ambitious Cash or New Deal scholar, annals for the chargeless address offerings at Dyess Colony Circle: columnist Bill McDowell's Resurrecting Images From the Abundant Depression," 9 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday, or the circumstantial "American Culture and the Art of Johnny Cash" from Michael Streissguth, who's accounting three books about the Arkansas legend. For a abounding address schedule, analysis out johnnycashheritagefestival.com/presentations. Or, if you're absence the bookish $.25 and activity beeline for the party, bolt the Arkansas Times Cash Bus at the old Ray Winder Acreage at 9 a.m. A $109 acceptance gets you round-trip transportation, a accepted acceptance ticket, ball from Jason Lee Hale, developed beverages and a box cafeteria from Boulevard Bread Co. SS
THURSDAY 10/19
SAVAGE MASTER
8 p.m. Four Quarter Bar. $7.
With cartoonishly advancing guitar riffs and a "Masters of the Universe"-meets-fetish club aesthetic, Savage Master is a beeline bequest — one with a adroitness for recreating '80s metal in the Iron Maiden milieu. For the blah amid us, they're a awakening act, and bawl advance accompanist Stacey Peak's lyrics are rehashes of tropes about diabolism and Satan worship. For anyone, though, who doesn't accede "Sad Wings of Destiny" a accusable pleasure, this Louisville, Ky., affiliation is endless of chainmail-and-swords-style fun, and should be analgesic to see in an affectionate area like Four Quarter. SS
FRIDAY 10/20
'CHOPIN AND THE LITTLE ROCK NINE'
7:30 p.m. Aboriginal Presbyterian Church, 201 W. Fourth St., North Little Rock. Free.
As the appellation suggests, this concert juxtaposes two belief of breach and apprenticeship — those of the Little Bedrock Nine and Frederick Chopin, the admired artisan whose abandonment from Poland to Paris a few weeks afore the alleged November Uprising in 1830 meant that he'd never return. "He had no country for the blow of his life," pianist Neil Rutman told me. Rutman, who splits his time amid apprenticeship the University of Central Arkansas Boxing Team and concertizing beyond the apple as a Klipsch Artist in Residence, will comedy Chopin's "Sonata in B Minor" with balladry and recollections from Chopin's lover George Sand (born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) apprehend aloud amid movements. The sonata "is to piano literature," he said, "what the Pyramids of Giza are to architecture, or what the Mona Lisa is to painting." (This should be a hell of a way to apprehend the piece, too; Argenta's Aboriginal Presbyterian Abbey has a Fazioli admirable in its sanctuary, a hand-crafted apparatus and a affluence by any standard.) Henry Parker, armchair of the Department of Fine & Performing Arts at Arkansas Baptist College, will advance a accumulation of alcove singers in songs commemorating the Little Bedrock Nine, Dr. Rex Bell will comedy a applesauce architecture on the appearance of Chopin and pianist Julie Cheek will accomplish a alternative of Chopin's nocturnes. SS
FRIDAY 10/20
ARGENTA ART WALK
5-8 p.m., city North Little Rock
There's no way you can fit in all the offerings this Friday night in three hours, so accept carefully. Greg Thompson Fine Art, in the additional attic arcade aloft Ristorante Capeo at 429 Capital St., opens "The Best of the South" on Friday, its bigger exhibition of the year. Amid the artists whose works are in the appearance are 20th aeon masters Walter Anderson, Thomas Hart Benton, Carroll Cloar, Theora Hamblett and Clementine Hunter and abreast Arkansas artists Robyn Horn, Mark Blaney, Sammy Peters, Daniel Mark Cassity and Melissa Wilkinson. The 400 block is the affection of Art Walk: Core Brewery, 411 Main, is assuming a seasonally adapted show, "A Collection of Skulls"; Argenta Gallery, 413 Main, opens "Glitch," artworks by Jacob West, with a 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. reception; at StudioMain, additionally 413 Main, see "VI Machina: Drawings and added Ideations Against a New American Power" by David L. Murphree; acquisition "Street Joy," an exhibition of photographs by Heather Canterbury, at the Argenta Branch of the Laman Library, 420 Main; and see assignment by patients at Arkansas Children's Hospital at the Thea Foundation, 401 Main. Claytime Pottery (417 Main) is accepting a half-off sale. In the 500 block of Main, Mugs Cafe, 515 Main, hosts the closing accession for "Other Worlds," artworks by Daniel Adams, and the NLR Heritage Center, 506 Capital hosts art by Tim Jacobs. Barry Thomas has new assignment at his flat at 711 Capital St. Off Capital Street, the Innovation Hub, 201 E. Broadway, presents its "Fall Extravaganza and October Hub-Ub," with accessible art studios for the association to use, abatement press in the new printmaking studio, laser carving of pumpkins and Halloween awning press on T-shirts — additional snacks! Abode of Art, 108 E. Fourth St., presents "Art After Limits," which it's calling the "sexiest erotica appearance to appear to Arkansas" — additional candy and anatomy painting! LNP
SATURDAY 10/21
ARKANSAS CORNBREAD FESTIVAL
11 a.m. 1401 S. Capital St.
Maya Angelou had a compound for cornbread. Mark Twain wrote about it in his autobiography, and body accompanist Wilson Pickett said of himself, "I'm not a bland singer. I'm a cornbread singer. Now, I alarm a cornbread accompanist with that asperous articulation that comes from the stomach, not from the throat. I sing from bottomward here." And, aftermost year, 3,570 bodies paraded bottomward the South Capital Bartering Celebrated District, starting at the Bernice Garden, tasting samples of the being and demography selfies with Cosmo, a lifesize amulet with a animated animation cornbread bucket for a head. You and castigation can vote for your admired access in the cornbread showdown, comedy Baggo, pet the zoo and awkward animals from Heifer International, sing in Buh Jones' Acoustic Accessible Mic activity (11 a.m.-2 p.m.) or bolt performances from Grace Stormont, 11 a.m.; Trey Johnson and Jason Willmon, noon; the Akeem Kemp Band, 1 p.m.; and the Wildflower Revue, 2 p.m. SS
SUNDAY 10/22
BRUNO MARS
8 p.m. Verizon Arena. $45-$125.
If you were nicknamed afterwards a pro wrestler at age 2, acquired a acceptability in Honolulu for your Elvis clothing at age 4, anon thereafter basic the lyrics "I comedy guitar, but my fingers are too small/I try to comedy piano, but my anxiety can't ability the floor," you are absolutely Bruno Mars. "I aloof came from this school: patent-leather shoes, pinky ring, candy beard — showtime," Mars told Rolling Stone annual aftermost year. The singer's aback afterwards an eons-long (in the apple of pop music) aeon back his aftermost feature anthology with "24K Magic," and he stops at Verizon Arena in abutment of the almanac on a chase bout that ends in Hong Kong abutting April. SS
SATURDAY 10/21
THE BOONEVILLE SANITORIUM: A WALKING TOUR
12:30 p.m. Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Celebrated District. Free.
It's October, the ages for all things creepy, and it aloof doesn't get abundant creepier than a bout of a massive, mostly alone hospital area bags of bodies met their end. Officially, Preserve Arkansas's walking bout of the barrio and area of the above Arkansas State Tuberculosis Sanatorium alfresco Booneville is about history and junk, but we'd action a apparent cardinal of association will be there to absorb in the gothic, Frankenstein's Castle ambience of the place. Whatever brings you there, it's a attenuate adventitious to get a attending central the historic, tenth-of-a-mile-long Nyberg Building, the capital hospital area over 70,000 Arkansans with tuberculosis were cloistral amid 1940 and 1973, back bigger anesthetic rendered the abode obsolete. The two-hour bout is free, and will activate in advanced of the Nyberg Building, 87 Reed Road in Booneville. For added info, email Rachel Patton at RPatton@preserveArkansas.org or alarm 501-372-4757. DK
SATURDAY 10/21-SUNDAY 10/22
'FRENCH CONNECTION'
7:30 p.m. Sat., 3 p.m. Sun. Robinson Center. $15-$65.
The appellation "French Connection" doesn't acknowledge this concert's subversiveness; actuality we accept Ji, a tattooed, Chinese-born pianist and breakdancer who set Twitter on blaze afterwards starring in an Android bartering aired during the Grammy Awards — "Monotone," it's alleged — in which he plays Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" (at an unearthly tempo) on a approved 88-key piano, and again the aforementioned ablaze riff on a piano acquainted absolutely to average C. Then, there's the repertoire, all of which is in some way affiliated to the aberrant access of jazz: Weill's "Berliner Sinfonie," Maurice Ravel's "Piano Concerto in G Major," an aboriginal set of "character pieces" from Debussy alleged "Petite Suite" and Darius Milhaud's 1919 "Le Boeuf" ("The Bull on the Roof"), accounting during the canicule back Milhaud was allotment of Les Six, "a accumulation of adolescent French composers who blithely scandalized the airless agreeable enactment through surreal concoctions abstemious with bistro music and jazz," Don Anderson's affairs addendum acquaint us. Geoff Robson — the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's accessory aqueduct back 2008 and the aboriginal champ of the Respighi Prize in Conducting beforehand this year — conducts this active affair, and leads Concert Conversations an hour afore commemoration concert. SS
TUESDAY 10/24
'RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD'
7 p.m. Riverdale 10 Cinema. $11.
This cine would be aces of advocacy if all it did was acclaim the underextolled assignment of Buffy Sainte-Marie, but its ambit is dazzling. In the quotes accompanying the synopsis, Howlin' Wolf says he abstruse to comedy guitar from Charley Patton, a Delta dejection artist whose ancestors were black, white and Cherokee. George Clinton speaks of "the beating that was here, is here; been here," saying, "The feel of Native American is in a lot of bedrock 'n' roll." Tony Bennett speaks of his longtime affection for the music of Mildred Bailey. And, as the appellation suggests, the blur makes the case for Link Wray's "Rumble" as a cardinal point in bedrock music, and sheds ablaze on a scattering of the aboriginal musicians who came afore and after. SS
WEDNESDAY 10/25
JUDAH AND THE LION
8 p.m. Bright Channel Metroplex. $22-$25.
Late aftermost week, Judah and the Lion tweeted to their countless of 44,500-plus followers: "If you anticipate about it. You guys abutment and abundance us back you buy music and appear to shows. So it's like you're our dads. And moms." And then, a follow-up, "Thanks Mom and Dad." The Nashville accouterments seems to stick abutting to the bodies who stood by them back they were darlings of the Christian newgrass scene, and through their reinvention phase, affective into a ambience alongside string-driven groups like Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers. They accompany their 2016 absolution "Folk Hop N Roll" to the Bright Channel Metroplex on Wednesday night. SS
FRIDAY 10/27
GOLDEN DAWN ARKESTRA
10 p.m. Four Quarter Bar. $8.
There are bodies who accept a "Keep Austin Weird" bonanza sticker on their car, and there are bodies who absolutely do that actual thing, consciously: Golden Dawn Arkestra, for example. The 10-piece Sun Ra-inspired ensemble bales its abstraction vibe in masks, costume, ball and light, which is array of like what I brainstorm abbey affected ability be like if you were admiration the divinity of Saturn's rings instead of Our Lord and Savior, with Kate Pierson from the B-52s as the alpha adolescence accumulation leader. SS
FRIDAY 10/27
ARKANSAS TIMES CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL
6 p.m. Argenta Plaza. $35-$40.
Next time you footfall up to the tap, wouldn't it be acceptable to apperceive that you abhorrence Porter stouts? Or that saison farmhouse ales are your capital squeeze? This is a abundant abode to assortment all that out with your aficionado in a clear, accurate way, address of over 200 varieties of brew, and — so as not to skew the analysis a brace brews in, aliment to atmosphere your testing: Cregeen's, Arkansas Ale House, Old Chicago Pizza (NLR and Conway), Skinny J's, Doe's Eat Place, Damgoode Pies, Vino's, Flyway Brewing, Santo Coyote and house-made brats from Edward's Aliment Giant. Plus, the ball is the pure, bright being of Ozark Highlands Radio — the dabble and banjo duetting of Betse & Clarke and The Creek Rocks, a alluringly mellowed, folklore-focused activity from Cindy Woolf (Wildflower Revue) and Mark Bilyeu, aforetime of Big Smith. SS
SATURDAY 10/28
DELTAMADE
2 p.m-9 p.m. Regional Park, Pine Bluff. Free.
If it's been a while back you alien bottomward Interstate 530 south against Pine Bluff, this ability be the time to do it, for the countdown DeltaMade, a chargeless daytime ancestors festival, with a focus on vendors, performers and makers from the Arkansas Delta. There's a craven addition cook-off, a car show, performances from Arkansas Circus Arts and a tailgate activity afore the Arkansas Razorbacks vs. Auburn bold (which, by definition, has to be at atomic an atom beneath afflicted than aftermost week's accident by the Crimson Tide), and a agreeable calendar of bodies who either barrage from or are contrarily affiliated to the area: Sarah Cecil, Paul Prater, Charlotte Taylor & Gypsy Rain and Big Piph & Tomorrow Maybe. Aliment trucks and beer will be on site, but if you appetite to get fancy, analysis out the city's long-tenured Colonial Steakhouse on your way out of boondocks — go for the frog legs and a bowl of Cotton Blossoms to allotment (think backtalk rangoon after the crab, biconcave in apricot-brandy sauce). SS
SATURDAY 10/28
ARKANSAS BLACK HALL OF FAME 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
7:30 p.m. Robinson Center. $53-$203.
When artists as berserk altered as Luenell, Pharaoh Sanders and American Book Award-winning artist and administrator Haki Madhubuti are your guests of honor, you apperceive you're accoutrement a ample ambit of accomplishments. This year, the Arkansas Atramentous Hall of Fame has elected, in lieu of accumulation any new inductees, to bless the argent commemoration with a commemoration organizers allegorize to the Kennedy Center Honors: a black-tie array appearance and, for accomplished inductees, a reunion. In account of the occasion, there's a coffee table book, "Seeds of Genius: 25 Years of the Arkansas Atramentous Hall of Fame," accessible at the commemoration or at arblackhalloffame.org. SS
