ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Old Crow Medicine Show to perform at Fayetteville

The Old Crow Medicine Show performs Saturday at Fayetteville’s Arkansas Music Pavilion.
The Old Crow Medicine Show performs Saturday at Fayetteville’s Arkansas Music Pavilion.

Americana string band The Old Crow Medicine Show will be onstage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Arkansas Music Pavilion, Washington County Fairgrounds, 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville.

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National Geographic reporter Scott Wallace lectures Wednesday at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville.

Tickets are $32-$77. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.

Amazon adventures

Scott Wallace , a reporter with a feature article in the current edition of National Geographic headlined “Peru’s Red Gold: Mahogany’s Last Stand,” will discuss his recent environmental journalism projects in Peru, Ecuador and Brazil in a lecture titled “Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon: The Noose Tightens,” 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Rogers Conference Center at the University of the Ozarks, Clarksville.

Sponsors are The Planet Club and the university’s Walton Arts & Ideas Series. Admission is free. Call (479) 979-1433.

Warfield Festival

The week-long 2013 Warfield Music Festival in Helena-West Helena opens with a reception for the 28th annual Watercolor Exhibition at 5 p.m. Tuesday in the Hendrix Gallery, Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas.

The rest of the schedule (except as noted, admission is by free ticket - download at warfieldconcerts.com):

6:30 p.m. Thursday: Ruth Hawkins of Arkansas State University at Jonesboro will document the history of singer Johnny Cash and the Johnny Cash Boyhood Home Project that’s under way in Dyess, in the Hendrix Gallery. A 7:30 p.m. “Tribute to Johnny Cash” by Philip Bauer will follow in the community college’s LilyPeter Auditorium. Sponsors are the Turley Charitable Trust and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

7:30 p.m. Friday: Outdoor dinner and dancing to the Skirtlifters at Fort Curtis on Columbia Street. Sponsors are Norac Additives, United Initiators SPI Inc. and the Arkansas Arts Council. Catfish dinner tickets are $15; call (870) 338-8327 or (870) 338-9155. Take your own chairs and table. In case of inclement weather, the event will move to the college’s community room.

7:30 p.m. Saturday: Step Afrika, Lily Peter Auditorium. Sponsored by the Delta Cultural Center and Entergy.

6 p.m. May 5: Saxton’s Cornet Band, Cherry Street Pavilion. Take lawn chairs, children and a picnic meal (moving to the community college’s Fine Arts Center if it rains). Sponsors are Southern Bancorp and Helena Regional Medical Center.

Conway songsters

The Conway Men’s Chorus will perform “America the Beautiful” with the Conway High School Chamber Choir, along with a collection of show tunes, classical pieces and standards, in its annual Spring Sing Pops Concert, 7 p.m. Tuesday in Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghey Ave., Conway.

Doors open at 6:30. Admission is free. Call (501) 327-5151 or visit conwaymenschorus.org/events.

Theater schedule

The Weekend Theater’s 2013-14 slate of socially conscious theater opens with the musical 13 (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn), June 7-9, 14-16 and 21-23 at the theater, West Seventh and Chester streets, Little Rock.

The rest of the schedule:

July 12-14, 19-21, 26-28: Bare, book by Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo, music by Intrabartolo, lyrics by Hartmere

Aug. 9-10, 16-17, 23-24: The River Niger by Joseph A. Walker

Sept. 6-7, 13-14, 20-21: 100 Saints You Should Know by Kate Fodor

Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19: Nora by Ingmar Bergman, based on Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

Nov. 1-2, 8-9, 15-16: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, play with music basedon Burgess’ 1962 novella

Dec. 6-8, 13-15, 20-22: Scrooge! The Musical, book, music, and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol

Jan. 10-11, 17-18, 24-25: blu by Virginia Grise

Feb. 7-8, 14-15, 21-22: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson

March 7-8, 14-15, 21-22: The Water Children by Wendy McLeod

April 4-5, 11-12, 18-19: Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom, based on Albom’s book

May 2-3, 9-10, 16-17: A Strange and Separate People by Jon Marans

Curtain times are 7:30 p.m.Friday-Saturday with 2:30 p.m. Sunday matinees for musicals. Season tickets are $175. Individual ticket prices are $16, $12 for students and senior citizens; for musicals, $20 and $16. Visit weekendtheater.org.

Artrageous Parade

The Eureka Springs Arts Council has named international photographer and painter Jeremy Mason Mc-Graw as the grand marshal of the annual Artrageous Parade, 2 p.m. Saturday, starting at the Carnegie Library on Spring Street, continuing to Basin Park and then down Main Street to City Hall and the City Auditorium.

The parade is the official kickoff for the town’s month long May Festival of the Arts, for which McGraw is working on two public installation projects:

With artist Robert Norman, The Sphere, a community sculpture project in which area residents have inscribed dreams, poems or thoughts on sticks that are being assembled into a giant sphere in Basin Park. A lighting ceremony is scheduled for dusk Saturday.

With photographer John Rankine, “The Mugs Project,” a portrait exhibition of nearly 100 Eureka Springs resident artists making faces.

Call (479) 244-6636 or e-mail [email protected] .

Style, Pages 49 on 04/28/2013

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