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Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts: Orphan ambassadors

The Watoto Children’s Choir, a group of young singers who have lost one or both parents and are ambassadors for African orphans, will make four Arkansas stops on their current U.S. tour:

7 p.m. Wednesday, Salem United Methodist Church, 1647 Salem Road, Benton, (501) 316-2282

7 p.m. April 9, National Park Assembly of God, 1901 Malvern Ave., Hot Springs, (501) 624-1905

6:30 p.m. April 10, Believers Community Church at the University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville, 3645 N. St. Louis St., Batesville, (870) 793-8365

7 p.m. April 11, First Assembly of God, 118 Pinto Place, Salem, (870) 895-3295.

Admission to all concerts is free.

Jazz in the Park

Jazz in the Park returns for its second season of concerts, 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays in the History Pavilion in Riverfront Park, west of the First Security Amphitheatre, Ottenheimer Drive, off President Clinton Avenue, Little Rock.

The first of two split sets kicks off April 2 with a performance by the Dizzy 7. The rest of the lineup:

April 9: Johnny Burnette Band

April 16: TwiceSax

April 23: That Arkansas Weather

April 30: Art Deco Trio

Admission is free. Some seating is available in the natural stone amphitheater; lawn chairs and blankets are welcome, but not coolers - beer, wine, soft drinks and waterwill be available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit Sculpture at the River Market. In case of rain, the concerts will move to the River Market West Pavilion.

The second set of concerts will take place Wednesdays in September.

Sponsors are the Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau and the River Market, with “special thanks” to the Arkansas Sounds Music Festival and the Central Arkansas Library System. Call (501) 375-2552 or visit rivermarket.info. Wing stop?

David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America, will chronicle the evolution of the “vast right-wing conspiracy” of which he was once a part in a talk titled “Countering the Culture of Clinton Hating,” noon today in Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

Brock, author of Blinded by the Right, was the first reporter to write about President Bill Clinton’s supposed “encounter” with Paula Jones. He’s making his first visit to Arkansas since the 1990s.

Admission is free; reserve a seat by calling (501) 683-5239 or emailing publicprograms@ clintonschool.uasys.edu.

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