ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

AMP May-July list kicks off with Gilbert, Chicago, Miller

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Brantley Gilbert, with special guest the Casey Donahew Band, will open the 2015 season May 1 at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Tickets, $25 to $45, go on sale Feb. 27.

The rest of the schedule:

• May 3: Chicago. Tickets, $42 to $97, go on sale Feb. 20.

• May 16: Steve Miller Band. Tickets, $31 to $75.50, went on sale Friday.

• May 19: Dave Matthews Band. Tickets go on sale Feb. 13. $40.50 to $85.

• July 30: Kenny Chesney's 2015 The Big Revival Tour. Tickets go on sale Friday. $60 to $105.

Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the websites, waltonartscenter.org or amptickets.com.

Bluegrass Monday

Minnesota-based bluegrass band Monroe Crossing will perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of radio station KASU-FM, 91.9's Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will literally "pass the hat" to pay the group; suggested donation is $5 per person. Seating at the concert is first-come, first-served; doors open at 5. Call (870) 972-2367, email [email protected] or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.

Fayetteville premiere

TheatreSquared will stage the world premiere of Robert Ford's Look Away, based on the true story of two black men who discover there's somebody else in the house they're using to hide from a lynch mob in Wilson, Ark., in 1933, opening Friday. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday through Feb. 22 in Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, 505 W. Spring St., Fayetteville. Tickets are $15-$40 ($10 for the "30 Under 30" program); call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, theatre2.org.

Price festival

A group of guest performers and lecturers will join the faculty and students of the University of Arkansas music department for the Florence Price Music Festival, honoring Arkansas native composer Florence Price, Friday-Saturday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.

Price wrote more than 300 compositions for voice, piano, organ, choir, string ensembles, brass ensembles and orchestra and was the first black American woman to have her music performed by a major symphony orchestra when the Chicago Symphony performed her Symphony in e minor in 1933. The University of Arkansas' Special Collections library acquired a number of her scores, photos and other documents in 2011, including music that either has never been performed or has not been performed for at least 60 years, some of which will be on festival concert programs.

Guests include Rae Linda Brown, musicologist and associate provost, Loyola Marymount University; Barbara Garvey Jackson, musicologist and professor emerita, University of Arkansas; soprano Ollie Watts Davis, University of Illinois; pianist Karen Walwyn of Howard University; Morris Phibbs, deputy director of the Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College, Chicago; and Arkansas historian/librarians Tom Dillard and Tim Nutt.

The first concert of "new" Florence Price chamber music and art songs will be at 8:15 p.m. Friday.

Saturday's partial schedule:

• 10:45 a.m.: Florence Price's Lost Papers, Tim Nutt and Tom Dillard, Room 102, Mullins Library

• 1:30 p.m.: Concert 2 -- Ollie Watts Davis sings Florence Price spirituals

• 3:30 p.m.: Concert 3 -- "new" orchestral music, chamber music and art songs

• 7:30 p.m.: Concert 4 -- Karen Walwyn, pianist, "new" Price piano music.

Admission is free. Register at tinyurl.com/ogr3ywv.

Wildwood auditions

Wildwood Park for the Arts will hold auditions for The Bremen Town Musicians, a one-act operetta with words and story adapted by John Davies, based on the Brothers Grimm folk tale and featuring music by Jacques Offenbach, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Giuseppe Verdi, by appointment 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday in the Cabe Festival Theatre at Wildwood, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock.

Be prepared to sing for director Bevan Keating one aria in any language and 16-32 bars of a musical theater selection, and provide a current head shot, resume and sheet music for the accompanist (no CDs). Paid roles are available for four singers: tenor, bass or baritone and two sopranos or mezzo-sopranos. Wildwood is also looking for a stage manager with prior experience. Performers and stage manager candidates will need to show a valid driver's license.

Rehearsals are April 13-26; the "Art to Go!" show will tour elementary schools across Arkansas from April 27-May 22.

To schedule an audition or to apply for the stage management position, call Sofia Gonzalez at (501) 821-7275, Extension 259, or email [email protected]. Visit the website, wildwoodpark.org.

Siloam Springs mural

Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. is the deadline for artists from throughout the state and region to submit proposals for a mural, up to 20 feet by 60 feet, for the south-facing wall of 204 S. Broadway in downtown Siloam Springs.

The mural, "to reflect the spirit of Siloam Springs," is an implementation of Main Street Siloam Springs' Downtown Connectivity and Master Plan (mainstreetsiloam.org/resources).

Details and requirements are part of the Request for Proposals, available online at mainstreetsiloam.org/news.

Funding for the project comes from a community development grant distributed by Arvest bank from the Walton Family Foundation. The grant will also pay for a a series of downtown art events and other smaller public art projects in 2015.

A committee of local artists, designers, the building owner and community members will select the artist and mural design by Feb. 27. A public unveiling for the mural will take place May 9.

Call (479) 524-4556, email [email protected] or visit the website, mainstreetsiloam.org.

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