ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Brit Floyd, ZZ Top cover the state concert spectrum

Brit Floyd performs its new Pink Floyd stage show, “Immersion World Tour 2017,” Monday at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena.
Brit Floyd performs its new Pink Floyd stage show, “Immersion World Tour 2017,” Monday at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena.

Brit Floyd will bring its new Pink Floyd stage show, "Immersion World Tour 2017," to the Theater @ Verizon Arena, East Broadway and Interstate 30, North Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Monday. Tickets are $42.50 and $47.50, with $68 "Gold Circle," VIP packages available, plus service charges. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit the website ticketmaster.com.

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ZZ Top performs Friday at the Walmart AMP in Rogers.

ZZ Top at AMP

ZZ Top will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. The blues-rock band's concert is part of the 2017 Cox Concert Series. Known for best-selling albums such as Tres Hombres and Eliminator, the trio has had a number of hits, including "Legs," "Sleeping Bag" and "Sharp Dressed Man."

Doors open at 6. Tickets are $36-$75.50 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.

Tap festival

More than 100 dancers and master instructors from across the United States will gather in central Arkansas Monday-Friday for the Little Rock Tap Festival at North Little Rock Middle School, 2400 Lakeview Road, North Little Rock. The festival, open to dancers of all ages and levels, will feature master classes on four levels and a variety of disciplines, including rhythm tap, Broadway, Irish dance, body percussion, stepping, drumming and music theory. Participants can also arrange private critique sessions and question-and-answer sessions with the faculty.

Performances, open to participants only, will include a 6:30 p.m. nightly improvisation "battle" with other festival participants and a faculty showcase, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.

All-access passes, which include access to all classes in each level and all extra events that follow classes each night, are $225-$300. Day passes are $50-$100. Teacher passes, available for dance teachers to take or observe any and all classes, are $150. A complete schedule and registration information are available at littlerocktapfest.com. You can also register at the door, 9 a.m. Monday.

WWII exhibit

"Work, Fight, Give: American Relief Posters of World War II," a traveling exhibit that includes original posters and memorabilia about the War Relief Program of the U.S. in 1942, opens 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History, 503 E. Ninth St., Little Rock.

The exhibit will be up until Aug. 16. Hours are 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 376-4602, email [email protected] or visit the website, arkmilitaryheritage.com.

'Archival' lecture

Historian, author and Arkansas native Brooks Blevins will discuss Back Yonder: An Ozark Chronicle by Charles Wayman Hogue in a lecture at 7 p.m. June 20 at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 W. Third St., Little Rock. The lecture is part of the Arkansas State Archives' "Pen to Podium: Arkansas Historical Writers' Lecture Series."

Blevins is professor of history at Missouri State University in Springfield.

There will be a pre-lecture reception sponsored by the Friends of the Arkansas State Archives at 6:30 p.m. in the museum atrium. Admission is free; registration is required by June 16. Call (501) 682-6900 or email [email protected].

Style on 06/04/2017

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