Jazz at The Joint features Reeves, Ted Ludwig Trio

Jazz bassist Nat Reeves performs with the Ted Ludwig Trio at 7:30 p.m. Monday at The Joint, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock’s Argenta Arts District. It’s part of the Jazz at the Joint series, hosted by Ludwig. Tickets are $30. Call (318) 278-9700 or (501) 4251528 or visit jazzatthejoint.org.

Quartets in concert

Two Arkansas Symphony Orchestra ensembles — the Quapaw Quartet (Meredith Maddox Hicks and Charlotte Crosmer, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello) and Rockefeller Quartet (Trisha McGovern Freeney and Katherine Williamson, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Ethan Young, cello) demonstrate “The Art of the String Quartet,” 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. It’s part of the orchestra’s River Rhapsodies Chamber Music Series.

The Quapaw Quartet will play the String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata,” by Leos Janacek and the String Quartet in D major by Giacomo Puccini; the Rockefeller four will play the String Quartet No. 12 in B-flat major, K.172, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the String Quartet by Giuseppe Verdi. Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active-duty military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 1, or visit arkansassymphony.org. ‘Detroit ’67’

The 1967 Detroit race riots — set to a Motown soundtrack — will be the focus as the University of Arkansas at Little Rock theater arts and dance department stages Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit ’67, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Haislip Theatre, UALR Center for Performing Arts, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Tickets are $10, $5 for students, senior citizens and military. Call (501) 569-3291 or visit ualr arts.tix.com.

Hi, Jinks

Cody Jinks, with Sunny Sweeney, performs at 8 p.m. Friday at TempleLive, 200 N. 11th St., Fort Smith. Tickets are $55 to $75 plus fees and taxes in advance, $5 more day of show. Call (479) 222-6186 or visit ticketmaster.com.

Bluegrass Monday

The Kevin Prater Band — Prater on mandolin; Ryan Lester, guitar; Adam Burrows, fiddle; Cole Spears, bass; and Jake Burrows, banjo and dobro — performs at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, for Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9’s Bluegrass Monday series. The station will literally “pass the hat” to pay the group; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@a state.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.

Flamenco show

Flamenco dancer, artist and instructor Pilar Andujar, who goes by “La Gypsy,” accompanied by Dylan Jones on bass, Michael Longoria on drums and Jake Hertzog on guitar, performs at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale. Papa Rap will be the emcee and opening act. The House of Songs is the presenter. Doors open at 6. Tickets are $5. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.

‘Jammers’ picked

Eight a cappella groups will compete in the 2019 VoiceJam Competition, 7:30 p.m. April 6 at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. The list: The Beartones, Missouri State University, Springfield, Mo.; Natural State of Mind, Jacksonville High School, Jacksonville; KeyHarmony, University of Central Florida, Orlando; Green Tones, University of North Texas, Denton; Lark, University of Colorado, Denver; Top Shelf Vocal, Los Angeles; Euphoria, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Mich.; and Business Casual, San Mateo, Calif. The winning group will have the opportunity to attend the Vocal Asia Festival in Japan this summer. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.

Literary laureate

Central Arkansas author and literary advocate Phillip H. McMath has chosen Caitlin Hamilton Summie’s short story collection To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts as the winner of the fourth annual Phillip H. McMath Post Publication book award.

McMath founded the award in 2016 to promote recently published books. Summie’s was one of seven finalists chosen by students in the Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop, housed at the University of Central Arkansas.

On Tuesday she will receive the award as part of UCA’s Arkatext Literary Festival, Monday-March 1 and will give a public reading at 6 p.m. at UCA Downtown, 1105 Oak St., Conway.

NEA grants

The National Endowment for the Arts has extended seven fiscal year 2019 grants totaling $130,000 to Arkansas individuals and organizations in three funding categories: Art Works and Challenge America, both supporting projects by nonprofit organizations, and Creative Writing Fellowships.

The grants:

■ Geffrey Davis, Fayetteville, faculty member at the University of Arkansas and with the Rainier Writing Workshop. $25,000, Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing — Literature ■ Theatre Squared Inc. (aka TheatreSquared), Fayetteville, $30,000, Art Works — Theater, to support the Arkansas New Play Festival

■ Sonny Boy Blues Society, Helena-West Helena, $25,000, Art Works — Music, to support the King Biscuit Blues Festival

■ Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society Inc. (aka Arkansas Symphony Orchestra), Little Rock, $10,000, Challenge America, to support concert performances and related outreach activities

■ Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, Little Rock, $10,000, Challenge America, to support a chamber music series and related educational programming

■ Oxford American Literary Project, Little Rock, $20,000, Art Works — Literature, to support payments to writers for the Oxford American

■ Ozark Foothills Filmfest Inc., Locust Grove, $10,000, Challenge America, to support the annual Ozark Foothills FilmFest.

opening Wednesday at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, includes (from left) Tre Whitley, Taylor Green, Keith Harper and Char Dupins.