Soul to metal: Weekend music is eclectic
TEXARKANA — If you are looking for live music to satisfy that tuneful craving this weekend, there’s a big Jawbone show Saturday night at the Perot Theatre, but also much more.
Jawbone brings a benefit show back to the Perot to help the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. The Pleasant Grove Showstoppers and Stateline Avenue Horns in turn help the beloved Texarkana quintet ensure this will be much more than a routine live concert.
Tickets can be had for $15 in advance via the Perot box office (903-792-4992) or PerotTheatre.com, or $20 at the door.
The monthly Soul Session heads back to the glorious 1990s this Saturday at On the Boulevard (4110 Arkansas Boulevard). Presented by Arnold Boy Entertainment, this month’s Soul Session features Untapt’d as the backing band for an impressive lineup of singers, including Luster Baker, a Southern soul singer originating from Shreveport, and Kenya C., a soul chanteuse who hails from the Dallas area.
Texarkana’s own Keith Gladney will be in the mix to sing, as will Nicky Parrish, who brought her talents all the way from Little Rock to Harlem’s famous Apollo Theater to sing Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” a BET “Apollo Live” show winner and “Amateur Night at the Apollo” contestant.
Tickets are $10 before the show starts, $20 after with V.I.P. available. More info: 903-691-9235.
Is hard rocking metal more your groove? Well, Texarkana’s Sylo grace Broadway Billiards in a lineup that includes Hell Camino and Post Profit. The downtown venue is where the noise will melt your face as you simultaneously play pool Saturday night.
If this sounds like bliss to you, head over to 203. E. Broad St., show time at 9 p.m. Cover is just $5 to see one of Texarkana’s true metal pioneers. Presented by Music Lovers Texarkana & Beyond Events, the show also brings Longview, Texas-based alternative rock and Little Rock, Arkansas-based Southern sludge to town, so this is a regional rocking out.
In a different mood altogether is the show “Workin’ Men: A Tribute to Johnny Paycheck & Merle Haggard,” which returns to town for an Arrow Bar date Sunday night (9 p.m. start). This Ace Crye production, a two-man tribute show, has been here before and now returns. Get tickets for $10 in advance at the venue or for $15 at the door.
Metal, country, soul and rock: this weekend has it all for the Texarkana music scene.