Platoon of local lawyers set to lampoon the politicians
More than 75 lawyers and law professionals will spoof people and politics on the state and national levels in the Pulaski County Bar Association’s biennial musical production, this year titled Gridiron Gridlock, at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and 7 and 9 p.m. Friday at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, 601 Main St., Little Rock. Opening-night tickets are $65 for “A” seating, $60 for “B” seating, and include light bites and complimentary beer and wine. Tickets for all other shows are $30 and $35. Call (501) 378-0405 or visit therep.org.
Songs of the South
Singer/songwriter Tommy Stephenson, an Austin, Texas-based keyboard player, and Phil Brown, formerly of Little Feat, will be the featured storytellers for a Tales From the South 1-Hour Singer/Songwriter Show at 7 p.m. Monday at The Joint, 301 Main St., North Little Rock.
Tickets are $35, including dinner (starting at 5) by Simply the Best Catering with music by Kevin Kerby; or $20 admission only (no food). There will be a cash bar. Visit the website talesfromthesouth081114.eventbrite.com for tickets.
The show will be recorded for later broadcast, including one at 7 p.m. Aug. 28 on KUAR-FM, 89.1, in central Arkansas.
Boston AMPs up
It’ll be “More Than a Feeling” when ’70s-’80s hitmaker Boston takes the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. Tickets are $29-$79 plus applicable fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, arkansasmusicpavilion.com.
Bluegrass Festival
Melvin Goins with Retro & Smiling will headline the Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival concert at 7 p.m. Friday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. The lineup includes the Davanzo Family, Mountain View Friends & Family, Clancey Ferguson, Dragonmasters and Buffalo City Ramblers with Donny Catron.
Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show will be the 7 p.m. Saturday headliner, behind Al Brumley Jr. & Friends, Clark Family with Bill Nesbitt, Tim Crouch & Friends, Pam Setser & Mountain View Friends featuring Clancey Ferguson and the Buffalo City Ramblers featuring Donny Catron and Retro & Smiling.
Tickets for each concert are $20, $12 for children 16 and younger; for both nights, $35 and $20.
The annual Bluegrass Festival kicks off with a Watermelon Social and open jam at 7 p.m. Thursday, presented by the Eureka Springs Downtown Network, in the city’s Basin Spring Park. This event is an open jam and everyone is invited to take their instruments and join in. Admission, watermelon and water are free.
Various performers will be on stage at the Basin Park band shell, noon-6 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Admission is free.
For a complete lineup and more information, visit the website, eurekasprings.org.
‘Magic’ season
The Pine Bluff Symphony Orchestra and conductor Charles Jones Evans will open its 2014-15 season, The Magic of Symphonic Music, with a concert titled “The Classical Masters,” 4 p.m. Oct. 26 at the Pine Bluff Convention Center, 500 E. Eighth Ave., Pine Bluff.
Pianist Hee-Kyung Juhn, a faculty member at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, will solo in the Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor,” by Ludwig van Beethoven. The program will also include the Overture to The Marriage of Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Symphony No. 94, “Surprise,” by Franz Joseph Haydn.
The remainder of the lineup (all concerts, 7 p.m. at the Convention Center):
Dec. 14: “The Spirit of the Holidays: Music of the Season”
March 21: Katherine Reynolds, viola; Diane McVinney, flute. Carl Maria von Weber: Andante and Hungarian Rondo; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poeme; Astor Piazzola: “Verano Portena” from the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade.
Season tickets are $75, $15 K-12 students, $165 family (two adults and two or more students 18 and younger) for preferred seating; $62 and $10 for general seating. Tickets to individual concerts are $30 and $25, $12 and $8 for students. Call (870) 536-7666 or visit the website, pinebluffsymphony.com.