Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Black Crowes, Skynyrd to appear at fairgrounds
This week at the Arkansas Music Pavilion, Washington County Fairgrounds, 2536 N. McConnell Ave., Fayetteville: The Black Crowes perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $32-$47, with limited premium seating $77. And Lynyrd Skynyrd performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Gates open at 6. Tickets are $34.50-$77, with limited premium seating $102. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Eureka jazz
Jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra will be the headline act at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at The Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs, the culmination of the two-day 2013 Jazz Eureka festival. Tickets are $20-$42.50; call (479) 253-7333 or visit theauditorium.org or eurekasprings.org.
The festival kicks off 7-9 p. m. Friday with a “Sunset Serenade,” music and a dance by the 18-piece Fayetteville Jazz Collective, in Basin Spring Park. Admission is free. A free concert will take place noon-6 p.m. Saturday in the park. Visit the website jazzeureka.org.
Hot Springs jazz
Jazz musicians from around the state will convene in the Spa City this week for the 22nd annual Hot Springs Jazz Fest, Tuesday-Sept. 15 at various venues.
The schedule (all venues in Hot Springs):
7 p.m. Tuesday, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 228 Spring St.: “Piano- rama,” featuring Chuck Dodson, Zachary Wilson, Rex Bell, Lynn Payette, John Pucket and Clyde Pound, with David Higginbotham, bass, and Jay Payette, drums. Shirley Chauvin will be the emcee. $35.
2 p.m. Wednesday, Garland Country Library, 1427 Malvern Ave.: “Jazz 101,” an introduction to the history and evolution of jazz. Free.
6 p.m. Thursday, Quapaw Baths & Spa, 417 Central Ave.: “Shirley Chauvin’s S’Wonderful,” with Chauvin on vocals, Pound on keyboard, Les Pack on bass guitar and C.E. Askew, drums. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar. $15.
7 p. m. Friday, Five Star Theater, 710 Central Ave.: “Classical Jazz Explosion,” featuring the Quapaw Quartet (Eric Hayward and Meredith Maddox Hicks, violin; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello) and the ATM Jazz Band with mezzo-soprano Diane Kesling. $35.
11 a. m.-5 p. m. Saturday, under the Broadway SkyBridge downtown: “Jazz in the Streets.” 11 a.m., Spa City Stompers; noon, University of Arkansas at Monticello Jazz Band; 1 p. m., Delta Brass Express; 2 p.m., Henderson State’s NuFusion; 3 p.m., Calle Soul; 4 p.m., 106th Army National Guard Band. Dick Antoine of radio station KZNG-AM, 1340, will be the emcee. Free; lawn chairs, but no coolers, allowed.
Sept. 15: 10: 45 a. m., St. Luke’s Episcopal Church: “Jazz Mass,” free, (501) 6231653; 3 p. m., First United Methodist Church, 1100 Central Ave., “Jazz to Christianity,” lecture-concert with the Rev. Eugene L. Lowry, free, (501) 623-6668; 3 p.m., Crystal Ballroom, Arlington Resort Hotel & Spa, 239 Central Ave., Stardust Big Band tea dance, $8, free for students 18 and under, (501) 767-5482.
“Combo tickets” including “Piano-Rama,” “Shirley Chauvin’s S’Wonderful” and “Classical Jazz Explosion,” are $75. Hot Springs Jazz Society members get discounts on tickets. Call (501) 627-2425 or email HSJazzSociety@gmail.com.
See the Wizard
Rogers Little Theater will stage The Wizard of Oz in a dinner theater setting, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Sept. 1921 and 26-28 and 2 p.m. Sept. 15, 22 and 29 at the Victory Theater, 116 S. Second St., Rogers. Music and lyrics for this Wizard are by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, with additional music by Herbert Stothart; it was adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company from the 1939 film classic, based in turn on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Dinner starts an hour before curtain. Children under 5 will not be admitted. Tickets are $ 48 for dinner, $ 17 show-only balcony seating. Call (479) 631-8988 or visit the website rogerslittletheater.org.
Art of trees
The Chancellor’s Coalition for the Visual Arts at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith is hosting a reception for the opening of “Arkansas Champion Trees: An Artist’s Journey,” a statewide traveling exhibition of large and detailed drawings and documentary photographs of 18 Arkansas trees by Linda Williams Palmer, 3-5 p.m. today in the Smith-Pendergraft Campus Center, UA-Fort Smith, 5210 Grand Ave., Fort Smith.
The exhibit will be up until Oct. 25. Admission to exhibition and reception are free. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Friday. Call (479) 788-7300.
Honduran coup
Dario Euraque, a Honduran writer and professor of history and international studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., will kick off the University of the Ozarks’ 22nd annual Walton Arts & Ideas Series with a lecture, “The Current Restructuring of Economic Power, Elites, and States in Central America & the Coup in Honduras of 2009,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Rogers Conference Center, University of the Ozarks, 415 N. College Ave., Clarksville. Admission is free. Call (479) 979-1420. The series is funded by the Walton Family Charitable Support Foundation.
Met Live season
The Met: Live in HD 201314 season of live cinecasts of Metropolitan Opera performances begins Oct. 5 with the Met’s new production of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, baritone Mariusz Kwiecien and tenor Piotr Beczala and conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Three Arkansas theaters will be carrying the Met cinecasts Saturdays with Wednesday evening repeats: The Breckenridge Village 12 in Little Rock, the Tinseltown in Benton and the Razorback Cinema 16 in Fayetteville.
The rest of the schedule (except as noted), all performances at 11:55 a.m. Saturdays:
Oct. 26: Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Nose.
Nov. 9: Giacamo Puccini’s Tosca.
Dec. 14: Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff.
Feb. 8: Antonin Dvorak’s Rusalka.
March 1: Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor (11 a.m.).
March 15: Jules Massanet’s Werther.
April 5: Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme.
April 26: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte.
May 10: Gioacchino Rossini’s La Cenerentola.
More information on the operas, other locations and tickets is available at the website metopera.org/hdlive.