1 SPECTACULAR
“Classic meets pop” when Night of the Proms hits North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena, 7:30 p.m. Friday. The hit European show melds classical and pop music with performances by Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, The Pointer Sisters and Nile Rodgers & Chic as well as an orchestra and choir. Tickets are $45-$99. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com. See story on Page 5E.
2 SHELTON
Country superstar and The Voice coach Blake Shelton is bringing his Ten Times Crazier tour to Verizon Arena, 7 p.m. Sunday. The Band Perry, Dan + Shay and Neal McCoy will also perform. Tickets are $42.50 and $69. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com. See story on Page 4E.
3 SELF-DETERMINATION
The Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, 501 W. Ninth St., Little Rock, hosts a day full of music, dancing, children’s games and history in celebration of Juneteenth, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. This year’s party includes a screening of the documentary Freedom Summer at 1 p.m. and a chance to explore the center’s exhibit, “Arkansas African American Legislators, 1868-1893.” Admission is free. Call (501) 683-3593 or visit mosaictemplarscenter.com. See story on Page 4E.
4 SONNY
An Arkansas Sounds concert at 7 p.m. Friday celebrates Sonny Burgess’ 85th birthday at the Central Arkansas Library System’s Ron Robinson Theater, in the Arcade Building, River Market and President Clinton avenues, in Little Rock’s River Market District. Burgess and his band, the Legendary Pacers, will perform; also on the bill will be Rodney Block, Bonnie Montgomery, Brad Williams and Nick Devlin of the Salty Dogs and Kevin Kerby. Tickets are $10. Call (501) 918-3033 or visit arkansassounds.org or butlercenter.org.
5 SMOOTH
The Yellowjackets headline Jazzlights in the Park, the annual benefit for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Arkansas, 6-11 p.m. Friday at First Security Amphitheater, Riverfront Park, behind the River Market’s Ottenheimer Market Hall, Little Rock. Also on the bill: Rodney Block, the Julia Buckingham Group, That Arkansas Weather and Twice Sax. General admission tickets are $45 for fixed amphitheater seats, $34 for lawn seating (take blankets or lawn chairs). Food and beverages will be available for sale. Call (501) 372-8341 or (501) 666-8816 or visit ticketmaster.com.
And speaking of the Yellowjackets, they’ll open the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society’s KUAF Summer Jazz Concert Series at 8 p.m. Saturday at City Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Tickets are $25-$45. Call (479) 225-2306, email robert@digjazz.com or visit the website, digjazz.com.
6 SOUNDS
The final public performance at Little Rock’s Robinson Center Music Hall, West Markham Street and Broadway, before the hall shuts down for a two-year renovation will be St. Luke Baptist Church’s The Sounds of Gospel, 6 p.m. Sunday. Nearly a dozen area clergymen (plus one from Milwaukee) will sing and lead a mass choir. Tickets are $20; call (501) 835-5571 or visit ticketmaster.com.
7 SCULPTURE
Talented artists will display their one-of-a-kind creations at the Arkansas Sculpture Invitational Show and Sale at Argenta Community Theater, 405 Main St., North Little Rock. It begins with a preview reception with hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, 6-9 p.m. Friday. The show opens again 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. For special activities, “Coup de Art” (sculpture wars) will be 2-4 p.m. Saturday and the artists’ silent auction will be noon-4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. Call (501) 991-3886 or visit arkansassculptureinvitational.org.
8 SNAPSHOTS
“Explore Arkansas,” an exhibit of “phoneography,” 30 photos exclusively taken with and edited on mobile devices (out of approximately 200 submitted by 65 artists), goes on display at 5 p.m. Friday at Mugs Cafe, 515 Main St., North Little Rock, as part of the Argenta Arts & Entertainment District’s monthly ArtWalk. Tommy Wallace, associate pastor at Family Life Bible Church in Conway, and the man behind the @ArkMoPhs (Arkansas Mobile Phoneographers) account on Instagram, organized the exhibit. The photos will remain on display for about four weeks during normal business hours: 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Call (501) 514-3596 or email arkmophs@gmail.com.
9 SCREEN
A live “cinecast” of Jimmy Buffett’s Live at the Drive-In from the Coyote Drive-In in Fort Worth will screen at 8:45 p.m. today at the Kenda Drive-In, U.S. 65 in Marshall. You can drive in or park outside and walk in; tickets are $18 plus a $1.25 service fee. “Doors” open at 7. Call (870) 448-5400 or visit kendadrivein.com. For tickets, visit margaritaville.com/liveatthedrive-in.
10 SOPRANOS
Arias and recitatives will echo through the hills during Opera in the Ozarks, Friday-July 18 at the Opera in the Ozarks Theater, 16311 U.S. 62 W., Eureka Springs. This year’s productions of classical operas Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte and Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi will be joined by the more modern, musical theater-style Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim. Tickets are $20-$25. Call (479) 253-8595 or visit opera.org.