JJ Grey and Mofro will perform, along with opening act The Ben Miller Band, at 8 p.m. today at the Rev Room in Little Rock. Tickets are $28.
Boom Kinetic will perform at 9:30 p.m. Friday. Admission is $10.
Here Come the Mummies will perform with opening act The Big Dam Horns at 9 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 the day of the show. An eight-piece funk rock band, rumored to consist of "Grammy-winning studio musicians," Here Come the Mummies has opened shows for Al Green, P-Funk and Cheap Trick.
The Purple Rain Revisited Experience, a tribute to the late legendary musician Prince, will offer two shows -- at 5:30 and 8:30 p.m. Sunday. General admission standing-room tickets are $5; "upper guaranteed" tickets are $10; and "VIP floor seating" is $20.
According to promoter Cliff Aaron of Drummerboyinfinity Productions, the show will feature music from the catalog of songs Prince recorded, as well as from bands and artists whom he produced. Gary Esco of Memphis and Charlie Askew, a former American Idol contestant, will perform, and the show will also feature Genine Perez, Keith Savage, Haywood King, Tawanna Campbell, Lucious Spiller, Jeron Marshall and others.
Revolution Room, 300 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock, (501) 823-0090, revroom.com
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Singer-songwriter-guitarist-fiddler Joe Crookston will perform at 6 p.m. Sunday for the Little Rock Folk Club at Hibernia Irish Tavern. Admission is $15, $8 for students with IDs, free for accompanied children 12 and under.
Crookston, who has been based in Ithaca, N.Y., since 2015, is a singer-songwriter who grew up in rural Ohio and attended Kent State University. While there he shifted his musical interest from classical guitar to folk music after he attended the Kent State Folk Festival. He lived in Seattle from 1996 to 2004, a time when he worked with troubled youth in a prison.
On his website Crookston recalls that one of his musical idols, Woody Guthrie, once said that "A song has to be more than good ... it has to be good for something," which inspired Crookston to explain that "When my songs are played at births, funerals, Quaker retreats, grade school history classes, weddings and are being placed in museum exhibits and films, I feel like I'm making Woody proud."
Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, (501) 663-0634, littlerockfolkclub.org
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Jay Farrar will perform at 8 p.m. today at South on Main in a sold-out show that will conclude the 2015-16 Americana concert series at the venue.
Farrar is one of the pioneers of the rootsy Americana musical genre, beginning with his late 1980s into early 1990s band, Uncle Tupelo, formed across the Mississippi River from St. Louis in Belleville, Ill., and continuing into his next band, Son Volt, before he became a solo artist. His Uncle Tupelo bandmate, Jeff Tweedy, also became a major player in Americana/ "No Depression" -style music with his band Wilco.
Singer Bijoux will perform at 10 p.m. Friday. Admission is $10.
South on Main, 13th and Main streets, Little Rock, (501) 244-9660 southonmain.com
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Bonnie Montgomery will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at the White Water Tavern in Little Rock. Admission is $7.
Seratones, along with opening act Bombay Harambee, will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $7.
White Water Tavern, West Seventh and Thayer streets, Little Rock, (501) 375-8400, whitewatertavern.com
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Mountain Sprout will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday at Stickyz Rock 'n' Roll Chicken Shack in Little Rock. Admission is $10.
Radio Birds, plus opening act Strangetowne, will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $7 in advance, $10 at the door.
Stickyz Rock 'n' Roll Chicken Shack, 107 River Market Ave., Little Rock, (501) 372-7707, stickyz.com
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Marquis and the Mood will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at The Afterthought Bistro and Bar in Little Rock. Admission is $10.
The Hardy Winborn Experience will perform at 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $7.
The Afterthought Bistro and Bar, 2721 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock, (501) 663-1196, afterthoughtbistroandbar.com
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Dylan Earl & the Post Country Westerns, plus opening acts William Blackart and Amy Jo Savannah will perform at 9 p.m. Friday at Maxine's in Hot Springs. Admission is $5.
Jody Seabody and the Whirls will perform, along with opening acts The Rios and The Isms, at 9 p.m. Saturday. Admission is $5.
Maxine's, 700 Central Ave., Hot Springs, (501) 321-0909, maxineslive.com
Weekend on 05/12/2016