Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Patio on Park Hill
The Park Hill Business and Merchants Association will hold its fourth Patio on Park Hill, 5-8 p.m. today in the Lakehill Shopping Center, on John F. Kennedy Boulevard in North Little Rock’s Park Hill neighborhood. The event will feature a number of area food trucks, plus, since Park Hill is now “wet,” beer, margaritas and wine; music on the Dogtown Sound Stage from Amy Garland, Brian Nahlen & Nick Devlin and Stephen Neeper and the Wild Hearts, and in the beer garden from acoustic performer Joe Darr. Admission is $1, free for kids 12 and younger; proceeds benefit the association. Free parking (plus free trolley service) is available, 4:30-8:30 p.m. in the Park Hill Baptist Church lot, C Street and JFK Boulevard, and at businesses along the streetVisit ParkHillBusinesscom.
Closing a purse
ESSE Purse Museum, 1510 Main St., Little Rock, will host a champagne reception to mark Sunday’s closing of Kent Stetson’s exhibit, “The Art of Handbags,” 5-7 p.m. today, with champagne, light refreshments, tours of the museum’s two exhibits and a meet-and-greet with Stetson. Admission is $10, $8 for students, senior citizens and military. Museum hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Call (501) 916-9022 or visit essepursemuseum.com.
Harding guitarist
Guitarist Don Ross will kick off Harding University’s Arts and Life Concert Series at 7 p.m. today in the Administration Auditorium at Harding in Searcy. Tickets are $3 in advance, $5 at the door visit harding.edu/concertseries.
FRIDAY
Blues-rocker
Blues-rock guitarist Albert Cummings performs at 7 p.m. Friday at the Lyric Theater, 113 Rush St., Harrison. Tickets are $20 and $15. Call (870) 391-3504 or visit ozarkartscouncil.org or ticketpeak.com/res/ lyrictheatre.
SATURDAY
Ballot Box Ballads
Troubadours Suzanne and Jim Hale will sing “Ballot Box Ballads, 1840s-1940s,” accompanying themselves on fivestring banjo, acoustic guitar, flute and courtship dulcimer, 2 p.m. Saturday in the Ottenheimer Theater, Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third St., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call (501) 324-9351 or visit HistoricArkansas.org.
Vaudeville variety
The Marvelous Misfits will offer a vaudeville-style variety show, 8 p.m. Saturday at the Public Theater, 616 Center St., Little Rock. The lineup includes Doris Night and Ruby Lead from Foul Play Cabaret, juggler and strongman Arty Dodger and magician and mentalist Paul Prater, who also be the master of ceremonies. Tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Visit marvelousmisfits.com.
Art show, sale
Westover Hills Presbyterian Church, 6400 Richard B. Hardie Drive (where Kavanaugh Boulevard, McKinley Street and Pine Valley Road meet), Little Rock, will host an art show and sale, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, with area painters, sculptors, potters, printmakers, woodworkers, glassworkers, jewelers, photographers and pen-and-ink artists showing off and selling their work in the church’s fellowship hall. Admission is free. Call (501) 663-6383 or
(501) 773-6566.
Asian instruments
Zheng player Mei Han and multi-instrumentalist Randy Raine-Reusch will premiere, with the Hendrix College Chamber Orchestra and conductor Karen Griebling, Raine-Reusch’s Sands of Time, commissioned for the orchestra, and Griebling’s Concertino Grosso for Thai Khaen, Chinese Zheng, Ethiopian Sistrum and string orchestra, 10 a.m. Saturday in Staples Auditorium at Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., Conway. Han and Raine-Reusch are on the Hendrix campus through Monday via the Harold Thompson Residency, which includes a 3 p.m. Sunday concert with the chamber orchestra and the Conway Composers Guild; a composer workshop on graphic notation scores with Raine-Reusch at 5:30 p.m. Sunday in Classroom 1, Trieschmann Fine Arts Building, and a 7:30 p.m. Monday performance titled “Endangered Musics of the World” in Hendrix’s Reves Recital Hall. Admission to all events is free. Call (501) 450-1249 or email griebling@hendrix.edu.
Foghat in Eureka
Rock group Foghat will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Auditorium, 36 S. Main St., Eureka Springs. Tickets are $50-$70. Visit theaud.org.
Big barn sale
More than 180 vendors and artists from all over the country will be selling traditional craft and contemporary items at the 48th annual BPW Barn Sale. Hailed as “South Arkansas’ Largest Arts & Crafts Show,” the event is 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oakland and Monticello streets, Camden. The event also includes musical entertainment, an antique/classic car show, kids’ zone with rock climbing walls and inflatables and food — the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast and the St. Louis Catholic Church Spaghetti Supper. Admission is free; there’s a $5 parking fee. Call (870) 836-6426 or visit bpwbarnsale.org.
SUNDAY
Duo and friends
The Mariposa Duo — pianist Linda Holzer and violinist Sandra McDonald — and cellist Stephen Feldman, violinist Leanne Day-Simpson and violist Katherine Reynolds will present a chamber music concert titled “Mariposa & Friends: Creative Sparks!” featuring the music of composer Gwyneth Walker (who is expected to attend), 3 p.m. Sunday, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the UALR Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. Admission is free. Call
(501) 569-3294.
Revisiting Raiders
Pulaski Technical College will screen the documentary Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made and an original shot-for-shot adaptation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1 p.m. Sunday in the college’s Center for Humanities and Arts, Main Campus, 3000 W. Scenic Drive, North Little Rock. A question-and-answer with film director Eric Zala will take place between films. Admission is $10, $5 for students, military and senior citizens (55+) with valid ID. Visit pulaskitech.edu/CHARTS.
TICKETS
Verizon concerts
Tickets — $15-$69.75 plus service charges — go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for TobyMac’s “Hits Deep” tour concert with Matt Maher, Mandisa, Mac Powell from Third Day, Capital Kings, Ryan Stevenson and Hollyn, 6:30 p.m. Feb. 23 at North Little Rock’s Verizon Arena. Tickets — $18-$85 — also go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for Country singer Eric Church’s “Holdin’ My Own Tour” concert, 8 p.m. Feb. 4 at the arena. Call (800) 745-3000 or visit ticketmaster.com.