Drama students at Little Rock's Parkview Arts & Science Magnet High School enact the "residents" of Mount Holly Cemetery, 1200 Broadway, Little Rock, during the annual Tales of the Crypt, 6-8 p.m. Tuesday.
Guides with candles take visitors through the cemetery, stopping at the graves where students, in period costumes created by Debi Manire, deliver short monologues or dialogues to highlight the characters' lives. Admission is free; donations will be accepted. Visit the website, tinyurl.com/crypttales.
Classical Players
The New York Classical Players will perform at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. It's part of the university's new Chancellor's Concert Series.
UALR faculty member Naoki Hakutani will solo in the Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, op.58, by Ludwig van Beethoven. The program will also include Omaggio a Gesualdo for String Orchestra by Eric Nathan; the Concerto for Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043, by J.S. Bach; and Prelude and Scherzo, op.11, by Dmitri Shostakovich. Founding music director Dongmin Kim conducts. Tickets are $20, $5 for students, free for UALR and University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College students and employees. Call (501) 569-3294 or email jslane@ualr.edu.
Ballet Emergence
Ballet Arkansas company members will perform Emergence, 8 p.m. Friday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., the season opener for the center's 10x10 Arts Series.
The program will include "Under the Lights," Chris Stuart's setting of music by Johnny Cash; George Balanchine's "Valse Fantaisie"; and the premiere of a work by 2017 Winter Visions competition winner Mariana Oliveira, who will take part in a pre-show creative conversation with Ballet Arkansas Artistic Director Michael Fothergill. Tickets are $10 plus fees. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website. waltonartscenter.org.
Season opener
Trumpeter Christopher Coletti of the Canadian Brass Quintet will solo in the Trumpet Concerto by Franz Joseph Haydn with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas and Music Director Paul Haas to open the orchestra's 2017-2018 season, 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Baum Walker Hall, Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St.
The program will also include Peter Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Haas' Dream. Sponsor is Highlands Oncology Group. Tickets are $30-$52, $10 for college students with a valid student ID. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit sonamusic.org.
Starrlight Jazz
Also at Walton Arts Center this week, Brooklyn-based Huntertones -- Jon Lampley, trumpet/sousaphone; Chris Ott, trombone/beatbox; Dan White, saxophones; Adam DeAscentis, bass; John Hubbell, drums; and Josh Hill, guitar -- meld jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, R&B and rock, 8 p.m. Saturday in the center's Starr Theatre, to kick off the center's 2017-2018 Starrlight Jazz Club Series. Tickets are $30-$50. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit waltonartscenter.org.
Eureka Bluegrass
The Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival kicks off at 2 p.m. on Friday with the six-member traditional bluegrass band Cedar Hill in Basin Springs Park, 4 Spring St., Eureka Springs. The Shook Twins, identical twins Katelyn and Laurie Shook, perform at 3:45 p.m., followed at 5:30 by roots-rock band the Black Lillies.
The lineup for Saturday: Shook Twins at 1 p.m., Lonesome Road at 2:30, Cedar Hill at 4 and the Black Lillies at 5:30. Admission is free. Visit eurekasprings.org.
AMP Fest
David Shaw & Zack Feinberg, aka The Revivalists, will co-headline the annual AMP Fest beer, music and tech festival, 4-9 p.m. Saturday at Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road, Rogers. There will be music on three stages and craft beer from more than 20 local, regional and national breweries. The festival also includes cutting-edge games, technology activations and interactive experiences.
Tickets, $45, include a collectible glass for beer sampling and access to all activation experiences. Proceeds support arts education programs at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit amptickets.com.
Sense & Sensibility
The Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, will stage Sense & Sensibility, Kate Hamill's adaptation of the classic Jane Austen tale, 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday and Oct. 20-21 and 3 p.m. Oct. 15 and 22. A meet-the-cast tea party precedes the opening-night show at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10-$20. Call (479) 751-5441, email info@acozarks.org or visit acozarks.org.
'Treasure' hunt
Nov. 17 is the deadline for nominations for the Arkansas Arts Council's 2018 Arkansas Living Treasure award, which since 2002 honors an Arkansan who is outstanding in the creation of a traditional craft and has significantly contributed to the preservation of the art form. Craftsmen using traditional methods and traditional materials, including glass, leather, metals, pottery, textiles, wood and cloth, are eligible. Past recipients have won for weaving, basket making, wood sculpture, fiddle-making, quilting, stained glass, egg art, log-cabin construction, bladesmithing, woodworking and chairmaking.
An independent panel of practicing craftsmen and folk artists will select the recipient based on quality of work, community outreach and total contribution to the field of traditional crafts. The award winner will be honored at a May reception during Arkansas Heritage Month. Nomination forms are available at arkansasarts.org. For more information, call (501) 324-9348 or email robin.mcclea@arkansas.gov.
Style on 10/08/2017