Elsewhere in entertainment and the arts:
TODAY
Sounds in the Stacks
Robert “Frisbee” Coleman and Franko Nilsson Coleman, father-son piano-and-sax duo, will perform at 6:30 p.m. today at the Fletcher Library, 823 N. Buchanan St., Little Rock, as part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s Sounds in the Stacks series. The performance involves a 7-foot, 6-inch Kawai GX-7 concert grand piano provided by Piano Kraft. Admission is free. The series is part of Arkansas Sounds, a project of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies focusing on Arkansas music and musicians. Call (501) 320-5728 or email jmiller@cals.org.
Reading With Patrick
Author Michelle Kuo will share the story of her mentorship of a student, Patrick Browning, in Helena-West Helena in a program titled “Reading With Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship,” noon today, Sturgis Hall, Clinton School of Public Service, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock. Kuo will sign copies of her book, Reading With Patrick, after the talk. Admission is free. To reserve a seat, call (501) 683-5239 or email publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu.
Whoa, now
Little Rock indie-pop singer Whoa Dakota (Jessica Ott), who has spent the past few years in Nashville, Tenn., has returned to the Natural State and will celebrate the release of her new single and video, “Patterns,” with a show today at 9̶ ̶p̶.̶m̶.̶ 7:45 p.m.* at White Water Tavern, 2500 W. Seventh St., Little Rock. Bear Bear will open. Admission is $10.
The catchy single is a syrupy dose of dance pop and is the title cut to her debut album, which should be out in 2018 and features a cover of David Allan Coe’s “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone).”
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Folk Club lineup
Irish writer-actor Sean Tyrrell’s one-man show, Message of Peace, on the life and times of 19th-century Irish writer and civil rights activist John Boyle O’Reilly, opens the Little Rock Folk Club’s fall/ winter 2017 series, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 7 at Hibernia Irish Tavern, 9700 N. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock.
The rest of the lineup (all shows, 7:30 p.m. at Hibernia Irish Tavern):
Oct. 20: Paul Brock Band, led by button accordion and melodeon player Paul Brock
Nov. 4: Maire Ni Chathasaigh & Chris Newman, harp and guitar duo
Dec. 2: Singer/songwriter David Olney
Jan. 6: Fayetteville folk duo Still on the Hill
Feb. 17: Multi-instrumentalist Joe Crookston.
Tickets to each show are $15, $8 students with ID, free for accompanied children 12 and younger. Call (501) 663-0634 or visit the website, littlerockfolkclub.org.
*CORRECTION: Doors open at 7 p.m. for the Whoa Dakota show, which starts at 7:45 p.m. The time was incorrect in a previous version of this story.