ENTERTAINMENT NOTES

Pianist guests with third ASO chamber concert; Ruthie Foster sings at UA-Fayetteville

Pianist Andrew Von Oeyen
Pianist Andrew Von Oeyen

Pianist Andrew Von Oeyen, the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra's Richard Sheppard Arnold Artist of Distinction for the 2018-19 season, joins members of the orchestra for the third concert of the River Rhapsodies Chamber Music season, 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Great Hall of the Clinton Presidential Center, 1200 President Clinton Ave., Little Rock.

Von Oeyen will play Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin and join the orchestra's Rockefeller String Quartet (Trisha McGovern Freeney and Katherine Williamson, violins; Katherine Reynolds, viola; and Ethan Young, cello) for Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 57. The orchestra's Quapaw String Quartet -- Meredith Maddox Hicks and Charlotte Crosmer, violins; Ryan Mooney, viola; and David Gerstein, cello -- will open the concert with Franz Joseph Haydn's String Quartet No. 27 in D major, op.20, No. 4.

Tickets are $23, $10 for students and active military. Call (501) 666-1761, Extension 1, or visit ArkansasSymphony.org.

Folk singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster performs Tuesday at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
Folk singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster performs Tuesday at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Folk with Foster

Austin-based folk/blues/soul/rock/gospel singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster performs with the University of Arkansas Inspirational Chorale, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the university's Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, 453 Garland Ave., Fayetteville. The performance is in association with the Walton Arts Center and the 2019 Black Music Symposium Week. Tickets are $10-$20. Call (479) 575-5387 or visit faulkner.uark.edu.

Foster will also host two workshops Wednesday at the Faulkner Center: "Evolution of Black Folk Music in the United States," 1-2 p.m., and "Finding Your Own Style While Maintaining Integrity of the Roots in Black Folk Music," 5-5:45 p.m. Admission is free to both.

Monroe Crossing — (from left) David Robinson, Matt Thompson, mandolin and fiddle; Derek Johnson, Lisa Fugile, Mark Anderson — performs Monday in Paragould.
Monroe Crossing — (from left) David Robinson, Matt Thompson, mandolin and fiddle; Derek Johnson, Lisa Fugile, Mark Anderson — performs Monday in Paragould.

Bluegrass Monday

Bluegrass band Monroe Crossing -- David Robinson, banjo; Matt Thompson, Derek Johnson, guitar and vocals; Lisa Fugile, fiddle, guitar, mandolin and lead vocals; and Mark Anderson, bass -- perform at 7 p.m. Monday at the Collins Theatre, 120 W. Emerson St., Paragould, part of Jonesboro public radio station KASU-FM, 91.9's Bluegrass Monday concert series. The station will literally "pass the hat" to pay the group; suggested donation is $5 per person. Call (870) 972-2367, email mscarbro@astate.edu or visit the Bluegrass Monday Facebook page.

Contemporary Christian singer Allen Asbury
Contemporary Christian singer Allen Asbury

Singer at OBU

Contemporary Christian singer Allen Asbury performs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Ouachita Baptist University's Jones Performing Arts Center, 410 Ouachita St., Arkadelphia. Asbury played Simon Peter in more than 3,000 performances of the musical The Promise, starting in Glen Rose, Texas, for six years in Branson, and also on an international tour. Admission is free. Call (870) 245-5134 or email secrestj@obu.edu.

Tommy Diaz, as Tommy Terrific, brings his “Tommy Terrific’s Wacky Magic, Music, & Louis Armstrong” show to the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale on Friday.
Tommy Diaz, as Tommy Terrific, brings his “Tommy Terrific’s Wacky Magic, Music, & Louis Armstrong” show to the Arts Center of the Ozarks in Springdale on Friday.

Wacky Armstrong

Entertainer Tommy Diaz kick-starts Black History Month at the Arts Center of the Ozarks, 214 S. Main St., Springdale, with his Tommy Terrific's Wacky "Magic, Music, & Louis Armstrong" show, 1 p.m. Friday. The show will feature magic tricks related to Armstrong's jazz standards, including "Hello, Dolly!", "When the Saints Go Marching In" and "What a Wonderful World." Tickets are $10. Call (479) 751-5441 or visit acozarks.org.

Style on 01/27/2019

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