Ex-coach Tony Dungy set to speak at Harding University

Former NFL coach Tony Dungy (right) with and former Green Bay Packer Keith Jackson in January 2013. AP photo
Former NFL coach Tony Dungy (right) with and former Green Bay Packer Keith Jackson in January 2013. AP photo

Elsewhere in entertainment, events and the arts:

TODAY

Ex-coach's address

Tony Dungy, former head coach of the 2007 NFL Super Bowl Champion Indianapolis Colts and football analyst for NBC Sports, will deliver the fourth presentation in the the American Studies Institute at Harding University's 2018-19 Distinguished Lecture Series, 7:30 p.m. today in Benson Auditorium, 900 Center St., Searcy. Dungy, who retired in 2009 after a 31-year NFL career, was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. He is also the author of several books; his latest, The Soul of a Team, which he wrote with Nathan Whitaker, came out in January. Admission is free. Call (501) 279-4497 or visit harding.edu/asi.

FRIDAY

Suffrage lecture

Historian Page Harrington will discuss the roles of those who worked to ensure women's suffrage at the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' third Betsey Wright Distinguished Lecture, noon Friday at the Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., Little Rock. Co-sponsor is the the Arkansas Women's History Institute. Admission is free. Visit cals.org.

SUNDAY

Trumpet tunes

Brittany Hendricks and Richard Jorgensen, trumpet, and Hwaju Lee, piano, will play an hourlong recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 199 Barcelona Road, Hot Springs Village. The program will include trumpet concertos by Henri Tomasi and Philip Sparke, a transcription of Gabriel Faure's Elegy and the Concerto in C major for two trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi. Admission is free. A reception will follow. Call (501) 922-0299.

Eric Church performs Oct. 25 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena.
Eric Church performs Oct. 25 at North Little Rock's Verizon Arena.

TICKETS

Church Doubles Down

Country singer Eric Church extends his "Double Down Tour" to include North Little Rock's Verizon Arena, 8 p.m. Oct. 25. Tickets -- $29-$149 (plus applicable service charges) -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday; no tickets will be sold at the arena box office and there is a six-ticket limit per household. Visit Ticketmaster.com.

Sound of Music

Tickets -- $33-$77 including fees -- go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday for the national touring production of The Sound of Music (music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse based on the The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp), 7:30 p.m. May 24, 2 and 7:30 p.m. May 25 and 2 p.m. May 26 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, 426 W. Markham St. at Broadway, Little Rock. Call (501) 244-8800 or visit Ticketmaster.com.

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