April Wallace of the "Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette" joins Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams to suggest local happenings this weekend, like a Where's Waldo contest in Bentonville, an historic World War II plane in Fayetteville, and more.

Mount Sequoyah is hosting a concert and showcase with folk singer Willi Carlisle. Coined as a night of protest songs and public theater, proceeds from ticket sales will go toward the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund, or PCRF, and Mount Sequoyah’s Rainbow Art Camp.

Today's "Sound Perimeter" explores music echoing other artists. Pieces in today's episode include Mario Lavista’s "Lament" for flute, which is inspired by a poem by Wang Wei, and Bora Yoon’s "The Houses we carry Within", which engages with artist Do Ho Suh's concept that "home is everywhere and nowhere".

The University of Arkansas’ Master of Music in Black Sacred Music, a unique three-year, summer-only program, will conclude its second summer with a concert on Aug. 1 at The Meteor in Fayetteville. Geoffrey Allen Murdock and Jake Hertzog discussed the event and the Arkansas Center for Black Music at the Carver Center for Public Radio.

Gospel, blues, jazz, hip-hop, soul, and more can be heard every day in Fayetteville on nonprofit radio station KDIV 98.7 FM. The station is getting ready to re-introduce itself to the community with an open house on July 29 at its new space on Sunbridge Drive. Reggie Brasfield, the station’s executive director, and Ryan Versey, a volunteer at KDIV and KUAF’s underwriting director, talked with Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams about the mission of KDIV.

Features editor for the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, April Wallace, joins Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams to discuss upcoming local happenings, such as back to school resource fairs occurring around the region, a new show from That's What She Said at Two Friends Books in Bentonville and the Firefly Fling at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks.

Many yarn stores in Arkansas, including two in northwest Arkansas, will participate in the 2024 Arkansas Yarn Crawl. Beginning tomorrow, we have nine days to visit all eight stores, and nine days may be enough to travel from Fayetteville to Paragould to Malvern to Hot Springs and beyond. Yesterday, Ozarks at Large's Kyle Kellams visited with the owners of the two Fayetteville yarn store participants.

Today's "Sound Perimeter" features pieces by Hildur Guðnadóttir and Francis Poulenc's, based on sound layers and expressive dialogues.

Fayetteville resident Roger Barrett has become somewhat of a staple in the city’s music scene. If you don’t recognize his name, you’ll likely recognize On the Map Shows, Roger’s independent music booking and promotion project.

Shakespeare in the summer is a recent tradition in northwest Arkansas. The newly-formed Arkansas Classical Theater will carry on that tradition beginning next summer. Last week, two of the founders, David Jolliffe and Steven Marzolf, came to the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio to talk about the plans for 2025 and a special preview the company will present on Aug. 2.