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Saxophonist Austin Farnam talks with Shades of Jazz host Robert Ginsburg about his 11-piece band Groove Culture, its influences and its Nov. 11 concert at the Victory Theater in Rogers.
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Co-founder Ken Weatherford looks back on a decade of Beer & Hymns, which has raised nearly $700,000 for local nonprofits, and previews Beer and Horns at Bike Rack Brewing in Bentonville.
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Wai-Kay Carenbauer and Kyle Kellams preview live music Oct. 22-28, from Three Dog Night at Ozark Music Hall to Squirrel Flower at George’s and a free Music Monday flute recital.
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UofA flutist Cristina Ballatori and pianist Kevin Chance, friends since LSU, perform 21st-century works and more at a free Music Monday concert in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall.
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Lia Uribe explores two visionary Brazilian women, Vânia Dantas Leite and Bianca Gismonti, whose music blends tradition and experimentation into deeply personal worlds.
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Dallin Credible, one of the owners of Punk Truck Stop in Fayetteville, talks about growing a traveling merch truck into a coffee shop, bodega and music venue on Spring Street.
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Brick Fields and the Blues Therapy Group, one of three NPR Tiny Desk Contest: Arkansas Showcase winners, talk about Wednesday blues nights, a restaurant and a return to music.
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Kyle Kellams and Wai-Kay Carenbauer preview a week of live music, from Ziggy Marley and Ashley McBryde at Ozark Music Hall to Ruthie Foster in Joplin.
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Author Colin Asher discusses how incarceration shaped the careers of Lead Belly, Johnny Cash, Ike White and Tupac Shakur, plus Arkansas’ Calvin Leavy and “Cummins Prison Farm.”
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Lia Uribe explores two contemporary works shaped by memory: Ingrid Stölzel’s “A Thought Went Up My Mind Today,” which borrows from Poulenc, and Carlos Simon’s “Amen!”
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The UofA Latin American Ensemble and the Thaden Community Youth Orchestra share the stage in a free concert Monday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at Faulkner Performing Arts Center in Fayetteville.
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Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s Eric Johnson discusses “Joseph Kekuku and the Voice of the Steel Guitar,” a play about the steel guitar’s inventor, coming Oct. 17 to the Jones Center in Springdale.