Kyle Kellams: This is Ozarks at Large. I'm Kyle Kellams in the Anthony and Susan Hui News Studio. With me is Sophia Nourani. Hello, Sophie.
Sophia Nourani: Hi, Kyle.
Kellams: And Wai-Kay Carenbauer.
Wai-Kay Carenbauer: Hi, Kyle.
Kellams: We are going to talk some tunes, and it is an eclectic week that begins tonight. Six Twelve, which is in west Fayetteville on Weddington, starts its open mic series for 2025. Sign-ups are at 6:30 tonight, and music starts at 7. There’s a featured artist, Olivia Woo.
It’s also the opening night for A Beautiful Noise, the Neil Diamond musical that will go through Sunday at Walton Arts Center.
So we’ve got you started off tonight. What about tomorrow?
Sophia: Pierce the Veil is going to be at the Walmart AMP tomorrow evening, which is pretty exciting.
Kyle: So help me out here. I have to plead a bit of ignorance with Pierce the Veil.
Sophia: Emo-adjacent, I would say—rock, metal? They were popular when I was younger, but I was more of a My Chemical Romance person. They fall in the same category?
Kyle: My Chemical Romance. Okay, gotcha.
Wai-Kay: Chemical Romance was even more emo, right?
Sophia: Yeah, I guess I was just more emo.
Wai-Kay: That must have been it.
Sophia:But they’re going to be there tomorrow evening. Tickets are low, lawn seats are around $50.
Kyle: At Ozark Music Hall tomorrow night, Saint Motel—sort of an atmospheric, poppy band.
(Music: “Peace n’ Love n’ Anarchy” by Saint Motel plays.)
Saint Motel will be at the Ozark Music Hall, which is formerly…
Sophia: JJ’s Live.
Kyle: Right. In case that confuses you.
Wai-Kay: Not emo.
Kyle: No, not emo.
Wai-Kay: Got it.
Sophia: Are we going to reach a point where it’s fully just Ozark Music Hall and not “formerly JJ’s”?
Kyle: Wai-Kay is shaking his head, but I think we are now at that point.
Sophia: Yeah, I think that Ozark Music Hall is just such a great name.
Kyle: I think we’re declaring from here on out it’s just Ozark Music Hall. No longer “formerly” anything.
Wai-Kay: Thursday, the Heart of the Ozarks Craft Fair and Fall Fest starts at the Washington County Fairgrounds. They’ll have 300 booths, food trucks, live music, a petting zoo, and a family fun zone. It runs through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. It’s all ages and free, so you can go at any point and have a great time.
Kyle: Thursday night in Fort Smith, the next installment of the Levitt AMP Fort Smith Music Series features Carver Commodore. Music begins at 6. It’s absolutely free at 112 Riverfront Drive.
George’s will have a band I’m kind of interested in—Giovanni and the Hired Guns. They’re out of Texas and mix Latin pop, Americana, and Red Dirt country.
(Music: “Pineapple Sunshine” by Giovanni and the Hired Guns plays.)
Doors open at 7, music starts at 8:30. That’s Thursday night at George’s Majestic Lounge on Dickson Street in Fayetteville.
Kingfish Thursday night at 8 will be welcoming in a band that describes themselves as “cosmic honky-tonk”—Canyon Sons.
Wai-Kay: Oh, I love those guys. They’re brothers. They’re hilarious.
Kyle: Yeah?
Wai-Kay: They’re in a sort of fuzz band too- Red Witch.
Kyle: Okay, yeah. They’re great. Worth going to Kingfish Thursday night?
Wai-Kay: I would say so, yeah. They’re hilarious.
Kyle: What’ve we got for Friday?
Sophia: Music on the Mountain continues on Mount Sequoyah with Ashtyn Barbaree.
(Music: “2am Shadow” by Ashtyn Barbaree plays.)
You can find tickets on Experience Fayetteville. It starts at 6, goes through 8 p.m., hosted—weather permitting—at Vesper Point, which is a pretty scenic spot.
Kyle: Oh yeah, to listen to some music. Do they move it inside if it rains?
Sophia: Yeah, in the auditorium.
Kyle: So if it rains, there will be music.
Sophia: Yes.
Karen: I checked the forecast this morning—I don't think there’s rain on Friday.
Sophia: Fingers crossed.
Kyle: Also Friday, Lily Rose—who went big in 2020 with her hit “Villain.” Her latest album I Know What I Want is out now. Lily Rose will be at Ozark Music Hall—just Ozark Music Hall—7 p.m. Friday night.
(Music: “Villain” by Lily Rose plays.)
Happy hour at George’s Friday night—Full House. Always bring a full house. Should be a fun show.
Harp NWA will be at Sassafras in Springdale beginning at 6 Friday evening. The four-piece eclectic Good Vibes band Ozark Dragonfly will be at Creekside Taproom in Siloam Springs Friday at 7.
And in downtown Pryor, Oklahoma, Friday and Saturday—it’s Bluegrass and Barbecue.
Sophia: Oh, I love that. Good combo.
Kyle: Also Friday night at JJ’s in Springdale, The Odds start playing at 8.
Wai-Kay: Actual JJ’s.
Kyle: Yes. Absolutely.
Sophia: Saturday, Ozark Music Hall will host Big Gay Halloween—a DJ event with vendors, affiliated with the Big Gay Market. I don’t know if you recall my story with them. Tickets are $30, and start at 6:30.
Wai-Kay: There’s a lot going on Saturday.
Sophia: Yeah, I have something else Saturday too— you go first.
Wai-Kay: The Lower Ramble is hosting the 17th annual Puppets in the Park in Fayetteville. Bands Shaky Bugs, Papa Rap, and Candy Lee are all performing. There will be puppet shows and a giant puppet parade from 5:15 to 5:45. It runs noon to 6 and is free.
Sophia: We know Papa Rap.
Kyle: We know Candy Lee, we know a lot of people involved in this.
Wai-Kay: George’s is hosting Swink Fest, celebrating three years of Swink Booking. Bands include Thoughts on Bowling, Dear Cincinnati, Halftime Show, Placeholders, and Frail State. Doors at 7:30, music at 9, all ages, $12 tickets. If you like EDM, Kyle seems like a guy that would like EDM-
Kyle: I’m not not a guy that likes EDM.
Wai-Kay: Go to West and Watson for West and Wonky—a multi-genre EDM event with Polar Dose, Dale Lilac, and others from Arkansas and Tennessee. It’s from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., 21 and up.
Sophia: Also Saturday, the Ozark Ballet Theater at Fayetteville Public Library will present The Firebird—a Halloween-themed performance. Tickets are available on the Ozark Ballet Theater website. There will be two performances: Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.—a matinee, I believe?
Kyle: It is called that. It’s in the big room, the Event Center, right?
Sophia: Oh yeah. Yes.
Kyle: Also Saturday, Oktoberfest NWA Beer Festival with Fuzzy Logic and polka at Railyard Live. General admission $55, VIP $80, doors at 1 p.m. Mr. Cabbage Head and the Screaming Radishes will be at Basin Park in Eureka Springs on Saturday 3 to 5—free show. I guess maybe because its getting colder they’re making it earlier.
The Night Timers, speaking of Eureka, will be at Gotahold Brewing in Eureka from 6 to 8 Saturday night.
Also Saturday, the final show in the Prairie View Jazz Series at Mount Hebron Park—Melvin Devine and the Northwest Arkansas Jazz and More Orchestra, that's from 7 to 9:30.
Sophia: Yea, on Sunday, the Walmart AMP hosts Twenty One Pilots with Dayglow. Tickets are low, well, low in amount of tickets. The lowest is around $130, you can get those on their website.
Kyle: Blues Traveler at The Momentary Sunday night. And also Sunday, this is pretty cool, the Fayetteville Public Library continues its Mountain Street Stage series featuring John Ford, Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4. This is pretty cool, I didn’t see any other libraries on his national tour.
Sophia: Great.
Kyle: Let’s go out with John Ford, who will be at the Fayetteville Public Library Sunday from 2 to 4. I’m Kyle Kellams.
Wai-Kay: I’m Wai-kay Carenbauer.
Sophia: I’m Sophia Nourani.
(Music: “The Ramblin’ Life” by John Ford plays.)
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