Performance

The next Symphony of Northwest Arkansas concert, "New Canons," is March 11. New works and Brahms are on the program.

Catching up on the last 24 hours: the LEARNS education packaged passed the Arkansas House of Representative, Bentonville will redistrict wards as populations shift and the Aud has Ray Wylie Hubbard and Marcia Ball on the schedule.

The coming week of musical attractions features a variety of electronic, avant garde, rock and roll, country and more.

Ulysses Owens Jr. is a drummer the New York Times writes "takes a back seat to no one." But he is happy to share the spotlight. Robert Ginsburg talked with Owens in advance of his performance Saturday night in Starr Theater at Walton Arts Center.

The TheatreSquared production of Kim's Convenience opens this weekend. Nelson T. Eusebio and Eileen Rivera, the play's director and associate director, explain why they love this "small, but mighty" work so much.

Guitarist Virginia Luque and vocalist Jubilant Sykes have admired each other's work for years. This week, for the first time, they are performing together. The will be at Butterfield Trail Village Sunday at 3 p.m.

Becca Martin Brown, the features editor with the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, offers an indoor highlight for the weekend (the musical "Tootsie") and an outdoor highlight (seeking eagles on Beaver Lake).

An Arkansas lawmaker wants drag shows regulated.

This week 60% of Buddy Shute and the Motivators (Buddy along with Brenda and Steve Baskin) came to the Firmin-Garner Performance Studio. Their CD, "You Gotta Move" is the Ozark Blues Society of Northwest Arkansas' selection to represent the region in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. Buddy and others will be playing at the Meteor Guitar Gallery tomorrow night in support of sending this year's OBS artist reps, Downtown Livewires, to Memphis.

TheatreSquared's latest production can only be viewed online, but a doubly-vaccinated, socially-distanced audience also watched the musical performances…