Music
CD compilation to benefit Ride to the End
There’s another CD compilation that may interest residents: “Peace From The Hills.” This 23-track recording of local musical acts and poets was created to help benefit Ride to the End, a group of veterans and activists who are riding bicycles around the U.S. “until the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan ends.”
WAC adds The Canadian Tenors
Platinum-selling vocal group The Canadian Tenors will perform a blend of classical and contemporary pop music at Walton Arts Center’s Baum Walker Hall on Saturday, April 9 at 7 p.m.
Packing A Punch
The Punch Brothers defy all artistic categories except for “good music.”
Building on a matrix of acoustic bluegrass and pop, they merge folk lyricism, rock, jazz and classical. They collaborate with diverse distinguished artists such as Bela Fleck, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Mike Marshall and Edgar Meyer. Their TV/radio appearances include Leno, Letterman and Prairie Home Companion. An authentic string quintet, their virtuoso talent, prodigious energy, zest for innovation and a generous dollop of goofiness have led to national and international prominence and rave reviews, and of course, legions of devoted fans.
Terra Studios To Host Angel Fest
Angel Fest will be held in the new Terra Studios Event Center on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 13-14. The two-day event will showcase the talent of Northwest Arkansas’s women musicians.
The Shady Janes
The band will hold it’s CD release party for “Silence And The Sway” from 9 to 11:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 29 at the Boom Boom Room in Fayetteville.
Milsap Postponed to Nov. 11
Country legend Ronnie Milsap will perform a free show at 10 p.m. Nov. 11 at Seven inside Cherokee Casino & Hotel West Siloam Springs.
American Princes bassist passes away
An open letter from the band on the passing of Luke Hunsicker
Friday Maybe Saturday
Fayetteville’s own Friday Maybe Saturday — Chad Chamberlain, Charley Gilbow, Nate Garrett, Jedidiah Brandon — wrote a song called ‘Fuck’ Mountain so your band doesn’t have to.
