Underground Brings Folk Music Star
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Cathy Barton and Dave Para will be in concert Fri., Feb. 8, at the Underground
In The Spotlight
Valley of the Vapors
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By Roger Barrett I met Bill Solleder in Hot Springs, Ark. at the first Valley of the Vapors Music Festival. For someone with a seemingly endless list of interests and projects, Bill is, unlike the majority of event promoters, a genuine and calm presence. Almost single-handedly establishing Hot Springs as a touring stop for bands,…
The Paper Hearts Legacy Continues
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You couldn’t have been alive in Fayetteville in the early 2000s without bearing witness to The Paper Hearts.
Dead Man Walking Intensified In Operatic Form
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Staff Report The most famous operas are some of the most powerful tragedies of all time, said professional opera singer and Fayetteville native, Tamara Ryan. “Like Carmen, and Madame Butterfly; they’re so tragic, but they’re two of the most commonly performed operas,” she said. That’s not why she chose Jack Heggie’s Dead Man Walking as…
A Little Bit Psycho, Western
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By Sean Clancy Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Take a slab of garage rock psychosis, add a bootful of vintage country and western, a dash of inspiration from the old Donnie & Marie variety show, some roller derby moxie, the eerie sounds of a theremin, and you’ve got “A Little Bit Psycho … A Little Bit Western,” the…
Illustrating New Life Into Christmas Story
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By Terrah Baker As a Christian and an American, Bryce Napier has heard the story behind Christmas many times in his life. But one day he had some ideas of the familiar story in a not-so-familiar way. “I wanted to do a Christmas story that focused on the spiritual warfare that was discussed in the…
Hope During Labor Class Injustice in Billy Elliott
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Staff Report Billy Elliot the Musical plays out amid the turmoil of the 1984 coal miners’ strike in Northern England, one of the darkest times in modern British history. As young Billy studies ballet, the mining town where he lives experiences relentless hardship and despair. Director Stephen Daldry, book writer and lyricist Lee Hall, composer…
Keller Williams Brings Funky to Fayetteville
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By Mason Carr The loopy and funkadelic grooves of the one-pretty-damn-talented-man jam band, Keller Williams, will be shaking the hineys of Fayetteville’s freaky Nov. 29 at George’s Majestic Lounge on Dickson Street. Williams has had a kaleidoscopic touring year, from playing with Larry Keel, gruff-voiced guitar guru and Americana eccentric, and Keel’s wife, Jenny, to…
‘No Direction’ But Up For The Wedding
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The Wedding arranged a last-second rock n’ roll show at the NWA Mall’s Showcase theater Nov. 9 to bare their new album “No Direction,” in the midst of their “American Rebel” tour with Children 18:3 from Minnesota.
The Wailers: Join The Revolution!
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Fans of reggae will be delighted to know that Bob Marley’s backing band, The Wailers, will be coming to Northwest Arkansas on their 2012 “Revolution” Tour! The revolutionary spirit of Bob Marley is alive in America, and the Wailers are about to make their live contribution to the struggle.