ENTERTAINMENT: Ozark Music Festival debuts with 13 public concerts

MUSIC

Ozark Music Festival

The inaugural Ozark Music Festival, “building upon the storied foundation of the Hot Springs Music Festival,” according to a news release, will feature 13 public concerts, pairing college musicians with faculty from top universities and members of major orchestras in various Northwest Arkansas venues. Venues include the Faulkner Performing Arts Center at the University of Arkansas, and the Fayetteville Public Library, both in Fayetteville; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary, both in Bentonville.

The festival, with the theme of “Transformation” — a nod to its evolution from its Spa City origins to a new identity in the Ozarks — opens with a free outdoor brass fanfare at Fayetteville’s new Cultural Arts Corridor, known as the “Upper Ramble,” on the Razorback Greenway, between West Center Street and Dickson Street, 6 p.m. Wednesday. Admission is free.

The Festival Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Associate Conductor Sunny Xia will perform Richard Strauss’ “Don Juan” and Claude Debussy’s “La Mer” at 5 p.m. Saturday at the Fayetteville Public Library Event Center, 401 W. Mountain St., Fayetteville (tickets are $30, $15 for students) and at 7 p.m. June 15 at the Momentary Green, 507 S.E. E St., Bentonville (admission is free).

They’ll play Ottorino Respighi’s “The Fountains of Rome,” Maurice Ravel’s “La Valse” and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at 3 p.m. June 22 at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center, 453 Garland Ave., Fayetteville. Tickets are $30, $15 for students.

Chamber orchestra concerts are set for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Heroncrest, 1579 E. Lake Road, Springdale/Elm Springs; 7:30 p.m. June 17 and 7:30 p.m. June 19 at Fayetteville’s First United Presbyterian Church, 695 E. Calvin St.; and 7:30 p.m. June 20 in the Great Hall at Crystal Bridges, 600 Museum Way, Bentonville.

The festival lineup also includes a faculty chamber concert, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 224 N. East Ave., Fayetteville; and an “Inside Out” Experience (audience members can sit in the orchestra and learn about rehearsal from the “inside out”), 6 p.m. Monday, June 16 at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center.

A complete schedule and ticket information is available at ozarkmusic.org/festival-events.

Muses cabaret

The Muses Project performs its Summer Broadway Cabaret Concert, “Tale as Old as Time,” a Disney-inspired concert of selections of tunes from childhood fairy tales, 7 p.m. Tuesday at Westover Hills Presbyterian Church, 6400 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. Doors open at 6:30. Admission is free; a love offering is requested. Call (501) 663-6383.

The program is based on 15 different fairy tales and inspired by the classic Disney tunes from “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Jungle Book,” “The Little Mermaid,” “Cinderella” and “Moana,” “re-mixed to feature the Muses’ Troupe of Performing Artists, singers, dancers, and instrumentalists.”

That troupe will also perform:

6 p.m. Monday, Muses Cultural Arts Center, 428 Orange St., Hot Springs. Student Show; free admission for artists, students and teachers. Call (501) 609-9811 to register.

7 p.m. Thursday, Texarkana Regional Arts & Humanities Council, Cabe Hall, 321 W. Fourth St., Texarkana. Call (903) 792-8681 for ticket information.

7 p.m. Friday, Woodlands Auditorium, 1101 DeSoto Blvd., Hot Springs Village.

3 p.m. Saturday and June 15, Muses Cultural Arts Center.

Tickets for Friday-Sunday performances are $35. Call (501) 609-9811 or visit themusesproject.org.

ART

Northwest Arkansas art

Aug. 1 is the deadline for Northwest Arkansas visual artists to submit works for Walton Arts Center’s fifth annual “Our Art, Our Region, Our Time” exhibition featuring works.

Artists in all visual art mediums, over 18 or with parental consent, can apply with works completed after Jan. 1, 2024, up to two items. The online application form is available at waltonartscenter.org/visualarts.

Curator Kathy P. Thompson will announce her selections for the exhibition Aug. 12. The exhibition will run Sept. 4-Nov. 2. For more information, email [email protected].

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