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MUSIC

Rimes opens season

Country singer LeAnn Rimes kicks off the 2024-25 Performance Season at East Arkansas Community College, 1700 Newcastle Road, Forrest City, with a concert at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21.

The rest of the lineup (all performances at 7:30 p.m.):

◼️ Nov. 9: Family gospel group The Isaacs

◼️ Jan. 25: Country band Lonestar

◼️ March 15: Kool & the Gang

◼️ April 12: ZZ Top

Season tickets — $204 for the VIP Package (all five shows), $117.60-$125.60 for the Pick 3 Package (three of five shows) — go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday. Single tickets to the LeAnn Rimes concert, $49, go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Tickets for The Isaacs, Lonestar and Kool & the Gang will be $49, $59 for ZZ Top. Call (870) 633-4480 Extension 352 or visit EACC.edu.

Conductor stepping down

Symphony of Northwest Arkansas Music Director Paul Haas will step down at the conclusion of the orchestra’s 2024-25 concert season. SoNA’s board of directors has begun a national search process for a new music director. Haas joined SoNA in 2010 and has served as music director for 15 seasons.

    Artist Amanda Burnham installs her site-specific exhibition in Gallery One in the Fine Arts building at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Benjamin Krain, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
  

ART & EXHIBITS

Gallery installation

“Amanda Burnham: Y Tho,” a site-specific installation of what Burnham describes as “hundreds of quick, gestural acrylic and flashe paint sketches made with a fat brush that are then cut and collaged onto both built armatures and the existing surfaces of a space,” opens Monday in Gallery One in the Fine Arts building at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 S. University Ave., Little Rock. The installation marks the reopening of the gallery after more than a year. Burnham will give an artist lecture at 6 p.m. Sept. 12 in the building’s Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, following a reception that starts at 5 that will also formally welcome the UALR School of Art and Design’s new Gallery Director Brian Young. The installation will be up through Nov. 10. Admission is free. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Call (501) 916-3182 or visit ualr.edu/art.

    This postcard view of First Street looking south from the corner of Walnut Street in Rogers features the 1895 Citizens Bank Building, as well as other First Street structures. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

Regional exhibition

The fourth annual “Our Art, Our Region, Our Time” exhibition, 105 pieces by 87 artists representing 20 Northwest Arkansas cities, goes on display Friday with a 6-8 p.m. reception in the Joy Pratt Markham Gallery at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. The exhibition will be up through Oct. 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. weekdays and one hour prior to and during intermission of performances. Visit waltonartscenter.org.

    “Tea with Peter Rabbit” by Amanda Bancroft, “Invincible, aka Hot to the Touch” by Aaron Bleidt, “Flower 2” by Cat Stone-Stecklein and “Garden of Eatin'” by Lily Hollinden are part of the “Our Art, Our Region, Our Time” exhibition, opening Friday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

‘Building Rogers’

“Building Rogers,” exploring the city’s early architectural heritage from its founding in 1881 until the 1950s through photographs, documents and building-related objects from the museum’s collections, opens Saturday in the Collections Gallery at the Rogers Historical Museum, 313 S. Second St., Rogers. The exhibition remains up through March 1. Admission is free. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Call (479) 621-1154, email museum@rogersar.gov or visit rogershistoricalmuseum.org.

    Two men work on the roof of the home of A.D. Callison, funeral director and Rogers’ first elected coroner. Callison built it in the late 1920s along Highway 12, east of downtown Rogers. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
  

ETC.

RazorRock Tailgate

The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce kicks off the Arkansas Razorbacks’ 2024 season with a RazorRock Tailgate, 5-7 p.m. Wednesday in the first-floor food court at Park Plaza, 6000 W. Markham St., Little Rock. The event, open to attendees 21 and older with valid ID, will include food and beverages from area restaurants and providers, including Chicken Salad Chick, Sullivan’s Steakhouse, Eat My Catfish, Main Event Entertainment and Lost 40 Brewery. Sponsors, in addition to the mall, are Second Horizon Capital, Bank of America and Union Pacific Railroad. Tickets are $15 in advance (visit littlerockchamber.com/razorrock), $20 at the door. Call (501) 377-6004 or email swilson@littlerockchamber.com.