TUSK CALENDAR: Who's playing and what's happening
This week in West Alabama, Feb. 29- March 6, Beto O'Rourke visits Easterseals West Alabama on his book tour about voting rights; Sweet Dog's 11th Annual Crap-out with poetry and music at Druid City Brewing; the TSO's annual young persons' concert will feature dance, poetry and more; Kevin James will perform at Birmingham's Alabama Theatre.
MUSIC
THURSDAY
Three's Company: 6-9 p.m., The 205 Restaurant & Bar, 2407 Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa
FRIDAY
Rydin' Durty Band: 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Scooters Lounge, 3620 Greensboro Ave., Tuscaloosa.
Steven Curtis Chapman: 7:30 p.m., BJCC Theatre, Birmingham. Tickets, $30 and up, through www.ticketmaster.com. www.bjcc.org.
FRIDAY and SUNDAY
UA Opera Theatre, "Elixir of Love": 7:30 p.m. Friday, 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Bryant-Jordan Hall, 285 Kilgore Lane, UA campus. Comedy "L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love)," with music by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Felice Romani, sung in Italian with projected English subtitles. www.opera.music.ua.edu/2023-2024-season.
SATURDAY
Wade Bowen: 8 p.m. $20, Druid City Music Hall, 539 Gene Stallings Ave., off the UA Strip. www.druidcitymusichall.com.
SUNDAY
Open-mic night: 6 p.m., Druid City Brewing Co., 700 14th St., Parkview Plaza, Tuscaloosa. www.druidcitybrewing.com.
MONDAY
"Carnival of the Animals": 9:30 and 10:45 a.m., 12:30 p.m., Moody Concert Hall. Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra's annual young person's concert, with music, movement and poetry. www.tsoonline.org/soundsoftriumph.
LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY
Artistic Sojourns — Our Quest for Knowledge and Understanding of Black Art in America and Beyond: 4:30 p.m., Camellia Room, Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, UA campus. Norm and Carnetta Davis have amassed one of the most extensive private collections of African American art in the southeastern United States, with works from turn-of-the-20th-century artists such as Henry Ossawa Tanner, William Edouard Scott, and Isaac Hathaway to mid-20th century masters like Beauford Delaney, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, and Richard Mayhew, to contemporary luminaries that include Whitfield Lovell, Kara Walker, and the late Radcliffe Bailey, among others. The Davises will share stories related to their acquisitions, for the Paul Jones Lecture Series speakers, with Q&A afterward.
Beto O'Rourke book-signing and talk: 6 p.m., Easterseals West Alabama, 1400 James I. Harrison Parkway in Tuscaloosa. O'Rourke's visit is sponsored by Ernest and Hadley Booksellers. Free, but those wishing to go should register on Eventbrite, at www.eventbrite.com/e/beto-orourke-book-talk-signing-tickets-807189945857. Patrons wishing to buy O'Rourke's book "We've Got to Try: How the Fight for Voting Rights Makes Everything Else Possible" at the same time can register for $24.25. There'll be a talk, Q&A, and book signing. www.ernestandhadleybooks.com.
Kevin James: 7:30 p.m., Alabama Theatre, 1817 Third Ave. N., Birmingham. Tickets, $42 and up, through www.ticketmaster.com. www.alabamatheatre.com.
FRIDAY
Poetry reading: 5:30-7 p.m., Ernest and Hadley Booksellers, 1928 Seventh St., downtown Tuscaloosa. Kate Bolton Bonnici and Laura Reece Hogan will be reading and discussing their works, and the featured books will be available for signing. RSVP on Eventbrite: www.buff.ly/3UoChw9.
Janet Mego "Recovery Series" paintings: First Friday reception at 6 p.m. for Mego's exhibit, in the Kentuck Shop Gallery space off the Hotel Indigo's lobby. Presentation at 6:30, with wine and cheese provided by Indigo, 111 Greensboro Ave., downtown Tuscaloosa.
FRIDAY-SATURDAY
Sweet Dog's 11th Annual Crapout: Beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, and 11:30 a.m. Saturday, with poetry, music and more. Friday poets include Kwoya Fagin Maples, Jessica Kidd, Joe Hornsby and Joel Brouwer. Friday's music will be from Made Marion and Haysop. Saturday poets will be Abraham Smith and Nathan Parker; Saturday music from Sweat Bee, Monsieur Jeffrey Evans Band, Crab Riot, Immortal Lee County Killers and Hans Condor. Sweat Bee will debut its new single "You Play," as part of the EP release for "Sing-a-Long with Sweat Bee." druidcitybrewing.com.
SATURDAY
Zach Rushing with Officer Eudy: 8 p.m., Lyric Theatre, 1800 Third Ave. N., Birmingham. Tickets, $35 and up, through www.ticketmaster.com. www.lyricbham.com.
MONDAY
Artist Craig Drennen lecture: 4 p.m., Yellowhammer Room of Gorgas Library, UA campus. Drennen is a painter based in Atlanta and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. In a recent solo exhibition at Atlanta Contemporary, Drennen’s ongoing "Timon of Athens" project used an array of media to expound on “what it means to create art in the context of, and based on, the worst work by the (arguably) best and most influential Western playwright.”
This Could Be You: Comedy show with open-mic, 8-11 p.m., Black Warrior Brewing Co., 2216 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa. Signup at 7:30. Hosted by Stand-Up Tuscaloosa and Compton Smith.
UPCOMING
MARCH 23: Drivin' n' Cryin', Jackson Chase, Southern Division, 6:30-11 p.m., The Venue Tuscaloosa, opposite Sokol Park, Northport. venuetuscaloosa.com.
APRIL 18: Riley Green, Tracy Lawrence and Ella Langley, 7:30 p.m. Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater, Tuscaloosa. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, and at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $89.50, $79.50, $59.50, $49.50, and $39.50, plus fees and taxes.
APRIL 26: Travis Tritt, Chase Matthew, Frank Foster, 7 p.m., Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater, Tuscaloosa. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the amp's box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway in downtown Tuscaloosa, for $99.50, $79.50, $59.50 and $39.50.
MAY 17: Billy Currington, Kip Moore, Redferrin, Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the amphitheater box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa, for $99.75, $89.75, $69.75, $49.75 and $29.75, plus taxes and fees. www.mercedesbenzamphitheater.com.
SEPT. 20: Cody Jinks, the Cadillac Three and Calder Allen, 7 p.m., Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater, Tuscaloosa. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the venue's box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $258, $158, $107.50, $87.50, $67.50, $47.50 and $33, plus taxes and fees. For more see www.mercedesbenzamphitheater.com.
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