Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere: Arkansas’ Arts + Nature Festival continues through May 19, featuring a mix of free and low-cost events, performances and workshops throughout Northwest Arkansas celebrating art, music and nature while spotlighting artists and performers from around the region.
Events this week: University of Arkansas students and professional players perform John Rutter’s “Suite Antique” for a Chapel Concert Series chamber music performance at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hunt Chapel, 5930 S. Wallis Road, Rogers. A second Chapel Series concert features roots music by The Crumbs, 6 p.m. May 11 at Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel, 504 Memorial Drive, Bella Vista. Tickets to each concert are $10.
Also this week, Langiappe, featuring jazz singer Genine LaTrice Perez, performs for Jazz in the Garden, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, 4703 N. Crossover Road, Fayetteville. Admission is free; register at tickets.waltonartscenter.org/33134/33135.
Other festival highlights:
◼️ “NatGeo Live! The Wolves of Yellowstone,” 7 p.m. May 12, Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville. Wildlife biologist and National Geographic Explorer Doug Smith, who led the project that reintroduced gray wolves in the 1990s, discusses how the park’s landscape has changed since the wolves arrived, including previously unseen photos and videos. $10.
◼️ “the Boy & the Ball,” a show especially for preschoolers, 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. May 12 and 13 at Fayetteville Public Library, 401 W. Mountain St.; 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. May 14-15 at Bentonville Public Library, 405 S Main St., Bentonville; and 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. May 16-17 at the Jones Center, 922 E. Emma Ave., Springdale.
◼️ Jazz on the Mountain, featuring the Wimer-Wenino Project — Nick Budimlija on drums, Marco Wimer on bass and Dylan Wenino on guitar, Northwest Arkansas musicians inspired by the jazz/ gospel/rock recordings of the ’70s on the ECM label, 6 p.m. May 14, Vesper Point at Mount Sequoyah, 150 W. Skyline Drive, Fayetteville.
◼️ Strawberry Festival, noon-6 p.m. May 17 on the downtown Fayetteville Square (defined by Center Street, Mountain Street, Block Avenue and East Avenue). Free.
◼️ “Broadway, Bacharach & Bossa Nova,” singer Marcy Harriell and pianist Jeannine Wagar, 6 p.m. May 17, Walton Arts Center. $10-$22.
◼️ The Curtis Chamber Orchestra — students, alumni and faculty of the Curtis School of Music in Philadelphia — performs works by Samuel Barber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven, 7 p.m. May 19, Walton Arts Center. $10.
A full lineup is available at waltonartscenter.org/artosphere. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit artospherefestival.org.
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