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Attend concerts, forage for fair food, check out livestock competitions and ride the rides at the 85th Arkansas State Fair, Friday-Oct. 19 at the State Fairgrounds, 2600 Howard St. at Roosevelt Road, Little Rock. Full schedule and all the details: (501) 372-8341,\u00a0<\/b>ArkansasStateFair.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n MUSIC\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n The Band Perry<\/b> performs at 7 p.m. Thursday at Reynolds Performance Hall<\/b> at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway (501) 450-3265; uca.edu\/pa<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Arkansas Chamber Singers<\/b> kick off their 2025-26 season with a program titled \u201cRoots & Resonance: Folk Songs that Shaped American Choral Music,\u201d 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. James United Methodist Church, 321 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock, and 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Luke\u2019s Episcopal Church, 4106 John F. Kennedy Blvd., North Little Rock. arkansaschambersingers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Little Rock Winds<\/b> opens its 2025-26 season with a concert titled \u201cOuter Space,\u201d music inspired by the cosmos plus some \u201cStar Wars\u201d tracks, 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Second Presbyterian Church, 600 Pleasant Valley Drive, Little Rock. lrwinds.org\/tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Rock Orchestra, a 14-member ensemble currently on tour, brings its \u201cRock Orchestra by Candlelight\u201d<\/b> concert to Little Rock\u2019s Robinson Center Music Hall, 426 W. Markham St., 8 p.m. Thursday. The \u201cclassical music and metal\u201d program includes music by Metallica, AC\/DC, Rolling Stones, Pantera, My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park, SOAD, Guns N Roses, Evanescence, Papa Roach and The Cranberries. Ticketmaster.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n DANCE<\/b><\/p>\n Ballet Arkansas stages \u201cThe Legend of Sleepy Hollow,\u201d<\/b> 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. There will also be a special children\u2019s production at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. balletarkansas.org\/tickets<\/a>,<\/p>\n THEATER<\/b><\/p>\n Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road, Little Rock, stages \u201cDisney\u2019s High School Musical,\u201d<\/b> 7:30 p.m. Friday and Oct. 17, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and Oct. 19 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 18. (501) 821-7275 or visit wildwoodpark.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The line between ghost story and reality starts to blur in composer\/writer Brandon Nichols\u2019 new musical \u201cThe Ember Society,\u201d <\/b>which he\u2019s\u00a0workshopping at 8 p.m. Friday at Birdie\u2019s Cabaret Theater & Lounge, 301 Main St., in North Little Rock\u2019s Argenta District. tinyurl.com\/252avaxf<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hump? What hump? Mel Brooks\u2019 musical \u201cYoung Frankenstein\u201d<\/b> is onstage through Nov. 8 at Murry\u2019s Dinner Playhouse, 6323 Colonel Glenn Road, Little Rock, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday (but 12:30 p.m. Wednesday matinees only Oct. 15 and 22), 12:45 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Buffet opens 90 minutes before curtain. (501) 562-3131; murrysdp.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n ART\u00a0AND EXHIBITS<\/b><\/p>\n Downtown Little Rock museums and merchants are gearing up for 2nd Friday Art Night<\/b>, 5-8 p.m. Friday, including a Cumberland Art Block Party, which will turn Cumberland Avenue between President Clinton Avenue and Second Street into a pedestrian-only stretch with dance music, vendors and beverages from Stone\u2019s Throw Brewing. Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 W. Third St., is offering music by Jacob Flores, craft beer from New Province Brewing of Rogers and Spooky Stories. And at the Old State House Museum, 300 W. Markham St., the continuing exhibit on documentary filmmaker Jack E. Hill plus music by the O-Matics.<\/p>\n CONTINUING:<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cBetween Cities: Altheimer, Delight, Eudora, Marked Tree,\u201d photographs of secondary South Arkansas cities by Darrell Adams, Jessica Maxwell, Rita Henry and Rachel Worthen, is on display through Oct. 31 at Gallery 26, 2601 Kavanaugh Blvd., Little Rock. It\u2019ll be up, 10 a.m-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, through Oct. 31. (501) 664-8996; gallery26.com<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cCoordinates,\u201d<\/b> landscapes, still lifes and figurative paintings by April Burris and Holly Tilley, each including the GPS coordinates to authenticate its location, on display through Wednesday Oct. 15 at the Art Group Gallery, in the Pleasant Ridge Town Center, 11525 Cantrell Road, Little Rock. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 1- 5 p.m. Sunday.(501) 690-2193; artgrouparkansas.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cUnder A Restless Sky,\u201d<\/b> a new site-specific installation by Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, on display through April 4 in the Jackson T. Stephens Gallery of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. The three-dimensional art installation, created with paint, paper, wood, ropes and other materials that explores how various species \u2014 birds and humans \u2014 move and adapt due to environmental and climate changes, (501) 372-4000; arkmfa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cEdwin Brewer, A Retrospective of His Art,\u201d<\/b> landscape and still-life paintings in oils and watercolors by the Little Rock native (1927-2002), on display through Oct. 18 at Cantrell Gallery, 8202 Cantrell Road, Little Rock, 10 a.m.-5 p.m Tuesday-Saturday. (501) 224-1335; cantrellgallery.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n