Friday, Oct. 13

Local legends The Cate Brothers will be kicking off the weekend with a Happy Hour performance on Friday night at George’s Majestic Lounge. Tickets will be available at the door. It’s probably not a bad idea to get there early if you can.

TheatreSquared has a new shop opening this weekend at Nadine Baum Studios. It’s called The Champion, and is a world premiere by Amy Evans that tells the story of Nina Simone and her band in a snowstorm in a greasy spoon somewhere in North Carolina, waiting for the trains to start running. Performances are scheduled through the weekend. Here’s ticket info.

Former Water Liars frontman Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster will play a solo show Friday night at Stage 18. Zach Holland of the Good Fear has a new solo project called Thunder Comfort, and he’ll open the show. Here’s an interview we published with Kinkel-Schuster earlier this week.

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Full list

2:00 pm	Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival Eureka Springs, AR	Music
5:00 pm	MidSouth DIY Fest Backspace	Music
6:00 pm	Eric Miller Sassafras Springs Vineyard	Music
6:00 pm	Massimo Bevilacqua Bear’s Place	Music
6:00 pm	The Cate Brothers George’s Majestic Lounge	Music
7:00 pm	Coverblind Foghorn’s on 15th	Music
7:00 pm	Paper Jam Band Foghorn’s on Green Acres	Music
7:30 pm	TheatreSquared’s The Champion Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
8:00 pm	Ballet Arkansas Emergence Walton Arts Center	Performance
8:00 pm	Comedy Night Core Public House – Mission Boulevard	Comedy
8:00 pm	DeFrance Black Apple Crossing – Springdale	Music
8:00 pm	Emily Rowland Dickson Street Pub	Music
8:00 pm	Jim n’ Juice The Odd Soul – Springdale	Music
8:00 pm	Johai Kafa Mojo’s Pints & Pies	Music
8:00 pm	Southtown Comedy Show: Michael Brown / Seth Dees Nomads	Comedy
8:30 pm	Steve Dimmitt JJ’s on Steamboat	Music
8:30 pm	Straightline JJ’s on Dickson	Music
9:00 pm	Beats Antique George’s Majestic Lounge	Music
9:00 pm	Jesse Aycock Smoke & Barrel Tavern	Music
9:00 pm	Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster / Thunder Comfort Stage 18	Music
9:30 pm	Al Schackman & Joy Jones Nadine Baum Studios	Music
10:00 pm	The Idle Class release party Nomads	Community

Saturday, Oct. 14

The annual Hero Half Marathon returns to Fayetteville on Saturday. The race begins at 8 a.m. at Lake Fayetteville. Here’s some more info.

The city’s Parks & Recreation department will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an event on Saturday. The party will kick off at 10 a.m. at Wilson Park and coincides with Puppets in the Park, and will move to Walker Park at 3 p.m. A bike poker run is planned from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. from Walker Park to Lake Fayetteville, and a group bike ride will begin at 9 a.m. from Walker Park to Wilson Park. Also, a cleanup at Lake Sequoyah will take place at the marina from 9-11:30 a.m. See the full schedule for more activities.

There’s a beer, music, and technology festival at the Walmart AMP Saturday night. The event will include more than 60 craft beers from 20 local, regional, and national breweries, live music from John Paul White (formerly of The Civil Wars), David Shaw and Zack Feinberg, Adam Faucett, Opal Agafia and others, virtual reality demonstrations, a gaming area, technology demos, and more.

How about heading to the Symphony? SoNA is kicking off their season with one of their masterworks performances on Saturday night at Walton Arts Center. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and they’ll be performing music by Tchaikovsky.

Also at the Walton Arts Center, Ohio-based band Huntertones will perform in Starr Theatre Saturday night. Here’s ticket info.

There’s a lot more below. Click around down there for more info.

Full list:

7:00 am	Saturday Fayetteville Farmers’ Market Fayetteville Square	Community
8:00 am	A21 Walk for Freedom Dickson Street	Community
8:00 am	Hero Half Marathon Lake Fayetteville	Fundraiser
9:00 am	3rd Annual Pedal Poker Run Fayetteville Senior Activity and Wellness Center	Community
9:00 am	Fall Book Sale Fayetteville Public Library	Fundraiser
10:00 am	Fayetteville Parks and Recreation 50th Anniversary Wilson Park	Community
10:30 am	Super Saturday: Sugar Free Allstars Fayetteville Public Library	Family
11:00 am	Paw-Parazzi for Heavenly Paws NWA Orchards Park – Bentonville	Fundraiser
2:00 pm	Cookbook Swap Ozark Natural Foods	Sponsor
2:00 pm	TheatreSquared’s The Champion Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
4:00 pm	AMP Fest The AMP – Rogers	Community
5:00 pm	MidSouth DIY Fest Backspace	Music
6:00 pm	Roby Pantall Jazz Sassafras Springs Vineyard	Music
7:30 pm	SoNA Masterworks I: Tchaikovsky 5 Walton Arts Center	Performance
7:30 pm	TheatreSquared’s The Champion Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
8:00 pm	Chris Cameron Band Mojo’s Pints & Pies	Music
8:00 pm	Huntertones Walton Arts Center	Music
8:00 pm	NeoRomantics Dickson Street Pub	Music
8:00 pm	Phunbags Comedy Improv Stage 18	Comedy
8:00 pm	Stand-Up/Stay-Up Comedy Show: Seth Dees / Michael Brown Black Apple Crossing – Springdale	Comedy
8:30 pm	Take Cover JJ’s on Steamboat	Music
8:30 pm	Wes Hart JJ’s on Dickson	Music
9:00 pm	Jimmy Wayne Garrett Emma Ave. Bar & Tap – Springdale	Music
9:00 pm	Lion Heights Smoke & Barrel Tavern	Music
9:00 pm	Rick Hancock and the Silver Bullet Band George’s Majestic Lounge	Music

Sunday, Oct. 15

1:00 pm	Bruce Allen Terra Studios	Music
1:00 pm	Essentials Outreach Benefit George’s Majestic Lounge	Fundraiser
2:00 pm	TheatreSquared’s The Champion Nadine Baum Studios	Performance
8:00 pm	Open Mic Dickson Street Pub	Music
9:00 pm	Universe Contest / Lex Treefrog Backspace	Music