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Fayetteville venue to welcome ukulele YouTube star

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro performs Wednesday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.
Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro performs Wednesday at Fayetteville’s Walton Arts Center.

Ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro performs at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Fayetteville's Walton Arts Center, 495 W. Dickson St. The concert kicks off the center's Land O'Lakes American Music Series.

A 2005 YouTube video of Shimabukuro performing George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" went viral. He performed at the center during the 2014-2015 10x10 Arts Series.

Tickets are $15-$30. Call (479) 443-5600 or visit the website, waltonartscenter.org.

Architecture lecture

Matt Trimble of Boston-based Radlab Research and Design Lab will deliver a lecture titled "Integrating Experimental Fabrication," 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Lower Lobby Lecture Hall at the Arkansas Arts Center in MacArthur Park, 501 E. Ninth St., Little Rock. It's part of the Architecture and Design Network's June Freeman "Art of Architecture" Lecture Series. A 5:30 reception will precede the lecture. Admission is free. Call (501) 372-4000 or visit ArkansasArtsCenter.org.

Swindell in Fort Smith

Country singer Cole Swindell performs at 7 p.m. Thursday at the ArcBest Corp. Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith. Swindell's songs include "Stay Downtown," "Flatliner" and "Middle of a Memory."

Tickets are $39.50. Call (800) 745-3000, or visit ticketmaster.com.

'Common Hopes'

Members of the choirs of Little Rock Central High School, Arkansas Baptist College, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Hendrix College will offer a program of music of remembrance and hope titled "Common Hopes," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church, 1000 N. Mississippi St., Little Rock.

The Hendrix Choir will sing "Down Deep," a work it commissioned from Dominick DiOrio, a faculty member at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and the 2014 winner of the American Prize in Composition. DiOrio used as his text words of four of the Little Rock Nine, who helped desegregate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, and from late U.S. District Judge Henry Woods, who presided in cases relating to the Pulaski County desegregation efforts in the 1980s.

Admission is free. Call (501) 225-4203.

Preservation talk

The Quapaw Quarter Association will hold the second of two Preservation Conversations focusing on the William E. Woodruff House, a hands-on masonry demonstration by Western Specialty Contractors explaining the peculiarities of re-pointing a historic building, 6 p.m. Thursday at the house, 1017 E. Eighth St., Little Rock. A 5:30 reception will precede the demonstration. The association acquired the home of the founder of the Arkansas Gazette, built in 1852, in December 2014. Admission is free. Call (501) 371-0075 or visit Quapaw.com.

Night of the Iguana

A washed-up pastor and an artist staying at a coastal hotel in Costa Verde during World War II search for answers to life in Tennessee Williams' Night of the Iguana, which University of Arkansas at Fort Smith students will stage, 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and Oct. 23-24 in Breedlove Auditorium at the university, 5120 Grand Ave., Fort Smith.

Citing mature themes, the university rates the show, part of its Season of Entertainment 37 and its entry in this year's Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, for ages 13 and older. Tickets are $6. Call (479) 788-7300 or visit uafs.universitytickets.com.

Sounds in the Stacks

The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies' Arkansas Sounds program will put on two "Sounds in the Stacks" performances this week at Central Arkansas Library System branches:

• Navy Band Southeast Woodwind Trio, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Nixon Library, 703 W. Main St., Jacksonville

• Wife-and-husband pop piano and vocal duo Brenda & Ellis, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Terry Library, 2015 Napa Valley Drive, Little Rock.

Sponsors are Piano Kraft, Kawai and KATV, Channel 7. Admission is free. Call (501) 918-3033 or visit www.butlercenter.org.

'Ladies of Swing'

Jazz-blues-gospel singer Dee Daniels joins the Fort Smith Symphony and Music Director John Jeter for "The Great Ladies of Swing," a program ranging from Gershwin to jazz-era gems at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, ArcBest Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith Convention Center, 55 S. Seventh St., Fort Smith.

Tickets are $45 and $40, $22 and $17 for students. Call (479) 452-7575 or visit fortsmithsymphony.org.

Style on 10/15/2017

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