TUSK CALENDAR: Who's playing and what's happening
MUSIC
THURSDAY
Brooks and Dunn: 7 p.m., BJCC Arena, Birmingham. Tickets, $25 and up, though www.ticketmaster.com. www.bjcc.org.
SATURDAY
Red Harp, Matthew Wurtele: 7:45 p.m., Druid City Brewing Co., 700 14th St., Parkview Plaza, Tuscaloosa. www.redharpmusic.com. http://druidcitybrewing.com.
SUNDAY
World premiere of chancel opera "Naaman": 3 p.m., free admission, First Presbyterian Church, 900 Greensboro Ave., downtown Tuscaloosa. Composer K. Lee Scott will conduct. Scott wrote the new opera, based on II Kings, Chapter Five, in honor of Ed White, former professor of voice and director of opera at the University of Alabama. White and his wife Karen were active members in the music program at First Presbyterian for many years. A chancel opera is designed to be performed in a church; the genre is highly specialized, with the most famous being Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Former students of White will return to Tuscaloosa for the performance; they will be backed by a chamber orchestra of strings, winds and percussion.
LOCAL EVENTS
THURSDAY and MAY 27
Tessellation Mandala: 6-8 p.m. Thursday, 2:30-4:30 p.m. May 27, Kentuck Art Center, 503 Main Ave., Northport. Meditative art class for ages 18 and up, $50, all supplies included. Instructed by Molly Nelko, participants will create a mandala using a form of tessellation. Classes will be in Studio 2, behind Rusty the big red dog, through the blue double doors in the Courtyard of Wonders. Minimum of three participants; maximum of 10. If the minimum is not met, fees will be refunded.
THURSDAY
Patti Callahan Henry: 5:30-7:30 p.m., in conversation with Don Noble. The event will be available both virtually and in-person, at Ernest and Hadley Booksellers, 1928 Seventh St., downtown Tuscaloosa. Henry will introduce and discuss her latest historical fiction, "The Secret Book of Flora Lea." In-person attendance requires tickets in advance: General admission is $5 (seating is limited); priority admission, for $35, includes a signed copy of the book. Get tickets at www.tinyurl.com/5badyd4m. Virtual attendance is free, but registration is required, at www.bit.ly/zoomregpch. www.ernestandhadleybooks.com.
"13 Going on 30": Midtown Village green, screening at dark. Bring chairs and blankets. The 2004 body-swap comedy "13 Going on 30," rated PG, stars Mark Ruffalo with Jennifer Garner as a 13-year-old who has her birthday wish come true, and wakes up as her 30-year-old self. Also featuring Judy Greer, Andy Serkis and Kathy Baker.
FRIDAY
Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Foundation 2023 Uplift Awards: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Tuscaloosa River Market. The Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History and Reconciliation Foundation is hosting its Inaugural Uplift Awards. The luncheon awards ceremony will feature keynote speaker Lisa McNair, whose older sister, Denise, was one of the four girls killed in the infamous 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Through her memoir, "Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew," McNair provides readers a front-row seat inside a family that endured a horrific loss in the Civil Rights Movement. Honorees include Jalen Hurts, the Rev. Thomas Linton Perseverance Award; Judge John England Jr., the Rev. T.Y. Rogers Trail Blazer Award; Emma Jean Melton, the Bill Buchanan Service Award; Central High School student Jared White, the Dr. Myrtle E. Gray Outstanding Youth Award. Tickets are sold out. www.civilrightstuscaloosa.org.
SATURDAY
Second Hometown Writers Fair: 3-5 p.m., Tuscaloosa Public Library, 1801 Jack Warner Parkway, with local authors selling, signing and reading excerpts from their books. For more information, go to www.tuscaloosa-library.org.
MONDAY
Book-a-Lunch with author Karen White: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Ernest and Hadley Booksellers, 1928 Seventh St. downtown Tuscaloosa. Advance tickets are required. Admission for one includes a signed copy of "The House on Prytania," latest in White's Royal Street series, plus lunch for one. Admission for two includes a signed copy, plus lunch for two. Tickets may be sold out, so call ahead: 205-652-5331.
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
MAY 26-JUNE 4: "The Hallelujah Girls," comedy performed by Theatre Tuscaloosa in its Bean-Brown Theatre, Shelton State Community College. In Eden Falls, Ga., five best gal-pals set out to start a new life by renovating an old church into their dream beauty parlor, the SPA-DEE-DAH. When their arch-rival announces she will stop at nothing to shut them down, the ladies band together to keep their dream alive. www.theatretusc.com.
MAY 27: Blues 'n' Groove Festival, featuring TK Soul, Tucka, MsJody, Arthur Young, Jay Morris Group, 5-10:30 p.m., Palmore Park, 3701 Fosters Ferry Road, Tuscaloosa. Tickets, $45 and up, through www.eventbrite.com.
MAY 28: Flashback Funk Fest, featuring Morris Day and The Time, Zapp Band, Con Funk Shun, and Atlantic Starr, 6 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, for $79.50, $59.50, $49.50 and $29.50, plus fees. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
JUNE 6: "Jaws" (1975), Bama Theatre, as part of the summer Bama Art House "nostalgic blockbusters" series. Rated PG, running 2 hours 4 minutes. Written by Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Lorraine Gray, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton, and Bruce the shark. One of the seminal horror-thrillers of contemporary filmmaking, and the movie credited with launching the "summer movie" trend, "Jaws" follows an old seafarer, a young marine biologist and an aquaphobic sheriff hunting down a killer great white shark off the coast of a Cape Cod beach community. The summer series will also feature "The Goonies" June 13; "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" June 20; "Raiders of the Lost Ark" June 27; and "Back to the Future" July 11. All Bama Art House movies will screen at 7 p.m., with the doors, box office and Bama Bar (concession stand) open at 6. Tickets are $10 general, $9 for students and seniors, and $8 for Arts Council members. Punch-card tickets are available for $70, giving 10 admissions to any films in the ongoing series. For more, see www.tuscarts.org/bama/bama-art-house.
JUNE 22: Tori Amos, 7:30 p.m., Alabama Theatre, 1817 Third Ave. N., Birmingham. www.alabamatheatre.com.
JUNE 28: Barenaked Ladies, Five for Fighting, Del Amitri, 7 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, for $89.50, $79.50, $59.50, $49.50 and $29.50, plus fees. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
JUNE 28-JULY 1: "Twelfth Night," Shakespeare comedy performed by The Rude Mechanicals, 8 p.m., Allen Bales Theatre, Rowand-Johnson Hall on the University of Alabama campus. Live pre-show music begins at 7:30. No admission charge, but donations will be accepted. www.facebook.com/TheRudeMechanicalsUA.
AUG. 5: 3 Doors Down, Candlebox, 8 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets for $99.50, $79.50, $59.50, $49.50 and $39.50, plus fees, through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway. www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
AUG. 6: Jason Aldean, Mitchell Tenpenny, Corey Kent, Dee Jay Silver, 7:30 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amphitheater box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $179.75, $149.75, $119.75, $89.75, $79.75, $59.75, and $44.75, plus fees and taxes. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
AUG. 22: 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Jeremih, 7 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway. Prices, not including taxes and fees, will be $149.50, $119.50, $99.50, $69.50 and $39.50.
SEPT. 1: Hardy, Lainey Wilson and Dylan Marlowe, 7:30 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $101.25, $91.25, $61.25, $41.25, not counting taxes and fees.
SEPT. 8: Parker McCollum, Jackson Dean, 7:30 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or the Amp box office at 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $84.50 (general admission pit), or $69.50, $54.50, $34.50 or $24.50 for reserved seats. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
OCT. 6: Maxwell, Musiq Soulchild and Leela James, 7 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amphitheater box office at 2710 Jack Warner Parkway, for $125, $99, $79.50, $59.50, $39.50 and $25, plus fees and taxes. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.
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