TUSK CALENDAR: Who's playing and what's happening

Mark Hughes Cobb, The Tuscaloosa News
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MUSIC

THURSDAY

Ramblin' Ricky Tate: 7:45 p.m., Druid City Brewing Co. Moon Room, 700 14th St., Parkview Plaza, Tuscaloosa. www.ramblinrickytate.com. druidcitybrewing.com.

Birmingham country, blues and folk singer Ramblin' Ricky Tate will play Druid City Brewing's Moon Room Thursday night, beginning at 7:45.
Birmingham country, blues and folk singer Ramblin' Ricky Tate will play Druid City Brewing's Moon Room Thursday night, beginning at 7:45.

Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Naomi Raine, Natalie Grant, Katie Torwalt, Tamela Mann: 7 p.m., BJCC Arena, Birmingham. Tickets, $25.95 and up, though www.ticketmaster.com. www.bjcc.org.

SATURDAY

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.

SUNDAY

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.

Morris Day and The Time will return to play Tuscaloosa Amphitheater May 28, as headliner of a show also including Zapp Band, Con Funk Shun and Atlantic Starr. The Time last played the venue in 2018, with Parliament-Funkadelic.
Morris Day and The Time will return to play Tuscaloosa Amphitheater May 28, as headliner of a show also including Zapp Band, Con Funk Shun and Atlantic Starr. The Time last played the venue in 2018, with Parliament-Funkadelic.

LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY-JUNE 4

"The Hallelujah Girls": Comedy performed by Theatre Tuscaloosa in its Bean-Brown Theatre, Shelton State Community College. Performances at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday, June 1 and 2; 2 p.m. matinees Sunday, Wednesday, and June 3-4. In Eden Falls, Georgia, 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. Tickets are $19 general; $17 for seniors, military, and Shelton State employees; $14 for students and children. www.theatretusc.com.

SATURDAY

Charlie Jones book-signing: Noon-3 p.m., Barnes and Noble, Midtown Village. Jones will be signing copies of his books "A Garden Love Story" and "Miss Daisy Cabbage Head Finds Her Helpmate."

Tessellation Mandala: Second class of a series, 2:30-4:30 p.m., 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.

MONDAY

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.

TUESDAY

Scott and Kristi Schatzline book signing and talk: 5:30-7p.m., Ernest and Hadley Booksellers, 1928 Seventh St., downtown Tuscaloosa. The Schatzlines will discuss their memoir "Punch Back." For more, see www.bit.ly/41yFw45.

UPCOMING

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.

"Jaws," the 1975 movie credited with jump-starting the summer movie craze, will begin the 2023 Bama Art House film series.
"Jaws," the 1975 movie credited with jump-starting the summer movie craze, will begin the 2023 Bama Art House film series.

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.

Tusk calendar
Tusk calendar

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. 21-27: 25th Annual Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham theater district, in and around the Alabama and Lyric theaters. Week of independent film screenings, including features, shorts, animation, documentaries and more. www.sidewalkfest.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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