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

LOCAL MUSIC

FRIDAY

Boon Dock Saints: 9 p.m., Big Al's 2108 14th Ave., Tuscaloosa.

SUNDAY

Music open-mic: 6 p.m, Druid City Brewing Co., 607 14th St., Parkview Center, Tuscaloosa. 205-342-0051. www.druidcitybrewingcompany.com.

LOCAL EVENTS

FRIDAY

Realizing the Dream Legacy Awards Banquet: 6:30 p.m., the 13th Legacy Awards Banquet, Bryant Conference Center Sellers Auditorium, 240 Paul W. Bryant Drive on the UA campus. The Honorable U.W. Clemon will receive the Mountaintop Award, Dr. Nahree Doh will receive the Call to Conscience Award and Carina Villarreal will receive the Horizon Award. Attorney, journalist and television personality Star Jones will be the Legacy Awards Banquet speaker. Banquet tickets are $30 per person, or $125 for a table of five. Dress is semiformal. Because of rising cases of the omicron variant, seating will be at 50 percent capacity. Call 205-348-7111 or email community.affairs@ua.edu.

Those wishing to have photos made with Star Jones must wear a mask covering the mouth and nose, and provide proof of complete COVID vaccination (two shots for Moderna or Pfizer; one shot for Johnson & Johnson). Proof can be the vaccination card, or scan of the card.

SATURDAY

Hero Day: 11 a.m.-4 p.m., The Comic Strip, 505 Hargrove Road E., Suite 10, Tuscaloosa. Metro Animal Shelter will be on site with adoptable dogs, as will local venders selling artwork, including works from a super-pet comic book series. Metro T-shirts, hoodies and collars will be available.

SUNDAY

Realizing the Dream concert: Gospel singer, songwriter, actress and activist Kierra Sheard will be featured performer for the 2022 Realizing the Dream Concert, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, UA's Moody Concert Hall. At 9, Sheard earned a Stellar Award for Best Children’s Performance for “The Will of God.” She performed with the multi-Grammy Award winning Clark Sisters and launched her solo career in 2004, gaining acclaim with her debut album, “I Owe You,” followed by the 2006 “This is Me.” Two years later came “Bold Right Life” and then 2011’s “Free.” Her latest single, “Something Has to Break,” a duet with her mother, gospel icon Karen Clark Sheard, hit No. 1 on two gospel radio charts, topping Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart and the MediaBase Gospel chart. Concert tickets are $20. Because of the rising cases of the omicron variant, seating will be at 50 percent capacity. Call 205-348-7111, or email community.affairs@ua.edu. www.realizingthedream.ua.edu.

MONDAY

Unity Day activities: Realizing the Dream partner the Tuscaloosa Southern Christian Leadership Conference will sponsor Unity Day activities, beginning with a march at noon, starting from Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, 2430 Martin Luther King Blvd. The annual Mass Rally will begin at 6 p.m. at First African Baptist Church, 2621 Stillman Blvd. All Unity Day activities are free and open to the public.

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

MARCH 25: Cody Johnson and friends, 7 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets on sale through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway. www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.

APRIL 27: Miranda Lambert, The Cadillac Three, 7 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, through Ticketmaster, or at the Amp box office. Prices will be $130.50, $120.50, $110.50, $100.50, $80.50, $60.50, $50.50 and $40.50, plus fees and surcharges. For more, see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.

JUNE 7: Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band, 8 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater; show rescheduled from Sept. 16, 2021. Tickets purchased for that show will be honored for this one; see www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com for more. Tickets $83.50 and up, through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway.

JUNE 26: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Lobos, Gabe Dixon, 6:30 p.m., Tuscaloosa Amphitheater. Tickets on sale through www.ticketmaster.com, or at the Amp box office, 2710 Jack Warner Parkway. www.tuscaloosaamphitheater.com.

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