May has five weekends and three holidays (four, if you count Star Wars Day): (in chronological order) Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, and Memorial Day, so that’s a lot of musical opportunities, rain or shine. Here are some cool-to-us shows we’ve noticed after a little digging, plus some schedules from local
Dreamland (M, 101mins) Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ½ Like many other residents of Bismark, Eugene Baker (Finn Cole) thought the land was cursed. Having been lured to Texas’ giant plains by the promise of a new life, his family’s dreams had died, along with their crops. It was all too much for his father, who left Eugene and his mother Olivia (
Better Call Saul’s Kerry Condon) when the former was just five. Scrabbling to survive, they were seemingly saved when she married local lawman George Evans (Travis Fimmel). That was before the town suffered 14 dust storms in one year. Then the banks came for their farms.