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ENTERTAINMENT NOTES: Bluegrass, fried chicken are festivalâs features at Ozark Folk Center park
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Eric E. Harrison
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The Po Ramblin Boys headline Friday-Saturday shows at the Ozark Folk Center. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette)
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Bluegrass & fried bird
Bluegrass & Fried Chicken Festival, Friday and Saturday.
The music festival will feature shows each night and a Saturday matinee at the park s 1,000-seat indoor Ozark Highlands Theater; the Saturday night show will feature area and nationally touring bluegrass bands. Headliners The Po Ramblin Boys and Fast Track will each perform two sets on Friday and Saturday.
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The 2021 Arkansas Times Academic All-Star team
May 10, 20212:10 pm WIZ KIDS: (From left) Greenwood High s Anna Johnson, Episcopal Collegiate s Adanna Mogbo and Springdale High s Ryan Espejo.
The 2021
Arkansas Times Academic All-Star Team, the 27th team the
Times has honored, includes quiz bowl savants, budding novelists, future engineers and doctors and championship athletes. There’s rarely a B on the transcripts of these students in not just this, their senior year, but in any year of their high school careers. Read on for stories of inspiration in these troubled times. And see lists of All-Star finalists and nominees.
Traditionally, the All-Star team is made up of 10 boys and 10 girls, but this year’s class of boys was so strong our judges, retired school counselor Sam Blair and nonprofit leader and former State Board of Education member Mireya Reith, insisted on 11 boys.
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra presents the second concert of the 2020-2021 Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series. Serenades will be streamed from the Robinson Center on February 27 at 7:30 p.m. and February 28 at 3:00 p.m. Due to health and safety precautions, the program will be presented virtually, available for a minimum donation of $10. Concert information and the stream are available at www.ArkansasSymphony.org/serenades. The Stella Boyle Smith Trust is the Masterworks Series sponsor.
The ASO will perform music from Romantic composers Richard Strauss and Antonin Dvorak. Strauss’s work for strings and Dvorak’s work for wind ensemble are “serenades,” a genre of orchestral writing that flourished during the Classic period, with the most famous example