On his new solo album, “The Greatest is Love,” Brad Williams’ voice is something special. Like a flower pressed in the pages of a dusty book and then forgotten about for several decades, his country baritone is smooth, crisp and worn, and seems lifted from a different time.
Daniel Grear
Daniel Grear is the culture editor at the Arkansas Times. Send artsy tips to danielgrear@arktimes.com
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Little Rock producer Yuni Wa drops an EP of dark pulses on Friday
Little Rock electronic producer Yuni Wa, also known as Princeton Coleman, drops a new EP tomorrow and it’s darker and moodier than ever, as if the listener is swimming through murky water, led only by the color of a stray jellyfish.
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Emily Fenton displays an impressive vocal range on new EP, ‘Roaches’
The titular single from Little Rock singer-songwriter Emily Fenton’s new EP, “Roaches,” is a quintessential three-chord song in the best way.
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Exhibit honoring Little Rock photographer Ralph Waldo Armstrong III at Mosaic Templars Cultural Center
If you were a part of the Black community in Little Rock from 1951 to 2006, there’s a good chance you had your picture taken by Ralph Waldo Armstrong III. Visit an exhibit honoring his photography at the Mosaic Templars Cultural Center, on display through January.
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Black leaders inspire at the Arkansas Black Philanthropy Collaborative’s second annual Convening
For its second annual Convening, the Arkansas Black Philanthropy Collaborative (ABPC) brought over 50 professionals, nonprofit leaders and business executives to the Marriott Hotel in downtown Little Rock. Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman, author of “Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving: Black Women’s Philanthropy during Jim Crow,” gave an inspiring keynote speech.
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Comedian Nate Bargatze comes to Simmons Bank Arena on Saturday
Nate Bargatze, an extremely wholesome comic from Nashville, is sure to make for a healthy diversion from the heaviness of modern life at Simmons Bank Arena on Dec. 3.
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New Johnny Cash documentary gets an early premiere at Ron Robinson Theater
CALS, in partnership with the Historic Dyess Colony and Johnny Cash Boyhood Home, is hosting an early screening of the new Johnny Cash documentary at Ron Robinson Theater on Thursday, Dec. 1, but the event is sold out. However, you can watch it with the rest of the world when it hits theaters for a limited, three-day run on Dec. 5-7.
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‘In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play),’ a production about Victorian hysteria, starts Friday at The Weekend Theater
While Dr. Givings experiments with a new electrical invention designed to cure hysteria, an early approximation of the vibrator, his wife, Catherine, takes care of their newborn daughter just a wall away, eavesdropping with jealousy and confusion while struggling to breastfeed. This premise sets off a world of tension in “In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play),” running at The Weekend Theater for the first three weeks of December.
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‘Guys and Dolls’ opens at the Rep on Wednesday
Forget about the present for an evening and get transported to a world of cigarette smoke, pinstripe suits and tumbling dice. “Guys and Dolls” is at The Rep for all of December.
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Kick off the holiday season early with Hendrix College’s Candlelight Carol Service
Ring in the holiday season early by attending the Candlelight Carol Service at Hendrix College’s Greene Chapel, a 225-person sanctuary so peaceful and picturesque that it is often reserved far in advance for the weddings of couples who met at the cozy liberal arts school in Conway.