The 2024 ACANSA Arts Festival of the South runs from Sept. 5-21. Performers include the Dallas Black Dance Theatre, cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, Ganstagrass and more.
ACANSA Arts Festival
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ACANSA Roots kicks off with Tatiana Mann, Big Piph, Stuart Montez and Ben Grimes’ ‘Death of Kings’
September is the “traditional festival performance month” for ACANSA, but since the arts organization threw its three-week long ACANSA Arts Festival of the South in March due to pandemic-related delays, we get a mini-fest in September anyway, with performances from pianist Tatiana Mann, hip hop statesman Big Piph and his band Tomorrow Maybe, guitarist Stuart Montez and actor Ben Grimes.
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Milkdadd, Emily Moll Wood, Shaeffer, Lex Blevins, Meikel Church at Third Friday Argenta Art Walk
Touring the Argenta Arts District Friday night means a feast of art in one walkable stretch of gallery space, including work by Milkdadd, Michael Shaeffer, Emily Moll Wood, Meikel Church, Lourdes Valverde, Briseida Ochoa, Jayne Pyle and more.
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Weekend Picks: Abbi’s Teas & Things bids farewell to Hillcrest, Elizabeth Cook and The Brothers Shreve at Stickyz, Bonnie Montgomery, Valley of the Vapors, Adia Victoria
A few weekend picks from the editorial desk at the Arkansas Times: Elizabeth Cook at Stickyz; “Our Town,” Rodney Marsalis and a free show from Bonnie Montgomery at ACANSA, a farewell weekend for Abbi’s Teas & Things, Valley of the Vapors at Cedar Glades Park, The Brothers Shreve at Stickyz, and Adia Victoria at White Water Tavern.
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Ranky Tanky, Bonnie Montgomery, Rodney Marsalis, “Our Town” and more at ACANSA Arts Festival of the South March 10-25
Get your calendar out; the ACANSA schedule is loaded.
Eroica Trio
As guests of the ACANSA Arts Festival of the South and the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, the Eroica Trio plays a feisty program of Bach and Brahms, plus settings of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise that were arranged specifically for the group.
Open Studios Tour
As part of the 6th annual ACANSA Arts Festival, you’ll get a chance to see how the proverbial sausage is made by several Arkansas artists during the city-wide Open Studios tour on Saturday, Sept. 14. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., more than 30 artists will open their doors to the public.
Tatiana Roitman Mann & Friends
When a concert at the New Deal Salon involves Mann with her Arkansas colleagues and promises “unusual repertoire,” expect to feel like you’re being let in on a terrifically juicy secret.
Dallas String Quartet
Full drum kits, electric violins, nose rings and covers of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” have made frequent cameos in DSQ’s sets — and maybe even more impressively, they seem to do it without any appearance of publicist-manufactured wackiness.
Hot Club of Cowtown
Hot Club of Cowtown takes its western swing to CALS Ron Robinson for the ACANSA Arts Festival of the South.