Now that there are some actual daylight evening hours to relish and a hopefully-forever-lull in the pandemic’s ravages, you’re going to need to dust off that calendar, get dolled up for a show and go give some love (and by love, we mean money) to your local venues and performers. A few suggestions:
First, might I suggest you stop by Abbi’s Teas & Things on its last weekend in its cozy Hillcrest location? Owner Abbi Siler has built a devoted following to all things tea at her shop at 2622 Kavanaugh Blvd., and though she’s not calling it quits by any means, she is taking a pause from the brick-and-mortar side of things until she finds a new location. Now’s your time to stop in and stock up; until her new shop’s doors open, we’ll be buying online and daydreaming about tea with the help of the tea shop’s fabulous TikTok montages. A schedule of farewell events from the business’s Facebook page:
Whatever was in the water at the Shreve household is what we have to thank for The Brothers Shreve, siblings and soloists-turned-duo Randall and Benjamin del Schreve, performing together Saturday night at Stickyz.
Even closer on the Stickyz calendar: the inimitable Elizabeth Cook, Nashville rocker and Sirius XM radio personality extraordinaire. She’s at Stickyz Thursday, March 17 for a St. Patrick’s Day show; bottoms up.
Over at the White Water Tavern, Adia Victoria and Joshua Asante are teaming up for what’s gonna be a hell of a show. We’ve written more on that here.
ACANSA Arts Festival of the South is in full swing, with a free show from Bonnie Montgomery this weekend, “Our Town” at Argenta Community Theater, Pierre Bensusan at Argenta Acoustic Music Series, jazz musician Rodney Marsalis at The Rail Yard, the Collage Dance Collective at UA Pulaski Tech’s Center for the Humanities and Arts and tons more. See our rundown of the full schedule here.
And if you’re aching to get outside, you’re in luck: Valley of the Vapors, the annual music marathon put on by Low Key Arts, has a stacked lineup and is a full-on campout this year. Details here.
