•Bill T. Jones & Arnie Zang Dance Co.
Saturday, Nov. 21
Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center
501 W. Main St.
562-0100
$20-$38; 8 p.m.
All right, try this on for size: an interpretation of Lincoln. Sounds a little stiff and boring, eh? All right, let’s modify this in an important way: interpretations of Lincoln through dance. And this isn’t just a ton [...]
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Weekender: Nov. 21-22
November 20, 2009 – 10:00 am
‘Hansel and Gretel’ @ Brown Theatre
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Nov. 20 & 22
Brown Theatre
315 W. Broadway
584-7777
kyopera.org
$35-$85; 8 p.m. (Fri.), 2 p.m. (Sun.)
The Hansel and Gretel story began in a Grimm Brothers fairytale called “Babes in the Woods.” But the Grimm story is pretty grim, with a mother sending her children off into the woods to lose them. A much happier version — good mom, [...]
R. Kelly @ Louisville Palace
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Friday, Nov. 20
Louisville Palace
625 S. Fourth St.
583-4555
$57-$97; 8 p.m.
I don’t find nothin’ wrong with a little bump ’n’ grind either, as long as your partner is of legal age and it’s consensual. I also believe I can fly, have been trapped in a closet and remind myself of a Jeep. So when I heard R. [...]
Regina Spektor @ Palace Theatre
November 19, 2009 – 9:44 am
Thursday, Nov. 19
The Palace Theatre
625 S. Fourth St.
583-4555
www.reginaspektor.com
$35; 8 p.m.
When you hear the story of Regina Spektor, you can’t help but root for her. Born in Russia, shipped over to the Bronx as a tween, and all the while her parents made sure she could get to a piano, even when they couldn’t afford one. [...]
Moosebutter @ IU Southeast
November 19, 2009 – 9:42 am
Nov. 19-21
Ogle Center, IU Southeast
4201 Grant Line Road, New Albany
(812) 941-2526
moosebutter.com
$18.50; 10 a.m. & noon (Nov. 19-20), 7:30 p.m. (Nov. 21)
Lovers of George Lucas have likely seen the YouTube clip “Star Wars (John Williams is the Man),” the a cappella parody tune — which garnered more than 6 million clicks — that puts lyrics to [...]
Bowerbirds @ 930 Listening Room
November 16, 2009 – 9:53 am
Monday, Nov. 16
930 Listening Room
930 Mary St.
$10; 7 p.m.
Bowerbirds are a trippy and melodic band that hail from Raleigh — the town is one of the three points, along with Chapel Hill and Durham, that make up the notoriously artistic triumvirate of college towns in central North Carolina. Their fluid arrangements are beautiful, and the [...]
Weekender: Nov. 14-15
November 13, 2009 – 2:36 pm
•Viva La Diva: A Celebration of Louisville’s Women Musicians
Sunday, Nov. 15
Jim Porter’s
2345 Lexington Road
452-9531
www.merfbenefit.org
$7; 5 p.m.-midnight
From the Americana of Brigid Kaelin, the blues of Tanita Gaines, the country sounds of Karen Kraft to the rock of The Blue Umbrellas and Kimmet Cantwell, the performers for Viva La Diva! run the gamut of Louisville music. Because this [...]
InKY Reading Series @ The Rudyard Kipling
November 13, 2009 – 10:59 am
Friday, Nov. 13
Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak St.
www.inkyreadingseries.com
Free; 7 p.m.
The InKY Reading Series is excited to welcome poet Alessandra Lynch, who will read from her work, Sails the Wind Left Behind and It was a terrible cloud at twilight on Friday, November 13, at the Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. She will be joined by Bianca Spriggs, member of the Affrilachian Poets, and musician Sean Hopkins, former lead [...]
FIRE & ICE Brain Ball @ Henry Clay Building
November 13, 2009 – 10:45 am
Friday, Nov. 13
Henry Clay Building
Third & Chestnut
www.biak.us
$175; 6:30 p.m.
The Brain Injury Alliance of Kentucky will host the Fire & Ice Brian Ball. Guests of the Brain Ball will be enchanted with a sparkling ice castle, silent auction, dinner and presentation of the Mary Varga award and a posthumous award in honor of WHAS11 reporter, Chuck Olmstead. Chairing [...]
VaVaVoyeur Burlesque @ Art Sanctuary
November 13, 2009 – 10:37 am
Friday Nov. 13
Art Sanctuary
1205 E. Washington St.
386-7114
www.art-sanctuary.org
$15; 8 p.m.
It’s kind of like sitting inside watching the leaves fall off trees — as you may have been doing the past couple of weeks — but there’s a catch. The leaves are clothes and duct tape, the trees are 30 burlesque dancers, and some of them are [...]
Asylum Street Spankers @ Kentucky Center
November 13, 2009 – 10:35 am
Friday, Nov. 13
Bomhard Theater, Kentucky Center
584-7777
$17.50-$21.75; 8 p.m.
With song titles like “Winning the War on Drugs,” “You Only Love Me For My Lunchbox” and “Stick Magnetic Ribbons on Your SUV,” the Asylum Street Spankers concert wouldn’t be the place to wash away your sins of the week past. But when they bring their Salvation and [...]
The Deloreans, Yardsale, Bad Blood @ Vernon
November 13, 2009 – 10:33 am
Friday, Nov. 13
The Vernon Club
1575 Story Ave.
584-8460
www.vernonclub.com
$7; 9 p.m.
The Vernon has a three-band lineup of some of Louisville’s finest in store on Friday. The headliners are the Deloreans, whose latest album Love Outrageous was described as “something of a combination of 1950s button-down rock mixed in with spooky, surfy guitar riffs, dipped in a 1970s [...]
World Equestrian Games Seeks Performing Artists
November 12, 2009 – 9:24 pm
The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications from Kentucky performing artists to perform on the Kentucky Experience Pavilion Performance Stage during the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, to be held at the Kentucky Horse Park from Sept. 25 – Oct. 10, 2010. Applications are being accepted until Dec. 15 from professional artists and community or school groups [...]
OK KINO @ Bearno’s Highlands
November 12, 2009 – 10:21 am
Thursday, Nov. 12
Bearno’s Highlands
1318 Bardstown Road
Free; 10 p.m.
Local band OK KINO will present two sets of original music in the indie/jam/prog jazz realm.
Veterans Day Concert @ IU Southeast
November 11, 2009 – 10:22 am
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Stem Concert Hall, IUS
4201 Grant Line Road
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 941-2417
$8 ($5 students, free for veterans); 7:30 p.m.
The Music Department at Indiana University Southeast will present the Commonwealth Brass Band in a Veterans Day Concert on Wednesday. Dr. Joanna Goldstein, IU Southeast Music Department coordinator, will be the featured soloist on piano in a performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
Big Bill Morganfield @ Stevie Ray’s
November 11, 2009 – 10:12 am
Wednesday, Nov. 11
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar
230 E. Main St.
582-9945
www.bigbillmorganfield.net
$15; 7:30 p.m.
Pressure comes in two forms: the natural kind and the parental kind. As the son of Muddy Waters, to say Big Bill Morganfield has big shoes to fill is an understatement, but it’s a burden he carries in stride. “It goes both ways,” Morganfield says [...]
Open Mic @ Stevie Ray’s
November 9, 2009 – 10:04 am
Monday, Nov. 9
Stevie Ray’s Blues Bar
230 E. Main St.
582-9945
Free; 9 p.m.
Open mic night with Justin Lewis.
Weekender: Nov. 7-8
November 6, 2009 – 5:00 pm
•Harvest Hootenanny
Saturday, Nov. 7
Willow Park
www.mightykindness.org
Free; 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
When I asked Mighty Kindness co-founder Aim Me Smiley what her favorite part of autumn is, I got this: “… the collage of color on the canvas of this dream … a pumpkin patch, the crunch of leaves underfoot on a wooded trail, costumes, the smell of fireplaces, [...]
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G3 First Thursday Soiree @ Five Points St. Matthews
November 5, 2009 – 10:17 am
Thursday, Nov. 5
Five Points St. Matthews
3930 Chenoweth Square
Free; 8 p.m.
There will be $5 Special Martini cocktails: The Pomedora, The Renegade, The White Chocolate Martini and the Naughty Presbyterian! Plus $2 domestic beers, $3 well cocktails and $5 wine glasses with complimentary hors d’oeuvres provided by Five Points St. Matthews! AND with live music by OK Zombie!
Violinist Ilya Kaler @ Whitney Hall
November 5, 2009 – 10:01 am
Thursday, Nov. 5
Whitney Hall
584-7777
www.louisvilleorchestra.org
$20-$75; 10:30 a.m. & 8 p.m.
No one had ever skittered across the strings as fast as violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini, who mesmerized audiences at the turn of the 19th century with fantastic technique delivered at blistering speeds. Two hundred years later, top violinists have caught up to Paganini’s speed, but how many [...]