May Festival of the Arts

Native American flute artist, John Two Hawks, will present his Annual Mother’s Day concert at the Aud on Sunday May 8, 2011 at 2:00 pm

Tickets are $12 at the Aud or may be purchased in advance on Two Hawks website.

Mothers are free – bring your Mom (or someone else’s Mom!).

2007 Grammy Award-winner, Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th during the 3:00-5:00 Free Music in the Park for May Festival of the Arts.

Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th

Two things stand out about Zanes: he is making homemade family music and encouraging similar behaviors in friends and neighbors. Second, he is the guy who is always interested in singing along with people, people everywhere. In fact, Zanes has made a mission of introducing his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and then showing everybody not just that they, yes, can play together but that they can also feel pretty good while doing so. In this sense, Zanes is a twenty-first century version of the guy who in the old days used to conduct the town band from the gazebo, though in lieu of a gazebo he’s playing places like Carnegie Hall and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, where no matter how you say it good music is good. He is a ringmaster, introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there, and still are—it’s just that people forgot about them.

This performance is provided as an event of the Artosphere – Arkansas’ Arts + Nature Festival that will be taking place all around the region starting on April 22nd. Artosphere is created and presented by the Walton Arts Center.

Note: There will also be Lantern Painting in the Park as part of the Grand Illumination weekend – fun for the whole family at Basin Park.

Accolades for Zanes & Friends (more info at his website):

Dan Zanes and Friends’ Catch That Train! was the 2007 Grammy Award winner for Best Musical Album for Children (co-released with Starbucks/Hear Music).

“Dan Zanes is enriching the field with his dance-party, hootenanny for the 21st century…”
LA Times

“True children’s music, but executed with such sweet (and un-gooey!) humor, casual multiculturalism and shambling groove that you can call it your own.”
The New York Times

“Wry, rootsy, real American folk music – songs that twist a little plangency into the sweetness of a melody, songs that feel like life.”
Rolling Stone Magazine

John Two-Hawks, world reknown Native American flute artist, will offer his annual Mother’s Day Concert on May 9th, 2010. This special show in honor of all our Mothers will feature music from Two Hawks’ new CD – ‘Earth ~ Fire ~ Water ~ Wind’.

All Mothers are FREE, so bring your Mom! Concert is at The AUD in downtown Eureka Springs, Arkansas at 2:00 pm. Tickets: only $10!

For more information visit website or call 866-444-0940.

2007 Grammy Award-winner, Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th during the 3:00-5:00 Free Music in the Park for May Festival of the Arts.

Dan Zanes & Friends will perform in Basin Park on May 15th

Two things stand out about Zanes: he is making homemade family music and encouraging similar behaviors in friends and neighbors. Second, he is the guy who is always interested in singing along with people, people everywhere. In fact, Zanes has made a mission of introducing his musical friends to his neighborhood friends and then showing everybody not just that they, yes, can play together but that they can also feel pretty good while doing so. In this sense, Zanes is a twenty-first century version of the guy who in the old days used to conduct the town band from the gazebo, though in lieu of a gazebo he’s playing places like Carnegie Hall and the Melbourne International Arts Festival, where no matter how you say it good music is good. He is a ringmaster, introducing new songs and reconnecting people to songs that have always been there, and still are—it’s just that people forgot about them.

(more info at his website):

OOPS – this performance has been canceled….please visit the website for an update on events.

Shakespeare in the Ozarks will present it’s opening performance of The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare on Saturday, May 15th, at 4:00 PM in historic Harmon Park.

Come to Eureka Springs and enjoy Shakespeare’s first and most accessible play in a beautiful outdoor setting!

The Comedy of Errors is a hilarious mistaken-identity farce involving two sets of twins, set in the mysterious and magical city of Ephesus. In celebration of our fair city, we will transpose the action to Eureka Springs in its heyday – the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. The story and language will be as Shakespeare wrote them; this version will be created by local performers and designers. The result? A uniquely Eurekan production such as you will not find anywhere else in the world! Spread your blanket or unfold your lawn chair and enjoy the intimate ambiance created by the hills, trees, and rock outcroppings in the amphitheater of Eureka Spring’s historic Harmon Park.

For performance times and further information please visit: ShakespeareintheOzarks.com

Sneak preview of The Comedy of Errors to be performed in Harmon Park by Shakespeare in the Ozarks

The Ozark Chorale will perform at the Auditorium on Saturday May 1st.

For more information visit The Aud

The 42nd Annual Season of The Great Passion Play begins May 7 and continues through October 30th.

For more information or reservations call 800-882-7529 or visit www.greatpassionplay.com