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Upcoming Events Asleep at the Wheel Dec. 8 The 10-time Grammy ® Award winning national touring phenomenon led by legendary front man Ray Benson and called "one of the best live acts in the business" (Reuters) is Comin' Right At Ya! with holiday favorites and 1970's Americana tunes, including "On Route 66," "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie," "The Letter that Johnny Walker Read" and more! Ray Bonneville Dec. 9 A hard driving, blues-dipped singer-songwriter, Ray Bonneville won the International Blues Challenge in 2012 representing the Ozarks Blues Society. With a greasy guitar style, horn-like harmonica, smoky vocals and pulsing foot percussion, few can ride a groove like Ray Bonneville. Samara Joy Dec. 10 With a voice as smooth as velvet, Samara Joy's star rises with each performance. Following her win in the 2019 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, 21-year-old Ella Fitzgerald Scholar began recording her debut album backed by the Pasquale Grasso Trio – released in July 2021. Come hear a young vocalist bound for stardom! WAC + SoNA present The Snowman: A Family Concert Dec. 10 | Tickets $10! The tradition continues! Join us for a special screening of The Snowman, with the original score performed live by SoNA. Following the screening, acclaimed Music Director Paul Haas will lead the audience in a sing-a-long of other holiday favorites. Joins us for a merry and bright afternoon of family- friendly symphonic music! The Polar Express Dec. 23 | 2 Screenings! All aboard! Next stop… The North Pole. Put your PJs on and bring your whole family together to see this heartwarming holiday film on the big screen. Pop in for a family-friendly festive beverage and sweet treats at Holidaze before or after the screening! Opens daily at 5pm. Media support: Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette 495 W. Dickson St., Fayetteville, AR 72701 waltonartscenter.org | 479.443.5600 Asleep at the Wheel Ray Bonneville Samara Joy Celebrating 30 Years! Series Sponsors: The Polar Express The Snowman: A Family Concert Additional support provided by Cece Box, Candace & David Starling, Tom & Jill King, Eric & Elda Scott West Street Live presented by Neal Pendergraft Show Sponsor: NOVEMBER 21-27, 2021 WHAT'S UP! 11 cookies — and each person commits to make 20 dozen. In case you don't have a calculator handy, that's more than 7,000 individual cookies already promised, and the total usually reaches 10,000. For $12, shoppers can walk the cookie walk — around a U-shape of tables — and select as many cookies as will fit in a 1.5 pound plastic coffee container. Each container is wrapped in holiday fabric, and the consensus is that most people will get about 2 dozen cookies. "Unless they really smash them in, then they get one giant cookie," jokes Sue LaHood, chairwoman of the Cookie Walk, adding seriously that smart shoppers separate them when they get home anyway. "And put the iced ones on top." Cookies range from traditional chocolate chip, sugar cookies and snickerdoodles to decorated gingerbread men and "heritage" cookies that are made from grandma's or mom's family recipe. One of the most popular of those is Connie Kiefer's Spritz Cookies, for which the recipe is included here. Cookies, however, are just part of the event, which actually has five components — the Cookie Walk; the Sweet Shop, where visitors can purchase homemade fudge, peanut brittle and other candies, already packaged; Soups To Go, where 5 cup containers of homemade soup are sold; a Coffee Shop offering cinnamon rolls, coffee, tea and hot chocolate; and the crafts area, which offers handmade holiday crafts like the bowl-shaped pot holders for microwaved dishes, wooden signs and crocheted and knitted items, along with wreaths, decorated Christmas trees and gift baskets. Doors open at 8 a.m. Dec. 4, and visitors will be assigned numbers and admitted to the Cookie Walk portion of the event 10 at a time. The organizers say don't dawdle; the event closes at 11 a.m., but cookies and soup are usually sold out before that. Funds raised by the event stay in Northwest Arkansas and are donated to charities like Bright Futures and Samaritan's Feet that serve women and children. 'Tis The Season A calendar of holiday events in NWA and the River Valley Nov. 21 Christmas at the Parks — With lighting displays from 5:30-10 p.m. through Dec. 31, Main Street Historic District in Van Buren. Free. vanburen. org. See Christmas Page 38