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LOWELL • Greg Fitzsimmons performs at 6 p.m. Sept. 16 and 6 & 8:45 p.m. Sept. 17; Trae Crowder performs at 6:30 & 9 p.m. Sept. 23-24 at The Grove Comedy Club, 808 S. Bloomington St. grovecomedy.com. ROGERS • Goo Goo Dolls with Blue October perform at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18 ($35 and up); Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin with Bush and Plush happens at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 20 ($35 and up); Koe Wetzel, Aaron Lewis and Kolby Cooper perform Sept. 30 ($40 and up); The Chicks and Patty Griffin play at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 ($39 and up); Five Finger Death Punch, Megadeth, The HU and Fire from the Gods starts at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 ($35 and up); The Black Keys, Band of Horses and The Velveteers perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 13 ($59.50 and up) at the Walmart AMP, 5079 W. Northgate Road. waltonartscenter. org/AMP. • The Burney Sisters with Leyton Robinson perform at 8 p.m. Sept. 16; Vintage Pistol plays at 8 p.m. Sept. 17; Dawson Hollow plays at 8 p.m. Sept. 23; Trout Fishing in America performs at 8 p.m. Sept. 24; La Sonora Dynamita De Carlitos Xivir plays at 8 p.m. Sept. 30 (general admission free, tables $20) for the Railyard Live Concert Series at Butterfield Stage, 101 E. Cherry St. railyardlive.com/ live-events. SPRINGDALE • Gavin Sumrall plays at 6 p.m. Sept. 14; Vincent Tyler plays at 6 p.m. Sept. 21; The Mountain Gypsies perform at 6 p.m. Sept. 28 at Core Brewery Taproom, 2470 N. Lowell Road, coreofarkansas.com. • A Little Rock comedy showcase featuring Alexi Barrientos, Lucas Smith, Nick Moore and Zane Lovelady starts at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15; Brandon Killugh & Maverick McWilliams perform comedy at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 22; Dylan Scott and Liz Greenwood tell jokes at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29 at Black Apple Hard Cider, 321 E. Emma Ave., facebook.com/ NaturalStateComedy. • The Mixtape Music series continues with Monét + The Misdemeanors at 7 p.m. Sept. 14; Earl Hazard + Sewlo play at 7 p.m. Oct. 19; and Victor Charlie & Vraii + 64velour at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at 214 By CACHE, 214 S. Main St. cachecreate.org. WINSLOW • Jesse Dean and Mark Bilyeau play at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 ($10); The Squirrel Jam Fourth Sunday open music circle starts at 5 p.m. Sept. 25 (free) at Ozark Folkways, 22733 N. U.S. 71. Send info about your upcoming concerts and events to Monica Hooper, music editor, at mhooper@ nwaonline.com. September 11-17, 2022 What'S up! 39 Live! A Music cALendAr Live continued From Page 11 Longtime blues guitarist Gary Hutchison of Fort Smith will perform during the annual Shane bailey memorial bash starting at 5 p.m. Sept. 16 at the bakery District, 70 S. Seventh St. in Fort Smith. (NWa Democrat-Gazette/ File photo/andy Shupe) Montgomery, Willi Carlisle, David Starr, Jude Brothers, Dylan Earl and many others. One Arkansas music executive whose career helped take Southern R&B worldwide will speak about the concert he organized that became known as the "Black Woodstock." Al Bell, the Brinkley native, former chief executive officer and owner of Stax Records and former president of Motown Records Group, will be part of a panel titled "Wattstax Now And Then: Celebrating 50 Years of Wattstax and Americana Music by Black Artists." The discussion will address the Wattstax festival, which took place Aug. 20, 1972, in front of a crowd of about 112,000 people at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and featured Stax artists Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Rufus Thomas, Albert King, the Bar-Kays and more. The seven-hour-long concert was a benefit to commemorate the seventh anniversary of riots in the Watts community of Los Angeles. "The music we presented that day, we call it soul music but it's a mixture of country and gospel and blues and a bit of classical," Bell says. "It's the music that comes out of the lives and culture of the African-American people. It reflects and influences what's going on in their lives. It's real music and real art because it comes from our culture. That's what was happening that day; we were celebrating a part of our culture." Besides his accomplishments as a record executive, Bell also wrote "I'll Take You There," which the Staples Singers took to No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. He's a member of the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and in 2011 was given the Grammy Trustees Award. The Americana Music Association is honoring him at AmericanaFest with a Lifetime Achievement Award. "It blew me away when they said they were giving me this award and at the same time they were recognizing our state," says Bell, who is now CEO of Al Bell Presents LLC. "I've been fighting since 1958 for the recognition of the state of Arkansas and its music heritage." "Al Bell is one of our mentors," says musician-filmmaker Troy Campbell of The House of Songs, a space for songwriters in Bentonville that is hosting a pair of parties during AmericanaFest. "I'm looking at a picture of him right now, and we named one of the rooms here after him. I've learned a lot from him." Stephen Koch, host of the long-running radio program "Arkansongs," says Bell is "like a lot of Arkansawyers, someone who was behind the scenes. He was pivotal in what he was able to do, largely in R&B. He also worked with Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and campaigned for civil rights, which dovetailed into Wattstax." Patron 'Saints' Arkansas is the birthplace of two of Americana's patron saints — Johnny Cash and Levon Helm. Cash, who died Sept. 12, 2003, was a native of Kingsland and grew up in Dyess. He recorded his early rockabilly hits at Sun Records in Memphis before crossing over to country music. Cash also recorded gospel and folk songs and his refusal to be pigeonholed artistically made him a pivotal influence on generations of country and rock musicians. Drummer and singer Helm, who grew up in Phillips County, was a member of The Hawks, the backing band for fellow Arkie Ronnie Hawkins. The Hawks left Hawkins and in 1967 became The Band, whose music embodied what would become known as Americana and would leave admirers like George Harrison and Eric Clapton awed. In 2010, Helm's solo album "Electric Dirt" was the first to win a Grammy for the newly created best Americana album category. Cash and his career will be discussed as musician and writer Robert Burke Warren leads the panel "Johnny Cash: An Arkansas Icon Endures," while the musical legacy of Sonny Boy Williamson, Conway Twitty, Helm and others will be the subject of "Arkansas' Delta Roots," a discussion guided by music industry veteran Sharon Corbitt featuring bluesman Larry McCray and Munnie Jordan of the King Biscuit Blues Festival. Helm, who died April 19, 2012, will be honored during a tribute concert featuring a band made up of Spradlin, Montgomery, Weinheimer and others from Arkansas. They will be joined by Lee Roy Parnell, Steve Cropper, Larry Campbell, Webb Wilder, Allison Moorer and her husband, Hayes Carll, just to name a few. "That Levon Helm tribute has taken on a life of its own," Spradlin says. In talking about his preparations for the show, Weinheimer pinpoints why The Band has become one of Americana's mainstays. "I'm doing a deep-dive into them right now, and it's incredible how many influences they pulled from to create what they did." The House of Songs will present the "Arkansas Extravaganza," which will showcase Arkansas musicians, and the "Arkansas Explorer Day Party" with performers from Arkansas and beyond. Both events are held in partnership with Visit Bentonville and Arkansas Tourism, a division of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism. Americana continued From Page 12 eLsewhere