Bluegrass award winner plays at Buskirk-Chumley\nBluegrass music's four-time Female Vocalist of the Year Rhonda Vincent will perform 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Vincent began performing with her parents' bluegrass band when she was 3 years old and appeared on their local television show when she was 5 years old. Before she reached her teen years, she had performed with several house bands. Before she was 23, she recorded eight LPs with her family's group, The Sally Mountain Show. Vincent recently released an album titled "One Step Ahead". It is among the top sellers in her genre. Tickets are available at the theater and can be reserved by calling 323-3020. They are $18 in advance and $22 at the door.
Waldron Arts Center hosts two one-act plays\nTwo one-act plays by Thomas Kristopher -- "Loose Hog in the House of God" and "On How to Accommodate Marlo's Frying Pan" -- open this weekend at the John Waldron Arts Center. "Loose Hog in the House of God" is a serious drama containing adult language and situations. "On How to Accommodate Marlo's Frying Pan" is a comedy. The show runs at 8 p.m. Sept. 3, 4, 9-11 and 2 p.m. Sept. 5. Performances are $12 for general admission, $10 for students and senior citizens, and $6 for children. Reserve tickets by calling 334-3100.
SoFA Gallery holds opening reception\nAn opening reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the IU Fine Arts School's SoFA Gallery for the exhibits "Possible Worlds" and "Ma-Between the Past." Both exhibits will be on display at the SoFA Gallery Sept. 3 through Oct. 2. "Possible Worlds" explores images of the dreamed, romanticized and imagined. The exhibit includes paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations by artists from across the country. "Ma-Between the Past" is a series of photographs by Associate Professor Osamu James Nakagawa that explores the ideas of memory, as well as the cross-cultural tensions he has experienced in his own life. The reception is free and open to the public.
Festival of the arts sweeps Fourth Street this weekend\nArtists and vendors for the 27th annual Fourth Street Festival of the Arts will set up their tents and tables between Fourth and Grant streets this weekend. Early each fall, the Fourth Street Festival of the Arts brings award-winning artists to Bloomington. The festival provides a unique opportunity for Bloomington residents and visitors to buy hand-crafted jewelry, pottery, paintings, glasswork and furniture. The festival also provides music, dance and other entertainment on the Grant Street stage. The Fourth Street Festival of the Arts runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
