Sheryl Crow in Concert
The Commerce Trust Company presents Sheryl Crow Friday, Oct. 9, 7:30pm at the Missouri Theatre. The concert will benefit the School of Music Building Project. Presenting sponsor The Commerce Trust Company proudly partners with MU School of Music, College of Arts & Sciences and the University Concert Series to host the concert at the historic Missouri Theatre.

Sheryl Crow is a nine-time GRAMMY winner who has sold more than 35 million albums around the world. Her most recent album, Feels Like Home, captures the sound of a great and established artist enjoying a kind of fresh start. Click here for more information. 

Second Saturday for Kids
Join Orr Street Studios for its Second Saturday for Kids program, Oct. 10, 12-3pm. This month's theme is Senses/Sensory, exploring the five senses and their crossover interconnections. Art projects include collage rubbings, comic strips, and aromatic necklaces. Visiting guest artist, Jason Garton, brings photography and music into the sensory mix!

Second Saturday for Kids is a great gift to share with friends. As always this event is offered free of charge to kids ages 5-15 with accompanying adult. 

Stephens Sings
Stephens College Performing Arts presents Stephens Sings, its fall choral concert to include a wonderful night of music, on Oct. 11, 7:30pm at Historic Senior Hall Recital Hall. Join Musical Theatre and Vocal Arts students, including The Velvetones, A Class Act: Musical Theatre Troupe, the Musical Theatre Ensemble and Concert Choir, for a new Fall Music Concert that will showcase the best of song across many styles. Click here for more information. 

Peter Martin Trio
"We Always Swing" Jazz Series presents the Peter Martin Trio, Oct. 11, 3:30 and 7pm at Murry's. Pianist Peter Martin may just be one of those musicians who you think you never heard of – or saw perform – but you’d likely be incorrect – especially if you have been a “We Always Swing” Jazz Series participant. The St. Louis native has appeared here previously on at least three occasions – with vocalist Dianne Reeves, bassist Christian McBride’s Inside Straight ensemble and most recently as a member of the Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60 sextet. On this, his fourth Jazz Series appearance, we thought it about time to give the St. Louis native-turned New Orleans resident-turned post-Katrina St. Louisan a leadership spot – particularly when he told us his bandmates on this occasion would be two like-minded and equally exceptional musical spirits: bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.

Like the pianist, who is known equally as singer Reeves’ long-time musical director, Rogers and Hutchinson are in demand, big-time. The former, a St. Thomas native, has worked with the likes of saxophonists Charlies Lloyd, Jimmy Greene and Joshua Redman as well as with trumpeter Nicholas Payton, among others – including Martin. Hutcherson, meanwhile, is equally versatile, having enjoyed a long stay with legendary bassist Ray Brown, iconic saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Benny Green and Ms. Diana Krall as well as with scores of others noteworthy peers and colleagues. Together, they constitute a forthright, impressive trio as some spice to their largely straight-ahead classic and original repertoire, but doing so with a bit of modernism.

 
2015 Diversity Award Winners: 
Columbia CROP Hunger Walk and Robert Harrison, Sr.

The deadline for 2016 award nominations is Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. Click here to download the nomination guidelines and form and to view a list of past winners.  

Events Calendar 

• Ragtag Cinema: Passport Series, We Come As Friends, Oct. 8; Court, Oct. 14-15, 6:30pm
• The Blue Note: Boregore (Oct. 8), Theory of a Deadman (Oct. 9), Manchester Orchestra (Oct. 10), Beats Antique (Oct. 13)
• Rose Music Hall:  The Legendary Shack Shakers (Oct. 8), The Internet (Oct. 9), Carbon Leaf (Oct. 10), Bluegrass Scramble (Oct. 11), Cursive (Oct. 15)
• The Bridge: Scotch Hollow (Oct. 8), Saturday Night Soldiers (Oct. 9), Lesserhasbeens (Oct. 10), Huntertones (Oct. 11), Logjam Blues Monday (Oct. 12), Trout Steak Revival (Oct. 15)
• Mid-Missouri Traditional Dancers: English Country Dance, Oct. 9, 7:30pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church
• University Concert Series: Sheryl Crow, Oct. 9, 7:30pm at Missouri Theatre
• Barnes & Noble: Pete the Cat and Bedtime Blues Storytime, Oct. 10, 11am; Brian Katcher Reading, Oct. 14, 7pm
• Orr Street Studios: Second Saturdays for Kids, Senses/Sensory, Oct. 10, 12-3pm
• Columbia Art League: Approaching the Figure in Pastel with Matt Ballou workshop, Oct. 10, 1-5pm
• Resident Arts: The Artist's Website workshop, Oct. 10, 3-6pm; Free Critique Night, Oct. 15, 6-8pm
• North Village Arts District: Farmers & Artisans market, Oct. 11, 9am-1pm
• "We Always Swing" Jazz Series: Peter Martin Trio, Oct. 11, 3:30 and 7pm at Murry's
• Stephens College Performing Arts: Stephens Sings Fall Choral Concert, Oct. 11, 7:30pm at Historic Senior Hall Recital Hall
• MU Music: New Music Ensemble, Oct. 11, 7:30pm; Missouri Quintet, Oct. 13, 7:30pm; Wind Ensemble/University Band, Oct. 15, 7:30pmt
• Museum of Art & Archaeology: Film Series, Alice in Wonderland (1951), Oct. 15, 7pm at Mizzou North