THURSDAY 6/16

A trio of trios plays the White Water Tavern: Atlanta’s The Head brings guitar riffs evocative of Weezer’s heyday, with The Dangerous Idiots and Midwest Caravan kicking off the evening, 9 p.m., $7. If you’re a fan of the podcast “Invisibilia,” head over to the studios of UALR Public Radio (Suite 400 of the University Plaza Shopping Center) for the Invisibilia Listening Party, with a conversation led by KUAR’s Jacob Kauffman, 7 p.m., free. Acclaimed wind quintet Windsync plays a chamber concert at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 7:30 p.m., $15. The Eureka Springs Blues Festival kicks off with highlighted acts playing through the weekend downtown and at Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge, $10-$150.

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FRIDAY 6/17

The Whole Famn Damily play at King’s Live Music, 8:30 p.m., $5. Eureka Springs’ Opera in the Ozarks opens its 66th season with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” 7:30 p.m., Inspiration Point, $10-$30. Elsewhere in Northwest Arkansas, Widespread Panic jams at the Walmart AMP, 7:30 p.m., $36-$56. Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre continues its 10th season with “West Side Story,” Reynolds Performance Hall, Conway, 7:30 p.m., $25-$32, and the Arkansas New Play Festival runs through June 26 at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville and at the Walton Arts Center’s Nadine Baum Studios in Fayetteville, $40-$45. Rodney Block hosts the “80s Icons” concert and dance party at South on Main, 9:30 p.m., $15. Color Design, R.I.O.T.S., and Attagirl take the stage at the White Water Tavern, 9:30 p.m., $5.

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SATURDAY 6/18

The Jimmy Doyle Country Club turns 42 years old, and holds a celebration featuring dance lessons, food and music from Steve McCann and the New Age Outlaws and The Arkansas River Bottom Band, 6 p.m., $8-$15. Mandy McBryde plays a set at Kent Walker Artisan Cheese, 6 p.m., free. The Baton Rouge rapper formerly known as Lil Boosie hosts “Boosie Badazz and Friends: A Juneteenth Concert” at the Metroplex Event Center, 10 p.m., $50-$112. Shawn James and the Shapeshifters celebrate the release of a new album at Stickyz, 9 p.m., $8-$10. Contemporary Christian band MercyMe plays Timberwood at Magic Springs, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Jam House Collective hosts a metal show at Zaza’s Fine Salad + Wood Oven Pizza in Conway, featuring Iron Iris, Esc and Amonkst the Trees, 10 p.m.

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TUESDAY 6/21

The Arkansas Times hosts a screening of the 1950 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart, “In a Lonely Place,” 7 p.m., Riverdale 10 Cinema, $8.

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