Swing out, sister
Enjoy an evening of big-band jazz performed by the Reno Jazz Orchestra. The 17-piece jazz group presents its concert “Timeless Reimagined Standards,” featuring reworked versions of classics like “It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t That Swing,” “In a Sentimental Mood” and “Shiny Stockings,” among other well-known songs from the swing era. The RJO’s “Discover Jazz Workshop” youth ensemble will open the show, which starts at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, and 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 17, at Note-Able Music Therapy Services Building, 2590 Orovada St. Call 775-372-6160, or visit www.renojazzorchestra.org for tickets and more information.
Nature calls
The Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation invites you to “Cure Your Curiosity” at its last Junior Naturalists event of the year. The free, outdoor program is open to families with children of all ages to encourage the exploration of local parks while learning something new about nature. On the third Saturday of each month, naturalist educators lead a walk through a featured park while attendees learn about each session’s topic through hands-on activities. This month’s meeting takes place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Rosewood Nature Study Area, 6800 Pembroke Drive. To register for this month’s event, go to www.tmparksfoundation.org/the-junior-naturalist-program.
Mac attack
Los Angeles band Mac Sabbath celebrates 10 years of serving up “drive-thru metal” to the masses. Ronald Osbourne, Slayer MacCheeze, Grimalice and the Cat Burglar have been on a mission to warn audiences about the evils of the fast-food industry via parodies of Black Sabbath songs such as “Sweet Beef” (“Sweet Leaf”), “Pair-a-Buns” (“Paranoid”) and “Frying Pan” (“Iron Man”) since 2014. Their multimedia stage show typically features props such as a smoking grill, laser-eyed clowns and inflatable burgers, but the clownish antics are balanced with just enough menace and killer riffs to make the Prince of Darkness proud. Rock ’n’ roll mavericks The Supersuckers and “shark surf-metal” band Shark in the Water join Mac Sabbath on this leg of their West Coast tour. The supersized show starts at 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, in the Crown Room at Crystal Bay Casino, 14 Highway 28, in Crystal Bay. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 on the day of the show. Visit www.crystalbaycasino.com.
Masters of illusion
Spellbinders will attempt to make the impossible possible. Dubbed “The World’s Largest Free International Festival of Magic,” the 10th annual show features world champions of magic from around the globe. There will be free performances by Blake Vogt (pictured), Joshua Ng, Allan Ackerman and Roman Spinale at various libraries in Reno, Sparks and the surrounding area on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15-17. Visit events.washoecountylibrary.us for locations and times. Spellbinders’ gala show—featuring Rudy Coby, Jade, Michael Finney, Christopher Hart, The Flying Cavettis and Larry Wilson—will have two performances, at 3 and 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are available for free at Washoe County libraries. Visit spellbindersfestival.com or pioneercenter.com/Online/article/Spellbinders2024.
Art out of tragedy
Author and journalist Dave Maass will discuss his newly released graphic novel Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, including its history, the research and development process, and its ongoing relevance for a modern audience. Mixing dystopian sci-fi, mythic fantasy and zombie horror, the book is based on an opera written in 1943 by Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann, two prisoners at the Terezín concentration camp in Czechoslovakia who did not live to see their work performed. The talk starts at 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, in the meeting room at Northwest Reno Library, 2325 Robb Drive. Call 775-787-4100, or go to events.washoecountylibrary.us.
Stringed theory
The Churchill Arts Council presents an evening of classical and contemporary guitar performances by The California Guitar Trio, Peppino D’Agostino and The String Revolution, who will bring The International String Masters Tour to Fallon this weekend. Acoustic-electric guitar band The California Guitar Trio has been exploring the intersections of rock, jazz, classical and world music since its formation in 1991. Fingerstyle guitarist Peppino D’Agostino has become a leading figure in the American acoustic guitar scene since arriving in the United States from Italy in the 1980s. He was awarded Best Acoustic Guitarist in the 2007 Guitar Player Reader’s Poll and was listed as one of the 50 “transcendent superheroes” of the acoustic guitar by the magazine in 2017. Grammy Award-winning guitar trio The String Revolution (pictured) are renowned for their electrifying performances, blending different genres and styles to create unique arrangements and a captivating sound. The concert begins at 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 16, in Barkley Theatre at Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park St., in Fallon. Tickets are $17 for Churchill Arts Council members, $20 for non-CAC members and $10 for children and students with current ID. Call 775-423-1440, or visit www.churchillarts.org.
Birds of a feather
The Great Basin Bird Observatory presents a bird phenology walk with outreach biologist Ned Bohman, who will lead participants on this tour through Rancho San Rafael Regional Park. The walk will start in the arboretum and proceed to the Evans Creek Wetland Area and Herman’s Pond. Depending on time and the activity of the birds that are observable that day, the group may loop back or continue north along the wetlands and even travel under the McCarran Avenue underpass to the Evans Creek Trail. Limited spaces are available, so RSVP to outreach@gbbo.org. The group will meet at 8 a.m., Monday, Nov. 18, at the parking lot in front of the south entrance of the Wilbur D. May Arboretum and Botanical Garden at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. Visit www.gbbo.org or www.facebook.com/greatbasinbirdobservatory for more information.
Face the music
The Reno Phil presents “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto” as part of its 2024-25 Classix concert series. Pianist Sara Davis Buechner (pictured) will perform Sergei Rachmaninoff’s romantic and majestic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18, accompanied by the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra. The RPO, conducted by music director Laura Jackson, will also perform the overture from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La forza del destino, as well as William Dawson’s triumphant Negro Folk Symphony, which fuses African rhythms and American laments into the symphonic form. The concert starts at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 23, and 4 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 24, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $25-$40. Call 775-323-6393 or visit www.renophil.com.
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