Don’t say goodbye, love
Grammy Award-winning recording artist Judy Collins brings her “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes” farewell tour to Fallon this weekend. Since the 1960s, Collins has inspired generations of audiences with her crystalline vocals, vulnerable songwriting, commitment to social activism. Her interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her original compositions have garnered several Top 10 hits, gold- and platinum-selling albums, and numerous accolades. The farewell tour caps a recent, prolific chapter in Collins’ career, which saw the release of several solo and collaborative recordings, including her Grammy-nominated album, Spellbound, and the publication of her 2025 poetry collection Sometimes It’s Heaven: Poems of Love, Loss and Redemption. Don’t miss the opportunity to sing along at her only Northern Nevada date on the tour. The show starts at 7 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, at Barkley Theatre, inside Oats Park Art Center, 151 East Park St., Fallon. Tickets are $35-$75. Visit www.churchillarts.org.
Ready for takeoff
Local aviation enthusiasts who fondly remember the Reno Air Races can re-live some of the excitement of that event at the Minden-Tahoe SkyFest. Formerly known as Aviation Roundup, the revamped air show features formation flying, precision maneuvers and high-speed aerobatics by the Patriots Jet Team, as well as demonstrations by aerial performers such as RenegadeAV8R Jet Airshows, U.S. Army Golden Knights, GhostWriter Airshows and REDFOX Airshows. The three-day event includes a car show, interactive ground displays, family-friendly activities and a special air show and drone show on Friday evening. The evening show takes flight at 6 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, followed by aerial performances from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 17 and 18, at the Minden-Tahoe Airport, 1146 Airport Road, Minden. General admission tickets are $35.94 for adults, and $17.56 for youth ages 12-17, with free entry for children age 11 and younger with a paid adult. Parking, weekend passes, bleacher seating and VIP ticket options are also available. See www.mindentahoeskyfest.net for more information.
Learn a thing or two
Discover amazing art, artifacts, archives, fossils and historical objects at the University of Nevada, Reno’s annual Day at the Museum event. About 20 museums, art galleries and other places on and off the UNR campus will be open to the public for a day of exploration, as well as hands-on science and education activities. Participating sites include Fleischmann Planetarium, W. M. Keck Museum, Museum of Natural History, the Biggest Little Pollinator Garden, the Lilley Museum of Art, Sheppard Contemporary and McNamara Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno Arboretum, Special Collections and University Archives, Museum of People, Place, and Time, Shared History Gallery, Nevada Historical Society and the Nevada Seismological Laboratory, as well as a few off-site locations like The Discovery museum in downtown Reno, and the Nevada State Museum and Stewart Indian School Cultural Center and Museum in Carson City. Attendees can pick up a Day at the Museum passport, visit museums throughout campus, collect stamps and redeem them for prizes. The free event takes place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17. Check events.unr.edu/event/day-at-the-museum-6691 for locations and other information.
Hot stuff
Those chilly temperatures we had earlier in the week were a reminder that soup and chili season is upon us, so warm yourself up with a bowl of spicy, savory goodness at the 12th annual Beer and Chili Festival. Sample a variety of chili and other menu specialties from Grand Sierra Resort restaurants, and temper the heat with a frosty brew from more than two dozen local, regional and national craft beers. Attendees can vote for their favorite beer and chili, with the top brewery and restaurant each earning the “People’s Choice” title, a $1,000 donation to the charity of their choice, and a trophy. A special awards presentation will crown the day’s top chili and beer entries. DJ Teddy P will spin hits in between live sets by Covertones, The Heidi Incident and headliner Total Recall. Early entry starts at noon, with general admission at 1 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at The Pool at the Grand Sierra Resort, 2500 E. Second St. Beer and chili tasting packages range from $25 to $70. A portion of all ticket sales will benefit the Reno Rodeo Foundation. Go to www.grandsierraresort.com/grand-sierra-beer-and-chili-festival.
Undead zone
Hordes of costumed imbibers in search of booze and good times will invade downtown Reno during the 18th annual Reno Zombie Crawl. This year’s theme “Get Plugged In!” throws a little robotic flavor into the mix, so get creative with your robot, zombie or robot-zombie disguises. About 40 participating locations in the downtown corridor and Reno Brewery District will offer drink and food specials, themed live entertainment and no cover charges to customers aged 21 or older who bring their commemorative Zombie Crawl cup. Fill up and then move on to as many locations as your reanimated corpse/robot body can handle, and pose under the Reno Arch for a photographic memory on this night when robots and zombies join forces. The crawl begins at 8 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17. Crawl cups and maps can be purchased online for $20. If cups haven’t sold out by crawl night, you can purchase them in person at the ballroom on the casino floor at Circus Circus Reno, 500 N. Sierra St.; Black Rabbit Mead Co., 401 E. Fourth St.; or Ms. Finicky, 100 California Ave. Visit crawlreno.com/event/zombiecrawl.
Are you ready to Rach?
The Reno Phil will open its 58th Classix concert series “Make Space” with a program featuring Juan Pablo Contreras’s Mariachitlán, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring soloist Jon Nakamatsu. Performances start at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 17; and 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $24.50 to $157.50. Visit renophil.com. Ahead of the weekend performance, the University of Nevada, Reno, will host a free masterclass with Nakamatsu starting at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 16, at the Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall, 1338 N. Virginia St., inside the University Foundation Arts Building at UNR. Go to events.unr.edu/event/piano-masterclass-1412.
Ranch style
Learn about our area’s ranching history at the inaugural Western Heritage Festival. The family-friendly event offers a rodeo exhibition, cowboy poetry, antique tractors and engines, tours of historic buildings and other activities. While taking in the park’s rustic charm and fall scenery, make sure to check out the Sierra-Nevada Autumn Photo Exhibit featuring photos from local artists. The free festival is open from noon to 3 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, at the Western Heritage Interpretive Center, Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Go to www.washoecounty.gov/parks/calendar.php or www.facebook.com/BartleyRanch.
Strike a chord
Sheppard Contemporary and Holland Project present a performance by guitarist and composer Marisa Anderson. She was called “one of the most distinctive guitar players of her generation” by The New Yorker for her often improvisational playing, which mixes American primitive guitar with various genres from across the United States and other musical influences from around the globe. Her current release, The Anthology of UnAmerican Folk Music, is focused on a mid-20th century archive of recorded music from the Islamic world, Southeast Asia and the Soviet Union. Her performance in Reno is an extension of her work currently featured in the exhibition Without Mountains and Rivers Without End: Speculative Geographics on an Interior Northwest in the Sheppard Contemporary gallery at the University of Nevada, Reno. There will be a pre-show reception starting at 5:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 18, in the gallery located in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St. The concert follows at 7 p.m., at the Harlan O. and Barbara R. Hall Recital Hall, 1338 N. Virginia St., inside the University Foundation Arts Building at UNR. Tickets are $20. Go to hollandreno.org/events/marisa-anderson or events.unr.edu/event/marisa-anderson-instrumental-guitar-performance.
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