Friday, July 1

Yonder Mountain String Band

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The Highberry Music Festival will be in full swing by Friday afternoon. The event, which began Thursday night on Mulberry Mountain, runs through Sunday night and includes dozens of bands on several stages throughout the festival grounds. Headliners this year include Yonder Mountain String Band, Keller Williams, and Papadosio.

Missouri songwriter Sterling Witt and Fayetteville band Drawing Blanks will perform at Smoke & Barrel Friday night.

Also in tunes, local band Jon Shorter & The Gateway Band and Oklahoma City funky-jazz band Paseo Street Walkers will be at Ryleigh’s.

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Saturday, July 2

Sammy Hagar

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Eureka Springs duo The Lark & The Loon will start a month-long residency at Arsaga’s at the Depot this weekend. Saturday’s show will be the band’s first Fayetteville show since they released their debut album in May which charted on the Folk DJ radio charts. The show starts at 7 p.m.

Also Saturday night, classic rocker Sammy Hagar and his new band The Circle will perform at the Walmart AMP. Here’s ticket information.

There’s also a rock show of a much different variety in Fayetteville at Ryleigh’s with locals Iron Iris and Bik Fliqqr.

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Sunday, July 3

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