Friday, Oct. 13

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Local legends The Cate Brothers will be kicking off the weekend with a Happy Hour performance on Friday night at George’s Majestic Lounge. Tickets will be available at the door. It’s probably not a bad idea to get there early if you can.

TheatreSquared has a new shop opening this weekend at Nadine Baum Studios. It’s called The Champion, and is a world premiere by Amy Evans that tells the story of Nina Simone and her band in a snowstorm in a greasy spoon somewhere in North Carolina, waiting for the trains to start running. Performances are scheduled through the weekend. Here’s ticket info.

Former Water Liars frontman Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster will play a solo show Friday night at Stage 18. Zach Holland of the Good Fear has a new solo project called Thunder Comfort, and he’ll open the show. Here’s an interview we published with Kinkel-Schuster earlier this week.

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Saturday, Oct. 14

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The annual Hero Half Marathon returns to Fayetteville on Saturday. The race begins at 8 a.m. at Lake Fayetteville. Here’s some more info.

The city’s Parks & Recreation department will celebrate their 50th anniversary with an event on Saturday. The party will kick off at 10 a.m. at Wilson Park and coincides with Puppets in the Park, and will move to Walker Park at 3 p.m. A bike poker run is planned from 8 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. from Walker Park to Lake Fayetteville, and a group bike ride will begin at 9 a.m. from Walker Park to Wilson Park. Also, a cleanup at Lake Sequoyah will take place at the marina from 9-11:30 a.m. See the full schedule for more activities.

There’s a beer, music, and technology festival at the Walmart AMP Saturday night. The event will include more than 60 craft beers from 20 local, regional, and national breweries, live music from John Paul White (formerly of The Civil Wars), David Shaw and Zack Feinberg, Adam Faucett, Opal Agafia and others, virtual reality demonstrations, a gaming area, technology demos, and more.

How about heading to the Symphony? SoNA is kicking off their season with one of their masterworks performances on Saturday night at Walton Arts Center. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., and they’ll be performing music by Tchaikovsky.

Also at the Walton Arts Center, Ohio-based band Huntertones will perform in Starr Theatre Saturday night. Here’s ticket info.

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Sunday, Oct. 15