We hope your schedule is clear… Here’s all the fun stuff happening around the OC this weekend:
~~~LIVE MUSIC~~~
Hillsborough
Tonight Mystery Brewing Company has cover tunes by Pete Pawsey, Jeremy Boomhower and Penne Sandbeck. Hot Tin Roof has Shame for Sydney Acoustic Experience at 9:30pm. Bull City Beatniks play Nash Street Tavern at 8pm.
Tomorrow Hot Tin Roof has coverband Stone Age Romeos at 9:30pm and Nash St. Tavern has bluegrass with Vintage Blue at 8pm.
Sunday check out Pete Pawsey from 4-7 at Nash St. Tavern, then Hillsborough Beer & Hymns – December at 7pm.
Carrboro
Tonight music veteran & legend Alejandro Escovedo plays The ArtsCenterat 8pm. Call to make sure tickets are still available! Next door in the back room at Cat’s Cradle check out Fruit Bats with Skylar Gudasz at 8pm. At The Station enjoy reggae with Crucial Fiya w/ Sound System Sevenstarting at 7:30pm. Fans of country/bluegrass/Americana should check out Ryan Hutchens at Johnny’s Gone Fishing at 7pm, then Asheville’s Redleg Husky at 2nd Wind at 10pm.
ChapelHill
Tonight Nightlight Bar & Club is hosting a Blues Dance Night with Chocolate Suede and Matt Phillips starting at 8pm.
Tomorrow enjoy kirtan (and a vegan potluck!) with Samadhi at Triangle Yoga at 6pm.
~~~~ART~~~~
LIGHT: Art + Design will host an Opening Reception: Industry tonight at 6pm featuring work by Tres Altman, Katherine Armacost, Jeff Bell, and others.
The Clayworks Guild will host a Holiday Sale tomorrow at University Place from 10am-4pm. By some handmade pottery for holiday gifts and support our local artists!
DNA Photography is hosting a Hurricane Matthew Fundraiser tomorrow from 1-4pm at Gold Park in Hillsborough. Get a portrait taken in exchange for a supply/monetary donation for hurricane victims.
~~~~THEATER & FILM~~~~
The LAB! Theatre presents John Cariani’s Almost, Maine at Morehead Planetarium at UNC tomorrow at 6pm. Grab your honey and enjoy this story about love .
Tomorrow afternoon check out the much talked about 13th: Documentary screening & discussion at The Marian Cheek Jackson Center for Saving and Making History in Chapel Hill at 3pm.
~~~FOR THE FAM & TEENS~~~~
Tomorrow at 7pm, join the 51st Annual Messiah Open Sing at UNC Newman Catholic Center at 7pm.
One Song Productions will host their monthly December Moxie Mic! for high schoolers at the Teen Center on Franklin St in Chapel Hill at 6:30pm.
Don’t forget the Light Up the Night Holiday Parade starting at 4:45pm tomorrow in Downtown Hillsborough, featuring Miss North Carolina McKenzie Faggart, Apple Chill Cloggers, Kasey Tyndall and more!
Sunday checkout Chapel Hill/Carrboro’s community band, The Village Band perform their Holiday Concert at University Place at 2pm.
~~~~DANCE~~~~
The Carolina Ballet presents The Nutcracker at Carolina Performing Artsthis weekend at #UNC Memorial Hall. Matinees tomorrow and Sunday and evening performance tomorrow.
Carolina Style Dance Company presents a fundraising performance for Compass Center for Women and Families tomorrow at 6pm at East Chapel Hill High. Tickets are only $7.
~~~~HOLIDAY SHOPPING~~~~
In Chapel Hill…Jacar Press will host poets Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Bill Glose for a talk on how to select poetry books for holiday gifts. Flyleaf Books tomorrow at 1pm. Check out the Big Book Sale at Chapel Hill Public Library all weekend, with prices starting at just 50 cents! St. Thomas More School will host their 13th Annual Christmas Holiday Shoppe Craft Show featuring the work of 65 NC artisans and crafters, tomorrow from 9am-4pm.
In Hillsborough check out the 38th Annual Christmas Crafts Show presented at Big Barn Convention Center from 9am-5pm. Admission is free.