Entertainment guide

For week of March 20-26; bands perform from 9 p.m. to close with no cover unless otherwise noted.

Brainerd

Blue Ox Bar

Ded Walleye (rock) Thur-Sat

24-Seven (rock) Mon-Tues

Renee Austin (rock) Wed

Cafe Giardino's

Cliff Veronick, pianist, and Cleo Kuelbs, vocalist (soothing jazz) Thur, 5-8 p.m.

Eagles Club

Preston and Paulzine, Fri

Iron Rail Saloon

Wayne Renn, Thurs-Sun

Breezy Point

Commander Bar

Jenny Case, Fri-Sat

Prime Time Charlie's

Tamarack, Fri-Sat

Garrison

The Blue Goose

Ivory Kins, Fri-Sat

Lake Shore

Bar Harbor

Steve Anderson (variety) Thur-Sun, Wed

Little Falls

West Side Bar

Joy Ride, Thur-Sat

Performing arts

Pillager concerts

Pillager School junior and senior high bands and choirs, Music in Our Schools Month concerts, today, Pillager School Performance Center, 6:30 p.m. junior high concert with no admission charge, 7:30 p.m. senior high concert with admission charge.

Lake Region play

Lake Region Christian School students will present "Switching Principals," 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Lake Region Christian School, $10 per person, call 828-1226.

'Reunion Revenge'

The Impart Players will present "Reunion Revenge," mystery dinner theater, 6 p.m. social hour, 6:30 p.m. dinner, Friday, Antler's Restaurant, Breezy Point, $79 per couple at (218) 562-7162.

Grassroots Concerts

Cafe Accordion Orchestra with Dan "Daddy Squeeze" Newton, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Pequot Lakes School auditorium, doors open at 6:30 p.m., $10 all seats at the door, bring donations for food shelf; Greg Brown, 7:30 p.m. April 11, Pequot Lakes School auditorium, $15 all seats.

Great River Arts Association

Lucy Webster in Great River Arts Association concert, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Great River Arts Center, Little Falls, $10 for adults, $8 for students/senior citizens and $5 for children under 12 at (320) 632-0960 or www.greatart.org; Barb Ryman, 7:30 p.m. April 4, Great River Arts Center, Little Falls, $7 for adults, $5 for students and senior citizens, $3 for children under 12.

CLC Readers Theatre

Central Lakes College Readers Theatre class will present "Spoon River Anthology," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Bob Dryden Theatre, Brainerd campus, $2, free for CLC students.

Legacy Chorale

Legacy Chorale of Greater Minnesota's spring concert, "There is Sweet Music Here," 3 p.m. March 29, Sacred Heart Chapel of the Franciscan Sisters Convent, Little Falls, freewill offering; 7:30 p.m. March 29, Tornstrom Auditorium, Washington Middle School, Brainerd, $8 for adults and $5 for seniors and students at The Brainerd Dispatch, Crossing Arts Center, Bridge of Harmony or from any chorale member; 3 p.m. March 30, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, St. Cloud, freewill offering.

'42nd Street'

Aitkin High School students will perform musical "42nd Street," 2 p.m. April 2, 7:30 p.m. April 3-5, Aitkin High School, reserved tickets available Wednesday at district office, (218) 927-2115.

College musicians

Minnesota Fine Arts Festival grand concert featuring musicians and singers from 15 colleges, 5 p.m. April 4, Breezy Point Resort Convention Center, free.

Grand Casino Mille Lacs

Country music singer Lorrie Morgan, 8 p.m. April 3 and 4, $32 and $25 at (651) 989-5151.

Country singers Mel Tillis and daughter Pam Tillis, 5 and 8 p.m. April 26, $35 and $28 at (651) 989-5151.

Bluegrass

Minnesota Bluegrass Old-Time Music Association presents the Berge Family in concert, 8 p.m. April 4, Paul Bunyan Nature Learning Center, $8 in advance at Lakes Music in Pequot Lakes and Coco Moon in Brainerd, $10 at the door, free for 5 and under, call 800-635-3037.

Tonic Sol Fa

A cappella group Tonic Sol Fa in concert, 7:30 p.m. April 10, Centennial Auditorium, Staples, $12 for adults, $7 for students, call (218) 894-5416 or 800-213-6877.

Visual arts

AITKIN

Jaques Art Center

Art exhibit by Karlyn Holman, through April 19, downtown Aitkin.

BRAINERD

Brainerd Public Library

416 Fifth St.

Watercolor exhibit by Linda Axvig, through March.

Oil paintings exhibit by the late Lydia L. Novick, founder and first president of the Brainerd Art Club in 1965, through March.

Brainerd City Hall

Fifth and Laurel streets

Oil paintings and watercolors exhibit by Irene Schalow.

Evelyn Matthies Porthole Gallery

712 Washington

"Home is Where the Art Is" exhibit by Maria Thompson Seep, through March 31.

The Crossing Arts Center

617 Laurel St.

Crosslake artist Beth Larson's "Flashes from the Past and/or Burying Ghosts that Pop Up," through March.

DEERWOOD

Ripple River

Gallery

Painting exhibit by artist Bruce Dunlap, through March.

LITTLE FALLS

Great River Arts Center Gallery

Charles Kapsner's "Drawing the Essence" exhibit, featuring 18 charcoal and graphite drawings, Friday-May 2, free.

Morrison County Government Center

Little Falls Public School student show by students in grades K-12, through April, free.

Family Medical Center Gallery

Student Voices exhibit by student artists from Pierz, Royalton, Swanville and Upsala, through April, free.

NEW YORK MILLS

New York Mills Regional Cultural

Center Gallery

"Kuvaraito" photo exhibit by photojournalist Unto Jarvinen, through March 29.

"Out of the Woods" exhibit by woodcarver Izudin Becic, woodturner Tom Larson and organic collage artist Charlotte Lewis, along with work by Kent Scheer and Iris Watson, through March 29.

Out of town

MINNEAPOLIS

The Children's Theatre Co.

2400 Third Ave. S.

"Korczak's Children," Friday-April 19, $9-$22 for children, senior citizens and students, $15-$28 for adults, call (612) 874-0400 or go to www.childrenstheatre.org for tickets.

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

2400 Third Ave. S.

"Up the Nile: Egypt in 19th Century Photographs," through April 13.

ST. PAUL

Roy Wilkins Auditorium

RiverCentre

Family Living Expo, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. April 5, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. April 6, featuring up to 200 exhibitors representing dozens of family-oriented products and services, including travel and home and gardening ideas, $6 at the door, free for children 10 and under.

Xcel Energy Center

RiverCentre

Elton John and Billy Joel, 7:30 p.m. April 17, (651) 989-5151, www.ticketmaster.com.

Tim McGraw and the Dance Hall Doctors, 8 p.m. April 12, $36.50-$61.50, (651) 989-5151, www.ticketmaster.com.

HINCKLEY

Grand Casino Hinckley

Events & Convention Center

Comedy team Williams and Ree, known as "The Indian and the White Guy," 4 and 6 p.m. Sunday, $15, (651) 989-5151 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Little River Band, 4 and 7 p.m. April 13, $20, (651) 989-5151 or www.ticketmaster.com.

FARGO

Fargodome

Elton John and Billy Joel in concert, 7:30 p.m. April 19, (701) 235-7171 or www.ticketmaster.com.

Pearl Jam in concert, 7:30 p.m. June 15, $35 at (701) 235-7171 or www.ticketmaster.com.

GRAND RAPIDS

Reif Center

"Oklahoma!" will be performed, today-Sunday, call (218) 328-5375.

NEW YORK MILLS

Regional Cultural Center

Folk duo Neal and Leandra, 2 p.m. Sunday, $10 for non-cultural center members, $8 for members, $5 for students.

One-woman play "Hephzibeth: Woman of Iron" featuring Lauren Nickisch tells the tale of Hephzibeth Jewett Merritt, pioneer and early settler of Duluth, 8 p.m. Saturday, $10 for non-members, $8 for members, $5 for students, (218) 385-3339.

Minnesota Bluegrass Old-Time Music Association presents the Berge Family in concert, 7:30 p.m. April 5, $8 in advance at Lakes Music in Pequot Lakes and Coco Moon in Brainerd, $10 at the door, free for 5 and under, call 800-635-3037.

Special events

Elvis sock hop

Elvis fund-raiser dance to benefit Volunteer Network and Lakes Area Senior Activity Center, 6:30-10 p.m. Saturday, Brainerd High School cafeteria, $5 in advance or $7 at the door, call 822-4020.

Drum, dance contest

2003 State Drum and Dance Competition, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's East Lake Community Center, McGregor, free.

Children's art fair

Encore Arts Association presents a Children's Art Fair, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. April 5, Brainerd High School, for preschoolers to fifth-graders.

Bluegrass jams

Bluegrass jams on first, third and fifth Thursdays of each month at Coco Moon in downtown Brainerd, starting at 6:30 p.m.