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In this week's "Weekend in Entertainment," WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn talks with Queen City Nerve's Patrick Moran about highlights including: Earth, Wind and Fire, a showing of the 1964 classic "Nothing but a Man" and Speed Street concerts.
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The Rolling Stones are in Bank of America Stadium on Thursday evening after a nearly 15-month delay from their original scheduled concert there in 2020. Also this weekend: The Carolina Renaissance Festival opens, Tuck Fest is back at the U.S. National Whitewater Center and Taste of Charlotte is ready for visitors at Truist Field.
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Martin Lawrence is at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte along with DeRay Davis, Bruce Bruce, Adele Givens and Benji Brown. Plus the Festival in the Park in Freedom Park is back, and we’ve got the scoop on theater, art and music events for the weekend.
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Willie Nelson is 88 years old, but he's still going strong and will be in Charlotte this weekend performing in the Outlaw Music Festival. A Matthews Playhouse performance about the Tulsa massacre of 1921, a book tour by Gabrielle Union, Lysander Piano Trio and an event using food to showcase gentrification are also in this edition of Weekend in Entertainment.
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Join WFAE "All Things Considered" host Gwendolyn Glenn as she and Jodie Valade, co-writer of WFAE’s arts and entertainment newsletter, Tapestry, go through this weekend’s slate of events. The slate is highlighted by "Wicked" coming to Ovens Auditorium and Historic Brattonsville’s annual festival to celebrate the heritage of local African Americans.
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In this edition of Weekend in Entertainment, WFAE’s “All Things Considered” host Gwendolyn Glenn talks to QCity Metro’s Katrina Louis about some of the highlights – including a Grammy-nominated band, a one-woman show and a new exhibit at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts + Culture.
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There’s Jazz at Victoria Yards in uptown, Petra’s in Plaza Midwood is hosting one of the godfathers of hip-hop and spoken word poetry, and two well-known comedians are in town this weekend, as well.
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BLKTECHCLT will debut its inaugural AfroFuturism event, there’s the QC Fest on Beatties Ford Road, and on stage, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom will open Saturday at the Duke Energy Theater at Spirit Square.
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This weekend's list of "Unforgettable" entertainment options includes a tribute concert to both Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole along with the Panthers' Fan Fest, the Harlem Globetrotters, the Charlotte African-American Festival and a vinyl art workshop.
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It’s time to preview what’s on tap entertainment-wise in the Charlotte area. The North Carolina Vintage Vineyard tour, where you can sip a variety of rare wines, is this weekend. “Musicology: The Art of The Sample, The Soul of Hip-Hop” concert takes place this weekend. And popular Disney movie “Beauty and the Beast” takes the stage on Friday as a musical.