Narrows Center for the Arts

$55 Advance | $57 Day of ShowDoors 7pm | Show 8pm The Songs, The Stories, The Great Lady Of Soul An intimate evening with Bettye LaVette, accompanied by Etienne Stadwijk on keyboards. Bettye LaVette was hailed by the New York Times as “one of the great soul interpreters of her generation”. She is a song stylist. Her gift is being able to take a song from any genre and making it completely her own. To quote the late, great George Jones, "Bettye is truly a 'singer's singer'."These intimate shows feature Bettye performing songs and telling stories from throughout her 64 year career. Hearing Bettye in this setting, stripped down to just her voice and keyboards, is a very captivating experience. Her career began in 1962, at 16 years old, in Detroit, Michigan. Her first single, My Man-He's A Lovin' Man, was on Atlantic Records. Throughout the 60s and 70s, she recorded for several major labels, but was never able to "break through". She also appeared in the Broadway Musical Bubbling Brown Sugar alongside Honi Coles and Cab Calloway. Since her resurgence in 2000, she has received the R&B Foundation's Pioneer Award, won several Blues Music Awards, was inducted into both […]

Wednesday, March 25, 2026$49 Advance | $51 Day of ShowDoors 7pm | Show 8pm ZZ Ward Meet & Greet Package - $199• One general admission ticket• Early entry into the venue• Official meet & greet with ZZ Ward• Exclusive photo opportunity with ZZ Ward• One Liberation LP; autographed by ZZ Ward• One Dirty Shine LP• One “Dirty Sun” tour poster• Official meet & greet laminate and lanyard• Limited availability ZZ Ward Merch Package - $125• One general admission ticket• Early entry into the venue• One Liberation LP; autographed by ZZ Ward• One Dirty Shine LP• One “Dirty Sun” tour poster• Commemorative VIP laminate and lanyard• Limited availability One of the most profound lessons ZZ Ward learned from growing up listening to the blues greats was to be authentic to your story. When the LA-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist began to write new music, she found herself in the midst of one of the biggest life changes a person will ever experience: motherhood. The resulting music is her truest and most blues-infused to date. Freed from the pop pressures of her previous major label, ZZ is able to fully embrace the blues, her most formative influence. Her Sun Records debut, Liberation, features […]

$49 Advance | $51 Day of ShowDoors 7pm | Show 8pmOpener: BettySoo The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy A Lone Star sheriff hunts quail on horseback and keeps a secret second family. A mechanic lies among the spare parts on the floor of his garage and wonders if he can afford to keep his girlfriend. A troubled man sees hallucinations of a black dog and a wandering boy and hums “Weird Al” songs in his head. These are some of the strange and richly drawn characters who inhabit James McMurtry’s eleventh album, The Black Dog & the Wandering Boy. A supremely insightful and inventive storyteller, he teases vivid worlds out of small details, setting them to arrangements that have the elements of Americana—rolling guitars, barroom harmonies, traces of banjo and harmonica—but sound too sly and smart for such a general category. Funny and sad often in the same breath, the album adds a new chapter to a long career that has enjoyed a resurgence as young songwriters like Sarah Jarosz and Jason Isbell cite him as a formative influence.As varied as they are, these new story-songs find inspiration in scraps from his family’s past: a stray sketch, an old […]