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International Blacksmith Day

Sat., May 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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International Blacksmith Day The Metal Museum marks International Blacksmith Day with blacksmithing demos and an aluminum pour. There will be hot dogs and kettle corn for sale, and guests can check out the museum’s current exhibits “Alchemy” and “Tributaries: Lauren Kalman.” Free

National Ornamental Metal Museum (map)
374 Metal Museum Dr.
Downtown
phone 774-6380

Children's Workshop: Mural Painting

Sat., May 26, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Children's Workshop: Mural Painting A workshop for ages 10 to 15, covering the techniques and history of mural painting. Participants will then work together to create their own mural.

Reservations required: 761-5250.

Memphis in May Sunset Symphony

Sat., May 26, 2 p.m.
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Memphis in May Sunset Symphony Memphis In May closes with this annual concert by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. This year’s featured band is the Bar-Kays, and the fireworks get fired up starting at 9 p.m. $8 in advance, $9 at the gate, free for children

Tom Lee Park (map)
off Riverside Dr.
Downtown

Mummies in May

Sat., May 26, 2 p.m.

Mummies in May The Memphis Mummies motorcycle club hosts this Poker Run. Participants pick a card at five locations (to be announced during the event), and whoever has best the best poker hand at the end wins.

For more information, go to memphismummies.com. $10

Young Avenue Deli (map)
2119 Young
Cooper-Young
phone 278-0034

Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition

Sat., May 26, 7:30 p.m.
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Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition Outside of Mississippi, Jimbo Mathus may be best known as a founding member of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, the North Carolina-based outfit. Unfairly lumped in with the superficial swing revival of that decade, the Zippers were actually sophisticated stylists, blending hot jazz, ragtime, string-band, and any number of other styles. But over the past decade, via a variety of projects -- including the Knockdown Society, the South Memphis String Band (with Luther Dickinson and Alvin Youngblood Hart), and his current band, the Tri-State Coalition -- Mathus has devoted himself to the roots music of his home state, whether it's blues, country, folk, jazz, or anything in between. Mathus' most recent album, 2011's Confederate Buddha, was directly inspired by the Alan Lomax Mississippi field recordings in the 1950s. It's a collection of postmillennial country blues and Southern honkey-tonk so deliriously slack it sounds like it was recorded in one take with no rehearsals. Jimbo Mathus & the Tri-State Coalition play the Levitt Shell on Saturday, May 26th. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. Free. Free

Levitt Shell (map)
Overton Park
Midtown
phone 272-2722

Memphis Children's Theatre Festival

Fri. and Sat., May 25-26

Memphis Children's Theatre Festival Virginia Ralph, a longtime member of the Voices of the South theater company relaxes with a tall glass of iced tea and casually, almost sweetly confesses that she’s about to lose her mind. She’s got that oh-my-god-we-open-in-a-week feeling theater people know all too well. Only for Ralph the sensation is cranked up since she’s not only acting in An Old Forest Fairy Tale, an original work and the centerpiece for Voices of the South's annual Children’s Theatre Festival, she’s also the show’s principal writer.

Ralph, who wrote An Old Forest Fairy Tale with her daughter Janie, describes the play as being autobiographically inspired. “It’s about a little girl who lives near the old forest and who really likes fairies,” she says.

The little girl is eventually sucked into the fairy world only to discover it’s nothing like the images she’s seen in illustrations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She finds herself on the road with a troupe of traveling actors including a planet (Pluto, the smallest), a whale, and a polar bear. One of the stock plays the company performs is called The Saving of the Old Forest, about how a group of “old women in tennis shoes” stopped a bulldozer from knocking down the trees to make way for an interstate.

“It’s performed as an operetta,” says Ralph, an accomplished musician and composer. “The little girl doesn’t know the story, but the fairies all do.”

Voices of the South’s Children’s Theatre Festival also features performances by several companies including Theatre Memphis’ ShoWagon, Cazateatro, Delta Arts, Germantown Community Theatre, the Wood and Strings Theatre, and the Incredible String Puppet Theatre. $5 children, $10 adults, Friday; Pay what you can, Saturday

Rhodes College (map)
2000 N. Parkway
Overton Square

Metalworking Workshop at the Botanic Gardens

Sat., May 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Brandy Boyd leads a one-day workshop on metalworking. For a list of supplies, email Brandy Boyd $80 members, $95 nonmembers

Memphis Botanic Garden (map)
750 Cherry
East Memphis
phone 576-4100

Reel McCoy

Sat., May 26, 12-3 p.m.
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Live Celtic music. For more information, call 876-5770.

Shelby Forest General Store (map)
7729 Benjestown Rd.
Bartlett
phone 876-5770

Ernani from Bologna

Sat., May 26, 1 p.m.

Screening of Verdi's four-act opera about Ernani the infamous bandit. $12 members, $15 nonmembers

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (map)
1934 Poplar
Midtown
phone 544-6200

Ding Dang Karaoke Bash

Sat., May 26, 8 p.m.
Hadley's Pub (map)
2779 Whitten
Bartlett
phone 266-5006

The Daddy Mack Blues Band

Sat., May 26, 8-11 p.m.
Center for Southern Folklore Store (map)
123 S. Main at Peabody Trolley Stop
Downtown
phone 525-3655
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