19 hours Ago By John Lamb
A sign of spring in Fargo is the annual El Zagal Shrine Circus. The circus comes to town this weekend, setting up for five shows over three days. Friday - Sunday The Carden International Circus features an array of acrobats, aerialists and daredevils executing death-defying stunts.
Of course, the organization features exotic animals like elephant and camel acts, and also some household pets like dog and cat shows. Show times are at 7 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m., 2 and 6 p.
m., Saturday and noon on Sunday. Tickets are $15 or $25.
fargodome.com . Friday Hear some familiar songs in new and different ways Friday night when Patax plays the Knutson Campus center Centrum at Concordia College.
The Spanish fusion band is known for playing music by The Beatles and Michael Jackson with jazz, funk, flamenco and Afro-Cuban twists. The group will be backed by faculty members saxophonist Russ Peterson, trombonist Nat Dickey and students Evan Strand on bass and LaReena Mosbrucker on trombone. The music starts at 7:30 p.
m. Tickets are $20, $22 or free for K-12 and college students. concordiacollege.
edu/culturalevents Friday - Sunday A play-within-a-play is a device used in a number of stage comedies to poke fun at the magic of live theater, where anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Harwood Prairie Playhouse’s “Marriage Gone Awry” amps up the chaos as an ensemble struggles to make the show go on after half the cast leaves for a more stable troupe in town. The laughs start at 7:30 p.
m Friday and Saturday with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday (those show times repeat again April 10-12) at Bonanzaville, West Fargo.
Tickets are $20. prairie playhouse.org .
Saturday Saturday morning used to be cartoon time for kids. Cable TV and streaming changed that, but the sounds and songs from cartoons will ring out at the Fargo Theatre Saturday afternoon with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra’s Kids in the Concert Hall event. Cartoon Capers features music from “The Incredibles,” “Bluey,” “The Flintstones” as well as classical music from notable cartoon scenes.
Joining FMSO members will be winners of the Young Artists Solo Competition, violinist Aashur Olson and cellist Zubin Park. The show starts at 2 p.m.
, but an instrument “petting zoo” will be set up at 1 p.m. Tickets are $20, $10 for children college-aged and younger.
fmsymphony.org . Saturday After canceling a 2021 show at Minnesota State University Moorhead due to COVID concerns, the Indian dance troupe Ragamala Dance Company makes good on a promise to return this weekend.
The Twin Cities-based troupe's "An Evening of Bharatanatyam" offers a look at a classical South Indian dance that conveys aspects of Hinduism in colorful costumes and choreographed moves. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.
, Saturday, in Hansen Theatre, Roland Dille Center for the Arts, MSUM. Tickets are $15. mnstatetickets.
universitytickets.com . Saturday In his mid-career retrospective opening at the Plains Art Museum Saturday night, Jaque Fragua shows influences not just from his own Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico, but also the street art of larger urban areas.
The show, Ghost Writing, has nods to pop art, particularly in signs that appropriate Indigenous culture. He reclaims it with his own twist on the works. A reception for the artist runs from 6 to 9 p.
m. and is free and open to the public, though registration is preferred. plainsart.
org . Sunday Longtime Rourke Art Gallery + Museum fixtures Annette DuBord and Cameron Peterson are known for their support of the institution and the artists it shows. The life and creative partners — both printmakers — put their own work on the walls this weekend with connected shows, Peterson’s “To Color a Moment” and DuBord’s “It’s Never Nothing.
” The show opens on Friday with a public reception from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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