A Swedish multi-instrumentalist known for playing several trumpets at once joins a 40-year-old Richardson big band Saturday night, one of several stage and gallery events on the city's calendar this weekend, several of them free.
Saturday: Gunhild Carling with the Texins Jazz Band
The Texins Jazz Band brings in Gunhild Carling, a jazz singer and bandleader billed by the Eisemann Center as "Sweden's Queen of Swing," for a 7 p.m. concert Saturday, Oct. 24, in the Bank of America Theatre at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive.
The center's listing says Carling plays more than 10 instruments, among them trombone, trumpet, bagpipes and harp, and has toured with Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox. Her shows draw on traditional New Orleans jazz, swing and vaudeville, according to the listing. The city says the band has spent four decades staging concerts with guest artists.
Tickets are $21.50 to $35.50.
Friday: a free chamber concert at UT Dallas
UT Dallas flutist Min Hee Kim, a faculty member in the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, leads "Voices Across Time," an evening of chamber music with guest performers, at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23. The concert is in Jonsson Performance Hall, room JO 2.604 in the Erik Jonsson Academic Center, and admission is free.
The university's event page says guests may park in orange and gold spaces in Parking Structure 3.
Through Nov. 16: poisonous plants in print
Also on campus, the Nebula Gallery in the Eugene McDermott Library, 800 W. Campbell Road, is showing "Dangerous Beauty," an exhibit of historical botanical illustrations of poisonous plants such as foxglove and deadly nightshade, drawn from rare books in the library's Louise B. Belsterling Botanical Collection. It is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays through Nov. 16, with no admission charge.