An Evening with Kat Robinson
May 26, 2022Doors open at 6pm | $35
Kat Robinson is Arkansas’s food historian and most enthusiastic road warrior. She is a member of the Arkansas Food Hall of Fame committee, a co-chair of the Arkansas Pie Festival, and the Arkansas fellow to the National Food and Beverage Museum.
With musical guest The Salty Dogs
Started as a lark retro-country act, the quartet immediately found chemistry, along with a lot of joy, as they dug into their craft. Their sound has expanded over a decade and a half, from uber-twang and purist classic country to equal parts 1954 Nashville, 1961 Bakersfield, and 1972 Everywhere.
An Evening with Stephanie Streett
June 23, 2022Doors open at 6pm | $35
Stephanie S. Streett is executive director of the Clinton Foundation where she oversees the strategy and management of the Clinton Presidential Center. Stephanie oversees the Presidential Leadership Scholars program on behalf of the Clinton Foundation. She also serves as corporate secretary for the Clinton Foundation Board of Directors.
Streett served in the Clinton White House for eight years. Previously she worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member for the United States Senate Committee on the Budget.
Stephanie and her husband, Don Erbach, reside in Little Rock with their three daughters.
An Evening with Stephanie Smittle
August 25, 2022Doors open at 6pm | $35
Stephanie Smittle performs southern sludge rock with Iron Tongue, sacred music as a cantor and chorister at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Ashkenazic folk music with the Meshugga Klezmer Band, and songs of politics and Arkansas history with duo Stephen and Stephanie. Smittle has recorded two albums of genre-hopping original material with The Smittle Band, and her opera roles include Fiordiligi in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” with Opera in the Ozarks, Queen Anne and Queen Elizabeth Woodville in the premiere of Karen Griebling’s “Richard III: A Crown of Roses, A Crown of Thorns,” and Virginia Clinton in Bonnie Montgomery’s “Billy Blythe.” Stephanie Smittle is culture editor for the Arkansas Times and an advocate for The Natural State’s rich history of musicians and artists.
An Evening with Dr. Jake Hertzog
February 23, 2023Doors open at 6pm | $35
Dr. Jake Hertzog is a critically acclaimed guitarist, composer and educator whose career to-date has spanned ten albums as bandleader across jazz, rock and classical new music styles. He has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and India and performed and recorded with a diverse cadre of artists including Randy Brecker, Ivan Neville, Mike Clarke, Blondie Chaplin, Anton Fig, Corey Glover, Barry Altschul, Dave Leibman, Ingrid Jensen and many others.
