Community Calendar

The 31st annual Old Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival will be held October 17-18 in downtown West Plains to celebrate Ozarks Music and culture.

Performers include:

• The Creek Rocks
• The Wheelhouse Rousters
• The Colbert Brothers
• Duane Porterfield
• The Roe Family Singers
• Shortleaf Band
• Stones River Reelers
• Down Yonder
• The Undergrass Boys
• Auntie Em & the Tornadoes

More information at www.oldtimemusic.org.

The 31st annual Old Time Music, Ozark Heritage Festival will be held October 17-18 in downtown West Plains to celebrate Ozarks Music and culture.

Performers include:

• The Creek Rocks
• The Wheelhouse Rousters
• The Colbert Brothers
• Duane Porterfield
• The Roe Family Singers
• Shortleaf Band
• Stones River Reelers
• Down Yonder
• The Undergrass Boys
• Auntie Em & the Tornadoes

More information at www.oldtimemusic.org.

Springfield Sister Cities Association's Gigs in the Garden concert series returns this year with performances at 2:00 pm Sundays through October at the Springfield Botanical Gardens at Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park.

October 5: Johnnie Angelia King and the Blues Connection
October 12: Queen City Chorale
October 19: The Henderson Kids
October 26: Isaac Walker

Bring blankets or lawn chairs. In case of rain, the concerts will be moved into the Botanical Center.

Adults are invited to attend Folk Harp with Turner Collins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 19, at the Schweitzer Brentwood Branch Library, 2214 Brentwood Blvd.

Local folk harpist Turner Collins brings global traditions to life with music from Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brittany, Ecuador, Scotland, Ireland, Iraq, Israel and the United States. Enjoy a vibrant mix of songs and stories from around the world, all played on the harp.

For more information on this free program call 417-883-1974.

Springfield Sister Cities Association's Gigs in the Garden concert series returns this year with performances at 2:00 pm Sundays through October at the Springfield Botanical Gardens at Nathanael Greene/Close Memorial Park.

October 5: Johnnie Angelia King and the Blues Connection
October 12: Queen City Chorale
October 19: The Henderson Kids
October 26: Isaac Walker

Bring blankets or lawn chairs. In case of rain, the concerts will be moved into the Botanical Center.

Springfield Mid-America Singers, under the direction of Dr. Tom Matrone, will present their fall concert on Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 pm at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church.

This free concert will feature the Requiem in D minor, K. 626, a Requiem Mass, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). It is one of the most famous pieces of classical music and one of the most mysterious. Mozart began composing the Requiem in Vienna in late 1791, but it was still unfinished at his death on December 5th the same year. Other composers filled in the rest and composed additional movements.