Artifacts 4/26

Pucker up for Smash Mouth

The pop and punk band Smash Mouth performs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Show Me Center.

Opening the concert will be the Chicago band Lucky Boys Confusion.

Tickets are available at the Show Me Center Box Office, at For Your Entertainment in Westfield Shoppingtown, West Park, and at Schnucks in Cape Girardeau, and at Disc Jockey Records at the University Mall in Carbondale, Ill.

Tickets are $20.75 general admission floor and reserved seating, and $10 for Southeast students.

Quilt show open in Paducah

PADUCAH, Ky. -- The annual Museum of the American Quilter's Society Quilt Show continues through Saturday at the Executive Inn Expo Center in Paducah.

More than 450 quilts are on display. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Admission is $8 daily for nonmembers of the society.

Haupt farewell at Grace Cafe

Don Haupt, a Delta blues singer-guitarist and photographer whose work has been heard and seen at area coffeehouses over the past few years, will give his farewell Cape Girardeau concert tonight at Grace Cafe.

Haupt is moving to California in May.

The concert will begin at 8 p.m.

Haupt also will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday night at the Yellow Moon in Cobden, Ill.

Former native wins film award

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Dave West, who grew up in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, has won the Best Comedy award at the Arizona International Film Festival for his directorial debut "Puddlejumper."

The comedic short embraces a new alternative to traditional filmmaking, 24-frame progressive (24P) high definition video.

"Puddlejumper" had its world premiere April 13 at the festival.

Folk at Book Bug & Coffee Cafe

JACKSON, Mo. -- Junipurr Wind will perform tonight and Julie Walker will play Saturday night at the Book Bug & Coffee Cafe, 127 W. Main St.

Both folk music performances will begin at 8 p.m.

Carbondale entertains all things Irish

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois Irish Festival begins today and continues through Sunday in Carbondale.

Danue, a young group from Ireland, will perform traditional Irish music in a fresh style in a concert at 7:30 tonight at Shryock Auditorium.

A Celtic Fair will begin on the Carbondale Town Square at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, with music by the Indiana Emerald Society Pipes and Drum Band. The day-long fair will include a marketplace and dancing. Bohola, a group of musicians from Chicago who play an urbanized form of Irish music, will perform at 7:30 p.m. at Furr Auditorium on the SIU campus.

A closing reception will be held from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the SIUC University Museum Auditorium.

For information, phone (618) 549-3090 or visit www.siu.edu/~irish.

Rock and country booked at state fair

SEDALIA, Mo. -- The Missouri State Fair has booked the classic rock 'n roll bands Styx and REO Speedwagon for a concert Aug. 9 along with country stars Toby Keith Aug. 10 and Kenny Chesney Aug. 15.

Tickets for all shows are on sale. Phone (800) 522-FAIR or visit the Web site, www.mostatefair.com.

Morissette to play May 14 at Fox

ST. LOUIS -- Alanis Morissette and guest Ryan Adams will perform May 14 at the Fox Theatre.

Adams is the former frontman for the band Whiskeytown.

Matisse and Kelly take on plants

ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- "Henri Matisse/Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings," opening Saturday at the Saint Louis Art Museum, presents more than 100 rarely exhibited drawings by two 20th century masters.

The comparative display provides an opportunity to understand two of the century's most important drawing theories.

Matisse (1869-1954) is known for the lyrical form and decorative aesthetic of his paintings and colorful paper cut-outs. Kelley, born in 1923, is known for the monumental abstract forms of his sculpture and bold colors of his paintings. Both artists explored their concepts in studies of plants.

This will be the show's only U.S. venue. It was organized by the Centre Pompidou/Musee national d'art moderne in Paris.

The exhibition continues through July 14 in Galleries 213, 214 and 215. Museum hours are Tuesday 1:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Wednesday through Friday 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is located in Forest Park.

The show will then move to the Inverneith House of the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland.

-- From staff reports