Matt Wake | mwake@al.com
Bob Gathany/bgathany@al.com
CRAWFISH PARTY
Thousands of pounds of crawfish and seafood. A live musical performance from a quintessential zydeco artist, Buckwheat Zydeco. And zero cost to attend. Well, hello, Heads-N-Tails Crawfish Boil. The boiled crawfish at this annual Von Braun Center event starts at $10 a pound. Other food items to be offered include blue crab claws, oysters, fried flounder, “Cajun Chicken on a Stick,” red beans and rice and jambalaya.
Heads-N-Tails Crawfish Boil, 3 – 9 p.m. April 23, Von Braun Center South Hall, 700 Monroe St., free to attend, headstailscrawfishboil.com, buckwheatzydeco.com
Tamika Moore/tmoore@al.com
CHEF CONFIDENTIAL
With previous stints in New York, Arizona, Las Vegas and California, Huntsville restauranteur/chef James Boyce brings a well-traveled approach to his contemporary American cuisine. For this installment of Downtown Huntsville Inc.’s Behind the Scenes local dining series, Boyce will be telling behind-the-scenes stories … to go along the seasonal hors d'oeuvres and two glasses of wine.
Behind the Scenes with Chef Boyce, 5-6:30 p.m. April 18, Cotton Row Restaurant, 100 South Side Square, $30 per person, facebook.com/CottonRowRestaurant
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ART TALK
Glenn D. Lowry is just the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art. Lowry will be making his first ever visit to Huntsville, to speak as part of Huntsville Museum of Art's "Voices of Our Times" series. In an interview with AL.com reporter Lee Roop, Lowry said he would use MOMA in his talk "as a kind of springboard to thinking about the way we look at art today and how that has changed over time."
"Voices of Our Times" series, "Voices of Our Times" series, 7 p.m. April 21, Huntsville Museum of Art, 300 Church St. S.W., $25 members, $40 non-members, hsvmuseum.org, 256-535-4350
Courtesy Angelina Castillo
ROOTS MUSIC REVIVAL
Margo Price, fresh off performing on “Saturday Night Live,” opens this deluxe double bill. Price is the first country artist inked to rocker Jack White’s Third Man Records label and her debut album “Midwest Farmer’s Daughter” is drawing rave reviews. The concert’s headliner Old Crow Medicine Show is one of the most respected institutions in Americana music, having won multiple Grammys and sold more than a million copies of the now ubiquitous bar-band cover favorite, “Wagon Wheel.”
Old Crow Medicine Show with Margo Price, 7:30 p.m. April 21, Von Braun Center Mark C. Smith Concert Hall, $31.50-$36.50 (plus applicable fees), ticketmaster.com, crowmedicine.com, margoprice.net
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OUTDOOR SOUNDS
Transient folk duo The Rough & Tumble traffic in the kind of acoustic strum and bittersweet harmonies well-suited to the outdoors. The group opens the 2016 spring season of Lowe Mill's beloved live music series Concerts on the Dock.
Concerts on the Dock, 6-9 p.m. April 22, Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Drive, free ($2 suggested donation for parking), lowemill.net, theroughandtumble.com
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