TFO musicians will bring their instruments to the Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Museum Saturday for a \u201csee, touch and play\u201d instrument petting zoo. The 10 a.m. event is included with museum admission.<\/p>\n
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Theater and dance<\/p>\n
Rajiv Joseph\u2019s dark, puzzling and ultimately compelling drama Gruesome Playground Injuries opens a two-weekend run Friday at the Off-Central. The play, which follows (in non-linear fashion) two friends who measure their lives in injury, misery and self-inflicted pain (hey, it has light moments too) stars Troy Padraic Brooks and Sarah Beth Saho, and is directed by Anthony Gervais. Showtimes and tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Brooks and Gervais guest on Friday\u2019s edition of our Arts Alive! podcast.<\/p>\n Saturday at The Studio@620, dancers from the projectALCHEMY company will create an improvisational work drawing from their experiences doing pop-up movement this week for their MIXed: Across St. Pete initiative. Tickets for Saturday\u2019s 7:30 p.m. show are at this link<\/a> (click this link<\/a> to hear a recent Arts Alive! podcast interview with projectALCHEMY dancers).<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n More music <\/p>\n Well, fans of classic folk music, there\u2019s good news and bad news. All three original members of the Kingston Trio, that pioneering, harmonizing group from the early 1960s \u2013 have passed on. It\u2019s been a few years now.<\/p>\n The good news is that there\u2019s still an \u201cauthorized\u201d Kingston Trio, and they\u2019ve got a concert tonight at the Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo. The trio\u2019s main motivator is Mike Marin, who as a younger man was a family friend to founding KT member Nick Reynolds and his kids.<\/p>\n This is \u201cHang Down Your Head Tom Dooley\u201d and \u201cWhere Have All the Flowers Gone\u201d stuff, and yes, the \u201cnew\u201d guys are still wearing blue and white striped button-down shirts.<\/p>\n The show is tonight at 7:30; find tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Irish singer and songwriter Brendan Nolan, a longtime resident of St. Pete Beach, plays and sings songs and stories Saturday at the Palladium Theater\u2019s Side Door Cabaret. Tickets are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Friday brings the rock orchestra Classic Albums Live to the Capitol Theatre, for a song-by-song live performance of the last Beatles album, Abbey Road. The Catalyst spoke this week with CAL founder Craig Martin about his organization, and why it\u2019s several notches above your basic tribute act. Read that here<\/a> (there\u2019s a ticket link included).<\/p>\n Big weekend for tuneage at the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center: Friday brings singer\/guitarist Yates McKendree, a Nashville-born studio rat and tunesmith, the son of blues player Kevin McKendree. Master Yates has recorded and performed with Delbert McClinton and John Hiatt, among others.<\/p>\n Powerhouse blues singer Kelli Baker and her smokin\u2019 band play the Safety Harbor venue Saturday, while Sunday night\u2019s performer is American singer\/songwriter (and onetime Glee cast member) Noah Guthrie.<\/p>\n Find tickets here<\/a> for all shows at the Safety Harbor Art & Music Center.<\/p>\n Friday at Bayboro Brewing, it\u2019s acclaimed Minneapolis singer\/songwriter Mason Jennings. Tickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n These mutts, they\u2019re nuts! Sunday, 1 p.m., Ruth Eckerd Hall. Publicity photo.<\/p>\n And now, this<\/p>\n For your family\u2019s Sunday afternoon pleasure, Ruth Eckerd Hall has a visit from the national tour of Mutts Gone Nuts!, the four-legged, all-dog (well there are some people too) variety show. It\u2019s at 1 p.m., and tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Your Weekend Spotlight<\/a>\u00a0appears every Thursday in the\u00a0Catalyst\u2019s CREATE section.\u00a0<\/p>\n Please add us to your mailing list \u2013 send all press releases and event info to\u00a0bill@stpetecatalyst.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mutts-gone-nuts-300x203.jpg\")
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