Kentucky Artists Series featuring the Juggernaut Jug Band, Singletary Center, 3pm, $10/8/5.

Mary J. Blige, Louisville Palace.

Cast Metal exhibit, Rogers Gallery, Berea College (thru 11/3).

Ceramic Themes exhibit, Upper Traylor Gallery, Berea College.

Taylor Barton & GE Smith & John McVey, Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, $3.

Hank Williams III, Lynagh's, 9pm, $15.

Dracula, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 502-584-1205 (thru 10/29).

Tall, Dark & Handsome folk music, ArtsPlace from 12-1pm, free.

Ridges, Rivers & Roads: Transportation in the Southern Mountains exhibit, Appalachian Center Gallery, Berea College (thru 12/21).

UK Lab Band & Jazz, Concert Hall, 8pm, free.

Fragile Flights of Fancy: Art Glass lecture, UK Art Museum, 12:30pm, free.

St. James Court Art Show, Louisville, starts 10am (thru 10/8). 502/635-1842.

Tlen-Huicani music from Mexico, Phelps Stokes Chapel, Berea College, 8pm.

Holly Roberts photography lecture, Worsham Theatre, UK, pm.

Film: Get Carter & Meet the Parents.

KY Fall Classic Saddlebred Show, KY Horse Park, $4.95/9.95 (thru 10/8).

Electra, UK Theatre, 257-4929 for tix (thru 10/7, also 10/10-10/15).

North Mississippi All-Stars, Lynagh's, 9:30pm, $8.

Burt Bacharach w/ the Louisville Orchestra Pops, 8pm, $25.50-53.50.

Keeneland Fall Meet, post time 1:10 (thru 10/28).

Great Outhouse Blowout, Penn's Store, Gravel Switch, KY, 10am, 332-7715, free.

Annie Humphrey & Ellis Paul, Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, $3.

UK Wind Ensemble, Concert Hall, 8pm, free.

Soulfly, Bogart's, 7:30pm, $18.50.

Noemi Lugo sings, ArtsPlace, noon-1pm, free.

Rigoletto, Kentucky Opera, Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts, 8pm, $66-171.

Mount Sterling Court Days (thru 10/15). 859/498-8732.

KY Guild Arts & Crafts, Indian Fort Theater, Berea, 986-2540, free (thru 10/15).

Don Williams, Paramount Arts Center, Ashland, 7pm, 324-3175.

Don Pasquale, UK Opera Theatre, Opera House, 8pm.

Medeski, Martin & Wood, Singletary Center, $15-22.

The Blue Dawg Band, Forest Habitats, Berea, 7pm, $15.

Women of Taste Exhibition Tour, KY Arts & Crafts Foundation, 11am-noon, free.

Gene Chandler, Bomhard Theater, KY Center for the Arts, 8pm, $20/25.

A Window Between Worlds art exhibit, LVAA Water Tower, free.

Hanson, Taft Theatre, 8pm.

Don Pasquale, by UK Opera Theatre, Opera House, 8pm (also 10/13 & 15).

Paintings by Dan Strauss, Wingspan Galley (thru 11/12).

Don Williams, Kentucky Theater, 8pm.

Rosalie Sorrels, Phelps Stokes Chapel, Berea College, 8pm.

Hanson, Palace Theater, Louisville, 7:30pm, $35-79.

Guest Pianists: Vernon and Nancy Cherrix Mitchell FIne Arts, Carrick Theater, 2 pm, free.

Weaving exhibit, Living Arts & Science Center (thru 11/11).

Coffee Concert Seaons Premiere, Lexington Philharmonic Brass Quintet, Buckhead Mountain Grill.

Octubafest, UK Recital Hall, 8pm, free (also 10/16, 17, 23,24,25).

Nickel Creek & Shelly King, Troubadour Concert, Kentucky Theatre, $21.50.

Phantom, Opera House, 2pm & 8pm, 233-3535.

Angie Aparo, A1A, $5.

New Paintings by Patrick Adams, Tower Cerlan Gallery (thru 11/18).

Neko Case & Kelly Hogan, Lynagh's, 9pm, $6/8.

Dixie Chicks, Firstar Center in Cincinnati, 513-562-4949 for tix.

Laurel Hamilton signs A Kiss of Shadows, Joseph-Beth, 7pm.

Lexington Philharmonic featuring Hai-Ye Ni, Singletary Center.

Les Sylphides, Kentucky Ballet Company, 8pm, Opera House.

Willie Nelson, Norton Center for the Arts, 877/448-7469.

Kathy Mattea, Bomhard Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts, 8pm, $20/25.

Peace, Love and Art, Speed Art Museum, noon-4pm, free.

Lexington Philharmonic POPS!

featuring Tommy Emmanuel, Singletary Center, 8pm

Les Sylphides by the Kentucky Ballet Company, 8pm, Opera House.

Wilmore Heritage Fest, Wilmore, KY, 858-9031 .

Quilting Demonstration, KY Arts & Crafts Foundation, 10:30am-3pm free

Portraits of Money by Djawid C. Borower, Speed Art Museum (thru 2/18).

Greg Partain classical piano, ArtsPlace, noon-1pm, free.

Phantom, Opera House, 8pm, 233-3535.

Faculty Recital: Loren Tice, Piano, Mitchell Fine Arts Center, 7:30pm, free.

Dwight Allen signs The Green Suit, Joseph-Beth, 7pm.

Emerson String Quartet, Singletary Center, 8pm, $14-25.

Don Pasquale, UK Opera Theatre, Opera House, 8pm.

The Ron Hayden Group, Tom Clark Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts, 6pm, $15.

Rigoletto, by the Kentucky Opera, Whitney Hall, Kentucky Center for the Arts, 2pm, $66-171.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Halloween Concert, Cincinnati Music Hall, 8pm.

UK Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band, UK Recital Hall, 8pm, free.

World Odyssey Series presents John Anderson; food, discussion, more. Joseph-Beth, 2pm.

In Kentucky: Senses of Place III

Images of the City, Morlan Gallery , 5-8pm, free (through 11/20).

Sean Tyrell & Chris Smither, Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, $3.

Choral Invitational, UK Concert Hall, noon, free.

Lexington's Best Chefs benefit/demonstration, The Kitchen, $25, 255-6592.

Mitch Barrett & Carla Gover folk music, ArtsPlace noon-1pm, free.

Berea College Concert Choir, Union Church, 8pm.

Fosse, KY Center for the Arts, 800-294-1849 (thru 10/29).

Wit opens, Actors Theatre of Louisville, times vary (thru 11/18).

Carole Johnson & Ross Zirkle photographs & drawings, ArtsPlace (thru 12/5).

Trail of Terror, Jacobson Park (thru 10/31).

Recital: Suzanne Vega, Cello and Greg Partain, Piano, Mitchell Fine Arts Center, Carrick Theater, 8pm, free.

This Is Our Youth, Actors' Guild (thru 11/19).

Gratz Park Ghost Tales, Hunt-Morgan House, 6-9pm (thru 10/28).

Tangos & Gypsy Airs concert, Singletary Center.

Lexington Ballet Company Repertoire, Lexington Ballet, Opera House (thru 10/28).

Watercolors exhibit opens at the Carnegie Center, 5-7 pm, free.

Fourth Friday, Lexington Art League, 6-9pm, $5.

Arnold Newman photography lecture, Worsham Theatre, UK, 4pm.

Halloween Benefit Trail Ride KY Horse Park, 231-7066.

Art Garfunkel, Norton Center for the Arts, 877-448-7469.

Sleazeball, The Bar, $5.

MET Auditions, Memorial Hall, UK Campus, 9am (thru 10/29).

Contra Dance, Russell Acton Folk Center, Berea, 800-598-5263.

Lexington Philharmonic Halloween Spooktacular, Singletary Center, 3pm, $7/10.

Reverse Raffle, Lexington Art League fundraiser at Loudoun House, 1pm.

European Masterpieces exhibit, Cincinnati Museum of Art, $10/12 (thru 1/14).

Tubaween, Singletary Center, 8pm, free.

Homer Ledford, Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour, $3.

21st Birthday/Halloween Bash, The Bar, costume contest at midnight.

Halloween Rock-Out, Rockhaven, 8pm.

UK School of Music Spooktacular, Singletary Center 1pm, $2/5.

Clyde Beavers & David Cooper, cello & piano, ArtsPlace 12-1pm, free.

The Menus, A1A, cover tba.

Jekyll & Hyde opens, Centre College, Danville, 8pm. 877/448-7469.



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