This Week

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Compression! Art and Fire

Never been to Burning Man? Get a taste of Burner culture this Saturday, July 27, when fire performance group Controlled Burn turns City Plaza, 10 N. Virginia St., into a mini-Black Rock City during its sixth annual Artown event. Compression! Art and Fire kicks off at 3 p.m. with a Burner-style parade featuring a more family-friendly version of some of the costumes you’d see at Burning Man. The public is invited to dress up and join in the parade. The art and fire festival continues with a “spinning” playshop, Fire Garden, displays of art cars, and music and dance performances by Dance City, Nataraja Tribal Fusion, Siren Society Aerialists, Pyramid Lake Paiute Dancers, Reno World Dance Collective and other acts throughout the afternoon. The event culminates with the fire show at 8 p.m. featuring performances by Temple of Poi, Tahoe Fire Dancers, Controlled Burn, Black Rock City Allstars and other acts wrapping up the festivities by 11 p.m. Admission is free but donations are welcome. After Compression!, festival-goers looking for a little late-night fun are invited to head over to Rise Nightclub, 210 N. Sierra St., for INfeRNO, the official after party hosted by Osiris, a Burning Man camp. Call 686-9608 or visit http:// controlledburnreno.com/compression. —Kelley Lang

Pete Escovedo Latin Jazz Orchestra

The legendary percussionist brings his orchestra to Reno as part of Artown. For more than 50 years, Escovedo has been breaking down musical barriers in rock, jazz and Latin music and has toured with musicians such as Tito Puente, Santana and Herbie Hancock. He will be joined by his daughter, Sheila E., who is also an accomplished percussionist and recording artist, best known for her 1984 hit “The Glamorous Life” and her musical collaborations with Prince. The orchestra will perform at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 25, at the Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch Regional Park, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road. Tickets are $25-$35. Call 322-1538 or visit www.renoisartown.com.

Rollin’ on the River

RN&R’s summer concert series concludes with a performance by blues and soul singer and songwriter Janiva Magness. The Detroit, Mich., native was named by the Blues Foundation as the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year in 2009 and has been nominated the Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the Year in 2006, 2007 and 2009. She has nine albums under her belt, including her latest release Stronger for It. Guitar Woody and The Boilers will open the show at 5:30 p.m., on Friday, July 26, at Wingfield Park, First Street and Arlington Avenue. Admission is free. Call 324-4440.

Guitarfish Music Festival

The family-friendly music, arts and community festival offers multiple music stages, a kids’ area, camping, yoga and pilates classes and arts and crafts vendors. This year’s music festival lineup includes The Pimps of Joytime, Lyrics Born and his project Continuum performing a James Brown tribute with Jazz Mafia, Orgone, Magic Gravy featuring Dan Lebowitz of ALO and Garrett Sayers and Dave Watts of The Motet, SambaDá, BLVD, Joe Craven, New Monsoon, Afrolicious, Tracorum and Vinyl. The festival also offers sustainable energy solutions and education to help preserve California’s fresh watersheds, rivers and streams. The Guitarfish Music Festival takes place July 26-29 at Cisco Grove Campground, 48415 Hampshire Rocks Road, Cisco Grove, about 20 miles west of Truckee, Calif. Tickets range from $75-$155. Three-day and two-day festival passes include on-site tent camping and parking. Children ages 12 and under are admitted free to the festival but require a campground impact fee of $20 per child for the weekend. Visit http://guitarfishfestival.com.

Coppélia

Sierra Nevada Ballet will present its production of the comic ballet as part of Artown. The ballet centers on a mechanical dancing doll that’s so lifelike that Franz, a village swain, becomes infatuated with it and ignores his real-life love Swanhilde. The doll’s inventor Dr. Coppelius has plans to bring the doll named Coppélia to life, but he needs a human spirit to transfer into the doll. Through a series of events, Franz finds himself in the lair of Dr. Coppelius, who serves a sleeping elixir to the lovelorn suitor in an attempt to extract his life force. Swanhilde, who is hiding in the house, dresses as the doll and pretends to bring Coppélia to life while attempting to awaken Franz and escape from the obsessed inventor. The ballet will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, at Nightingale Concert Hall, 1335 N. Virginia St., inside Church Fine Arts Building at the University of Nevada, Reno. Tickets are $18-$25. Call 322-1538 or visit www.renoisartown.com. Sierra Nevada Ballet will also perform Coppélia as part of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival on Monday, July 29. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. on the Warren Edward Trepp Stage at Sand Harbor State Park, 2005 Highway 28, Incline Village. Tickets are $22-$70. Call (800) 747-4697 or visit www. laketahoeshakespeare.com.