This Week

Reno Jazz Festival

The 52nd annual jazz festival brings talented jazz students and renowned professional artists from across the country to the University of Nevada, Reno for three days of competitions, clinics, workshops and concerts starting on Thursday, April 10. Headlining performances include trumpeter Avishai Cohen who will perform with The Collective, the University of Nevada Reno’s faculty jazz ensemble, starting at 7:30 p.m. on April 10 at the Nightingale Concert Hall in the Church Fine Arts Building, 1335 N. Virginia St., at UNR. Tickets are $10-$20. Jazz group Kneebody will take to the stage at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 11, at Lawlor Events Center, 1500 N. Virginia St., on the north end of the campus. Tickets are $5-$27. The event concludes with the Festival Showcase and Awards Ceremony featuring a performance by the winners of the RJF All-Star Performers competition and

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encore performances from some of the highest-rated groups and soloists in the festival. Awards will be given in recognition of individuals and groups who place in the top five of each category (top eight for middle school bands). The ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, at Lawlor Events Center. Tickets are $11-$18. Call 784-4046 or visit www.unr.edu/rjf.

—Kelley Lang

I Love Lucy: Live on stage

The hit musical comedy stage show based on the classic television series comes to town as part of the Broadway Comes to Reno 2013-2014 season. Set in 1952, the show transforms attendees into a TV studio audience as they await the filming of two familiar I Love Lucy episodes. The episodes begin and audiences witness, firsthand, the humorous antics of Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel. Performances are 8 p.m. on Friday, April 11, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 13, the Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts, 100 S. Virginia St. Tickets are $35-$70. Call 686-6600 or visit www.pioneercenter.com.

Keep it Clean and Green: May Arboretum Clean-up

Rail City Garden Center, News-Talk 780 KOH and the May Arboretum Society, among other sponsors, host the community spring cleaning event at the Wilbur D. May Arboretum. Bring a rake and the sponsors will supply the bags. If you’d like to help but don’t have any garden tools, there will be some available to use. Refreshments, coffee and muffins will be served. The clean-up begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 12, at the arboretum located in the Rancho San Rafael Regional Park, 1595 N. Sierra St. The event is free, but a donation of a can of food for the local food bank or pair of used shoes for Think Kindness would be appreciated. RSVP by leaving a message at 785-4512 ext. 107.

Utah’s Repertory Dance Theatre: Sense of Place

The Salt Lake City-based dance company performs an evening of dance filled with innovative movement, music and athleticism that connects audiences with the people and places that make communities unique. Inspired by experiences touring the county for more than 48 years, RDT has developed “community building” performances and outreach activities that engage people in understanding, appreciating and expressing the life, qualities and attributes of their communities. This modern dance concert includes the pieces “PLACE: Dancing The Green Map,” which is about the importance of sustainability, “Rainwood,” a forest ritual, and “Turf” about the definitions of territory. The performance begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16, at the North Valleys High School’s theater at 1470 E. Golden Valley Way. Tickets are $10 at the door. Call 329-2787 or visit www.sierra-arts.org.

CHVRCHES

Pronounced “churches,” the Scottish electropop band reportedly chose the Roman "v" to avoid confusion with actual churches on internet searches. The band’s debut studio album The Bones of What You Believe was released in September 2013 and the single “The Mother We Share” is on regular rotation on most alternative radio stations. The group came in fifth on the BBC’s Sound of 2013 list of the most promising new music talent. The show starts at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 16. Tickets are $27.50. Call 789-2000 or visit www.grandsierraresort.com.