Odessa Arts

Live Music with Flair: Eric & Emily Baker
2022-09-15 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Chicago) | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Portraits from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Permanent Collection Opening Reception
2022-09-15 18:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Spitting Image: Portraits from the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Permanent Collection • Opening Reception • 6:00 pm

George Thorogood & The Destroyers
2022-09-14 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Good To Be Bad Tour: 45 Years of Rock

Sep 14 / Wednesday7:30 PM
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Since 1976, they’ve sold over 15 million albums, built a catalog of classic hits, and played more than 8,000 ferocious live shows. They broke records with their 50 Dates/50 States Tour, delivered landmark performances at Live Aid and on SNL, and became mainstays of radio, MTV and stages worldwide for more than two generations. Through it all, they’ve remained one of the most consistent – and consistently passionate – progenitors of blues-based rock in pop culture history.
For the past 45 years, it’s been very good to be George Thorogood & The Destroyers. And in 2022, their Good To Be Bad Tour: 45 Years Of Rock will prove why like never before.
“If you’re content, you may as well be dead.” George says. “I think everyone has thoughts about retiring, but the phone keeps ringing. You want me and The Destroyers to come to your town, set up our gear, wear some cool threads and play ‘Who Do You Love?’ End of conversation. Let’s rock!”
For Thorogood and his longtime band – Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar) and Buddy Leach (saxophone) – the power to rock audiences has been both battle cry and creed since the beginning. “It wasn’t about the amount of people we drew, but rather the impression we made,” George explains. “I asked myself, ‘Are we reaching them? Do they want more?’ And we knew from the very first set that we had something special.”
It’s on stage that George & The Destroyers flip the switch nightly, delivering what The Toledo Blade calls “a gut-bustin’, guitar-wailin’, face-meltin’, fiery-tempoed, take-no-prisoners, good old-fashioned lunch-bucket rock & roll show” that includes their signature hits “Get A Haircut”, “I Drink Alone”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Move It On Over”, “Who Do You Love” and the definitive badass anthem “Bad To The Bone”, along with several surprises. “It’s been a constant evolution to make the show all killer, no filler,” explains 43-year Destroyer bassist Bill Blough. “Something still inherently clicks the second we step on stage. We feel the audience’s energy and the show just explodes.”

Through the Years with the Kenny Rogers Band ft. Don Gatlin, A Salute to Kenny Rogers
2022-09-13 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Through the Years with the Kenny Rogers Band ft. Don Gatlin, A Salute to Kenny Rogers
Presented by Live on Stage Permian Basin

Sep 13 / Tuesday7:30 PM
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Don Gatlin, a longtime friend of Kenny Rogers, has joined Kenny’s original band to present a timeless song catalog while sharing the untold stories from his illustrious career. Kenny was a GRAMMY Award-winning superstar that entertained fans for six decades. Selling over 120 million albums worldwide, he is one of the best-selling male artists of all-time. NOT a tribute band…Kenny’s actual Touring Band

Tesla
2022-09-12 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
TESLA
Presented by Live Nation

Sep 12 / Monday8:00 PM
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That they are still roaring and soaring should be no surprise. That’s just how they are built. TESLA may have been born in the mid 80s eruption of leather, spandex, and big hair, but this band has never been about those things. Hardly. Their bluesy, soulful sound is strongly embedded in the roots of organic, authentic, 1970s rock and roll.
TESLA’s latest tour Presented by Live Nation will include a stop at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center on September 12, 2022, in support of their latest single “Cold Blue Steel.” Known for crowd favorites like, “Modern Day Cowboy,” “Little Suzi,” “Love Song” a hit that made pop Top Ten and made the band stars, pushing their album The Great Radio Controversy into the Top 20 and double-platinum sales figures.
2020 marked the 30th anniversary of one of TESLA’s most iconic albums, Five Man Acoustical Jam. TESLA has endured many of the same taste-changing challenges that affected many in the post-grunge world, but through it all, their blue-collar work ethic and dedication to the faithful fan base has helped them not just survive, but thrive.
Younger audiences follow the band because they know the music is real. Older audiences love that a band styled on the classic 1970s model can still kick ass all over the world. TESLA is a band for the ages. All ages.
They were never a flavor of the month. TESLA’s legacy is alive and well as they continue to record and sell out venues all over the world. As comfortable, rugged, and dependable as your favorite pair of boots, they endure. TESLA is a celebration of the greatest spirits of rock and roll.

Authors @ The Ector - Literary Death Match
2022-09-12 19:00 | Texas
Tickets: https://events.eventgroove.com/event/Literary-Death-Match-58448
Literary Death Match, co-created by Adrian Todd Zuniga, marries the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of American Idol’s judging (without any meanness), and the ridiculousness and hilarity ofDouble Dare.
Each episode of this competitive, humor-centric reading series features a thrilling mix of four famous and emerging authors (all representing a literary publication, press or concern — online, in print or live) who perform their most electric writing in seven minutes or less before a lively audience and a panel of three all-star judges. After each pair of readings, the judges — focused on literary merit, performance and intangibles — take turns spouting hilarious, off-the-wall commentary about each story, then select their favorite to advance to the finals.
The two finalists then compete in the Literary Death Match finale, which trades in the show’s literary sensibility for an absurd and comical climax to determine who takes home the Literary Death Match crown.
It may sound like a circus — and that’s half the point. Literary Death Match is passionate about inspecting new and innovative ways to present text off the page, and the most fascinating part about the LDM is how seriously attentive the audience is during each reading. We’ve called this the great literary ruse: an audacious and inviting title, a harebrained finale, but in-between the judging creates a relationship with the viewer as a judge themselves.
Our ultimate goal is to perform the Literary Death Match all over the world, and to continue to showcase literature as a brilliant, unstoppable medium.

Protect Your Pet
2022-09-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Ector County Library
Can you build a shelter to protect your pet from the elements? We will check the shelter when you are done to see if you have protected them from the rain. This is a family event.

WLT Craft and Business of Writing Workshop
2022-09-11 14:00 - 17:00 | Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 305 E. 5th Street, Odessa, Texas, 79761
WLT Craft + Business of Writing Workshop

SEPTEMBER 11 2022 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
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Registration: $49 (includes all three presentations)
Hello, Permian Basin! We’re so excited to be headed your way for a special in-person writing workshop that covers craft and business and everything in-between.
In partnership with Odessa Arts, the WLT Craft + Business of Writing Workshop will take place on Sunday, September 11, from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Marriott Odessa Hotel and Convention Center (305 East 5th Street, Odessa, Texas 79761).
The event will include three one-hour presentations (details below), including writing exercises and plenty of time for questions. PLUS, all registrants are invited to stick around after the workshop for a Happy Hour Meet-up at the hotel’s cash bar – a chance to mix & mingle and connect with fellow writers (and your friendly WLT instructors).
Details on the three presentations can be found below.
Seating is limited, register today!

“Take the First Step: Jumpstarting Your Writing Project” with Stacey Swann
Do you have a great idea for a novel or a memoir, or for a short story or an essay, but you aren’t sure how to take that first step? Perhaps you’ve already begun, but you’ve hit an early wall and see no clear path over it. So often, these initial steps can truly be the hardest!
In this talk, we’ll explore multiple paths that can help get you moving. From freewriting to pre-writing, from outlines to flying without a net, there’s no one right way to start your work-in-progress. Together, we will quell worries and stoke fun so you can find your own route to your best work.

“Finding Your ‘Why’” with James Wade
The reasons why writers write can run the gamut from “I love prose,” to “I’m so full of stories,” to “writing is cheaper than therapy.” There is no wrong answer.
In this talk, we’ll dig into success, failure, and what keeps us going, page after page. We’ll work together to uncover your ‘why’ and give you the tools to take that ‘why’ into your own writing sessions so that you feel motivated every time you sit down to work.

“The Path to Publication: The Agent Search” with Becka Oliver

Join a former literary agent for an informative, candid, no-holds-barred look at publishing today, with a focus on finding the ideal literary agent for you and your work.
In this talk, we’ll cover everything from identifying the most promising agents to approach for representation, crafting a compelling query letter, asking the right questions, and most everything in between.
Thank you to WLT Community Member Odessa Arts for their support of this program.
Consider joining us at the Odessa Arts presentation of Literary Death Match on Monday, September 12. For more information and tickets, CLICK HERE.

Want to hang out for a night or two and enjoy all of this literary goodness in style? Grab a room under the group block at the Marriott Odessa Hotel & Convention Center, CLICK HERE.

Your West Texas Symphony Masterworks Series
2022-09-10 19:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Your West Texas Symphony – Masterworks Series
Presented by West Texas Symphony

Sep 10 / Saturday 7:30 PM
https://www.wtxs.org/concerts/your-wts.html

Please note for all events after January 1, 2022, we will have a clear bag policy with a size limit of 12x12x6″ or a non-clear bag/wallet with a size limit of 8×5″.
West Texas Symphony is formerly Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale

MASTERWORKS SERIES
Includes all FOUR Masterworks concerts.
Orchestra/Parterre/Dress Circle $77
Mezzanine $67
Gallery $56
Students $24 (any level, with paying adult series or valid college ID)
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Live Music with Flair: E-Flat Porch Band
2022-09-10 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Art a la Carte
2022-09-10 13:30 - 15:30 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Art a la Carte at the Ellen Noël Art Museum
Odessa, Tx – Join us in the Museum Garden for Art a la Carte, a fun, free, art-filled day for the whole community that kicks off all of our upcoming educational events, classes and workshops. This year’s theme “The Art of Me!” focuses on portraits and self-portraits in conjunction with this year’s exhibit, “Spitting Image”. Enjoy art stations and special visits from community friends such as UTPB’s Pots and Prints, the OHS Harp Ensemble and The Ector County Public Library.
WHEN: Saturday, September 10, 2022 at 1:30 – 3:30pm
WHERE: Ellen Noël Art Museum, 4909 E University Blvd, Odessa, TX 79762
WHAT: Art a La Carte

Live Music with Flair: Brown Sneakers
2022-09-09 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Steve Trevino - "America's Favorite Husband"
2022-09-08 19:00 - 22:00 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
Steve Trevino “America’s Favorite Husband.”

Thursday, 08 September, 2022

07:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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Live Music with Flair: Los Madrid
2022-09-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Film Screening: Latin American Women Artists
2022-09-08 18:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Film screening • 6:00 pm • Latin American Women Artists 1915–1995 and Peril and Promise : in collaboration with UTPB Art Dept.

Novel Adventurers Book Club
2022-09-08 16:30 - 17:30 | Ector County Library
Join the Novel Adventurers Book Club where we talk about anything and everything books. Materials will be provided to make your own bookmark while chatting. Designed for ages 8-12.

Travis Tritt
2022-09-07 19:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Travis Tritt
Presented by AEG

Sep 7 / Wednesday8:00 PM
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Country music star Travis Tritt is headed back to West Texas on September 7, 2022, for a performance at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 1, 2022, at 10 AM CT at WagnerNoel.com.
Tritt has won two Grammy Awards, four CMA Awards, and a Billboard Music Award for Top New Artist. Seven of Tritt’s albums have been certified platinum or higher, earning him more than 30 million in career album sales. He’s scored five number one singles and 20 Top 10 hits. He’s also expanded his creative resume’ into acting with film and TV roles in Rio Diablo (1993), The Cowboy Way (1994), Tales from the Crypt (1995), Sgt. Bilko (1996), Fire Down Below (1997), Outlaw Justice (1999), Touched By An Angel (1999), Blues Brothers (2000), Yes, Dear (2004), Brother’s Keeper (2013), Forever My Girl (2018), and more.

Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza
2022-09-06 18:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza

Sep 6 / Tuesday6:00 PM
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Please review the costume guidelines for this show. Costumes can be worn by guests under the age of 14.
The Pollstar nominated Disney Junior tour is back with an ALL-NEW show, Disney Junior Live On Tour: Costume Palooza! This show brings beloved Disney Junior characters and favorite Marvel Super Heroes together live on stage for a jam-packed, concert-style show with singing, dancing, acrobatics, and more. It will feature favorite songs from hit Disney Junior series, as well as new original music. Mickey, Minnie, and their pals are getting ready to throw a huge costume party but mysterious green rain, wind, and smoke keep interrupting the fun. Can Spidey and his Amazing Friends help save the Costume Palooza? Come join the party!
Disney Junior Live on Tour: Costume Palooza debuts on September 2 and will visit 80 North American cities. Come see Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Doc McStuffins, Alice, the Puppy Dog Pals, and Marvel’s Spidey and his Amazing Friends LIVE on stage!
The show is 90 minutes long, including a 30 minute first act, followed by a 15 minute intermission, followed by a 30 minute second act

No Live Music at Flair
2022-09-03 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: ZBD Band
2022-09-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Sam Choate & Colton Fox
2022-09-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Read to Felix
2022-09-01 16:00 - 17:00 | Ector County Library
Felix the therapy dog loves to hear stories! Reluctant and not-so-reluctant readers will find him and engaged and attentive audience.

Sunrise Service
2022-08-31 07:30 - 08:00 | Texas
Join us for a community event near the site of the Bright Stars Memorial.
August 31st | 7:00am | UT Permian Basin
Here is how you can shine a light as we remember 8/31/2019:
Participate in the sunrise ceremony, pray or reflect at the site of the new Bright Star Memorial, engage in service or Random Acts of Kindness, wear yellow, support the construction of the Bright Stars Memorial.

Charley Crockett with special guest Emily Nenni
2022-08-28 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
NEW DATE Charley Crockett – Jukebox Charley With Special Guest Emily Nenni
Presented by Live Nation

Aug 28 / Sunday8:00 PMBUY TICKETS

Wagner Noël PAC is partnering with Scooter Dog food truck to sell a variety of hot dogs before the Charley Crockett show from 6:30 – 8 PM. Food purchased at Scooter Dog can be brought into the theater to be enjoyed in your seats or in the lobby before the show!
The album cover you’re looking at might lead you to conclude Charley Crockett is on one hell of a roll. You wouldn’t be wrong. Ten records in six years is some kind of prolific. The latest, a double LP, suggests the artist has some songs worth paying attention to. It’s clear that he’s invested as much time in the studio, recording storytelling songs, and making storytelling videos, as he has barnstorming around the United States and Europe playing live shows.
Not bad for a thirty-seven-year-old late bloomer.
Charley Crockett has been a fairly remarkable artist to follow. He’s got a sound. He’s got something to say. He has a look. And there’s a gauzy veil of mystery surrounding him suggesting he knows more than he’s letting on.
All those records in such a short amount of time have come with a “No Two Alike” guarantee, particularly the last three releases: the darkly prescient Welcome to Hard Times; the semi-autobiographical, hard-core country-roots of The Valley; and 10 for Slim, his tribute of songs by the obscure and wholly authentic Texas honky-tonk maestro James Hand.

Scarface Farewell Tour
2022-08-27 20:00 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
Scarface Farwell Tour

Saturday, 27 August, 2022

08:00 pm – 11:59 pm
The Ector Theatre
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Jay Owenhouse - The Authentic Illusionist
2022-08-27 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Jay Owenhouse
The Authentic Illusionist

Aug 27 / Saturday7:30 PMBUY TICKETS

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Jay Owenhouse, a legendary escape artists and one of the most awarded illusionists in history, is back in Midland TX. By Popular Demand for one night only in an illusion spectacular. The show has been voted by audiences and critics alike “One of the Best Live Shows in America”. Jay has amazed millions on T.V. in “Master’s of Illusions” and ‘Magic on the Edge’. The Salt Lake Tribune calls him “Simply Amazing!” and The Tokyo Times calls the elaborate production “Truly Magic, a Must See!”. Jay welcomes you into his mysterious world of wonder and the impossible. You will experience a night of grand illusions with the most amazing magic in the world, dangerous escapes, and inspiring storytelling. Seeing Owenhouse live is an evening that will leave you breathless with a feeling of childhood wonder that “anything is possible!”.
Owenhouse spent 2008 touring China and Japan, Where Jay’s show received the “Best Touring Family Show in Asia”-award. Jay’s new show opens on the Las Vegas Strip this October for a new one-year residency.
Caught by the magic bug at four years old, Owenhouse first performed as a freshman in high school. Since then, in the spirit of “giving it away to keep it,” he’s invented magic effects and designed illusions not only for his show, but also for other magicians of world renown.
Come See Why- Hollywood entertainment journalist, Mark Ebner, calls The Magic of Jay Owenhouse, “[With apologies to PT Barnum] the greatest touring Family show on earth.”

Live Music with Flair: Groove City
2022-08-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

D&D Character Creation Clinic
2022-08-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Ector County Library
Learn how to create a character for a Dungeons and Dragons game from scratch.

Movie Under the Stars
2022-08-26 20:30 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Movie Under the Stars • Age 18+ only • August 26th 8:45pm • “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

Robert Earl Keen
2022-08-26 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Robert Earl Keen – World Tour of Texas
Presented by AEG

Aug 26 / Friday8:00 PMBUY TICKETS

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The road is ending soon. Legendary Texas songwriter and entertainer Robert Earl Keen will wrap up 41 years on the road with the final leg of his final tour in his home state of Texas August 4 – September 4.
Retiring from performing at the top of his game, Keen’s World Tour of Texas begins August 4 in Corpus Christi and includes stops at Texas institutions including Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center on Friday, August 26, 2022.
Keen continues to blaze a trail for other artists in partnership with producer Clara Rose and their Americana Podcast. In 2019, Americana Podcast launched with the inaugural episode featuring Jamestown Revival and Lucero. Subsequent Americana Podcasts include artists Billy Strings, Lori McKenna, Drew Holcomb, I’m With Her, and many more.
Robert will continue to write music and create, host his popular podcast, support young artists, and follow his artistic muse where ever it takes him.
