Lone Star Brass - Basin Christmas Bonanza
2024-12-17 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Chicago) | TX

Jazz Nights at Flair: Sam Allen
2024-12-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Brother Z
2024-12-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

White Christmas
2024-12-20 19:30, 2024-12-21 19:30 | Midland Community Theatre, 2000 W. Wadley, Midland, 79705, United States
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting, wholesome musical that will delight audiences of all ages.

Cookies, Cocoa & Pictures with Santa
2024-12-21 10:30 - 14:30 | Legacy Harley-Davidson, 12100 W Highway 80 E, Odessa, TX, United States
Cookies, Cocoa & Pictures with Santa
Join us for a day of cookies, hot cocoa and pictures with Santa. Need to finish up a little shopping? You’ll have plenty of time to do that.
There will be coloring activities for the kiddos set up in the customer lounge area, as well as Christmas movies on the tv.

Midland Festival Ballet Presents The Nutcracker
2024-12-21 14:00, 2024-12-21 19:30, 2024-12-22 14:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Watch Tchaikovsky’s iconic score come to life as Clara Stahlbaum travels through the Lands of Snow and Sweets with her Nutcracker Prince. Featuring renowned professional dancers and 100 local student dancers, this production has been a celebrated community tradition for over 30 years! Be sure to include Midland Festival Ballet’s The Nutcracker in your family’s holiday plans. Accompanied by the West Texas Symphony.

Live Music with Flair: The Piano Room
2024-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Irish Airs & Graces
2024-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Volcano, 3952 E 42nd St, Odessa, TX, United States
Irish Airs & Graces
we are delighted to collaborate with Dave on this special St Patrick’s Day event.
About this Event
‘Irish Airs & Graces’ is a special St Patrick’s Day concert, blurring the boundaries between traditional Irish music and contemporary classical music and featuring Irish composer Dave Flynn & the New Zealand String Quartet, and guest traditional Irish musicians.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
2024-12-24 14:00 | Grace Kids Early Academy, 3450, Odessa, 79765, United States
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service
🎄✨ Join us for a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service! ✨🎄
Come celebrate with us on December 24th at 2:00 PM or 3:30 PM. Bring your family and friends as we experience a beautiful time of worship, reflection, and the lighting of candles as we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Flair: NO LIVE MUSIC
2024-12-26 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-12-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Colton Fox
2024-12-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

59th Annual West Texas Jazz Party
2025-01-05 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-01-06 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-01-07 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-07 19:00 - 23:00 | Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 305 E. 5th Street, Odessa, Texas, 79761
Jon Erik Kellso, Peter Anderson, John Allred, Dan Barrett, Daniela Soledade, Nate Najar, Frank Tate, Richard Simon, Chuck Redd, Ricky Malichi, Johnny Varro, Brian Piper, and more!

Art Tales: I Want My Hat Back
2025-01-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Join us at the Ellen Noël Art Museum for a delightful event tailored for art-loving preschoolers aged 3-5 and their grown-ups. At 1:00 PM, we invite you to immerse yourselves in a beautifully illustrated story and a fun art activity. This free event offers an engaging children’s story followed by a hands-on art project related to the tale.

Westward Faux Exhibit by B. Shawn Cox
2025-01-10 - 2025-03-02 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
B. Shawn Cox, originally from Monahans, Texas, veered away from a ranching lifestyle to pursue degrees in Architecture and Law. Following various business ventures and detours, he now finds himself driven by a compelling urge to create. His current artistic endeavors involve revisiting and reflecting upon memories, perceptions, and understandings-some real, some imagined, often twisted. Through this exploration of both internal and external narratives, Cox aims to visually express the motivations and gain insights into the world and his place within it.
Ellen Noël Art Museum is temporarily housed in the UTPB Presidential Archives, located at 4919 E. University Blvd. Odessa, TX 79762.
This exhibition is open during their business hours:
TUESDAY – SUNDAY 12 – 5 PM
THURSDAY 12 – 8 PM
CLOSED MONDAY AND HOLIDAYS
Admission is FREE

Masterworks Series: WTS Spotlight "Doves & Crocodiles"
2025-01-11 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Gary Lewis, Conductor
Chris Chance, Clarinet
Premiere Rhapsodie – CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 2 – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Chris Chance enjoys a varied performing career as an orchestral clarinetist, chamber musician, and concert soloist.
He has performed with orchestras across North America, including Arizona Opera, New Mexico Philharmonic, Ohio Light Opera, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Lubbock Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica UANL of Monterrey, Mexico. Chris is currently Principal Clarinet of the West Texas Symphony, Principal Clarinet of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and clarinetist of the West Texas Winds woodwind quintet. In addition to live performance, he has also worked as a recording studio musician for the Hal Leonard Corporation.
Chris received a Bachelor of Music degree, a Performer Diploma, and the Performer’s Certificate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Open Mic Stand Up Comedy
2025-01-11 21:00 | Woody’s Lounge, 2704 N Dixie, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States

Nurse Me To The Weekend
2025-01-15 12:30 - 21:00 | Homemade Wines, 400 N. Texas Avenue, Odessa, 79761, United States
One Free glass for all Medical Personnel EVERY Wednesday!
Grab your staff and come see us today!

Read to Felix
2025-01-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Ector County Library
Read a story to Felix the therapy dog, he loves to listen.

Art Talk
2025-01-16 18:00 - 19:00 | Ellen Noel Art Museum, 4909 E. University, Odessa, TX, 79762, United States
Join us for an engaging evening at the Ellen Noël Art Museum’s Art Talk! This event is a wonderful opportunity for art enthusiasts to come together and delve into the mysteries of a particular painting as they enhance their visual literacy skills. Gather with friends and fellow art lovers as we interpret, comprehend, and appreciate the art in ways that advance thinking, decision-making, communication and learning.

The Panhandlers
2025-01-16 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
It’s easy to dismiss West Texas as just a vast, barren wasteland void of nuance or life. Those West Texans born and bred, they often daydream of escaping the endless miles of mesquite bush pastures, cotton field patches, and iron orchard oil wells. Still, something draws them back time and again. For millennia, its inhabitants have etched out corners and dugouts to break from the wind and fight off the sun. And through it all, they attempt to capture the brazen beauty of the land and the spirit of its people in song and story. It ain’t for the faint of heart. It’s a tough, bold country.
The Panhandlers are four native sons from the outskirts of Texas society, having spent much of their lives in the high desert and southern prairie. Individually, Josh Abbott, John Baumann, William Clark Green, and Flatland Cavalry’s Cleto Cordero have long pursued that Far West Texas mythos and Panhandle lore. Scattered throughout their solo catalogs, the four frontmen have delivered earnest anthems and endearing balladry that embodies a Flatland life and South Plains dreams.
Still, that hasn’t ever been quite enough for Abbott, Baumann, Cordero, and Green, who in early 2020 released The Panhandlers. Built around a collection of organic and visceral rural reflections, hardscrabbled character sketches, and a wide open spaces state of mind, The Panhandlers thrived under the guidance of songwriting scholar and album producer Bruce Robison. With a Who’s Who of musicians in tow and recorded on analog two-inch tape at Robison’s The Bunker Studio, the pairings fit hand-in-glove for the set of windswept vignettes and honky-tonk mosaics.
Now, some three years later, they pick right up where The Panhandlers left off. Tough Country finds the four songwriters diving further into rough West Texas caliche and rich Panhandle soil, unearthing campfire compositions, forlorn ballads, romantic rendezvous, and charming singalongs. Like their previous efforts, Tough Country finds the four working with Robison together once again at The Bunker for a desert-swept sonic punch that offers hints of Western Swing, Flatland folk, and rollicking country ambiance.
Much like the plainspoken poets, dancehall desperados, iconoclast artists, and the cowboy wordsmiths they call heroes, The Panhandlers walk the fine line between romanticizing the rugged land and its hearty inhabitants with gentle acknowledgments and sincere homages, all the while blazing their own trails and reveling in the satisfaction of unveiling their own fresh spin on old traditions.

Empty Bowls 25th Anniversary
2025-01-17 17:00 - 19:00 | ECISD Administration, 802 N Sam Houston Ave, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
JOIN US!!
FOR A SPECIAL EVENT TO CELEBRATE THE
EMPTY BOWLS 25TH ANNIVERSARY
FRIDAY, JANUARY 17TH
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM A/B
5 – 7 PM
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE WE ASK FOR A $10.00 DONATION TO HELP COVER THE COST OF SUPPLIES. THANK YOU!
LEARN TO GLAZE BOWLS! COMPLETED BOWLS WILL BE DONATED TO THE EMPTY BOWLS PROJECT.

Cabaret Night @ The Globe Theatre - Free Event
2025-01-17 17:30 | The Globe of the Great Southwest, 2308 Shakespeare Road, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
Open Mic. Open Stage. Open Hearts.
Join us for a FEARLESS FRIDAY of UNAPOLOGETIC ARTISTRY!
The Globe Theatre at Odessa College opens our stage to the energy and artistry of OC students, faculty, departments, and clubs … collaborating alongside our Odessa/Midland community to fill the Globe with exploration, creativity, and passion.
CABARET NIGHT at The Globe Theatre is a time to share tastes of anything you’re passionate about: singing, dancing, poetry, storytelling, photography, film, clown-work, stand-up comedy, drama, culinary and horticulture … it’s all welcome!
IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN SHARING SOMETHING, please email aganz@odessa.edu with what you’d like to share, the estimated time you’d like, and any technical needs you’d like us to provide.
Forgot to reach out beforehand? No problem! We leave time at the end of the evening for anyone who’d like to share something – so bring your materials and let the evening inspire you!
Come on out and support artistic bravery and passion!
We hope you join us for this FREE EVENT.
Friday, January 17th. Doors open at 5:30pm.

Grupo Yndio, Angeles Negros, Terricolas y Pasteles Verdes
2025-01-18 19:00 | La Hacienda Event Center, 12600 TX-191 Hwy, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
January 18 @ 19:00
