5 things to do this weekend in Memphis

FRIDAY 

The Halloran Centre hosts a special performance by powerhouse vocalists and longtime collaborators Susan Marshall and Reba Russell. Stalwarts of the Memphis music scene for decades, Russell and Marshall have made a career backing artists like Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Keith Richards, Lenny Kravitz and Ann Peebles, among others. But the two singers and songwriters will play a special show Friday, where they will be out front, supported by an all-star Memphis band featuring Sam Shoup, Peewee Jackson, Paul Taylor, Jana Misener and Art Edmaiston. Tickets for the event — part of the Halloran’s “On Stage” series — are $35. Only a handful of seats remain. Go to Ticketmaster.com. 

The Halloran Centre is located at 225 S. Main St.  

Led by recent Memphis transplant Nick Loss-Eaton, New York City-rooted outfit Leland Sundries will make an appearance at Cooper-Young’s Bar DKDC this Friday. Leland Sundries put out its latest, the EP “Pray Through Gritted Teeth,” last summer, and the effort continued the band’s run of critically lauded releases. The group will play Bar DKDC starting at 8 p.m. 

Bar DKDC is located at 964 S. Cooper. 

On Friday night, Railgarten hosts “Full Moon Fever” a Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute featuring Memphis musicians paying homage to the legendary classic rock combo. Among the artists set to perform are Steve Selvidge, Jeff Hulett & Leah Keys, John Whittemore, Graham Burks and more. Showtime is 8 p.m. For more information go to Railgarten.com. 

Railgarten is located at 2166 Central Ave. 

SATURDAY

The library's page-to-screen book club — the actual title of the open-to-all informal club initiative is "I Read That Movie @ the Library" — continues with one of last year's more overlooked movies from a major filmmaker: Directed by Richard Linklater ("Boyhood"), "Where'd You Go, Bernadette" is an adaptation of Maria Semple's 2012 best-seller of the same name. With Kristen Wiig, Laurence Fishburne, Billy Crudup and Judy Greer in supporting roles, the movie stars Cate Blanchett as a woman who disappears before her family's vacation trip to Antarctica, causing her teen daughter (played by Emma Nelson) to turn detective in order to track her down. An audience participation discussion comparing the book and the movie follows the screening. Copies of the book are available for check-out at the library.

2 p.m., Meeting Room A, Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 3030 Poplar. Admission: free. Call 901-415-2726.

SUNDAY 

Founded in 2014, the Memphis Ukulele Band — which features local music scene notables Mark Edgar Stuart, Logan Hanna, Kyndle McMahan, Jon Hornyak and Jason Freeman — became a local favorite and a popular outfit within the international uke community, with gigs at the Folk Alliance and AmericanaFest and opening slots for ukulele giant Jake Shimabukuro, among others. The band will kick off a Sunday show at Lafayette's starting at 4 p.m. Lafayette's is at 2119 Madison Ave. 

For more information go to lafayettes.com/memphis.

COMING NEXT WEEK

WEDNESDAY

France's submission for this year's Best International Feature Film Oscar, director Ladj Ly's "Les Misérables" is not a straight adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel or another musical but an original drama inspired by the 2005 riots in suburban France in which gangs of young North African immigrants clashed with law enforcement and each other. Making its Memphis debut, the movie represents an auspicious start for this year's program of "Indie Memphis Nights" fiction films; it recently came in at No. 7 on the prestigious magazine Cahiers du Cinéma's list of the ten best movies of 2019.

7 p.m., Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Admission: $10. Visit indiememphis.com.