Entertainment

• Top Story

Downtown Sedalia teemed with ragtime music this week.

German folk music and classical songs are on the agenda for the 22nd annual Sängerfest, a German music festival slated Saturday in Cole Camp.

• Top Story

The Scott Joplin International Ragtime Festival officially roared back to life on Wednesday with a spirited two-hour concert at State Fair Community College.

Several free screenings of footage from the in-progress documentary “OMF! The Story of the Ozark Music Festival” are planned at dusk Saturday at Reader’s World, 1400 S. Limit Ave. in Sedalia.

• Top Story

The Swine Pavilion was built in 1901 to show pigs during the Missouri State Fair, and refurbished in 1922. It’s doubtful that live music was on the minds of the builders. And yet, for the second-straight year, the Swine Pavilion became the home base of the Lions Club’s Mo Blues, Cruise & BBQ on Saturday.

• Top Story

The Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival is partly about the music and partly an opportunity to soak up history. Kyle Siegel figured that if he wanted to learn more about ragtime and Sedalia’s favorite native son, there was no better position to do it from than Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation director.

Central Methodist University’s summer opera, “Topsy Turvy,” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. June 7-8 and 2 p.m. June 9 in the Little Theatre on the Fayette campus.

• Top Story

Fans of local barbecue and live music will have it made this weekend as the annual Mo Blues Cruise & BBQ comes to the Missouri State Fairgrounds on Saturday.

MUSIC

• Top Story

Sedalia acrylic-and-oil painter Shawn Cooper has traveled all over the world in his mind’s eye, and now his work is getting good enough that other people want to visit those places, too. But while they can purchase a painting from Cooper, they can’t travel to any of the landscapes portrayed in them.

Four concerts were announced on Thursday by Missouri State Fair Director Mark Wolfe, completing the series of eight concerts for this year’s grandstand lineup.

Hollywood keeps returning to author F. Scott Fitzgerald’s American-lit masterpiece of Roaring Twenties excess, undying love and a mystery man named Gatsby, and for good reason. “The Great Gatsby” is a juicy tale with social, dramatic and emotional fruits that remain just as ripe as when the story first hit the page in 1925.

State Fair Community College has announced the 2012-13 Theatre Arts awards and productions planned for its 2013-14 theatre season.

Mid-Missouri Artists will learn how to recycle old bed sheets by crocheting them into artistic rugs and other useful items at the program at 7 p.m. May 30 at the Warrensburg Community Center.

• Top Story

COLE CAMP — Folks came from all over the country, and from all walks of life, to the Missouri Big Ass Rock Festival with a common wish: That the event lives up to its ambitious name and becomes a must-see annual event.

Being a superhero comes with super-sized problems. That’s certainly the case with Iron Man and his cocky creator, Tony Stark, who’s suffering from a mega case of job-related stress at the beginning of this third movie spun from his Marvel comic exploits.

• Top Story

Crystal Butler, a Benton County native who has promoted music festivals in Kansas City and Oklahoma, is putting on her biggest festival yet right in her own backyard. Or close to it, at least.

• Top Story

Nine student actors at State Fair Community College performed “Cutting the Onion” on Saturday in the Studio Theatre. They didn’t know they were going to perform the play until they were actually doing it. In fact, the play didn’t even exist until the very moment they did it, and it will never exist again in the future.

Two adventurous young boys come across a scruffy vagrant living in a boat in a tree, and become involved in a plot involving murder, obsession and revenge.

Center Stage Company Dancers placed in the top 10 in all the categories they competed in and won the Best Showmanship Award during the Talent on Parade Dance Competition April 12-14 in Overland Park, Kan.

Two Smith-Cotton spring vocal music concerts will be at 7 p.m. Thursday. The Smith-Cotton High School show choirs will perform in the Heckart Performing Arts Center, Smith-Cotton High School, 2010 Tiger Pride Blvd. in Sedalia, and the Smith-Cotton Junior High bands and orchestra will perform in the junior high auditorium at the corner of Broadway Boulevard and Massachusetts Avenue in Sedalia. Admission is free to both shows.

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art on the State Fair Community College campus will sponsor “Sedalia Day at the Daum” from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday.

The State Fair Community College Theatre Arts program will present a student theater showcase at 7 p.m. May 9 and 10 in the Thompson O’Sullivan Studio Theatre in Yeater Learning Center Room 126 on the Sedalia campus.

MUSIC