There’s one concert where you’ll be sure to find me this weekend (other than the Elvis Costello show in St. Pete on Sunday): News Aid on Friday night at LkldLive.

News Aid kicks off NewsMatch, the year’s major fund-raiser for LkldNow, our non-profit operation that provides independent, community-driven news about Lakeland. During NewsMatch, which lasts until Dec. 31, donations to LkldNow will be matched 100% by a coalition of national foundations that want to see nonprofit news prosper.

Performers at News Aid include Fount, Munn Park Saints, Sumner Curtis, Emily Jones, Shane Lawlor, Keep Us Sane, and members of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. In addition, visual artist Bump Galletta will be on stage creating a large Lakeland-centric drawing that will be auctioned.

Tickets are $20 and support a good cause. Get them here. And here’s the rest of our live music calendar: More

The people who put on Art Crawl in Munn Park ordered up good weather for Saturday, and it looks like they’re getting it. Their stage will host a variety of local music and dance performers from 9:30 to 4. Musicians include include Anisette Mayer, Space Panda, Shae Kripinsky and Oxford Noland. Also:

• The Gary Love Band revives “Nirvana Unplugged” at LkldLive Saturday night; openers include Shane Lawlor re-creating Oasis (video), a band he opened for in 2005, and Nancye Blair Black playing ’90s covers.
• Will Kimbrough, an Alabama-to-Nashville singer-songwriter known for his fancy fretwork, takes the stage at Swan Brewing Sunday afternoon.

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Art Crawl, an outdoor festival in its seventh year, will showcase the work of 70 artists from 25 Central Florida cities at Munn Park on Saturday. More

In its ongoing quest for a wider audience, the Imperial Symphony Orchestra is tweaking its formula a bit as the 2019-2020 season gets underway. In its choice of venue, its educational strategy and its programming, the orchestra’s leadership is trying different approaches. More

Who doesn’t want to punk it up on a Monday night? You get your chance at Swan Brewing, where Zurich’s Überyou and Stuttgart’s Hell and Back are stopping during U.S. tours that climax with Gainesville’s three-day The Fest 18 next weekend. Joining them are Lakeland’s Butch Queen & the Bad Habits in a show produced by Will Shaffer of Unwholly Bikes. If Europunk on a Monday night isn’t your taste, keep scrolling for more options in our updated music calendar. More

Based on packed houses at three LkldLive Tom Petty tributes, this is a town that loves the Gainesville-bred rock star. There’s another chance to wax nostalgic for the late leader of the Heartbreakers Friday at the RP Funding Center when Classic Albums Live re-creates “Damn the Torpedoes,” Petty’s hit-filled, breakout album from 1979. More highlights and our updated music calendar: More