Take Five: Fun for Beatles fans, Army buffs and shoppers
Triangle events to add to your daybook:
Lennon’s art
Noon-7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday; Mahler Fine Art, 228 Fayetteville St., Raleigh; free; themahlerfineart.com
Lennon’s “She Loves You” guitar just sold for $2.4 million at auction, but you can see his artwork for free at this weekend’s special exhibition. Collection expert Nim Vaswani will be on hand.
Army band concert
7 p.m. Friday; N.C. School of Science and Math, 1912 W. Club Blvd., Durham; free; nando.com/2r6
The U.S. Army Field Band & Soldiers’ Chorus have performed in all 50 states and 30 foreign countries. The 65-member band and 29-member chorus play a range of works from orchestral masterworks and operatic arias to jazz and Broadway classics. Free, but tickets are required.
Mistletoe Market
9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday; Wakefield High School, 2200 Wakefield Pines Drive, Raleigh; $5; nando.com/2r5
This shopping extravaganza with more than 200 vendors is the only fundraiser of the year for Wakefield High School. Pretty much everything you can imagine will be here.
‘Bridge of Spies’
5:15 p.m. Saturday; Carmike Theater, 5501 Atlantic Springs Road, Raleigh; $20; nando.com/2r4
A special screening of “Bridge of Spies” followed by a talk and book-signing by Francis Gary Powers Jr., son of the American U-2 pilot shot down by the USSR in 1960.
Classical Beatles
8 p.m. Saturday; Stewart Theatre in Talley Student Union (NCSU), 2610 Cates Ave., Raleigh; $36-$40; go.ncsu.edu/pepper
Toronto’s Art of Time Ensemble, led by musicians from bands like Toad the Wet Sprocket and Barenaked Ladies, present a classical re-creation of the Beatles’ groundbreaking album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
This story was originally published November 12, 2015 at 6:30 AM with the headline "Take Five: Fun for Beatles fans, Army buffs and shoppers."