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Arts reporter and critic Rosemary Ponnekanti keeps you in touch with the arts and culture scene with the help of other News Tribune writers, critics and editors.

Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.

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What's new on the walls, stage, screen and streets of Tacoma and South Puget Sound.
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Posted by Rosemary Ponnekanti @ 06:00:00 am

Three Redneck Tenors rock the Temple
In a white-trash spoof of the Three Tenors gig, three beer-bellied (but operatically trained) boys from Paris, Texas do their Elvis-meets-Puccini thing. 7:30 p.m. tonight. $38/$48. Temple Theater, 47 Saint Helens Ave., Tacoma. 253-591-5894, www.broadwaycenter.org.

Nearly 200 onstage for Tacoma Symphony finale
The final concert of the TSO’s season features soloists, chorus and youth chorus onstage for Bizet’s “Carmen Suite” and Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. $22-$75. Pantages Theater, 901 Broadway, Tacoma. 253-272-7264, www.tacomasymphony.org

Northwest Sinfonietta Jazz at the art museum
Hot club jazz swings the art at Tacoma Art museum as the Northwest Sinfonietta Jazz Quartet plays Django Reinhardt. 7:30 p.m. tomorrow. $28/$23. Tacoma Art Museum, 1701 Pacific Ave., Tacoma. 800-291-7593, www.orchestraexperience.com

Songs of lament from The Esoterics
“Memoriam” sets journalism and poetry to a cappella choral music in this concert of lament for those who have died. 3 p.m. Sunday. $18/$15. Christ Church Episcopal, 310 N. K St., Tacoma. 206-935-7779, www.theesoterics.org

Icicle Creek Trio plays Spanish chamber music
Music from Barcelona and Madrid contrast in this Second City Chamber Series Spotlight concert. A tapas party at Vino Aquino follows for $10; reservation needed. 4 p.m. Sunday. $20/$10. First Lutheran Church, 524 S. I St., Tacoma. 253-572-TUNE, www.scchamberseries.org

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