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Events

Weekend Roundup

Happy Friday, Northwest Arkansas! Here's your Weekend Roundup:

• 🚗 Herd of Mustangs: Thunder on the Mountain is this weekend in Eureka Springs. It is Arkansas’s largest gathering of Ford Mustangs.

• 🍖 Saucy: The first Bentonville BBQ Festival is this weekend, Saturday, at the Momentary.

• 🌳 Picnic at the Peel: Celebrate 150 years of Bentonville history at the Peel Museum & Botanical Garden’s Community Picnic on Sunday, Jun 1.

• 🎬 Here We Go Again: Mount Sequoyah’s Movies on the Mountain is back Friday, May 30, from 7:30–10p with a sing-along screening of Mamma Mia! under the stars.

• 🎶 Hebron Hits: The Prairie View Center Summer Concert Series is bringing the tunes to Mount Hebron Park in Rogers tonight (Friday).

• 🎨 Arts & Crafts: The 9th Annual Spring Market NWA will be this weekend at the Benton County Fairgrounds. The market includes over 75 local makers and artisan from the region.

• 🎸 Feel the Funk: Speaking of music, Eureka Springs Blues Party, a Blues Rock and Funk Festival is this weekend.

• 📚 Summer Break: Fayetteville Public Library has their Summer Reading Club kickoff with a full day of events and family activities Saturday.

• ⚾️ Field of Dreams: Arkansas Baseball team will be hosing the NCAA Regionals baseball tournament this weekend with Creighton, Kansas, and NDSU players and fans visiting town.

• 🌸 Dandy: Sacred Hollow Farms is hosting their season opener of U-Pick Wildflowers Saturday morning in Lowell.

• 🧑‍🌾 Local Vendors: With clear weather tomorrow all of the local farmers markets will be in full swing. Find a list of markets here.

Find events like these and more on our Events Calendar HERE. Have a great weekend!

Real Estate

NWA Real Estate Activity Year to Date

As we quickly close out the month of May, NWA Look provides us with insights as to what real estate has been doing year-to-date in Northwest Arkansas.

• High-Volume Towns: Fayetteville leads with 557 residential sales YTD. Bella Vista follows closely with 473 attracting buyers with its affordability and outdoor appeal. Springdale (418 sales) and Bentonville (467) also remain active markets. These four towns make up nearly 3/4ths of all transactions YTD.

• Outliers and Standouts: Elm Springs closed out the first half of the year with the most expensive median home price at $663K while also having the fewest transactions (22). Garfield (Beaver Lake area) tops the list with the highest average price per sq ft at $320.

Read more about our market’s real estate report including trends and median home prices HERE.

Arts & Music

A New Note in the Ozarks

The inaugural Ozark Music Festival begins Wednesday, June 11, with a free outdoor concert at Fayetteville’s Upper Ramble.

• Born to Transform: Building upon the legacy of the Hot Springs Music Festival, this new regional concert series features 13 concerts performed by emerging artists, faculty, and top orchestras. The 2025 theme, “Transformation”.

• Iconic Sounds, Inspiring Spaces: From chamber concerts in churches to orchestra performances at Crystal Bridges, the Momentary, and the U of A, audiences can expect intimate and immersive concerts throughout the 10+ day event. The festival runs June 11–22, with free and ticketed events across the region.

Learn more about the list of shows, locations and artist HERE.

ICYMI

This Week’s Top Stories

• BBQ Takes Center Stage in Bentonville

• New Summer Concert Series Kicks Off at Mount Hebron Park in Rogers

• Market Center of the Ozarks Readies To Open Its Doors

• Top-secret Air Force test plane, RAT, sighting

• The Momentary Throws a Free, All-Day House Party in Bentonville

Together with Best Friends Animal Society

Pet Of The Week

Doughnut is a sweet boy with a heart as big as his love for treats. He’s great on the leash and walks like a champ. He’s also a social butterfly and plays well with other dogs.

If you’d like to get more info on Doughnut email [email protected].

Adoption fees are covered by Walmart and Blue Buffalo throughout the month of May!

Employment

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In other news

• 🏰 Only Murders in the Manor: Everyone’s dying to be heir in the Tony Award-winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder on stage at TheatreSquared June 4-29. With one actor playing an entire family, it’s part true crime, part farce, and 100% killer musical theatre. Tickets: theatre2.org | 479.777.7477*

• 🎆 Explosive Celebration: ICYMI Walmart AMP is hosting their Fireworks Spectacular with the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas on Friday, July 4. Tickets went on sale earlier this month.

• 🐻 Into the Wild: The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission captured a black bear in a Bentonville neighborhood this week! Watch the video here.

• 🏠 Landmarks of Time: Arkansas adds 9 properties to its continually growing list of National Registered Historic Places.

• 🚴 On the Move: Pedal Kids USA, a Bentonville based cycling organization focused on getting kids on bikes launched an app to make cycling more fun and informative.

• 🍎 Continued Education: Teachers, CBMAA is launching a national summer teacher professional development conference this summer, July 21-23. The topic is, Reading Beyond Words: Seeing to understand through visual literacy.

• 🍴Fine Dining: Did you know that NWA Daily has a Dine Card you can use at 10 local restaurants to receive 20% off your bill? We just made date night easy.

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