Returning for the fifth straight year, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Live & Local Fridays concert series will open on Sept. 7 and showcase eight Arizona groups spanning rockabilly-honky tonk, indie-folk, African rhythms, blues, hip-hop, folk-rock, jazz, indie-rock and pop on Friday evenings through Sept. 28.

Scottsdale Arts and Danny Zelisko Presents bring legendary artist Graham Nash to the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Nash is a two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee — with Crosby, Stills & Nash and with The Hollies.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ 2018–19 classical season showcases some of the world’s most celebrated musicians in the intimate Virginia G. Piper Theater. Performers include Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Yekwon Sunwoo, David Finckel, Wu Han, Garrick Ohlsson, Midori, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Jerusalem Quartet alongside Close Encounters with Music and Keyboard Conversations, now in its 40th year with Jeffrey Siegel.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona – Louisiana arts executive Gerd Wuestemann, D.M.A., has been appointed the new president and CEO of Scottsdale Arts.