Thursday, Oct. 4-6

Good heavens! As if it wasn’t enough to have headliner Vince Gill in the line-up, this bluegrass fan’s paradise also features the Kruger Brothers, Beppe Gambetta, April Verch, Byron Berline Band and many more at the Cottonwood Flats Recreation Area, Noble Avenue and North Fourth Street, Guthrie. Gate admission starts at $30. Go to www.oibf.com for the schedule.

Saturday, Oct. 6

The Signature Symphony at Tulsa Community College is pleased to welcome back two past Crescendo Music Award winners to begin a new season of Williams Signature Classics. Pianist Jie Yuan and clarinetist Weixiong Wang join SS at the TCC VanTrease Performing Arts Center for Education, 10300 E. 81st St., Tulsa, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets start at $21.75, available at myticketoffice.com.

Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 8pm

It may be the middle of the week, but Hot Chelle Rae is about making every night an adventure. The pop group named Sprint New Artist of the Year at the 2011 American Music Awards storms the Tulsa State Fair, 8 p.m. Wednesday, at Expo Square, 4145 E. 21^st St. The show is free with paid fair admission, $6-$9. Go to www.tulsastatefair.com for more.

Thursday, Oct. 4

Stars of the golden 2012 Olympic U.S. Women’s Gymnastics Team will shine at Chesapeake Energy Arena with other great gymnasts – former Olympians Nastia Liukin and Jonathan Horton – in an impressive show of athleticism beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $28-$203, available at the arena, 100 W. Reno Ave., Oklahoma City. For more, see www.chesapeakearena.com.

The Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition holds its annual art extravaganza at 7 p.m. Friday at 50 Penn Place gallery, which means you could win tickets to an Oklahoma City Thunder game complete with dinner at Flint and a stay at the Colcord Hotel. The package is just one of the prize packages you can try to win at the art auction benefiting one of the coolest organizations in OKC. And let’s not forget all that art, each as unique as the artists who created them for exhibit and sale at 50 Penn Place, 1900 NW Expressway, OKC. Tickets are $30-$35. Go to www.12x12okc.org for all the details.

As September winds down without necessarily cooling down, a summer jam festival may be the perfect way to beat the heat for a night. The Turn Down the Heat Tour, featuring Fantasia and special guests Jagged Edge and K-ci and JoJo, will be at 7 p.m. Saturday at the OKC Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker Ave., OKC. Advance tickets are $40-70 – a small price to pay for some cool tunes and acts. For more information, check out www.okcciviccenter.com.

Alexander T. Wolf is on trial for a scandalous housing disaster, but is he as “big” and “bad” as they say, or was he framed? Based on a popular children’s book, this Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust presentation lets the piglets of the jury (and in the audience) decide at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 S. Second St., Tulsa. Shows are at 7 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10, available for purchase at www.myticketoffice.com.

Discover artists who rejected painting tradition and sought to find new ways of expression in an unfamiliar era. Fifty-seven artworks from the Brooklyn Museum collection go on display at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch Drive, Oklahoma City, exhibiting the myriad approaches to style, subject and matter from artists including Stuart Davis, Milton Avery, Rockwell Kent and others. Tickets are $12 for adults when the exhibit opens Thursday. The exhibit runs through Jan. 6. www.okcmoa.com

High pop star priestesses from the ‘80s seek to show Tulsa some fun at the Hard Rock Tulsa Hotel & Casino with a show in the Joint at 8 p.m. Thursday. The band’s Ladies Gone Wild Tour breaks out hits like “Vacation” and “We Got the Beat” for $35, $40 and $44. Sorry young’uns – guests must be 21 & over to enter the Joint, 777 W. Cherokee St., Catoosa. Tickets are available at www.hardrockcasinotulsa.com.