Lucinda Williams and Her Band

Saturday night belongs to Lucinda Williams.

For the festival’s biggest evening, the three‑time Grammy winner takes the main stage with her full band, performing songs drawn from one of the most influential catalogues in American music. Her 1998 album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is widely considered an essential American record. The songs she has written in the years since carry the same quiet, unflinching honesty that has defined her career.

For Arkansas, this is something close to a homecoming. Williams was raised partly in Fayetteville, where her father, the poet Miller Williams, taught at the University of Arkansas. The particular light of the Ozarks got into her songs and has stayed there ever since.

Bring a friend. Bring a chair. Come ready to listen.