You can laugh, kick up your heels or bang your head this week in our three concerts as we say goodbye to March, hello to April.
- Here’s the danger of heavy-metal music: The crushing, driving beat courses from your feet to your head and you find yourself, sometimes unwittingly, thrashing and jerking along in a sweaty throng of similar-minded folks. But it might be worth it with the lineup at the Rialto Theatre’s Metal Fest IX with Tucson heavy metal bands Harlette, The Billy Moon Project, Tribulance, Ahsbury, Push and Broken on Friday, March 31. It’s an all-ages, all-local show and it starts at 7 at the Rialto, 318 E. Congress St. Tickets are $5 in advance at ticketfly.com, $8 at the door. rialtotheatre.com
- She’s a goofball, a complete nerd and so socially awkward you cringe when she opens her mouth. Ah, but the stuff that comes out of that mouth is hilariously priceless. Tucson welcomes back YouTube — now TV — sensation Miranda Sings. She and her alter ego, Colleen Ballinger — or is it the other way around? — are at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1. Tickets are $39.50 general admission, $75 for VIP, through foxtucsontheatre.ticketforce.com
- Country music’s piano man, Phil Vassar, is bringing his enviable energy and piano-pounding finesse to the Rialto on Tuesday, April 4. It’s a rare Tucson show for the Nashville singer-songwriter, who has been a regular in recent years on the Country Thunder lineup in Florence. Tucson’s own rising country star Drew Cooper opens the show at 8. Tickets are $28 in advance at ticketfly.com or $32 at the door.
