Your weekend plans: Record Store Day, Earth Day and World Voice Day celebrations
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Record Store Day returns Saturday and shops throughout Indianapolis are turning up the volume with live music, giveaways and discounts.
🎵 Luna Music opens its doors at 8am with special releases, hot dogs from Weiner Dreams and beer from Black Circle.
- Live music starts at noon featuring Mr.Kinetik, Afterglow, Radar Gold, Sirius Blvck & Drayco McCoy, Kevin Krauter, TV Buddha and Adam Graahs & Pan Am.
🤘 Irvington Vinyl and Books will be open from noon to 7pm. All used vinyl will be 30% off, and it will be BOGO for any records priced between $1 and $3.
🎸 Indy CD & Vinyl will be selling all of the Record Store Day titles starting at 8am, and there will be door prizes, ticket giveaways and a scavenger hunt for a $100 shop gift card.
- Live music next door in The 808 will be provided by Naptown Hepcats, Starcrusher, CORKEN, DJ Tarsis' Alternative Classix Video Dance Party and Grimey.
🐈⬛ Square Cat Vinyl opens at 8am with giveaway bags and coffee for the first 50 people in line, Long's doughnuts until they run out and free entry into a raffle to win prizes for the first 100 visitors.
- DysFUNKtion Brass Band will perform starting at 7:30am, and an open mic will be out front from noon to 3pm.
🤑 Both Karma Records locations open at 8am with limited edition releases, tote bags for the earliest customers and sales of up to 70% off.
🎤 Take Care Records is hosting its Unofficial Music Holiday Party starting at 10am with special deals and $1 sale items.
- Live music from Rusty Redenbacher Is Nasty Slim, Defame, Do-Re and NC starts at 3pm.
More weekend picks:
😂 Laugh the night away with comedian JB Smoove when he takes the stage at Helium Comedy Club.
- 7pm and 9:15pm Friday; and 7pm and 9:30pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $39.
🩰 Witness a tale of love, betrayal and madness when the Butler Ballet presents "Giselle" at Clowes Memorial Hall.
- 8pm Friday and Saturday; and 2pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $36.
💃🏾 Catch even more dance on campus when Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and Dance Kaleidoscope collaborate for three shows at Butler's Schrott Center for the Arts.
- 7pm Friday and Saturday; and 2pm Sunday.
- Tickets start at $56.
🎼 Hear Hoosier music legend Sandi Patty perform with Michael Feinstein at Carmel's Payne & Mencias Palladium. Friday at 8pm.
- Tickets start at $41.
🤠 Rock out with country star Nate Smith at the Egyptian Room, 8:30pm Friday.
- Tickets start at $35.
🗣️ Listen to six hours of singing when Indianapolis Children's Choir members and alumni host their annual Sing-A-Thon fundraiser at the ICC Performing Arts Center, 9:30am-4:15pm Saturday.
- Donations support music education and outreach programs in Central Indiana.
🌎 Show Mother Earth some love during the Earth Day Celebration at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis, 10am Saturday.
- Tickets are $33 for adults and $29 for kids.
👗 Celebrate fashion and sustainability during the inaugural Funky Junk Trashion Show at Phoenix Theatre, 6pm Saturday.
- Tickets start at $40.
🏐 Enjoy an afternoon of volleyball action at Fishers Event Center Sunday when IU and Purdue face off in a spring match at 2pm, and Indy Ignite take on the Dallas Pulse at 6pm.
- Tickets start at $38, and a single ticket gets you into both games.
🎶 Grab your sheet music and take the stage during a free World Voice Day celebration at Carmel's Payne & Mencias Palladium, 3pm Sunday.
- Participation sign-ups start at 2:30pm, and the event is limited to the first 30 singers.
- Register to attend here.