Our Friday Best: Chris Stapleton, Bill Burr, 'Five Minutes of Heaven,' 'Dirty Dancing'

Bill Burr

It wasn't that long ago that Burr didn't see himself playing arenas. "If you can sell out comedy clubs, you're making more than enough money than you'll ever need," he told the Star Tribune in 2015. "The rest is gravy." Since then, Burr's popularity has skyrocketed enough that he can routinely fill venues like the home of the Timberwolves. The success of his brilliant animated series, Netflix's "F Is for Family," has certainly helped. But it's his stand-up performances — raw and politically incorrect, but in a nonthreatening fashion — that have made him one of the biggest names in comedy. (8 p.m. Friday, Target Center, 600 1st Av. N., Mpls. $64.50-$350. ticketmaster.com)

NEAL JUSTIN

Chris Stapleton

His electrifying set opening for George Strait at U.S. Bank Stadium last fall just whetted appetites for a full-blown Stapleton concert. The award-grabbing singer/songwriter/guitarist crafts songs of depth and soul, while musically embracing everything from stone country and Southern soul to hard rock and heavy blues with equal authority. With blues-rock rabble rouser Elle King, whose "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" duet with Miranda Lambert went to No. 1 on the country charts, and Morgan Wade, whose debut, the heavy issues-oriented "Reckless," was one of the best country albums of 2021. (7 p.m. Fri. Xcel Energy Center, 199 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul, $85 and up, ticketmaster.com)

JON BREAM

Manhattan Transfer

J.B.

Minnesota Orchestra

Presenting more works by composers of color has been a stated goal for most of our local classical music presenters, but, for the Minnesota Orchestra's "Listening Project," the music is also recorded for release. Six Black composers will have works performed by conductor Kensho Watanabe and the orchestra: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Eleanor Alberga, Hale Smith, Adolphus Hailstork, Margaret Bonds and Florence Price. Soloing on two of them will be bass-baritone Christopher Humbert Jr. (8 p.m. Friday; Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Mpls.; $12-$32; 612-371-5656 or minnesotaorchestra.org.)

ROB HUBBARD

'Five Minutes of Heaven'

CHRIS HEWITT

Chloe Nagle & Kym McDaniel

Choreographer Chloe Nagle and filmmaker Kym McDaniel team up for a series of performances, screenings, works-in-progress showings and a dance/filmmaking workshop Saturday, with doses of community engagement for good measure. The partnership came about after McDaniel developed debilitating chronic pain from a dance injury, and embarked on a series of films called "Exit Strategies," which will be shown Friday. The film explores trauma and healing and will be shown in conjunction with an improvised score that includes audience participation created by Nagle. On Saturday, the duo will present "The Language of Gesture" and show one-minute films. The programming continues on Oct. 14, when McDaniel and Nagle premiere a multimedia work about boundary setting and trauma. (7 p.m. Fri., Sat., Oct. 14, Red Eye Theater, 2213 Snelling Av. S., Mpls. $7-$70, redeyetheater.org.)

SHEILA REGAN

The Head and the Heart

J.B.

The Heavy Heavy

Like a modern and more psychedelically rocky version of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham — minus the personal contempt, hopefully — Georgie Fuller and Will Turner front this buzz-generating quintet from Brighton, England, with soaring 1+1=3 vocal harmonies and ample lyrical drama. Their infectious single "Miles and Miles" and the accompanying EP, "Life and Life Only," are making their first U.S. headlining trek one of fall's bigger club tours. (8:30 p.m. Fri., 7^th St. Entry, 701 1^st Av. N., Mpls., $15, axs.com)

CHRIS RIEMENSCHNEIDER

'Dirty Dancing'

S.R.

Owamni Falling Water Festival

Minneapolis Parks and the St. Anthony Heritage Board host the annual celebration of Minnesota's Indigenous cultures. "Owamni" is the Dakota word for the area of St. Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River meaning "whirling or falling water." Indigenous visual artists will showcase jewelry and native art as well as hands-on art projects. Spirit Boy Singers, the Pretendians, Sampson Brothers and Corey Medina & Brothers perform live and Indigenous food trucks provide a variety of foods. (1-5 p.m. Sat. Free. Mill Ruins Park, 103 Portland Av. S., Mpls. minneapolisparks.org.)