Priority list includes Heartland Film Fest, Angela Brown, ghost stories

Heartland Film Festival

A highlight is expected to be “LBJ,” the biopic starring Woody Harrelson and Jennifer Jason Leigh (with director Rob Reiner in attendance to receive Heartland’s Pioneering Spirit Lifetime Achievement Award). But a film festival should also be a place to blaze your own trail through the 200-plus films being screened. For give you a boost, I screened dozens of this year’s offerings to come up with ten recommendations. You can find the list here.  Oct. 12-22  AMC Castleton Square, AMC Traders Point, Indianapolis Museum of Art  Details

Angela Brown: “Moments in Time”

The opera star returns to join the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for Samuel Barber’s stirring “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”—taken from the preamble to James Agee’s novel “A Death in the Family.” Also on the bill: Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella Suite.” Oct. 13 Schrott Center for the Arts Details

Ghost Stories at Crown Hill Cemetery

This bring-your-own-blanket (for sitting on and, perhaps, covering your head) event from Storytelling Arts of Indiana features appropriately creepy tales told around the headstones. An RIP Reception will be in the Waiting Station for those who want to upgrade their tickets. Oct. 14  Crown Hill Cemetery  Details

Also this week

Arlo Guthrie plays the Egyptian Room Oct. 15.

Composer/pianist Pablo Ziegler teams with NPR’s “From the Top” host Christopher Riley for a “Two to Tango” evening, Oct. 15 at The Jazz Kitchen.

Michael McDonald and Marc Cohn play the Palladium Oct. 12.

“Cabaret Poe” gets a new venue for this season at Circle Centre, Oct. 13-29.