Ozark Highballers

Call Us: 501-324-9150
Visit Us: 1100 North Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

Arts On Tour

The Arts on Tour roster lists a broad spectrum of Arkansas’s finest solo and ensemble performers, individual visual artists and prepared art exhibitions ready for touring within Arkansas. The online AOT listing facilitates the booking process for arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities interested in contracting with the artists.

The AOT program is designed to reimburse presenters who showcase Arkansas artists listed on the roster. When an AOT artist negotiates a contract with the presenter, the Arkansas Arts Council typically will subsidize 40 percent of the cost of the event as long as funds are available.

New AOT artists are selected each year through a panel process.

Apply For The Arts On Tour Artist Roster

Applications to join the roster are closed until fall 2025.

To be eligible for the Arts on Tour Program, a performing or visual artist must:

Maintain a primary residency in Arkansas, or must have an Arkansas based contact.
Have presented concerts, exhibitions, programs or lecture-demonstrations in locations away from their home location at least twice in the previous year. Exhibitions must have been presented in a formal gallery space.

The Arkansas Arts Council reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of the scope or nature of the presentation proposed by a selected Arts on Tour artist and retains the right to determine the suitability of an AOT artist to remain on the roster once they have been selected.

Arts on Tour Artist Roster application forms should be submitted online by completing the form linked below. You will receive an email confirmation when we have received your online submission.

Ozark Highballers

Clarke Buehling

(479) 571-0781 Email Clarke Website

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Authentic Ozark music at its best. The Ozark Highballers reach deep into regional traditions to offer an entertaining and educational program that includes square dance music, classic banjo pieces, ballads, and sweet harmonies. Their music reflects the spirit and drive of rural Ozark string bands from the 1920s and 30s.

This three to four piece string band has performed and taught workshops at the Brooklyn Folk Festival, the Stephen Foster Old-time Week, Bluff Country Gathering, St. Louis Folk & Roots, Colorado Rocky Mountain Stringband Festival, Los Angeles Old-time Social, and the Ozark Folk Center. Workshops include Ozark fiddling, finger style and frailing banjo, Old-time back-up guitar, and ballad singing. Performances range from square dances to festival stages to libraries.