Best bet: Steve Hornbeak

While you're strolling around downtown enjoying the First Friday Art Walk, don't forget about the downtown musical offerings. New this week, Steve Hornbeak, Ashley Hatfield and Darrell Hannahs will play an intimate concert at Cup 'N' Cork from 8 to 10 p.m. today. Hornbeak, an Illinois keyboardist, has played with Nashville, Tenn., artists like Faith Hill and John Michael Montgomery. He will also appear in the house band in "CMT's Next Superstar," a show on CMT about making it big. He has moved back home, though, and his new recording studio, 326 Productions in Anna, Ill., is presenting the concert, which is $5 for admission.

-- From staff reports