It’s a big weekend of performing arts events from the El Paso Community Foundation.

Singer Laura Tate, who serves on the Community Foundation board of directors, will perform with Her LA Band at 7:30 pm Saturday, November 12 in the Foundation Room, 333 N. Oregon, across from San Jacinto Plaza. Doors open at 6:30 pm; parking is available next door at the Chase/Mills Plaza Parking Garage.

And the El Paso Community Foundation Jewel Box Series at the Philanthropy Theatre returns after a two-and-a-half year pandemic hiatus for its seventh season with NO MAS, an original historical drama from El Paso’s Lustre Theatre, at 2:30 pm Sunday, November 13 in the Philanthropy, part of the Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Centre.

Laura’s concert is her first in three years and doubles as both an album release party for her new release, Smokey Tango, and a fundraiser for her Laura Tate Fund for the Arts, which supports various El Paso Community Foundation arts initiatives. She’ll perform 10 songs from the new album as well as 10 songs from her five previous albums.

Laura will be backed by a well-traveled, well-seasoned band of touring and session musicians, including longtimers Terry Wilson on bass and backing vocals (Johnny Nash, Eric Burdon, Alejandro Escovedo), his wife Teresa James on keyboards and backing vocals, guitarist Billy Watts (Carlene Carter, Jennifer Warnes, Eric Burdon, John Mayall), and keyboardist Jeff Paris (Keb’ Mo, Bill Withers, Slash). Rounding out the band are drummer Tony Braunagel (who played on Bonnie Raitt’s Nick of Time and Luck of the Draw albums and toured with her in the ’80s and ’90s), trumpet and trombone player Darrell Leonard (Rolling Stones, Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King) and saxophonist Paulie Cerra (Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Joe Bonamassa).

Tickets are $50 on sale epcf.org/lauratate and at the door if it’s not sold out by showtime. A limited number of copies of Smokey Tango will sell for $20, with a portion of the proceeds going to the fund.

The Jewel Box Series opens its delayed seventh season with a staged reading of NO MAS, a play by writer-director and Lustre Theatre founder Meagan O’Toole-Pitts. It is about the Bath Riots of 1917, which broke out after Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old housekeeper from Juarez, refused to be stripped and deloused on the American side of the Santa Fe international bridge. There will be a Q&A after the show.

O’Toole-Pitts is a former journalist who formed Lustre Theatre in 2019 to showcase local talent. NO MAS is the group’s first project. It debuted on various streaming services, was performed live on Las Cruces community radio station KTAL (101.5 FM) and was performed in Spanish last year. This will be the troupe’s first performance in the intimate Philanthropy Theatre.

Tickets are $15 at the Plaza Theatre Box Office (no service charges) and ticketmaster.com (which adds service charges).