It was bound to happen. After decades of taking abuse, the 1970s and the disco scene have become the objects of nostalgia. Donna Summer sold out in her Peppermill engagement two weeks ago, "Mamma Mia!" now has a singalong version in the theaters, and KC and the Sunshine Band ("That's the Way I Like It," "Get Down Tonight," "Shake Your Booty") are arriving Friday at the Silver Legacy.

The members of the Sunshine Band may not be originals, but KC is. He's Harry Wayne Casey, now living in Miami but hardly in retirement. Casey still does "around 100 shows a year, spread out throughout the year. This is what I do. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't do this."

Casey called to give an idea of the "high-energy show we do, full of high production values. We provide a good time." He also expressed the dilemma that everyone deals with in one way or another: "When I'm home I wish I were on the road. When I'm on the road I wish I were home."

Casey is 57. He began performing at 18. It was a dream of his to entertain and "I knew I was destined to be successful. I didn't know how or when or why, but it was 'Twilight Zone'-eerie. I knew I was going to be famous somehow, even when I was beginning in retail and hanging out in a recording studio."

While most immediately categorize the Sunshine Band's music as disco – never resented by Casey – he prefers to think of it as rhythm and blues-pop because "the word disco didn't even exist when we started hitting."

"Whenever I had a problem, I would make it into a song to pick me up, and we came along at the end of the Vietnam War and there was an oil crisis and the public was depressed and down, and we lifted the country up. Plus, we had to do it the hard way before all the new technology. If we had a repeating chorus, we couldn't just record it once and insert it. We had to do it right every time, so everything would have a slightly different inflection that helped make the music work.

"And unlike today, we had to keep singing until we hit the right note."

KC and the Sunshine Band will be followed on Saturday at the Silver Legacy by Brian Regan, currently benefiting from his Comedy Central deal with two one-hour specials (the first was 2007's "Standing Up") and his "In Concert" tour, of which this appearance is part.

Around the Silver Circle

Fans of 1990s rock have been practically drooling over the first tour together by the Stone Temple Pilots in eight years. The suffering of many of them can come to an end on Friday when the band plays the Grand Sierra.

Then by next Sunday, the plaster can be replaced in the hotel's giant showroom for a bit more mellow performance by Neal McCoy ("The Shake," "Wink") who has just released his "Very Best" album, comprised of 19 of his charted songs along with a new one, "Redneck- tified," receiving substantial current airplay.

Saturday and next Sunday, one of the region's most unusual and increasingly-popular events returns to the Village at Squaw Valley. It's the fifth annual Art Bark Fest of animal art and wine.

This year will feature artists in almost all media, from the stained glass of Christine Wilson to the gold work of Robin Durnbaugh. Wilson will create art from a picture of your dog, and Durnbaugh will do likewise from a nose print. Various wineries will be pouring during the event between 1 and 5 p.m., a few not without their own animal connection, like the Two Dog Vineyard merlot and the Unleashed chardonnay. Your own dogs can lake-jump or just show off each day in the Busy Bee Dog Show. A complete schedule is at thevillageatsquaw.com.

The pianist George Winston likes to dedicate his music to the changing seasons, and he enters autumn on Saturday at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City. His newest album is "Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions – A Hurricane Relief Benefit." And for those eagerly wanting to know, Joey Chestnut did indeed keep his rib- eating championship title at the recent Nugget Best in the West Rib Cook-Off. Chestnut, a two-time defending champion, consumed 9.8 pounds of rib meat, surpassing his own world record of 8.4 pounds set in 2006.

IF YOU GO

• KC and the Sunshine Band: Silver Legacy, 9 p.m. Friday; $35, $45, $55; (800) 687-8733 or www.silverlegacyresort.com

• Stone Temple Pilots: Grand Sierra, 8:30 p.m. Friday; $75; www.grandsierraresort.com

• Brian Regan: Silver Legacy, 8 p.m. Saturday; $45, $50, $55; (800) 687-8733 or www.silverlegacyresort.com

• George Winston: Brewery Arts Center in Carson City, 7:30 p.m. Saturday; $32; (775) 883-1976 or www.breweryarts.org

• Neal McCoy: Grand Sierra, 9 p.m. next Sunday; $27.50, $44, $60.50; www.grandsierraresort.com