Planning for the Weekend and Beyond
It’s the weekend! Here’s a way to celebrate: Check out the beginning of the Sites and Sounds from Big Ears series starting tonight. The series will take you to some of the best sites Knoxville has to...
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The Women in Jazz Jam Festival 2018 – A Quick Glance
It seems that every year I have scheduling conflicts that prevent me from attending most, if not all of the Women in Jazz Jam Festival produced by Kelle Jolly. This year was no exception, but I...
Saturday Sounds: Women in Jazz Jam Festival
In the middle of all the great festivals the city has to offer, we added a couple of new ones this year. The Women in Jazz Jam Festival, produced by local jazz musician and vocalist Kelle...
Kelle Jolly Launches Knoxville’s Women in Jazz Jam Festival
She is many things: pensive and effusive, delicate and determined, eloquent and straightforward. She is also very talented and she has a vision which she intends to see through. “What I’m doing this moment has to...
Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at the Tennessee Theatre
I love mash-ups of cultural elements not usually situated in close proximity, so to see African drummers, a jazz band, a symphony orchestra and slam poets all on the same stage is naturally going to grab...
Knoxville’s Bob Dylan Birthday Bash 2013
An amazing evening of music filled Market Square last Friday night. It was First Friday and after some debate, I decided to plant myself on Market Square and listen to music rather than catch some of...
A Friday Night in Knoxville: Blues to Spoken Word, Hip Hop, Indie and Jazz
Wayne Bledsoe recently wrote of a night in Knoxville in which he heard an incredible range of music and declared this a golden era for our local music scene. His suggestion was to get out and...
Jazz All Stars Make a Very Special Evening at KMA
Friday night found an amazing array of talent assembled on – and one of them off – stage at the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five. I’ve described these shows before and I’ve been to...