If you see an event I’ve missed and you’d like to plug, please comment below or e-mail me (knoxvilleurbanguy@gmail.com) and I’ll try to add it. The list may, accordingly, be expanded through the week. Staying true to the scope of the blog, I’ll only list downtown or near-downtown events. The Well and The Shed have some great events, for example, but I have to draw a line somewhere. If you want to add those in a comment, that’s fine. Please : “Friend” me on Facebook and invite me to your events. Look over to the right of this post and not only “friend” me, but “like” Inside of Knoxville. Subscribe (also to the right) to make sure you catch all the posts.
What I’ve got my eye on:
Sunday, February 2
- Groundhog Day Upstairs Underground Comedy Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 8:00 PM, Free
Monday, February 3
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Hannah Aldridge (Singer/Songwriter) / Drew Davis, Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- Mighty Musical Monday, (Wurlitzer Organ Concert), Tennessee Theatre, Noon, Free
- Tennessee Shines with The Howlin’ Brothers + Wordplay guest Dawn Coppock, Knoxville Visitor’s Center, 7:00 PM, Free
- Marbin, Preservation Pub, Speakeasy, 9:30, $3
Tuesday, February 4
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Bradley Carter (Singer/Songwriter) / Levi Lowry (Americana), Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- Singer/Songwriter Open Mic, Preservation Pub, 6:00 – 10:00 PM
- Johnny Lang, Tennessee Theatre, 8:00 PM, $37 – $54
- Angela Davis (formerly of the Black Panthers), UT Alumni Memorial Building, 7:00 PM, $10
- Bradley Carter, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
- Band Eat Band Competition, Annandale vs. Yak Strangler, 10:00 PM
Wednesday, February 5
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Stephen Simmons (Americana), Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- Knoxville Jazz Orchestra Jazz Lunch, Tribute to Lester Young and Billie Holiday with Kelle Jolly and Will Boyd, Square Room, Noon, $15 (includes lunch buffet)
- Folk @ Fourth with the Lonetones, Music and Dinner, Fourth United Presbyterian Church, 6 PM, $10
- Preston Shires (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 PM, Free
- Clarence Brown Theatre, “The Whipping Man,” 7:30, $5 – $40
- House of the Rising Funk, Stephen Simmons and Guerilla Suns, 8:00 PM, Free
- Square Room Showcase, O Youth, Drop Dead Darlings, Maplehurst and West Wend, 9 PM, $5
- Fine Penduncle, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $5
Thursday, February 6
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Oh Jeremiah (Singer/Songwriter)/ Jake Shimabukuro (Acoustic/Pop), Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- The Trials of Mohammed Ali, film showing focusing on his refusal of military service, PBS Studio (1611 East Magnolia), 7:00 PM
- Knoxville Writer’s Guild, Panel Presentation on Online Journalism featuring Jack McElroy, Debra Dylan, Laura Long and Knoxville Urban Guy, Laurel Theater, 7:00 PM
- Pecha Kucha, Volume Ten, Great Creative, Fast Paced Presentations, Relix, 7:00 PM
- Clarence Brown Theatre, “The Whipping Man,” 7:30, $5 – $40
- Ex Gold and Crowd, Preservation Pub, 8:00 PM
- Big Bad Oven, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $5
- Bobby Bare Jr., Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Friday, February 7
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Rolling Nowhere / Pack of Wolves (Blues), Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- F*ck Love: A Safta event, Short Films, Poetry, Scruffy City Hall, 5:00 – 8PM
- Silvia Calzadilla, Artist and Author at Casa Hola, Emporium Building, 5:30 – 9PM
- February Food Truck First Friday, Jackson Avenue in the Old City, All the Food Trucks you can name, plus a couple you don’t know about, 6:00 – 9:00
- Gallery 133 First Friday Event, Artist Displays at Downtown Grill and Brewery, 6:00 PM
- Union Avenue Books, Six Different Artists, 6:00 – 9:00
- Robbie Fulks and Matt Woods, Knoxville Visitor’s Center, 7:00 PM
- “Fiction” (Play), Square Room, 7:30, $10 Advance, $13 Day of Show
- Clarence Brown Theatre, “The Whipping Man,” 7:30, $5 – $40
- Chris Padgett, Preservation Pub, 8:00 PM
- Wes Lunsford Trio (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM, Free
- JC and the Dirty Smokers, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
- Four Leaf Peat, Boyd’s, 10:00 PM
Saturday, February 8
- Winter Market at the Historic Southern Railway Station, Get your Winter Nutrition, 10 AM – 2 PM
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: The Woodgrains (Rock/Soul) / Leon Thomas Band (Country), Knoxville Visitor’s Center, Noon, Free
- Book Launch Party for Changers with authors T. Cooper and Allison Glock Cooper, Mr. Canteen offers a free donut with a purchase of a book, Union Avenue Books, 2:00 PM, Free
- Clarence Brown Theatre, “The Whipping Man,” 7:30, $5 – $40
- “Fiction” (Play) by Steve Dietz, Square Room, 7:30 PM, $10 Advance, $13 Door
- Radar vs. Wolf (Indie Rock), Preservation Pub, 8:00 PM, Free
- The Freight Hoppers (Grammy Nominated Old Time Music), Laurel Theater, 8 PM, $14
- Yonder Mountain String Band, Tennessee Theatre, 8:00 PM, $25
- 10 Years Acoustic, Bijou Theatre, 9:00, $17
- Alan Wyatt and Harold Nagge (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM, Free
- The Cadillac Three, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
- 3 Tree, Mac Comer, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM