The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (10/23 – 11/1/2016)

Austin Crum, Market Square Stage, Knoxville, September 2016
Austin Crum, Market Square Stage, Knoxville, September 2016
Austin Crum, Market Square Stage, Knoxville, September 2016

If you want to be certain your event is included on this calendar, I’ll need your event two weeks in advance. The absolute best way to make sure I include your event is to make a FB event and invite me – two weeks in advance. My FB “events” are the one place I’ll go to every time – if you invite me before I write the post.

If you see an event I’ve missed and you’d like to plug, please comment below. I am no longer able to add to the list events about which I was not informed in advance – it’s just gotten too big, and that’s a good thing. Staying true to the scope of the blog, I’ll only list downtown or near-downtown events. Any number of venues outside of downtown have some great events, but I have to draw a line somewhere. If you want to add those in a comment, that’s fine. Please “Friend” me (Alan Sims) 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.

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Sunday, October 23

  • Knoxcentric: Powered by Inside of Knoxville, Radio show on WUTK, 90.3 FM (and streamed here) , 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (podcasts posted later)
  • Jazz Brunch @ 5 Bar, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
  • HowlOWeen Pooch Parade and Pet Expo, UT Gardens, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Free ($10 to enter parade)
  • Shifflet’s Jazz Benedict, Bistro at the Bijou, Noon – 2:00 PM
  • Jazz Brunch at Downtown Grill and Brewery, 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
  • Buddy Walk Knoxville, World’s Fair Park Festival Lawn, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Rita Sims Quillen reads from and signs her new poetry collection, The Mad Farmer’s WifeUnion Avenue Books, 2:00 PM
  • Public Cinema Series, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Homecoming & Chili Supper, Knox County Jug Stompers, Candoro Arts and Heritage Center, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • Knoxville Opera presents “Pirates of Penzance,” Tennessee Theatre, 2:30 PM, $13 – $99
  • Earth and Sky,” Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 3:00 PM, $15
  • Greg Horne Band, Barley’s, 8:00 PM
  • Fadi el Saadi CD Release, Sky Box/Mirage, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, $15
  • Upstairs Underground Comedy Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 8:00 PM
  • Richard Buckner, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $10
  • Stoop Kids, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM

Monday, October 24

  • Drop-in Figure Drawing Workshop, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, $10
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Gracie Day/The Speedbumps, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • CBID Board Meeting, 17 Market Square, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
  • HearthScares Tour, Ghostly Tales on a 1 1/2 mile downtown Walk, James White Fort, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $6/$10
  • On the Mic with Mike, Scruffy City Hall, 7:00 PM
  • Trailer Park Boys, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 PM, $35 – $57
  • Friendlytown Comedy Show, Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, Free
  • Ohtis/Mitch Garza/Moccasin Cowboy, Pilot Light, 9:00 PM, $5
  • Speed Bumps, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • The Hooten Hallers, Barley’s, 10:00 PM

Tuesday, October 25

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • Cocktails and Conversation, “Art and the Brain,” Knoxville Museum of Art, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
  • City Council Meeting, Large Assembly Room, City County Bldg., 6:00 PM
  • HearthScares Tour, Ghostly Tales on a 1 1/2 mile downtown Walk, James White Fort, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $6/$10
  • Singer/Songwriter Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 7:00 PM
  • Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
  • Bonnie Raitt, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 PM, $70 – $100, SOLD OUT
  • Willie Watson/Aoife O’Donovan, Bijou Theatre, 8:00 PM, $21
  • Einstein Simplified, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM
  • Oozing Wound, Pilot Light, 9:00 PM
  • Twiztid, The Concourse at the International, 10:00 PM, $24/$27
  • Greyhounds/The Cerny Brothers, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • Paul Lee Kupfer, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Buskers, Gay Street, Knoxville, September 2016
Buskers, Gay Street, Knoxville, September 2016

Wednesday, October 26

Thursday, October 27

Friday, October 28

Saturday, October 29

Moutain Heart, Market Square Stage, Knoxville, September 2016
Moutain Heart, Market Square Stage, Knoxville, September 2016

Sunday, October 30

  • UT Homecoming 5K Fun Run, UT Campus, 9:00 AM
  • Civil War Living History Days, Fort Dickerson Park, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
  • Knoxcentric: Powered by Inside of Knoxville, Radio show on WUTK, 90.3 FM (and streamed here) , 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (podcasts posted later)
  • Jazz Brunch @ 5 Bar, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
  • Shifflet’s Jazz Benedict, Bistro at the Bijou, Noon – 2:00 PM
  • Jazz Brunch at Downtown Grill and Brewery, 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
  • Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Chamber presents “The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires,” Bijou Theatre, 2:30 PM, $13 – $35
  • Earth and Sky,” Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 3:00 PM, $15
  • The Haunting of Hill House, Children’s Theater of Knoxville, 3:00 PM, $12
  • “The Man Who Lives Here is Looney,” One Man Play by R.B. Morris, Knoxville Museum of Art, 3:00 PM, $15
  • Upstairs Underground Comedy Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 8:00 PM
  • The Brockefellers present Black Sabbath, Barley’s, 8:00 PM
  • Phantogram, The Mill and the Mine, 8:00 PM, $25/$28
  • Floral Print/Sweet Year/Ex-Gold, Pilot Light, 9:00 PM, $5
  • Hotstop, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM

Monday, October 31

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Lizzy Ross/Jimmy Davis, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • Mighty Musical Monday, 15th Anniversary Celebration, Tennessee Theatre, Noon, Free
  • The Royal Hounds/Appalachian Surf Team, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • 90.3 The Mothership presents Blueprint, 10:00 PM
  • Halowe’en, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $10

Tuesday, November 1

  • Meta-tation class, Birdhouse, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, $10
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Gaelynn Lea/Brad Austin, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • Public Meeting on Broadway Corridor Concept Plan, St. James Episcopal Church, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
  • All-In, A Reach Them to Teach Them event featuring Hallerin Hilton Hill, Tennessee Theatre, 6:00 PM, Free
  • Singer/Songwriter Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 7:00 PM
  • Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
  • Public Cinema presents, “Fraud,” Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, Free
  • This Is Our Youth, Clarence Brown Lab Theatre, 7:30 PM, SOLD OUT
  • Einstein Simplified, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM
  • Stitched Up Heart, The Concourse at the International, 8:00 PM, $10/$13
  • Gaelynn Lea, Barley’s, 10:00 PM