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, December 25
- Happy Christmas
- Sam Quinn’s Christmas Debacle, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
Monday, December 26
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Sydni Stinnett/Jon Whitlock, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- Friendlytown Comedy presents, “The Year in Review,” AKA “Fuck You 2016,” Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, Free
- Ga-Na-Si-Ta, Prservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- 90.3 WUTK’s The Mothership presents The Blueprint, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Tuesday, December 27
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Mudbone, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- Knoxville Ice Bears vs Mississippi River Kings, Knoxville Coliseum, 7:00 PM, $9 – $35
- Singer/Songwriter Open Mic, Preservation Pub Speakeasy, 7:00 PM
- Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
- Brad Austin Band at Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Shake It Like a Caveman, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Wednesday, December 28
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Cassidy Lynn/Adam Graybeal’s Hillbilly Soul, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- The Josh King Trio (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Comedy Night at Scruffy, Scruffy City Hall, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Scruffy Science Cinepub – 6000, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
- New Radio Dialect, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
Thursday, December 29
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Knox County Jug Stompers/Sam Hatmaker, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- 6 O’Clock Swerve with Wayne Bledsoe presents Mic Harrison, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 6:00 PM, $5
- Comedian Billy Wayne Davis, The Central Collective, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM, $7
- Freekbass, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Mark Shimick and Friends, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Friday, December 30
- Love Trumps Hate Lunch: The Tomato Head, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Lacy Green/Barefoot Sanctuary, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- Yappy Hour with Small Breed Rescue of ET, Sugar Mama’s, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Knoxville Ice Bears vs. Fayetteville Fire Antz, Knoxville Coliseum, 7:30 PM, $9 – $35
- Mark Boling (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Sweet Leaf, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Edward Honeycutt Band, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
- Knox County Jug Stompers, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 10:00 PM
- The Barstool Romeos, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Saturday, December 31
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Kim Smith and David Boettcher/Cassidy Diana, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
- New Years Eve Party, Old City Wine Bar, 7:00 PM – 2:00 AM, $50/$75
- Prohibition New Years Eve – 2016, Sapphire, 7:00 PM – 3:00 AM, $20 – $199
- Boy’s Night Out, Crown Plaza, 7:00 PM – 12:30 AM
- New Power Soul – Prince Tribute/Gillian, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM
- New Year’s Eve at the International, Multiple Stages, 8:00 PM, $10 – $500
- New Year’s Eve with The Black Lillies and Special Guest Alanna Royale, The Mill and Mine, 9:00 PM – 12:30 AM, $30/$50
- Gran Torino, Bijou, 9:00 PM, $37
- Bethany Hankins and the Swing (jazz), Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 12:30 PM
- Just Say Maybe/Step Sisters, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Piper Jones Band, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 10:00 PM
- Jake Smith’s Cripple Creek Mariners, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
- New Year’s on the Square, 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM – Ball Drop at Midnight
- Teen Spirit – 90’s Tribute Band, Scruffy City Hall, 11:30 PM
- The JoJax, Preservation Pub, 11:50 PM
Sunday, January 1
- Calhoun’s New Year’s Day 5K Run/Walk, Neyland Drive, 9:00 AM
- Knoxcentric: Powered by Inside of Knoxville, Upcoming Events Paired with Music, Hosted by JJ Pershing (Knoxville Urban Guy returns 1/8/17)
- Jazz Brunch, Five Bar, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Jazz Brunch, Downtown Grill and Brewery, 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
- Pretentious Foodie Hangover Brunch feat. Tootsie Truck, Pretentious Beer Company, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, $45
- Pale Root, Barley’s, 8:00 PM
Monday, January 2
Tuesday, January 3
- Singer/Songwriter Open Mic, Preservation Pub, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
- Paul Lee Kupfer, Barley’s, 10:00 PM