Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (8/20 – 8/29/2017)

Old City Java, 109 S. Central Street, Knoxville, September 2015
Andrew Johnson Building, 912 South Gay Street, Knoxville, July 2017

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, August 20

Monday, August 21

Tuesday, August 22

Tennessee Theatre Blade Sign Re-lighting, Gay Street, Knoxville, August 2016

Wednesday, August 23

Thursday, August 24

  • Special Events Community Meeting, Civic Coliseum Ballroom, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Randy Moore / Evan Taylor Jones, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • WDVX’s Listener Appreciation Day and Six O’Clock Swerve featuring Three Star Revival, Barley’s, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
  • Pride Center Open House, UTK Pride Center, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
  • Legacy Parks Night at Balter Beerworks featuring REI, Balter Beerworks, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Tamale-Making 101 with Good Golly Tamale, The Hive, 6:00 PM, SOLD OUT!  
  • Top Hat Recording Studio presents “T for Texas, T for Tennessee”: Forrest Jourdan and the Barstool Romeos / White Gregg with The Rocky Four, Pilot Light, 7:00 PM / 9:30 PM, $5 / $5
  • Greg Tardy, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Evan Taylor Jones, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • Three Star Revival, Barley’s, 10:00 PM

Friday, August 25

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Elena Lacayo / Darrell Webb Band, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • 6th Annual Knoxville Tattoo Convention, Holiday Inn World’s Fair Park, 2:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $20 – $35
  • “Pride and Prejudice,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 7:00 PM, $10 – $12
  • God of Carnage, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 8:00 PM, $15
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Tennessee Theatre, 7:00 PM, $7 – $9
  • Barrett Baber, The Concourse at The International, 8:00 PM, $10 – $12
  • Knoxville Theatre Slam, Modern Studio, 8:00 PM , $5
  • WOZO Back 2 School Jam Session, Birdhouse Knoxville, 8:00 PM – Midnight, $5
  • Kukuly and the Gypsy Fuego, Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
  • The Burnin’ Hermans, Barley’s, 10:00 PM, $5
  • The Coveralls, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
  • The Orange Constant with Hank & the Cupcakes, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • Downtown Boys with Wife Pile and Grave Mentality, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $10
  • 9th Street Stompers, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 10:00 PM, Free

Saturday, August 26

Old City Java, 109 S. Central Street, Knoxville, September 2015

Sunday, August 27

Monday, August 28

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Of Sea and Stone / Joshua P Fialkoff, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • Urban Pioneers, Parlor at Maple Hall, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Friendlytown Comedy Show, Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, Free
  • WUTK The Mothership Presents The Blueprint, Barley’s, 10:00 PM

Tuesday, August 29

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Joseph Huber / Matt Wheeler, Visitor Center, Noon, Free
  • City Council Meeting, Main Assembly Room, City County Building, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
  • Walk to End Alzheimer’s Kick-off Celebration, The Standard, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Free
  • Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
  • Last Jazz on the Square featuring the Marble City 5, Market Square, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv Show, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM
  • Sextile, Pilot Light, 9:00 PM, $6
  • Michael Sanzo- Solo–Of the Dawn Drapes, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • Joseph Huber & the Lost Dog Street Band, Barley’s, 10:00 PM