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Sunday, January 14
- Knoxcentric: Chelsea Allison and Dr Sarah Colby talk about Fruvapalooza; Jennifer Johnsey talks Chocolatefest, Powered by Inside of Knoxville, WUTK (90.3), 10:00 AM
- Jazz Brunch, Five Bar, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Jazz Brunch, Downtown Grill and Brewery, 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
- Spirited Yoga with Gary Runyon, PostModern Spirits, 11:30 AM
- Jazz Brunch with Jake’s Jazz Hollandaise, Bistro at the Bijou, Noon – 2:00 PM
- Second Sunday Art Activity Day, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Knox Beer Snobs & Knox Brew Tours Anniversary Party! Pretentious Glass Co, 1:30 PM – 7:00 PM, SOLD OUT!
- Second Sunday Docent Tour, Knoxville Museum of Art, 2:00 PM (English) / 3:00 PM (Spanish)
- Book Launch: How Our Bodies Learned, a new collection of poems by Marilyn Kallet, Union Avenue Books, 2:00 PM
- “Moon Over Buffalo,” Theatre Central Downtown, 3:00 PM, $15
- Sushi Making Class, Central Collective, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM, $55
- Beginner Cowl Knitting Workshop Hosted by Smart & Becker, Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Sundays through January, $75
- Meet The Pour Decisions (Variety) Players all in ONE fun SHOW, Pour Taproom, 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM
- Duck Butter with Bad Idols, Do Yourself In and Alliteration, Pilot Light, 7:00 PM, $5
- Caleb Ryan Martin / Cash O’Riley, Preservation Pub, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM / 10:00
- Yonder Mountain String Band with the Southern Belles, Bijou Theatre, 8:00 PM, $25 – $30
- One Groove with 3-Star Revival & Cam Dufy Moore, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
Monday, January 15
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: The Gin Rickys / Aaron Tracy, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Presents Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert, Tennessee Theatre, 6:00 PM, FREE
- “Heat” screening hosted by NoKno Cinematheque, The Central Collective, 6:30 PM – 9:50 PM
- MLK Day! Painting with a Twist! 6:30 PM, $35
- Beer & Charcuterie Pairing, Elkmont Exchange, 7:00 PM, SOLD OUT!
- Will Carter with Adam Lee, Maple Hall, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM, FREE admission
- FRIENDLYTOWN comedy show: Friendlytown welcomes back Wealth of Knowledge Man! Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, FREE
- The Gin Rickys / Zephania Ohora – Rachel’s Birthday!, Preservation Pub, 8:00 – 10:00 PM / 10:30 PM
Tuesday, January 16
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Tarrant / Dom Wier, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Kid’s Clay! The Basement Community Art Studio, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Tuesdays through February 13, $100
- Writing with PTSD and Art Therapy Hosted by the Arts & Culture Alliance, The Emporium Center, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM, $5 – $63
- Fruvapalooza: A Health Kick-off Event, L&N STEM Academy, 401 Henley Street, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, FREE
- Yoga Tuesday at Vintage, Etc with Heather, Vintage, Etc Market, 1401 McCalla Ave SE, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Tuesdays through January 30, FREE
- Sewing 101: Winter Edition, Modern Studio, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Tuesdays through January 30, $150
- City Council Meeting, Main Assembly Room, City County Building, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
- CODE CO-OP | Knoxville, Awaken Coffee, 6:30 PM
- Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
- Ice Bears Away Game Watch Party, The Crown and Goose, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv Show, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Jess Nolan Band, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Paul Lee Kupfer Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Wednesday, January 17
- January SMK Round Table Hosted by Social Media Knox, Honeybee Coffee Company, 700 Sevier Ave, 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
- Justice for Malik Hardin Hosted by Tennesseans Against Injustice, Knox County Criminal Court, City County Building, 9:00 AM
- Preschool Art Club, The Basement Community Art Studio, 9:30 AM, $85 per month for one day a week (additional day $40)
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Noah Zacharin / Josiah & The Greater Good, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Tennessee Shines Presents Zephaniah Ohora, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM, $7 – $10
- Nate Dominey, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Comedy Night at Scruffy, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Milkshake Fatty, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
- Thunder Snow Cone: Love Hurts Freakshow Kinkshow, Bar Marley, 10:30 PM – Midnight, $7
Thursday, January 18
- Secrets to Being Focused, Productive, and Organized, Alliance for Better Nonprofits, 9:00 AM – Noon, $25 – $225
- Preschool Art Club, The Basement Community Art Studio, 9:30 AM, $85 per month for one day a week (additional day $40)
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Robert Cline Jr / The Carpetbag Theatre – Nothin’ Nice Cast, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Central Cinema / Beer Launch & Pig Roast, Central Flats & Taps, 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Bachelor Launch Party! Benefiting Friends of Literacy, Hyatt Place Knoxville, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
- January Maker Meetup, Knox Makers, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, FREE but RSVP
- WDVX’S Six O’Clock Swerve Presents Telios, Barley’s 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM, FREE
- Stitch & Bitch Hosted by Modern Seamstress, Modern Studio, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM, $25
- An Evening with Jack Neely: Knoxville and the Great War: The Home Front in 1918, Hosted by The Knoxville History Project, Maple Hall, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM, FREE admission
- Blackbird Single Release with Night Colors, Cavina + Que Rico Beatz, Hosted by Daje Morris, Bare.Thred, 7:00 PM, $10
- Larry Vincent, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
- Irish Music Session, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:15 PM, FREE
- Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series: Bohemian Rhapsodies: Dvořák, Smetana & More, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 PM, $15 – $88
- January Reading, Hosted by The Only Tenn-I-See Reading Series, Pretentious Beer Co, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- “Moon Over Buffalo,” Theatre Central Downtown, 8:00 PM, $15
- Swanky Bubbles, Scruffy City Hall, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Desmond Jones, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
- Andy Mowatt’s Steely Jam, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Friday, January 19
- Happy Birthday, Dolly! Hosted by Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Knox County, Lawson McGhee Library, 10:30 AM – Noon
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Swingin Hammers / Honeysuckle, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Margo’s Birthday Bash, Appalachian Community Fund, 1405 E Magnolia Ave, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Alive After Five Presents Jeanine Fuller & The Boyz with Brian Clay, Knoxville Museum of Art, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM, $10 – $15
- “Whatever Happened To Little Red Riding Hood,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 7:00 PM, $10 – $12
- Paint Your Own Fur Baby! Painting with a Twist, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $55
- Joe Reb Album Release, Hosted by Josh Brock Piever, Birdhouse Knoxville, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $5
- Knoxville Academy of Medicine Alliance Presents Doc Rock, The International, 7:30 PM, $10 – $100
- Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Series: Bohemian Rhapsodies: Dvořák, Smetana & More, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 PM, $15 – $88
- Country Night: Knoxville Ice Bears vs Mississippi Riverkings, Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 7:35 PM, $17 – $35
- “Moon Over Buffalo,” Theatre Central Downtown, 8:00 PM, $15
- RB Morris with Hector Qirko, Laurel Theatre, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM, $12 – $15
- Darrell Scott Bluegrass Band with Eli Fox, Bijou Theatre, 8:00 PM, $29.95
- Ben Maney, Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Peak Physique / Gamenight / Briston Maroney, The International, 9:00 PM – 1:00 AM, FREE
- Hannah Wicklund & the Steppin Stones with the High Divers, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
- Listen to the Dead (Woodstove Edition) with Big Dog, Bar Marley, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
- Back to school DJ night featuring DJ Mini Tiger! Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $5
- Dead Ringers, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM / 11:30 PM
- Honeysuckle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 10:00 PM, FREE
- The Big Wooly, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Saturday, January 20
- Jubilee Games and Coffee Pop-Up, The Central Collective, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, $5
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Reed Turchi / Jason ‘Hoss’ Hicks and his Southsiders, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Brewery – Grand Re-Opening, Pretentious Beer Co, Noon – 11:59 PM
- “Whatever Happened To Little Red Riding Hood,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 1:00 PM / 5:00 PM, $10 – $12
- Knoxville Radical Library: Fundraiser for J20 Defendants: Screening of ANTIFA by Global Uprisings, music by Maspeth, Bunny, Erin Laine, Dalton Manning and more TBA, Pilot Light, 4:00 PM, $5 – $10
- 25th Annual Robert E Lee & Stonewall Jackson Birthday Event, Knoxville Foundry at Worlds Fair Park Site, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM, $15 – $32
- Jump, Jive & Jammies, Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, 5:30 PM – 7:00 AM, January 21, $37.95
- The House that Beer Built After Party Benefiting Habitat for Humanity, Pour Taproom, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Blackbird Single Release with Night Colors, Cavina + Que Rico Beatz, Hosted by Daje Morris, Bare Thred, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $10
- The Freight Hoppers, Laurel Theater, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, $8 – $13
- Cartoon Night: Knoxville Ice Bears vs Roanoke Rail Yard Dogs, Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 7:35 PM, $17 – $35
- Swing Night at Maple Hall with the 9th Street Stompers! Maple Hall, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Shockley with Carly Bannister, Square Room, 8:00 PM
- “Moon Over Buffalo,” Theatre Central Downtown, 8:00 PM, $15
- Neko Case, Bijou Theatre, 8:00 PM, $35
- The Living Street / The Green Fingers & Catalina (Chilean Latino), Preservation Pub, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM / 10:00 PM
- Harold Nagge / Alan Wyatt, Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- Rossdafareye & Friends / Backup Planet, Scruffy City Hall, 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM / 11:30 PM
- Temple: DJ Nyteshade / DJ Spleen / DJ Fallen, The Concourse at the International, 9:00 PM, $5
- The Brockefellers, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 10:00 PM, FREE
- Family and Friends, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Sunday, January 21
- Knoxcentric: Powered by Inside of Knoxville: Focus on Feeding the Homeless, WUTK (90.3), 10:00 AM
- Jazz Brunch, Five Bar, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
- Jazz Brunch, Downtown Grill and Brewery, 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
- Spirited Yoga with Gary Runyon, PostModern Spirits, 11:30 AM
- Jazz Brunch with Jake’s Jazz Hollandaise, Bistro at the Bijou, Noon – 2:00 PM
- Women’s March 2.0 Knoxville, Historic Market Square, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- The Gin Event: an immersive cocktail + distilling experience, PostModern Spirits, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, $54.92
- Book signing with Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, authors of Make a Change, Union Avenue Books, 2:00 PM
- “Moon Over Buffalo,” Theatre Central Downtown, 3:00 PM, $15
- “Whatever Happened To Little Red Riding Hood,” Knoxville Children’s Theatre, 3:00 PM, $10 – $12
- John Kadlecik, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
- The Running Dogs – – Honky Tonk, Barley’s, 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM
- Charles Walker Band with Jazzmine, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM
Monday, January 22
- Opening Day: In the Footsteps of Sergeant York – Traveling Exhibition from the Museum of the American Military Experience, East Tennessee History Center, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Central Business Improvement District (CBID), Knoxville Chamber, 17 Market Square, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: The Hedgerow Folk / Stephen Evans, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Writers in the Library Presents Jill Bialosky, Hodges Library, 7:00 PM, FREE
- Friendlytown Comedy Show: Friendlytown Has an App for That!, Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, FREE
- John Ford, Preservation Pub, 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM
- Dirk Quinn Band, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
Tuesday, January 23
- WDVX Blue Plate Special: Old City Buskers / Heather Maloney, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE
- Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
- Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv Show, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
- Bill Frisell, Mill & Mine, 8:00 PM, $15 – $36.50
- Reed Turchi, Barley’s, 10:00 PM
- The Atomic Sound, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM – 1:00 AM, FREE before 8:00 PM / $3
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