Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (12/2 – 12/11/2018)

A Little Christmas Music on Market Square, Knoxville, November 2018
A Little Christmas Music on Market Square, Knoxville, November 2018

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Sunday, December 2

 

Monday, December 3

  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Xandria Cross, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE!
  • Mighty Musical Monday with Freddie Brabson, the Akima Singers, Holston Middle School Kids in America Show Choir with Natalee Beeler Elkins, Ensemble Swing Time Band, and some very special guests!, Tennessee Theatre, Noon – 1:30 PM, FREE!
  • Knoxville Country Christmas, Hosted by Workhorse Productions and The Winery at the International Building, 940 Blackstock Ave, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM, FREE!
  • Active Beer Culture: Head South (Knox) for Winter, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
  • Parkridge Neighborhood Holiday Potluck & Announcements, C.W. Cansler Family YMCA, 6:30 PM
  • UT Cinema Club Presents The Shining (1980), Art & Architecture Building UT Campus, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, FREE!
  • Young Republicans Christmas Meet and Greet, Barley’s Taproom, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • FRIENDLYTOWN comedy show: Friendlytown writes letter to Santa!, Pilot Light, 7:30 PM, FREE!
  • Donna’s Month: A Screening of “The Last Wave,” Birdhouse Knoxville, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM, FREE!

 

Tuesday, December 4

  • ED & Board Chair Affinity Group: Managing Organizational Growth, Alliance for Better Nonprofits, 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM, FREE to current members
  • Bridges Out of Poverty, Compassion Coalition, Regas Building,  8:30 AM – 5:00 PM, $100
  • MDC’s 6th Annual Community Champion Awards, The Foundry on the Fair Site, 11:30 AM – 1 PM, FREE, but $10 donation suggested
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Nick Gusman / RB Morris, Visitor Center, Noon, FREE!
  • Data Gets Grants, Alliance for Better Nonprofits, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, $25 – $225
  • Room 3A: Four Perspectives of NYC at Gallery 1010, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • City Council Meeting, Main Assembly Room, City County Building, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
  • Wine Tastings In the Cellar, Old City Wine Bar, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM, $10
  • Orin Swift Cellar Wine Dinner, Oliver Royale, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM, $150
  • Old Time Jam with Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig and Reel, 7:15 PM
  • A Christmas Carol, Clarence Brown Theatre, 7:30 PM, $12 – $18
  • Harry Connick, Jr., Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 PM, $85 – $150
  • Einstein Simplified Comedy Improv Show, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • UT Winter Choral Concert, Alumni Memorial Building, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • The Black-n-Blue-n-Red Hot Sizzle Plate, Old City, Down Low, Low Down, Zeroed In, Messed Up, High AF, Low Key Special. Featuring Jamie Cook, Steve Gigante, Joseph Gillenwater and Josh Wright, Pilot Light, 8:00 PM, $5
  • 3 Down, Barley’s Taproom, 10:00 PM
Macy’s Santaland, New York City, November 2018

Wednesday, December 5

 

Thursday, December 6

Friday, December 7

  • Natti Love Joys, Pour Taproom, 9:00 PM – Midnight
  • Mike Baggetta, Bistro at the Bijou, 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM
  • Devon Heath Band, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 10:00 PM, FREE!
  • Plattenbau (Germany) with Day and Age, Pilot Light, 10:00 PM, $8
  • Wild Things, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM
  • Way Sneaky Eddie, Scruffy City Hall, 10:00 PM
  • Knoxxville’s Freaks Present a Tribute to the Stooges, Barley’s Taproom, 10:00 PM, $5

 

Saturday, December 8

Krutch Park in Winter and Fall, Knoxville, Late November 2018

Sunday, December 9

  • Three Rivers Rambler Christmas Lantern Express, 2560 University Commons Way, 9:45 AM, 1:00 PM and 4:15 PM, $7.50 – $28.50
  • Peppermint Trail, Downtown Knoxville, through January 6
  • Elf on the Shelf Scavenger Hunt, Various locations, Downtown Knoxville, through January 6
  • Knoxcentric: Amelia Peterson of River and Rail Theatre discusses their production of “The Unusual Tale of Mary and Joseph’s Baby”/ RB Morris and Drocella Mugorewera of Bridge Refugee Services discuss Bridge and an upcoming benefit concert to support refugees in Knoxville, WUTK (90.3), 10:00 AM
  • Jazz Brunch, Chesapeake’s, 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM
  • Jazz Brunch, Downtown Grill and Brewery, 11:00 AM – 2:30 PM
  • Jazz Brunch with Jake’s Jazz Hollandaise, Bistro at the Bijou, Noon – 2:00 PM
  • Visit with Santa – Mast Store Knoxville, Noon – 4:00 PM
  • Second Sunday Art Activity Day, Knoxville Museum of Art, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Cookies & Cocoa 2018, East Tennessee PBS, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM, $5
  • Holidays on Ice presented by Home Federal Bank, Historic Market Square, Sunday: 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM, Monday – Thursday: 4 :00 – 9:00 PM, Friday – Saturday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM, $8 – $50 (through December 16)
  • Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, Tennessee Theatre, 1:30 PM / 7:30 PM, $44 – $94
  • Advanced Wedding Boot Camp: Styled Wedding Shoot, Jackson Terminal, 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM, $200 – $400
  • Christmas at Mabry-Hazen House, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM, FREE! – $15
  • A Christmas Carol, Clarence Brown Theatre, 2:00 PM / 7:30 PM,  $18 – $35 / $18 – $35
  • The Santaland Diaries, Carousel Theatre, 2:30 PM, SOLD OUT!
  • Mary Uhles will present her books, A Tuba Christmas and Twelve Days Christmas, Union Avenue Books, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
  • Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 3:00 PM, $15
  • The Nativity Pageant of Knoxville, Knoxville Civic Coliseum, 3:30 PM, FREE!
  • Tuba Christmas, Historic Market Square, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
  • Old Time Jam Session with Tim Worman, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
  • Celtic Pre-Holidays Show with Red-Haired Mary, Union Avenue Books, 4:30 PM
  • Backstage Dance Company Holiday Showcase, Knoxville Civic Auditorium, 5:00 PM, $16
  • AMBC Holiday Soiree! Suttree’s High Gravity Tavern, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Shoreline Church, Bijou Theatre, 6:30 PM, FREE, but you must register
  • KSDA Holiday Hangout, Downtown Grill & Brewery, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
  • An Evening with Jill Andrews: A Night of Original and Holiday Favorites, Barley’s Taproom, 8:00 PM
  • Ethan Palmer hosts Electric Pheasant Poetry Jam, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
  • Joey Preziosi & The Travelers, Preservation Pub, 10:00 PM

 

Monday, December 10

 

Tuesday, December 11

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