Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/23 – 5/2/2023)

Art in Strong Alley, Knoxville, April 2023 (Photo by Luke Frazier)
Art in Strong Alley, Knoxville, April 2023 (Photo by Luke Frazier)

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(Planner provided weekly by contributing writer Scott McNutt)

Sunday, April 23

 

Monday, April 24

  • Photography by Emily McTyre, Awaken Coffee, 7:30 am – 8:00 pm (M-F) / 8:00 am – 8:00 pm (Sat) / 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
  • Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! / Mythical Landscape: Secrets of the ValeEast Tennessee History Center, Mon-Fri, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sat, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (through July 3) / (through May 28
  • Converge: Coming Together, Embracing Balance, Dogwood Arts, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • April Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri) 
  • Landfall Press: Five Decades of Printmaking, Knoxville Museum of Art, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Fri) / 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm (Sun), through Apr 30, FREE!
  • April Exhibition, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (through Apr 29)
  • Gunslingers Walking Tour, meet at WDVX, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm, $14 – $20, RSVP
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Rachael Sage / Annalyse & Ryan, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • The Sociotechnical Dynamics of Negative Emissions, Carbon Removal, and Solar Geoengineering, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Toyota Auditorium, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
  • Cormac McCarthy “Suttree” Literary Walking Tour, meet at East Tennessee History Center, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm, $14 – $20, RSVP
  • “Telling Big Stories with Small Things: Times and Travels of a Violin,” presented by Olivia Bloechl, UT John C Hodges Library, Lindsay Young Auditorium (rm. 101), 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
  • Youth Violence Prevention Week, The Bottom, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, RSVP
  • Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
  • Daniel Bates; Double Bass, Graduate Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • Knox Brew Stories LIVE! Knox Brew Hub, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • Drop-in Figure Drawing, Knoxville Museum of Art, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, $10 – $12
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock – Knoxville Classics Book Club, Barrelhouse, 6:00 pm
  • Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, $10 – $12, RSVP
  • Weekly LBE Monday Shop Ride, LB Endurance Lab, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Showing: How to Blow Up a Pipeline / Beau Is Afraid, Central Cinema, 6:00 pm / 8:10 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Ladies Learn Latin Dancing, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Event Center, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, $20 – $64
  • Terry Washington, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Out Series: Hayfever, Emily Hay + Wayne Peet + Michael Vatcher + Steuart Liebig, Adam Lion + Matt Nelson, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • The Merlin’s Nest Yolo-Solo Looper Show, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • Jed Diamond Performs White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, Old City Performing Arts Center, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, free – $40, RSVP
  • Salina Fang; Violin, Senior Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Listen Up, Knoxville! Singer Songwriter Night, Scruffy City Hall, 8:00 pm
  • Acid Dads with Wine Lips and Ex-Gold, Barley’s Knoxville, 8:00 pm, $10 – $15
  • Taylor Phelps Band, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm
  • Winterforever, The Pilot Light, 9:00 pm, $10

 

Tuesday, April 25

Art in Strong Alley, Knoxville, April 2023 (Photo by Luke Frazier)

Wednesday, April 26

 

Thursday, April 27

  • School of Art BFA Capstone Exhibition, UT Art and Architecture Building, Ewing Gallery, Room 115, 10:00 am – 7:30 pm
  • YWCA Keys of Hope Luncheon, Knoxville Convention Center, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, $50
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Tin Roof Echo / Kevin Randolph, Visit Knoxville, noon – 1:00 pm, FREE!
  • Small Business Financial Management Class, Knoxville Area Urban League, 1:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
  • Showing: Beau Is Afraid, Central Cinema, 3:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • “Move Fast and Break (the Right) Things: Hastening the Clean Energy Transition without Compromising Reliability, Affordability, and the Environment,” Talk with Mike Boots, Executive Vice President of Breakthrough Energy, UT Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Toyota Auditorium, 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
  • Reception: Capstone, UT Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture, 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm
  • Rita Burch; Violin Junior Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • Weekly Writers ‘Round Knoxville, Awaken Coffee 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Intro to Needle Felting, Knoxville Arts & Fine Crafts Center, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm, $45, RSVP
  • Game Changers: A Roundtable Discussion with Title IX Trailblazers in East Tennessee, East Tennessee History Center, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
  • And the trees …, Knoxville Botanical Garden, 6:00 pm, FREE!
  • The 2023 GSMC “Sparkle Soiree” for Scouting, Sunsphere, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Online Conversations & Cocktails: “Medieval Holy War before the Crusades” with UT History Professor Matthew Gillis, 7:00 pm, RSVP
  • Pint with a Prof, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm
  • Schulz Brau Social for Charity, Schulz Bräu Brewing Company, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • High Heat Concert at Yee-Haw Brewing, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, FREE!
  • Scottish Session, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 7:15 pm – 10:00 pm
  • Showing: Live Poetry Event: Collectively Speaking, Central Cinema, 7:30 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Wilco featuring the A’s, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 pm, starting at $60
  • Hair, Clarence Brown Theatre, 7:30 pm, $17 – $30
  • Concert & Symphonic Bands, Alumni Memorial Building, James R. Cox Auditorium, 7:30 pm
  • Violin Studio Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • regions (north carolina death metal), pure bliss (syracuse hardcore), and tba, lowercase book, 8:00 pm, $10 sliding scale
  • Dumbass Youth Album Release Show!, The Pilot Light, 8:00 pm, $10
  • Laney Lou and the Bird Dog, Barley’s Knoxville, 8:00 pm, FREE!
  • Conner Smith, The Mill & Mine, 8:00 pm, $15
  • Steady Rotation, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm
  • Transcendent, Scruffy City Hall, 9:30 pm

 

Friday, April 28

  • Final Day: MFA Thesis Exhibition, UT Art and Architecture Building, Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture: A+A 115, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm 
  • Dogwood Arts Festival, World’s Fair Park, 10:00 am – 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Animal Communication with Afton Hughes, New Moon Rising Gifts and Goods, 11:30 am – 3:30 pm, $50 – $85
  • WDVX Big Plate Special: Irene Kelley, noon, FREE!
  • Fun K-Town 2023: Knoxville’s Grooviest Board Game Weekend, Knoxville Convention Center, noon – midnight, free – $85 (continues through Apr 30)
  • Showing: Beau Is Afraid, Central Cinema, 1:00 pm / 4:30 pm / 8:00 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Pre-Prom Pictures by Zelina Photography, Old City, Knoxville, 3:00 pm – 7:30 pm, RSVP
  • Sweet Nothings (Whispered Nevers), Gallery 1010, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • Knoxville, TN Regional Dance Competition, Knoxville Convention Center, 5:00 pm (continues through Apr 30)
  • Hugh Lindsay; Trombone, Graduate Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • UT Gardens Gala: Conserving the Past, Sustaining the Future, UT Gardens, Knoxville, 5:30 pm – 10:30 pm, SOLD OUT!
  • the two elizabeth taylors book club reads elizabeth bowen’s “songs my father sang me, lowercase book, 6:00 pm
  • NEW2OPERA: The Marriage of Figaro, Knox Brew Hub, 6:00 pm, $28, RSVP
  • Live Music Fridays, Crowne Plaza Knoxville Downtown, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • Blood Done Sign My Name, Student Union, Room 180, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
  • Hip to Be Square Comedy: Camille Solari, The Square Room, 7:00 pm / 9:30 pm, $20 – $100, RSVP
  • Johnny Shelton @ Fanatic Brewing Company, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
  • It’s Gonna Be May: 90s Karaoke, Hi-Wire Brewing Knoxville, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
  • “Misery” by William Goldman, based on the novel by Stephen King, Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 7:30 pm, $20
  • Soyeon Seo; Violin, Graduate Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Hair, Clarence Brown Theatre, 7:30 pm, $20 – $40
  • Amy Grant, Tennessee Theatre, 7:30 pm, $35 – $75
  • The Marriage of Figaro by the Knoxville Opera, Bijou Theatre, 7:30 pm, $15 – $115, RSVP
  • Comedy Night: Kitten Around! Scruffy’s Cafe, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm, $20 – $25
  • Ben Maney Quartet, Bistro at the Bijou, 8:00 pm – 10:30 pm
  • Lines Taking Shape Album Release show w/ Red Zephyr and De Novo, The Pilot Light, 8:00 pm, $10
  • Lazarus Lake @ Pour Taproom, 9:00 pm, FREE! But RSVP
  • Echo Pilot / Trey Bryant Band, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm / 11;30 pm
  • Fountain City Ramblers Live at Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 9:00 pm – midnight, FREE!
  • The Coveralls, Scruffy City Hall, 9:30 pm
  • New Speedway Honkers, Barley’s Knoxville, 10:00 pm, $5
  • Andres Tapia – Latin Night, Bernadette’s Quartz Lounge, 10:00 pm

 

Saturday, April 29

Art in Strong Alley, Knoxville, April 2023 (Photo by Luke Frazier)

Sunday, April 30

 

Monday, May 1 

  • Lights! Camera! East Tennessee! / Mythical Landscape: Secrets of the Vale, East Tennessee History Center, Mon-Fri, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sat, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm / Sun, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, through July 3, 2023 / through May 28
  • May Exhibitions, Dogwood Arts, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • May Exhibitions, the Emporium Center, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Mon-Fri)
  • May Exhibitions, HoLa Hora Latina, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, M-F / 10:00 am – 1:00 pm, Sat (through Mar 31)
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Nigel Wearne / Blushin Rouletts, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • Mighty Musical Monday with guest Make Music Knoxville’s Build-a-Band, Tennessee Theatre, noon – 1:00 pm
  • “Redlining, Interstate-Highways, and Transportation Emissions: Fueling Inequity in U.S. Cities,” Student Union, Room 169, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm
  • Live Taping of the Appalachia Sessions starring Chris Blue & Crockett, Bijou Theatre, 5:00 pm, RSVP
  • Monday Capoeira Fundo da Mata, Sustainable Future Center, 5:30 pm, $5
  • Parrel Appolis; flute, Senior Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • Stretch & Strengthen, Alliance Brewing, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, $10 – $12, RSVP
  • Drop-in Figure Drawing, Knoxville Museum of Art, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, $10 – $12
  • Weekly Monday Fun Run hosted by Flying Pints, Alliance Brewing Co, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
  • Live Jazz, Bistro at the Bijou, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
  • A Night of Celtic Tales, Ijams Nature Center 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, $5 – $10, RSVP
  • Out Series, The Pilot Light, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Monday Patio Jams, Crafty Brewery – Emory Place, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (weekly through July 31)
  • Viola Studio Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Zzzahara with The Noisy, The Pilot Light, 8:00 pm, $10
  • Ordinary Elephant and Nigel Wearne, Barley’s Knoxville, 9:00 pm
  • TBA, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm
  • Late-Nite Breakfast with Daniel and Tugboat at Yee-Haw Brewing Co., 10:00 pm – 1:00 pm

 

Tuesday, May 2

  • The Sculpture of William Edmondson: Tombstones, Garden Ornaments and Stonework / Repatriation of Archaeology & the Native Peoples of Tennessee, McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Sat), through May 13 / 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (Tue-Sat), through Aug 2023
  • MEGA WEEK on Free comic book day week, Tall Man Toys & Comics, 10:00 am – 8:00 pm, daily through May 7
  • Little History Lessons: Movies & TV, East Tennessee History Center, 10:30 am, free – $10, RSVP
  • May Exhibitions, Art Market Gallery, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm (Sun)
  • Cynthia Markert: Tallulah Dearest and Her Coterie, Rala: Regional and Local Artisans, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm (Tue-Sat) / 11:00 am – 5:00 pm (Sun)
  • WDVX Blue Plate Special: Three Star Revival, Visit Knoxville, noon, FREE!
  • VolOpera: Dido and Aeneas, UT Natalie L. Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 5:30 pm
  • A Book Launch Event feat. Marilyn Mascaro, Union Ave Books, 6:00 pm, FREE! but RSVP
  • Basic Maintenance: Fix a Flat, Tennessee Valley Bicycles, 6:00 pm
  • Bluey’s Big Play, Civic Auditorium, 6:00 pm, starting at $30
  • City Council Meeting, City County Building, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
  • Big Fun Tuesday – National Bike Month Celebration, Mead’s Quarry, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, FREE!
  • Newcomer/Beginner Social Dancing, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Event Center, 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm (weekly through June 27), $20
  • Weekly Old Time Jam With Sarah Pirkle, Boyd’s Jig & Reel, 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm, FREE!
  • Let’s Get Social at The Sunsphere! hosted by West Knoxville Lifestyle, Sunsphere in the World’s Fair Park, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, FREE! but RSVP
  • Tuesday Concerts on the Square: Greg Tardy Quintet, Historic Market Square, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm, FREE!
  • Showing: Tiny Stage Comedy Night, Central Cinema, 7:00 pm, FREE!
  • Hal & Phil Off the Record 8.0 (with Bob!), Bijou Theatre, 7:00 pm, $25
  • Wenlong Huang; Viola, Graduate Recital, UT Natalie Haslam Music Center, Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, 7:30 pm
  • Hair, Clarence Brown Theatre, 7:30 pm, $17 – $30
  • for lack of a term (ny pop punk) and tba, lowercase books, 8:00 pm, $10 
  • Gary Clark Jr., Tennessee Theatre, 8:00 pm, $40 – $100
  • Weekly: Einstein Simplified – Comedy Improv, Scruffy City Hall, 8:15 pm – 10:00 pm
  • TBA, Preservation Pub, 9:00 pm

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