Knoxville Opera’s Rossini Festival 2018
A miracle happened this past weekend in downtown Knoxville. It could not have been lost on several of the tens of thousands who arrived in the center city for the annual Rossini Festival. It must not...
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Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/15 – 4/24/2018)
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...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part Three)
Day three started early, for me, as I headed to the WUTK studio to do Knoxcentric. Luke Brogdin of Southern Cities graciously agreed to join me for a bit to talk about their set the previous...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part Two)
Day two is usually where the fatigue starts to set in a bit. Add to that the weather on day two – hovering in the 30s with a mist most of the day, and it became...
Rhythm n Blooms 2018: Rain, Cold and Musical Gold (Part One)
It’s always an exciting weekend for the city. People travel to the festival in large numbers and, it seems, everyone who loves music and lives here joins in, as well. While Big Ears stretches my listening,...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/8 – 4/17/2018)
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...
What do Thomas Jefferson, Washington D.C., and East Tennessee have in common?
(Written by Guest Writer Richard Allen Foster, AIA, LEED AP, 2018 President, AIA East Tennessee, Director of Design, Lewis Group Architects) The first answer is East Tennessee Pink Marble. It was quarried right here in our...
Rhythm n Blooms Looms: An Interview with Lilly Hiatt
Rhythm n Blooms descends on the Old City in downtown Knoxville this Friday and runs three days, ending late Sunday night. During those three days, festival goers will be exposed to more good music than any...
Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/1 – 4/10/2018)
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...
Big Ears 2018, Part Two
Twenty-one hours in I had seen one happening, two films and eleven shows. It was time to slow down a bit and take stock of the overall event. Each seems to have it’s own personality and...