The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/17 – 4/26/2016)
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...
Events
Hip Hop For Hunger and Much More Highlights Another Busy Weekend
It feels like a slow down after two consecutive weekends (starting on Thursday each time) of music festivals. Surely we can take it easy until Rossini hits next weekend, right? Well, you can take it easy...
2016 Dogwood Arts Chalk Walk
As has become my custom, I struggled out of bed around 8:00 AM last Sunday morning to scurry to Market Square to see the chalk drawings before weather and foot-traffic obliterate them. It’s really impossible to...
Rhythm n Blooms 2016, Day 3
So, the excitement builds in anticipation of some of the best artists of the festival – but. But by the last day I’m exhausted. I’ve been up until 2:00 AM each of the first two days...
Rhythm n Blooms 2016, Day Two
The beginning of day two of a three day festival is a sweet spot of sorts: Day one was fun, building expectations for day two and exhaustion won’t set in until late in the day. It’s...
Rhythm n Blooms Kick-off and Day One
I realize that the sensible journalistic move here would be to do one article re-capping the Rhythm n Blooms Festival: Sum it up, mention a highlight or two, throw in half a dozen photographs and move...
The Downtown Knoxville Ten Day Planner (4/10 – 4/19/2016)
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 I Hope to See at Rhythm n Blooms 2016
As with so many festivals, each participant’s musical selections set them on a personal journey unlikely to be replicated by any other attending fan. We each have different preferences and bring different backgrounds to the shows....
Hey, Let’s Hang Out Together: Where You’ll Find Me
I’ll be involved in several events over the next few days, plus one at the end of next week, and I’d like to invite you to join me at each of them. For those of you...
Big Ears 2016, A Final Look: Inuksuit at Ijams and People on the Street
Throughout the festival, I was struck with how many people it must take to decide who to invite, to contact and negotiate with each artist, to find and reserve venues and to make a schedule, to...