Saturday Sounds with Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn
I hope you had an opportunity to see the Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn concert at the Bijou last week. It had to be among the most pleasant, fun evenings I’ve spent in the theater and...
Music in the City
Saturday Sounds: Fred Eaglesmith on the Blue Plate Special
Its seems to always be cold when Fred Eaglesmith comes to town. Good thing he brings his Traveling Steam Show to heat things up. It makes sense, actually, that Fred who was born and lives in...
Kelle Jolly Launches Knoxville’s Women in Jazz Jam Festival
She is many things: pensive and effusive, delicate and determined, eloquent and straightforward. She is also very talented and she has a vision which she intends to see through. “What I’m doing this moment has to...
Saturday Sounds: Ryan Bingham at the Bijou – with Jamestown Revival
Jamestown Revival opened for Ryan Bingham at the Bijou last week and the crowd was on their feet from the beginning. More than a competent opener, Jamestown Revival proved to be both known to the audience...
Saturday Sounds: Donna the Buffalo (and Peter Rowan)
I’ve seen Donna the Buffalo a number of times and I’ve always enjoyed them. I had the added excitement this time around of photographing them with a nice camera. Still, I had that feeling of, “Well...
Saturday Night Music: Too Much of a Good Thing is a Really, Really Good Thing.
This past Saturday night offered more musical opportunities downtown than a body could handle. Over at the Civic Auditorium, the funky foot stomping rhythms of the Southeastern Stomp Fest ran amok. If you wanted to...
First Friday and a Great Knoxville Weekend
Old friends invited us out on a date for First Friday and we gladly accepted. It’s funny how sometime in the middle of the day on Thursday I usually think something along the lines of, “If...
First Friday, September 2013, Pictures and Stories
Somehow the week just slipped by without an opening to slip in the First Friday photographs. It was an incredibly packed First Friday that found me falling far short of my goals to make the complete...
Subtle Clutch is the Buzz Downtown
A few weeks ago, as I walked through Market Square on a mission, I stopped in my tracks beside Tupelo Honey. A group of very young men played acoustic instruments and sang like crazy. They sang...
Battle of the Bands: Gospel vs. Three Chords and a Dog vs. Oud
I’d gotten the word on Facebook: Laith Keilany had thrown down the gauntlet. He declared, oud in hand, that he would take back Market Square once and for all for high quality buskers everywhere while expurgating...