Planning for the Weekend and Beyond
It’s the weekend! Here’s a way to celebrate: Check out the beginning of the Sites and Sounds from Big Ears series starting tonight. The series will take you to some of the best sites Knoxville has to...
R.B. Morris
Inaugural Big Ears Festival Streaming Series Begins with R.B. Morris and Band on August 21
For many of us who passionately love music, one of the greatest losses of the current era is the loss of live music. Being in the presence of live musicians, watching the interplay between band members...
Music for a Pandemic (or Anytime) from the Sedonas and R.B. Morris
We may only be touching the tip of the music and other art made during or released during the pandemic. We might expect that artists isolated during this time might tap the muse for inspiration and...
A Glimpse at the City’s (Near) Future: Inside the Mayor’s Budget
Back-to-back days last week I attended the official groundbreaking, though much ground had already been unofficially broken, for the Marriott Hotels coming to Church and State and the mayor’s “State of the City,” address. It was...
Suttree Landing Park Officially Opens on the South Waterfront
I wasn’t able to make the ribbon cutting on Wednesday, but curious about Suttree Landing Park, I took the ten minute bike ride from the heart of downtown and across the river. Signage hasn’t been placed,...
“The Man Who Lives Here is Loony,” Explores Psychological Depths with Jazzy Wordplay
It’s the kind of artistic encounter that inspires extended rumination and conversation. It rolls around inside your head for days, shifts shapes and turns again, rearing its head at unexpected moments. A quote comes to mind....
Big Ears 2016, A First Look
The Big Ears Festival could be considered multiple festivals. The music remains the focal center, of course, and involves its own personal, interactive and extremely eclectic journey. Film supports general ethos established by the music and...
Scott Miller Highlights Final Tennessee Shines for the Season
It’s one of the best musical series going in a city that has many excellent musical series ranging from daily to weekly, monthly and annually. Tennessee Shines in its first incarnation offered a monthly show in...
RB Morris, Hector Qirko, The Short Bus and the Listening Room
This post carries a large amount of freight, so hang on. For those of you new to the Knoxville music scene, the photographs you are viewing with this post are of two Knoxville icons. In fact,...
Knoxville’s Bob Dylan Birthday Bash 2013
An amazing evening of music filled Market Square last Friday night. It was First Friday and after some debate, I decided to plant myself on Market Square and listen to music rather than catch some of...