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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...