Calendar of Events

Part of the 11th Anniversary Season of Broadway at the Tennessee Theatre

""THE MOST EXCITING MUSICAL BROADWAY HAS SEEN IN YEARS." -Chicago Tribune

"THE CROWD GOES WILD!"-The New York Times

"TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!"-New York Post.

They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard... and the radio just couldn’t get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story -- a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony Award-winning true-life musical phenomenon, JERSEY BOYS. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that’s just too good to be true. FEATURING THE LEGENDARY TOP TEN HITS:"Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry","Walk Like A Man", "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You", & "December, 1963 (Oh What A Night).

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Reception Fri May 3, 6-9 PM

Cartoons from Yesterday to Tomorrow!

Gallery 1010, 1150 McCalla Ave. Knoxville, TN 37915. Hours: Friday – Sunday 12-4pm, Friday 6-9pm. Additional hours by appointment. Info: https://gallery1010.utk.edu/ or utgallery1010@gmail.com

Bluegrass music highlights the Townsend Spring Heritage Festival, May 3-4, 2019.

Bring your lawn chair and enjoy genuine bluegrass music, arts and crafts, food, and Spring festivities for the entire family at the Townsend Visitor’s Center.

7906 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, Townsend, TN 37882
https://www.smokymountains.org/what-to-see/spring

The Museum of Appalachia will host its 7th Annual Barn Dance fundraising event! The evening will feature wagon rides, a sumptuous Southern buffet, traditional bluegrass and old-time musical entertainment, Appalachian square dancing and live and silent auctions.

6 PM cocktails & hors d'oeuvres, silent auction, live music & dancing with The Teno's & The Museum of Appalachia Band

7:15 PM dinner by Copper Cellar Catering

7:45 PM - live auction & entertainment with Sam Venable and auctioneers Bear Stephenson, Sam Furrow, John Alvis; music by Bill & The Belles

Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy., Clinton, TN 37716 (16 miles north of Knoxville at I-75, exit 122, then one mile east). Open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Information: 865-494-7680, http://www.museumofappalachia.org/barn-dance/

For the 10th time, SHOP FARRAGUT and the Town of Farragut will host the next version of one of the most exciting evenings eagerly anticipated every year. THE TASTE OF FARRAGUT, (formerly the Farragut Food and Wine Festival) will be held Friday, May 3rd from 6:30-9:30 pm at 11240 Kingston Pike, (across from Farragut High School).

This year's goal for the Festival is to showcase all of Farragut Life. Not only will it highlight the culinary arts and innovations in adult beverages found in and around the Farragut Community, but it will also include a unique gathering of retail and service providers. Live entertainment will be provided all evening long by ROUND 2 recreating the sounds of the 70's, 80's, 90's and beyond. There will be plenty of room to dance the night away!

Additionally, the exclusive "VIB," or "Very Important Bites," experience is back this year. As a very important supporter of the Festival, your $75.00 ticket gets you access to the separate V.I.B. Tent with seating limited to 100. Already THE SHRIMP DOCK has committed to a fine appetizer! You will be treated to a four-course offering provided by separate Chefs! Chef's will be on hand to explain their dish as it is being served by Festival volunteers. A separate beverage expert will pair each course with an appropriate adult beverage giving the background information to their choice and your palate's reaction! V.I.B. Patrons will have access to all the other Festival offerings, too!

General admission tickets are $30 for adults (if purchased in advance) or $35 if purchased at the gate. VIB seats are limited to the first 100 sold and are $75. Admission for children under 12 is $10 in advance or $15 at the gate, with children under 5 free. All patrons will leave THE TASTE with a goody bag of offers, discounts and items from area businesses.

Tickets are available at all Knoxville Ticket locations, online at https://tinyurl.com/y58xtt46 and by phoning 865-656-4444 or stopping by these fine Farragut Merchants:
Knox Graphics, 10965 Kingston Pike
Goin' Postal, 11519 Kingston Pike
Water Into Wine, 607 N. Campbell Station Road
CH Interiors & Gifts, 12556 Kingston Pike
Tickets will be exchanged on-site for punch cards giving attendees a record of their samplings throughout the Festival night.

www.shopfarragut.com

May 3, 2019 6-9PM. Join us at Rala as multi-talented singer songwriter, Robinella, displays her abstract visual artwork along with copies of her new CD.

Rala, 112 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902.
PH: (865) 525-7888
Instagram: @ShopRala

Hosted by WUOT 91.9 FM, Knoxville and Crafty Bastard Brewery
Friday at 5 PM – 10 PM

At WUOT, we are celebrating our community and we want to see you! We will be at Crafty Bastard Brewery on May 3rd for a First Friday celebration you don’t want to miss! Brandon Hollingsworth will be on the ones and twos from 5:30 – 7:30 PM. That’s right, WUOT’s News Director will be curating your vinyl experience with help from Clara Prinston and Greg Hill. Stick around for live music from Beth Snapp.

Meet fellow public radio listeners, as well as WUOT hosts, board, and staff; enjoy stellar food and libations; win cool prizes; and, of course, help us celebrate WUOT’s 70 years of service to the region…

See you soon! https://www.facebook.com/events/421643318659914/

Come join the 3D area MFA grads in celebrating the end of the semester with a group exhibition! We’ve all put in a lot of hard work this semester and can’t wait to show you what we’ve been up to. Reception will be from 6-10 for Fluorescent Gallery’s First Friday event for May!! All are welcome, food and drinks at the gallery, help us to end the semester with a bang !!

At Fluorescent Gallery, 627 N Central St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917
https://www.facebook.com/events/401273957371675/

All are welcome to join us for this Drum Circle Workshop & Experience in the St. John's Cathedral Prayer Garden. Bring a chair and a percussion instrument (instruments will also be provided). You don't want to miss this downtown community event focused on togetherness.

Drums have been used for thousands of years in all the world's cultures as a powerful tool for bringing people together, celebrations, communication and healing. We are witnessing a revolution around the world as people of all ages, occupations and races use drums and drumming for recreation, team building, music therapy and a host of other uses.
Drums are immediately accessible. A person with no drumming experience can immediately enjoy a powerful sound from drums and percussion instruments. A violin on the other hand would not be a pleasing sound in the hands of 100 beginners! A circle is a very powerful shape that creates a form where every part of the circle is equal. Remember the phrase circle the wagons? A circle was used in order to cover every angle, to see all sides to have no weaknesses.
When we use a circle for drumming, all sides are important, we are able to see and communicate with everyone else and we are all equal!

Presented by: The Center for Spiritual Practice
http://www.stjohnscathedral.org/drum-circle-workshop-experience

Hosted by Maple Hall and f/32 Photo
Friday at 6 PM – 8 PM
414 South Gay Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902

Join us for First Friday, May 3rd, for a unique photography showcase. F/32 Photo will have a showcase and print sale on our patio. The featured artists for this event will be Heather Lynch, Jessie Morris, April Love, and Tod Sheley.

Fine art prints, cards, postcards, magnets, magazine, and canvases will be available for purchase at the event.

As always, our upstairs cocktail lounge & patio is 21+. https://www.facebook.com/events/364113337782006/

Just like at your favorite meat n’ three, the WDVX Blue Plate Special® is served up piping hot. This fresh and free daily helping of live music during the lunchtime hour that features performers from all over the world and right here in Knoxville has put WDVX on the map as East Tennessee’s Own community supported radio.

The WDVX Blue Plate Special® is a live performance radio show held at noon, with your host Red Hickey Monday through Friday and Doug Lauderdale on Saturday, at the WDVX studio inside the Knoxville Visitor Center. It’s always free to join in so please don’t be shy. Make yourself at home as part of the WDVX family. From blues to bluegrass, country to Celtic, folk to funk, rockabilly to hillbilly, local to international, it all part of the live music experience on the WDVX Blue Plate Special. You’re welcome to bring your lunch.

Previous performing artists include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Avett Brothers, Old Crowe Medicine Show, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Lauderdale, Marty Stuart, Nickel Creek, Red Stick Ramblers, Rodney Crowell, String Cheese Incident, The Del McCoury Band, Tim O’Brien, Yonder Mountain String Band, David Grisman, Claire Lynch Band, Brett Dennen, Tommy Emmanuel, Uncle Earl, The Infamous Stringdusters, the Jerry Douglas Band, Joan Osborne, John Oats, Mary Gauthier, Darrell Scott, and many many more! There’s plenty of great music to go around! http://wdvx.com/program/blue-plate-special/

Free 2-hour visitor parking located next door to the Knoxville Visitor Center. One Vision Plaza, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-544-1029, http://www.wdvx.com

Charrette and interior design concepts by Pellissippi State IDT students

Hardin Valley Campus of Pellissippi State: 10915 Hardin Valley Road, Knoxville, TN 37932. Bagwell Center Gallery hours: M-F 9 AM - 9 PM. Information: 865-694-6405, www.pstcc.edu/arts