Calendar of Events

Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Bldg
The Viola Celebration is a FREE workshop for violists of all ages and abilities, and includes master classes with renowned violists, performances by guest artists, participation in the All-Viola Orchestra, and more! Pre-registration is required. Esteemed Guest Faculty for the 6th Anniversary Viola Celebration: George Taylor, Eastman School of Music, Christine Rutledge, University of Iowa, Melinda Daetsch, Hartt Conservatory, Rudolf Haken, University of Illinois, and Dominic DeStafano, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

For more information or to register, visit www.music.utk.edu/violacelebration
For questions not answered on our website, please e-mail violacelebration@utk.edu or call Hillary Herndon, UT Professor of Viola at 865-974-0317.

41ST RUGBY VILLAGE PILGRIMAGE
Saturday, September 29th
The Largest Historic Building Tour In East Tennessee…Visit 20+ Historic Museum Buildings, Lodgings, and Private Historic and New Period Homes ….Enjoy Morris Dancing, Music & Period Demonstrations
www.historicrugby.com

No midway here! Old-fashioned fun for the whole family - watermelon seed-spitting, hog calling, rooster crowing, the celebrated Ladies Skillet Throw, & more, as well as competition in livestock, produce, honey, student art & domestic skills. At the Farmer in the Cove interactive exhibit, young visitors pick apples, plant corn, dig potatoes, sweep the cabin porch & experience other chores typical on an early mountain farm.

Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center, 3/4 mile east of traffic light at the Highway 321 and 73 intersection towards the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Townsend, TN. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM. Information: 865-448-0044, www.gsmheritagecenter.org

Musician, singer, and songwriter Andy Irvine has maintained his highly
individual performing skills throughout his 45 year career. From Sweeney's Men in the mid 60s, to the enormous success of Planxty in the 70s and then from Patrick Street to Andy Irvine & Dónal Lunny's Mozaik, Andy has been a world music pioneer and an icon for traditional music and musicians. As a soloist, Andy fills the role of the archetypal troubadour with a show and a travelling lifestyle that reflect his lifelong influence, Woody Guthrie. To quote the Irish Times, "Often copied, never equalled", his repertoire
consists of Irish traditional songs, dexterous Balkan dances and a compelling cannon of his own self-penned songs.

Saturday, September 29, 8:00 PM

Tickets: $14 JCA member, student, senior; $15 General Audience Advance
$16 at the door

Tickets are available at www.knoxtix.com and (if available) will also be
sold at the door the night of the event for $16. The Laurel Theater is
located on the corner of 16th and Laurel Avenue in the historic Fort Sanders
neighborhood of Knoxville near the UT campus. For additional information,
call (865) 522-5851, e-mail concerts@jubileearts.org, or visit
www.jubileearts.org.

The East Tennessee Historical Society joins with the Smithsonian Institution and museums across the country to celebrate National Museum Day with free admission to the Museum of East Tennessee History. Visitors can explore three centuries of life in our mountain and valley region in the signature exhibit, Voices of the Land: The People of East Tennessee, as well as glimpse a variety of special items, such as Davy Crockett’s first gun, a string of original Cherokee beads (1758), the key to the capital of the Lost State of Franklin, Civil War flags and uniforms, and much more. Free admission for the day also includes the temporary exhibition East Tennessee Art & Artists. The Museum is operated by the East Tennessee Historical Society and is located at the East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street in downtown Knoxville across from the Tennessee Theatre. For more information call 865-215-8824 or visit www.eastTNhistory.org.

Louie Bluie Festival is an all day music, arts and crafts celebration in honor and memory of Howard Armstrong of LaFollette, an internatinally acclaimed old time musician and artist.

A $2 per person/$5 per family donation is encouraged and funds Campbell Culture Coalition, an all-volunteer non-profit community arts organization.

The Louie Bluie Music and Arts Festival will be held on the grounds of Cove Lake State Park, in Caryville, Tennessee at Exit 134, less than a half mile from I-75 on Hwy. 25W/63.

Parking is available throughout the Park and on the Festival grounds.
There are two handicapped parking lots - one is located at the Pavilion parking lot and the other is down on the festival grounds. Golf carts will be available to transport the handicapped and seniors onto the Festival grounds.

The Scruffy City Soiree, September 29: an evening of food, wine, revelry and unique auction items!

Silent and live auctions featuring East Tennessee's fine arts, handcrafted treasures and unique experiences.
Buffet dinner, beer, wine, live music.

Saturday, September 29, 6:30 PM at the Foundry, 747 World's Fair Park Drive.

Knox Heritage, Inc., Tele: (865)523-8008, info@knoxheritage.org

PARDON ME FOR LIVING: A biting new comedy.

Written and performed by Staci Swedeen, directed by Jayne Morgan.

Saturday, September 29 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, September 30 at 2:00 PM (Talk back following performance)

Advanced reservations: $20, At the door $24, Students w/ID $16 Reserve your seats at 865-694-6400 or foundation@pstcc.edu

Location: Clayton Performing Arts Center at Pellissippi State 10195 Hardin Valley Rd. Directions at www.pstcc.edu

Inspired by a true encounter with a rabid raccoon, this hilarious show is a co-production of Flying Anvil Theatre and Pellissippi State Community College.

The official Museum Day Live! ticket provides free admission to one person, plus a guest. For more information and to receive the official Museum Day ticket, go to www.Smithsonian.com/museumday

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

A traveling exhibition to discover the science of dinosaurs and their ecosystems as you walk in their footsteps, hunt, eat, hide and survive by using computer simulation and interactive exhibits. AMSE Second Level.

American Museum of Science & Energy, 300 S. Tulane Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Hours: Monday-Saturday 9AM-5PM; Sunday 1-5PM. Information: 865-576-3200, www.amse.org

We have decided to work on a new approach to our readings of Shakespeare’s plays at the library downtown and we have a new format that I think will be a lot of fun.

We are going to read quarterly rather than monthly, and we are going to look for people to direct each reading. So we’ll ask that they do a cutting and at least some casting ahead of time which we will then fill out with people who come and want to read on the day of. Reading quarterly rather than monthly will mean that directors will have more time to prepare their scripts and put some actors together. So, if you have an interest please contact me so we can set it up.

Our next reading is planned for December and we are looking to do “Twelfth Night” which we know was performed as a Christmas piece by Shakespeare’s company and for which we have a good cut on hand.

If you are interested in Directing please get in touch.
Tom Parkhill tennesseestage@comcast.net

Saturday 9/29
Don de Leaumont

Monday 10/1
Kelli Johnson

Tuesday 10/2
West Side Daredevils
Nancy Beaudette

Wednesday 10/3
Bill Mize
Mountain Laurel
I Draw Slow

Thursday 10/4
Kim and Reggie Harris
Ramsay Midwood

Friday 10/5
Tumbleweed Company
Jordan Hull

Saturday 10/6
The Empty Bottle Stringband

12:00 Noon, Knoxville Visitor Center, 301 South Gay Street, 37902