Calendar of Events

As a teen, country music sensation and Texas native Pat Green quickly took to the sounds of Lone Star state performers like Robert Earl Keen and Willie Nelson. Now the Grammy-nominated hit maker is following his own path. He has recently released his eighth studio album, Songs We Wish We’d Written II, a compilation of music penned by greats like Lyle Lovett and Tom Petty. Don’t miss out on Green’s show on Sunday, February 24.
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Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 2:30pm
Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series presents Vivian Choi

Vivian Choi was born in Seoul, Korea. She began her extensive musical education at the Australian International Conservatorium of Music Preparatory School. She continued her training at Russia’s Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, graduating summa cum laude. Subsequently, she received her Masters of Music with Academic Honors and Graduate Diploma in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory.

To order tickets, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope with a check payable to “Young Pianist Series” to:
Rebecca Doyle, Interim Executive Director
YOUNG PIANIST SERIES
5819 Holston Hills Road
Knoxville, TN 37914
Adult season tickets are $40 and Student season tickets are $12
Individual tickets for Adults are $15 and Student tickets are $5
Tickets can be purchased at the Clayton Center for the Arts the afternoon of the show.
For more information contact the Clayton Center Box Office at (865) 981-8590.

The Farragut Folklife Museum will host a free event in honor of Black History Month on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, beginning at 2 p.m. at the Farragut Town Hall.

The theme for this year's celebration is "Building Communities Through Dedicated Service." The event will include a reception at 2 p.m. and a 3 p.m. presentation.

Tennessee State Representative Joe Armstrong will be the keynote speaker at the 3 p.m. presentation. During the reception, attendees will hear music by longtime Knoxville jazz legend and saxophone player Lance Owens and pianist Patricia Dulaney as well as view Black History Month displays.

Housed in the Farragut Town Hall located at 11408 Municipal Center Drive, the Museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and offers free admission. For more information, contact Museum Coordinator Julia Jones at julia.jones@townoffarragut.org or 966-7057. Stay up-to-date at www.townoffarragut.org and like Farragut Folklife Museum on Facebook.

The UT Chamber Singers, Concert Choir, Men's Chorale, Women's Chorale, and Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor James Fellenbaum, perform Ludwig van Beethoven's epic masterpiece in the historic Tennessee Theater.

Sunday, February 24, 2013 at 7:30 p.m.
Tennessee Theatre, 604 South Gay Street, Knoxville, 37902

The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Vonore is hosting a free lecture on Sunday, February 24th, 2013 with interpretive naturalist, storyteller, and wild crafter Ila Hatter and Avi Askey, owner of the Overhill Gardens. The lecture starts at 2:00 and will help kick off the 5th Annual TN Invasive Plants Awareness Week. The topic of the lecture will be “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Plants”
Ila Hatter is an interpretive naturalist, artist, storyteller, and wild crafter with more than 30 years experience teaching the cultural heritage of native plants. Ila is publisher of "Roadside Rambles", a wild foods cookbook, and a video series: "wild Edibles and Medicinals of Southern Appalachia and Mountain Kitchen". She hosted three Folkways programs for PBS/UNC-TV, and has appeared on CNN, Turner/South, RFDTV, and A&E.
Also joining Ila Hatter will be Avi Askey of the Overhill Gardens who will be lecturing on the removal of invasive plants.

This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum at 423-884-6246. Sequoyah Birthplace Museum is located at 576 Hwy. 360 in Vonore.

Saturday 2/23
Locust Honey Stringband
Mary Gauthier

Monday 2/25
The Town Pants
The Dulcimer Guys

Tuesday 2/26
Driftwood
Mandi Rae

Wednesday 2/27
Tim Haggerty
Patchwork

Thursday 2/28
WestWend
Tim Lee 3

Friday 3/1
Star and Micey
Carolina Story

Saturday 3/2
The Emancipators
Small Houses

Monday 3/4
Carolina Bound
Marmalakes

Tuesday 3/5
Pat Hull
The Mumbles

Wednesday 3/6
The Howling Brothers
Sara & Lindsay

Thursday 3/7
Grass Monkey
Joe Fletcher

Friday 3/8
Muriel Anderson
Nora Jane Struthers &The Party Line

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

By Carrie Fisher and Carol Burnett

Performances are Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8:00 PM and Sunday at 3:00 PM. Tickets are $10 plus fees for Thursday & Sunday performances and $15 plus fees for Friday & Saturday performances. Theatre Knoxville Downtown has open seating. Doors open 30 minutes prior to showtime. Please arrive at least 15 minutes early to pick up your tickets and claim your seats. TKD reserves the right to seat walk-in patrons during the final 15 minutes prior to showtime. For more information on the show, please call Theatre Knoxville Downtown at (865) 544-1999, e-mail info@theatreknoxville.com, or visit www.theatreknoxville.com.

The first play to portray African American characters, themes, and conflicts in a natural and realistic manner on Broadway, A Raisin in the Sun received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play of the Year. Playwright Lorraine Hansberry was the youngest playwright, the fifth woman, and the first African American writer to win the award. Recently widowed, Lena Younger receives a life insurance check and plans to buy a house, freeing her family from the cramped tenement she shares with her two children, daughter-in-law and grandson in Chicago’s south side. Her son, Walter, has other ideas for the money. In the struggle that ensures one dream will be fulfilled, another deferred. Will the family collapse or will they seize this opportunity to create a better life?

Clarence Brown Theatre / Carousel Theatre, 1714 Andy Holt Ave on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. For information: 865-974-5161, www.clarencebrowntheatre.com. For tickets: 865-974-5161, 865-656-4444, www.knoxvilletickets.com

The Inspiring Classic “A Raisin in the Sun” shines on the Clarence Brown Theatre Mainstage, February 21 - March 10.

The Clarence Brown Theatre will bring to life Lorraine Hansberry’s inspiring classic story about a working class African American family struggling to make it in 1950s America February 21 – March 10, 2013 on the main stage. Directed by African American theatre icon, Woodie King, Jr., the production will feature actors Lonette McKee and Jaymes Jorsling in the lead roles.

“A Raisin in the Sun” was nominated for four Tony awards when it opened on Broadway in 1959, and hailed by “The New York Times” as a show that “changed American theater forever.” It was the first time in history that a production had an all-black principal cast, a black director and a black playwright. Its 29-year-old author became the youngest American and the first black playwright to win the New York Drama Critics’ Best play of the Year award.

For more information and tickets: www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.

February 21-24, 2013
Haslam Family Flexible Theatre
Foothills Community Players presents
"Hay Fever" by Noel Coward

Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Judith, a retired actress, find that an impossible dream when their high-spirited children Simon and Sorel appear with guests of their own. A housefull of drama waits to be ignited as misunderstandings and tempers flare. With Judith's new flame and David's newest literary 'inspiration' keeping company as the children follow suit, the Bliss family lives up to its name as the 'quiet weekend' comes to an exhausting and hilarious finale.

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 all tickets are $10
For all other performances tickets are $17.50 for adults and $15.50 for students and seniors.

For more information contact the Clayton Center Box Office at (865) 981-8590.

Tuesday 2/19
Juliet and the Lonesome Romeos
Rich Del Grosso & John Del Toro Richardson

Wednesday 2/20
Adrian Krygowski
Barstool Romeos

Thursday 2/21
Wylie and the Wild West

Friday 2/22
Occidental Gypsy
Henry Wagons

Saturday 2/23
Locust Honey Stringband
Mary Gauthier

Monday 2/25
The Town Pants
The Dulcimer Guys

Tuesday 2/26
Driftwood
Mandi Rae

Wednesday 2/27
Tim Haggerty
Patchwork

Thursday 2/28
WestWend
Tim Lee 3

Friday 3/1
Star and Micey
Carolina Story

Saturday 3/2
The Emancipators
Small Houses

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

The Fountain City Art Center’s theme exhibit, “Reflection,” will run from February 15 – March 28, 2013.
Fountain City Art Center is located in the old library building at 213 Hotel Avenue next to the Fountain City Park.

Public viewing hours are Tuesday and Thursday 9-5; Wednesday and Friday 10-5; and Saturdays 9-1.