Calendar of Events

April 6, 2013, 12-6 p.m. & April 7, 2013 1-5 p.m.
Presented by United Daughters of the Confederacy, Chapter #89

Spring Tours at the Bleak House
http://www.knoxvillecmh.org/
(865)-522-2371

Another Fun Evening of Dinner Theatre in the Clayton Center Grand Foyer! Join us in the Foyer for Dinner at 6:30 and turn in your song titles! The Musical begins at 8.
Every song is fresh. Every scene is new. Every night is different. It’s all improvised and it is funny. Master improvisers gather made up, hit song suggestions from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music, humor and laughter. The audience votes for their favorite song and watches as the cast turns it into a full-blown improvised musical.

The Clayton Center for the Arts is located on the Maryville College campus, 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Info: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

The Charleston based South Carolina Broadcasters are an award winning old-time trio featuring Ivy Sheppard on fiddle, banjo, guitar and vocals; Sarah Osborne on banjo and vocals; and David Sheppard guitar and vocals. Tight harmonies and exceptional instrumentation give the group a powerful old-time sound. Drawing their inspiration from the Carter Family and early country duos, the Broadcasters keep alive the roots of American traditional music.

Tickets (if available) will also be sold at the door the night of the event for $12.

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.

3rd Annual Relay Roast
Saturday April 6th 2013
6:00pm at Smithview Pavilion
BBQ by Capitalist Pigs
Music by The Chillbillies

Tickets are $30 in advance ($40 at the door)
Tickets are available at the following locations:
Dandy Lions Gifts
LeConte Wealth Management
Chip Webb DDS
Blount Partnership - see Bill Eanes or Bryan Daniels
United Community Bank
*Event is for guests 21 & older*
All proceeds benefit Relay for Life/American Cancer Society

Website: http://www.relayroast.com/

James R. Cox Auditorium, Alumni Memorial Bldg.

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, all concerts are FREE and open to the public. Info: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Multi-generational Flute Concert, April 6, by Paul McAuliffe

Paul McAuliffe, who makes and plays flutes, will present a concert and conversation for children and adults at 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2013, at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville 37919. The program is titled, “Flutes, Autism & Creative Focus.” There is no charge for admission, although donations will be accepted.

McAuliffe presents to schools, congregations, and concert audiences, sharing his music and using the music to talk about autism. He identifies as someone with Asperger’s Syndrome.

Following a successful session at the East Tennessee History Center earlier this month, local historians are urging members of the public to share personal knowledge, stories, family photographs, photos of marble buildings or other treasures that can be hand carried for show and tell at an informal information gathering session at Ijams Nature Center on Saturday, April 6th, 2013, from 1:00pm-4:00pm.

Will you share your knowledge of the marble industry in East Tennessee with us? Did anyone in your family work in an East Tennessee marble quarry? Do you have any objects made of Tennessee pink, gray, or cedar marble or live in a house that has any interior marble features? We would love to talk with you!

Public historian Susan W. Knowles, Ph.D. and Carroll Van West, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University are visiting quarries and mills around the region, collecting stories and scanning documents and photographs for a survey of the East Tennessee Marble Industry, 1838-1950. Their goal is to bring this important cultural heritage national attention. Maps of former quarry and mill locations will show the extent of marble quarrying in the area. The former Mead and Ross quarries (now part of Ijams Nature Center) will be nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.

For more information contact: Call Paul James @ 865-577-4717 ext. 118 or email pjames@ijams.org or susan.knowles@mtsu.edu.

Since 1996, the Civil War Trust has sponsored Park Day, an annual hands-on preservation event to help Civil War battlefields and historic sites take on maintenance projects large and small.

This year Park Day will be held on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 9am to 2pm at the Mabry-Hazen House. Activities will include leaf and brush removal, mulching, dead tree removal, and general spring-cleaning. Some tools will be provided, but volunteers are encouraged to bring rakes, pitchforks, tarps, and similar yard tools.

Park Day, now in its 17th year, is an annual hands-on preservation event created by the Trust to assist local groups with the maintenance of Civil War sites. In exchange for their hard work, volunteers receive t-shirts and will also be provided a free lunch.

Additional information about the event can be obtained by visiting www.mabryhazen.com or by calling 865-522-8661.

Rain or Shine! Experience the arrival of spring at the Knoxville Botanical Garden & Arboretum. Choose from many unique varieties of Dogwoods, all of which are represented on KBGA’s Dogwood Nature Trail. Featuring everyone’s favorite flowering shrub: the timeless Hydrangea – several beautiful varieties, locally grown. Hardy perennials and spring vegetables. KBGA members receive 10% discount!

Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum, 2743 Wimpole Ave, Knoxville, TN 37914. Hours: Gardens open daily from dawn to dusk. Information: 865-862-8717, www.knoxgarden.org

Farragut and feeder schools
Exhibit Reception - April 19, 6:30-8:00 PM

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9AM-5PM; Wednesday & Friday, 10AM-5PM; Saturday, 9AM-1PM. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

Bliss Home is pleased to present Nature's Splash of Colors, an exhibit by international award winning photographer, Dennis Sabo. Nature's Splash of Colors is an interpretation of the "growing interest and concern for our environmental impact and fragile ecosystems". Each photo is taken of natural, common subjects which are refined into an interpretive collage of color, motion and textures.

Dennis Sabo hails from Loudon, Tennessee where he specializes in contemporary fine art abstract, landscape and seascape photography. Dennis' photography has been featured in a variety of books and magazines, like Blue Planet, Living Southern Style and Ocean Conservancy.

Bliss Home 29 Market Square Knoxville, TN 37902
Friday, April 5th, 2013 through the end of the month
Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th, 2013 6pm to 9pm. Complimentary snacks and drinks will be served.

The Art Market Gallery of Knoxville will present two exhibits in April: a show of recent works by painter/printmaker Gay Davis Bryant and wood-turner Janis Proffitt, both of Knoxville, and the annual Members Silent Auction, which is a Dogwood Arts Festival Featured Event.

A First Friday opening reception for the exhibits is planned for 5:30 to 9 p.m., Friday, April 5, with complimentary refreshments and live folk and “new grass” music on guitar and ukelele by Molly Rochelson. The reception also opens bidding on a large variety of works by gallery artists and artisans for the annual Members Silent Auction, which will run April 5 – 28.

The Art Market Gallery is located at 422 South Gay St., next to the Downtown Grill & Brewery, and a few doors away from Mast General Store. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. The gallery is handicapped accessible. For more information, call 865-525-5265, or visit artmarketgallery.net, or facebook.com/Art.Market.Gallery.