Calendar of Events

Join WDVX and Freddy Smith at Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival in Kodak, TN
We're a proud supporter of the Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival, and we're looking forward to all the pickin' and grubbin! Stop by the WDVX table to pick up some merch, find out more about WDVX, and say hi to Freddy and his chicken!

12:30-1:30 Adkins & Loudermilk
1:30 - 2:30 The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
2:30 - 3:30 Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
3:30 - 4:30 Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier
4:30 - 5:30 SUPPER BREAK
5:30 - 6:30 Adkins & Loudermilk
6:30 - 7:30 The Little Roy & Lizzy Show
7:30 - 8:30 Jimbo Whaley & Greenbrier
8:30 - 9:30 Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice
9:30 - 11:00 Cordle, Jackson & Salley
Friday, September 19

Noon - 1:00 Donna Ulisse & The Poor Mountain Boys
1:00 - 2:00 Volume 5
2:00 - 3:00 James King
3:00 - 4:00 Balsam Range
4:00 - 5:00 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER BREAK
6:00 - 7:00 Volume 5
7:00 - 8:00 Donna Ulisse & The Poor Mountain Boys
8:00 - 9:00 James King
9:00 - 10:00 Balsam Range
10:00 - 11:00 Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

Saturday, September 20

Noon - 1:00 Darin & Brooke Aldridge
1:00 - 2:00 The Spinney Brothers
2:00 - 3:00 The Bankesters
3:00 - 4:00 Sideline
4:00 - 5:00 Lonesome River Band
5:00 - 6:00 SUPPER BREAK
6:00 - 7:00 The Bankesters
7:00 - 8:00 The Spinney Brothers
8:00 - 9:00 Darin & Brooke Aldridge
9:00 - 10:00 Sideline
10:00 - 11:00 Lonesome River Band

Please check schedule before making your plans as this schedule is subject to change.
Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival: www.dumplinvalleybluegrass.com

Art-a-palooza is the Fountain City Art Center’s fabulous fall fundraiser, now in its 10th year!

Inside all three days: great bargains on artwork, pottery, priints, jewelry, decorative items, collector's plates, frames, easels, art supplies, home baked goods!
Saturday, outdoors: Artists' booths, art activities for the whole family, live music all day, food booths, Phil Campbell's stories.

September 18-20: Artists will be on site inside the Center doing demonstrations. Original paintings, easels, frames, art supplies, prints, pottery, jewelry, glassware, and decorative items will be on sale for bargain prices, along with a few small household items, all donated by Center members and area artists! Home-baked goods will be on sale all three days!

Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! Saturday, September 20 from 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM is Family Day with interactive art activities booths for all ages! We have 7 art activities booths set up for children, hosted by Central High School National Art Honor Society students. Family passes good for all these activities are $10 and individual passes are $5. No charge just to browse inside or out! Several musical groups will be playing on the grounds 11:30 AM – 4:30 PM. We’re thrilled to have Andy LeGrand on guitar and Chris Brock on mandolin, and two-time National Dulcimer Champion, Tim Simek in the line-up. Our food booths will be selling crepes, chili, and hot dogs. Family, fun with art, food, and music: How could you go wrong!

We will be offering $10 Family Passes on Saturday, good for all the children’s art activities booths. Also on Saturday only, local musicians will be playing on the grounds 11:00 AM – 4:30 PM.

Fountain City Art Center, 213 Hotel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37918. Information: 865-357-2787, www.fountaincityartctr.com

The UT Knoxville School of Art is pleased to announce that Natalia Jerzak and Sebastian Łubiński will present “Markings,” an exhibition of their prints and other works at Gallery 1010 from September 18-20th, 2015. A reception will be held on Friday September 19th, from 6-9pm.

Jerzak and Łubiński are printmaking students from The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, Poland, and are spending the month of September as guest artists at UT. Their campus residency is part of an exchange that also allows two students from The University of Tennessee to spend time in Wrocław each May. During their residency they work in the School of Art printmaking studios, sharing their experiences with the UT students.

Gallery 1010 is located at 113 S. Gay St. and is open Thursdays through Saturdays from 1-4pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu) or http://art.utk.edu/printmaking/index.html.

2014-2015 Moxley Carmichael Masterworks Season
Opening Night: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1
Jon Kimura Parker, piano

The KSO will open its 79th season with Torke’s Bright Blue Music, followed by Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, which was inspired by the score for a ballet based on the music of Carl Maria von Weber. The concert, conducted by Maestro Lucas Richman, concludes with Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring guest pianist Jon Kimura Parker, a renowned pianist who has performed with orchestras across the world. Mr. Parker has recorded music of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Chopin and PDQ Bach for Telarc, Mozart for CBC, and Stravinsky under his own label. He won the Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition.

At the Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Tickets and information: 865-291-3310, www.knoxvillesymphony.com

In the Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall

The Appalachian Ballet Company will present their annual Blue Jeans & Ballet. Dinner and drinks will be served at 6 pm on the Clayton Center Plaza followed by a choreographer’s showcase in the Lambert Recital Hall.

Dare to be moved...by the energy... several choreographers will share with the audience their thought process in creating a work for the dancers. This casual, fun evening with innovative dance pieces by ABC is a great way to celebrate with the company and kick off their 43rd season. Tickets are $55. Includes dinner, wine, beer and a one-hour showcase.

www.appalachianballet.com, (865) 982-8463. For more information and to purchase tickets please call the Clayton Center Box Office at
(865) 981-8590 or visit our website www.claytonartscenter.com

In 2004, Marc Broussard, then a precocious 22-year-old singer/songwriter, released his major-label debut; he called it Carencro, after the Louisiana town where he was born and raised, and its thematic centerpiece was a hickory-smoked slab of Bayou soul called 'Home.' That album and the three that followed revealed Broussard as an old-school Southern soul singer blessed with a rarefied gift and innate stylistic and emotional authenticity, causing the L.A. Times to rave, 'The guy can really sing, with power, nuance and class. Anybody got a phone book' I'd listen to him hum a few pages.' Those records also evidenced Broussard's maturation into a songwriter of uncommon eloquence, fashioning the indigenous idioms of his native region into compelling personal testimony.

Bijou Theatre, 803 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information/tickets: 865-522-0832, www.knoxbijou.com, www.ticketmaster.com

Bestselling author Mark Bowden gives a public presentation and book signing on Sept. 18. Bowden is the author of “Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War” and “The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden,” as well as an essayist in Pellissippi State’s 2014 Common Book, “The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013.”

His presentation begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Clayton Performing Arts Center on the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. The book signing and a question-and-answer session follow. Tickets are $10 apiece and may be ordered at www.pstcc.edu/tickets. Because of limited seating, tickets are limited to two per purchaser.

For more information about these and other events in the 2014-2015 Arts at Pellissippi State series, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400. To request accommodations for a disability, contact the executive director of Human Resources at (865) 694-6607 or humanresources@pstcc.edu.

Doc Collier Moonshine on the Parkway in Gatlinburg is hosting its Grand Opening Celebration on Thursday, September 18, 2014 in conjunction with the Gatlinburg Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours. This event is free and open to the public. Tours of the distillery, samples of Doc Collier Moonshine, and plenty of snacks and refreshments will be available from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

There will also be live music at the September 18th event by The Reunited’s Kate Phillips and Steve Laciak. No reservations are required, but anyone planning to sample moonshine must be at least 21 years old and present valid I.D.

Doc Collier Moonshine is located at 519 Parkway, Gatlinburg, TN 37738 (Traffic light #3). Parking suggested in the Gatlinburg City parking deck across the street. For more information, call Doc Collier General Manager Buddy Keyes at 800-398-5132.

This year’s Art Guild President, Jan Kastens, will kick-off the first meeting of the business year on Thursday, September 18, 2014, at 9:30 on the upper floor of Tellico Village Yacht Club, 100 Sequoyah Rd, Loudon, TN 37774. The meeting begins with a meet-and-greet and then a business meeting followed by a speaker.

For the first meeting of the year, the speaker will be Leah Marcum-Estes, Oak Ridge Art Center Director. Ms. Marcum-Estes manages the galleries, a large education program and all public events and projects at the Oak Ridge Art Center. Ms. Marcum-Estes will discuss the opportunities available at the Art Center and projects or programs individuals might enjoy. The Art Center is a regional art center that serves approximately 11 counties. It was the model from which Fine Arts Blount, the Fountain City Art Center, the Art Guild at Fairfield Glade, and the Shanks Center for the Arts in Crossville were designed. Ms. Marcum-Estes had been a museum professional and arts educator for over 35 years.

Guild members, guests and individuals interested in joining the Art Guild are welcome.

Pellissippi State Community College features the paintings of three area artists in its “Abstractions” exhibit. The event highlights works of John Bissonette, Jennifer Brickey and Heather Hartman, all of whom explore non-objective imagery in various forms. Brickey also is an assistant professor at Pellissippi State.

“The paintings all make use of color, space and structure to convey various ideas,” said Herb Rieth, curator of the exhibit and assistant professor at Pellissippi State. “The paintings are engaging, witty, mysterious and intense without using concrete images.”

This event is curated by Art faculty member Herb Rieth. See a brief write up in the Knoxville Daily Sun:
http://www.knoxvilledailysun.com/entertainment/2014/abstractions-exhibit.html#.VBCBzphJkeR

The exhibit is in the Bagwell Gallery on the Hardin Valley Campus, 10915 Hardin Valley Road. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.pstcc.edu/arts or call (865) 694-6400.

The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents Art Fair KMA 2014 September 14-20 at the museum. Art Fair KMA 2014 encompasses Artscapes, the Guild’s popular annual art sale and gala, as well as a day of family art activities. Festivities begin with a kickoff brunch and sale preview on Sunday, September 14; continue with a gala masked ball and art auction on Friday, September 19; and wrap up with an exciting day of free family art activities on Saturday, September 20. The purpose of Art Fair KMA 2014 is to raise money for museum programs and engage a broad and diverse segment of the community in museum activities.

The kick-off preview brunch on Sunday, September 14, noon-3pm, features a first look at the Artscapes art offerings. Preview brunch reservations are $40 per person.
Items for sale can also be previewed free of charge during regular museum hours Tuesday September 16-Friday September 19.
The gala Artscapes art auction begins on Friday evening September 19 with a reception and silent auction at 6:30, and dinner and live auction at 8:30, with a stellar group of more than 70 carefully selected works by artists of regional and national reputation. This year Artscapes has a masked ball theme. Another new feature is the offering for sale of sculpture specifically designed for outdoor display, as well as painted ceramic plates and bowls painted by local young people and inspired by the KMA collection. Artscapes: A Masked Ball reservations are $150 per person.

Art Fair KMA culminates in a full day of family art activities on Saturday, September 20 10am-6pm. Approximately 50 artists will offer live demonstrations and have work available for sale around the museum grounds. Visitors can enjoy a display of vintage motorcycles organized by Time Warp Room Motorcycle Club, and delicious meals from the food trucks parked around the museum. Family activities will also extend across the street, where the Kids of Fort Kid Committee, a team of volunteers, will be hosting a work day to preserve the much-loved playground and city landmark.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park Dr, Knoxville, TN 37916. Admission and parking are free. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org

Saturday, September 13 - 3:00
Kerry Madden – “Offsides,” memoir

Thursday, September 18 - 6:00
Amber Roessner – “Inventing Base-ball Heroes,” non-fiction

Friday, September 19 - 6:00
Carol Bradley – “The Last Chain on Billie,” non-fiction

Wednesday, September 24 - Noon
Bookaholics Book Group - “The Good Lord Bird,” fiction

Tuesday, September 30 - 6:00
Perre Coleman Magness –“Pimento Cheese: The Cookbook”

Union Ave Books, 517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902, (865) 951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com