Calendar of Events

Join us in the Planetarium for a live guided sky tour! See the night sky on the dome, and learn what astronomy hobbyists can hope to see from their own back yards. $2 per person. Tickets to this show can be purchased without museum admission, and is great for adults interested in basic astronomy.

Friday, March 13, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, March 20, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, April 3, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, April 24, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, May 1, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, May 8, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, May 15, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 4:30pm to 5:00pm

The Muse Knoxville: 865.594.1494, info@themuseknoxville.org, http://www.themuseknoxville.org/

Opening reception March 13 from 6 to 7:30 p.m.; artist’s talk at 6:30 p.m.
Exhibit runs March through April 2015

The TVUUC gallery is pleased to host two printmaking exhibitions, Revisit and First Year Framework. In Revisit, Hoyer reflects on recent trips to Manila through printmaking and painting media. First Year Framework, co-curated by Hoyer, showcases the reflections of 15 first year students on their graduate arts programs from across the region and the country. Both exhibitions illustrate the vast potential of printmaking and how art contributes to comprehension of time and place.

Jade Hoyer is a printmaking artist based out of Knoxville, Tennessee, where she is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in printmaking. Hoyer creates art addressing social and cultural issues using humor, color, and narrative. Her artwork has been recognized by organizations including the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, the Philippine Association of Printmakers, and her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Free and open to the public.

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Gallery
2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37918

46th Annual Jubilee Festival - A celebration of traditional music
RESCHEDULED to Friday-Saturday, March 13-14

JCA showcases some of the finest practitioners of mountain music across the generations, home grown in our own back yard. Friday and Saturday night we will have old time string bands and song and plenty of jamming in the basement. This year’s performers include Roy Harper, Tom McCarroll and Tammie McCarroll-Burroughs, the Mockingbirds, the Mumbillies, John Alvis & friends, Mike & Marcia Bryant, the Knox County Jug Stompers and more. The Jubilee Festival is part of the Penny4Arts Program — with the advance purchase of one adult ticket through our regular ticket outlets up to three children’s tickets may be purchased for a penny each. Penny tickets are limited and must be reserved in advance through the JCA office at 522-5851.

Fri & Sat Evening: $10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Adv $12 General Day of Show • $6 Children 12 & Under

Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org. For tickets: 865-523-7521, www.KnoxTIX.com

Annual Conference of the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter (SEMSEC)—Peaks and Valleys http://web.utk.edu/~musicol/
Annual regional meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, featuring diverse paper presentations, lectures, and performances. The featured performer is GRAMMY-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer Dom Flemons, the "American Songster" www.domflemons.com/about.html . The keynote speaker is award-winning ethnomusicologist Jonathan Ritter, University of California-Riverside http://music.ucr.edu/faculty/ritter/.
Friday and Saturday, March 13-14, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Alumni Memorial Building located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. (The James R. Cox Auditorium is located in the Alumni Memorial Building.) The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus.
*For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

The Clayton Center presents The Annie Moses Band on Friday, March 13, 2015, in the Ronald And Lynda Nutt Theatre at 8:00PM.

The Annie Moses Band's innovative sound has delighted audiences around the world - in record breaking numbers of airings on PBS and on stages as diverse as Carnegie Hall and the Grand Ole Opry. Members of the band are also mostly members of the same family and are no strangers to musical innovations. Veteran composer, Bill Wolaver, weaves musical styles together into cinematic arrangements while the virtuosic siblings bring Juilliard-honed chops to Nashville-styled music-making. The colorful and moving songwriting reflects each member's diversity.
The Annie Moses band combines the best of beloved genres in a style that unifies audiences, young and old, classical connoisseurs and roots enthusiasts, jazz aficionados and bluegrass buffs. This is outstanding music.

Clayton Center for the Arts: 502 East Lamar Alexander Parkway, Maryville, TN 37804. Tickets are available at the Clayton Center Box Office M-F 10AM-6PM or by phone or online: 865-981-8590, www.ClaytonArtsCenter.com

The Athens Area Council for the Arts celebrates its 35th annual performance series with an all-star lineup of performing artists. The five concerts in the 2014-2015 Big Time/Small Town Performance Season are at Athens City Middle School Auditorium, 200 Keith Lane, Athens, Tennessee.

Rounding out the 2014-2015 season on Friday, March 13, 2015 is the Big Easy’s globe-trotting jazz ambassadors, DUKES of Dixieland, who blow traditional jazz and Dixieland into the 21st Century, weaving strands of pop, gospel, and country with true New Orleans sound. Bright and brassy or smooth and dark as cane syrup, the DUKES bring a time-honored authenticity to all of the hits of Dixie’s yesteryear.

Tickets are $18/adult ($20 at the door, pending availability) and $10/student and are available by phone at 423-745-8781, and at The Arts Center, 320 North White Street, Athens, Tennessee 37303.

Athens Area Council for the Arts: 320 North White Street, Athens, TN, 37303. Info: 423-745-8781, www.athensartscouncil.org

House of Strangers (1949), a blistering saga of an Italian-American banking family. Written and directed by the masterful Joseph L. Mankiewicz, this searing drama stars the immortal Edward G. Robinson, as the exacting, unprincipled banker Gino Monetti. Gino’s thriving concern is situated on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and it is there where he employs his four sons at meager salaries. Interpersonal resentments reign supreme among all five men, and they heighten to an unbearable point – as deceit and corruption magnify to the extreme. Robinson is very well-complemented here by the striking performances of those playing his sons: Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Also electrifying is House of Strangers’ gifted leading lady, the indomitable Susan Hayward. Lending support this furnace of family fury are three other actresses of note: Hope Emerson, Esther Minciotti and living legend Debra Paget.

House of Strangers will hold you spellbound – but, before it does, you’ll be equally mesmerized by our March short subject, “The Will to Survive,” a January 1955 episode of Studio 57, the long-running TV anthology. A tale of familial loathing and avarice, “The Will to Survive” is the sordid story of three beneficiaries of a will, each of whom receives a strange, apparently useless bequest – however, within one of them, a grand boodle is hidden. Bringing this twisty, lurid story to life is an accomplished cast, headlined by Marguerite Chapmen, Robert Horton, Donald Curtis and Leigh Snowden.

Location: The spacious clubhouse of the Windover Apartments. The journey there will take you to Cheshire Drive (off Kingston Pike, near the Olive Garden); going down Cheshire, turn right at the Windover Apartments sign, then go to the third parking lot on your right, next to the pool. There, the building that houses the clubhouse and offices of the Windover will be just a few steps away!

Please join members of the Knoxville Downtown Sertoma Club for a St. Patrick’s Day Dinner & Concert. The club is raising funds for the Sertoma Center in assisting them with their mission to “to serve adults with developmental disabilities through providing the highest quality of residential, vocational and community services that empowers the persons served to lead richer, fuller lives.” We’ll listen to the tunes of Four Leaf Peat, the best Irish band around, and dine on a traditional St. Patrick’s Day Buffet of Corn Beef & Cabbage and Irish Stew. To wet your whistle let’s toast with your choice of a pint of green beer, Guinness, Jamison Whiskey, or a Sertoma favorite…Shamrock Punch! While we won’t be dying the Tennessee River green you still have the opportunity to show off your ‘green’ in our best dressed contest.

Saint Patrick's Day occurs annually on March 17, the date marked by the death of Saint Patrick, Ireland's most celebrated patron saint. The festivities surrounding this date specifically commemorate Saint Patrick, and the subsequent arrival of Christianity in Ireland.

To find out more about Four Leaf Peat, and to listen to their music, please visit their website: www.fourleafpeat.com

Tickets: $50 per person. Reservations through the Foundry: 865-546-8656

Get ready to laugh and have a good time as Uptown Comedy Jam II stops in our theater. Following the tradition of Def Comedy Jam, Uptown features over-the-top jokes along with classic throw-back music from top local DJs for an evening of boisterous entertainment.

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

Jonathan Ritter is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on the indigenous
and Afro-Hispanic musical cultures of Andean South America. His work addresses broad questions of how musical expressions are implicated in the work of cultural memory and political activism, particularly during times of political violence. His book, We Bear Witness With Our Song: The Politics of Music and Violence in the Peruvian Andes explores these themes as they emerged within the traditional and folkloric music of Ayacucho, Peru, in the context of the Shining Path guerrilla insurrection and ensuing conflict that took place in that country. He is also co-editor of Music in the Post-9/11 World, a collection of essays that explore both domestic and international musical responses to the attacks of September 11, 2001. At the University of California Riverside, Ritter teaches numerous courses on Native American, Latin American, and other musical traditions, and is the director of Mayupatapi, the UCR Andean Music Ensemble.

Friday, March 13 at 5:15 p.m.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

UT School of Music: Unless otherwise noted, concerts are FREE and open to the public. The Alumni Memorial Building located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. (The James R. Cox Auditorium is located in the Alumni Memorial Building.) The Natalie Haslam Music Center is located at 1741 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus.
*For individual or small group performances, please check the web site or call the day of the event for updates or cancellations: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Save the date! The Appalachian Arts Craft Center in Norris will hold its Spring Porch Sale on March 12. The Porch Sale, held each Spring and Fall, features marked down stock, seconds, student crafts and unjuried work by members of the Craft Center. It’s an excellent time to get great deals. Details TBA.

The Appalachian Arts Craft Center is a nonprofit center that has been fulfilling its mission by promoting traditional artists and crafts in the East Tennessee area for over 40 years. The center is located at 2716 Andersonville Highway 61 in Norris, Tenn., one mile east of I-75 north at Exit 122. For more information, call 865-494-9854, or visit our web site, www.appalachianarts.net.

Printmaking in the 21st Century by University of Tennessee Alumni

March 11 - 24, 2015. Opening Reception Friday, March 20 6-8:30 PM in the Ewing Gallery

This exhibition presenting prints by twenty-one University of Tennessee alumni was organized in conjunction with the 2015 SCG International Conference. Artists selected for the exhibition completed graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Tennessee between 1994 and 2014 and include Bryan Baker, Tim Dooley, Wade Guyton, Mark Hosford, Liz Klimek, Shaurya Kumar, Lauren Kussro, Eun Lee, Emily Minnie, Josh Minnie, Katie Ries, Clifton Riley, Hannah Skoonberg, Josh Smith, Veronica Siehl, Meredyth Sparks, Jessie Van der Laan, Crystal Wagner, Ericka Walker, Kelley Walker, and Ashlee Weitlauf.

Ewing Gallery, 1715 Volunteer Blvd on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Information: 865-974-3200, www.ewing-gallery.utk.edu