Calendar of Events

Fountain City Art Guild Annual Holiday Show and Sale - opening reception and exhibit. Also showing: "Oil paintings by the Students of Aurora H. Bull". Opening Reception, everyone welcome, Friday, October 30, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM.

Exhibit viewing hours: Tu, Th 9-5; W, F 10-9; most Saturdays 9-1

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

The Viola Celebration is a weekend workshop of master classes, recitals and ensemble performances with renowned guest violists. Registration and fee are required. For more information and to register, see: music.utk.edu/violacelebration
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Viola Celebration Faculty Concert
UT Viola Professor Hillary Herndon and guest violists, and the UT Symphony Orchestra.
Free concert, open to the public.
Saturday, October 31, 2015 at 8:00 p.m.
Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall, Natalie L. Haslam Music Center

Viola Celebration Finale Concert
Participants and faculty of the 2015 Viola Celebration perform in an All-Viola Orchestra.
Free concert, open to the public.
Sunday, November 1, 2015 at 3:00 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 is located at 1408 Middle Drive on the UT campus. 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

Costume Party!

Alive After Five is a unique live music series that takes place in the smoke-free, casually elegant setting of the Ann and Steve Bailey Hall in the Knoxville Museum of Art. There is a live band on stage, seating at tables, two cash bars, food from area restaurants, free freshly popped popcorn, and free parking. Audience members can enjoy listening to music, dancing, and browsing the museum’s art galleries. Admission is $10 for general and $5 for museum members and college students with ID. Ages 17 and under are admitted free. Info: 865-934-2039.

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

The Tennessee Sheiks, formed in 2004, is made up of several long time Knoxville musicians who have graced many stages in numerous groups over the years. The Sheiks music is best described as eclectic acoustic swing: they play jazz standards played (and sung) a la the style of the great Gypsy guitarist Django Rinehardt, as well as original, folk, bluegrass and country tunes.

The Sheiks are:

Nancy Brennan Strange- vocals
Don Cassell- mandolin, dobro, vocals
Don Wood guitar
Barry 'Po' Hannah- guitar
Ken Wood- percussion
Will Yager- bass
Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information/tickets: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org.

Join us for a celebration of Knoxville as the University of Tennessee School of Music and the Department of Theatre feature: Samuel Barber's Summer of 1915, Aaron Copland's The Tender Land, the academic premiere of Ellen Reed, Royce Vavrek's Summer of 2015, and other music and readings that honor our region.

Tickets: Tennessee Theatre box office, 865-684-1200 ext. 2 or www.ticketmaster.com

$20 for adults, $15 for senior citizens 60+, $5 for students with a school ID and youth 18 and under

At the Tennessee Theatre, 604 South Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-974-5678, www.music.utk.edu/events

Spooky surprises await you at the 5th Annual HearthScares Ball at James White’s Fort! Come dressed in your most impressive costume! Dancing, frightening finger foods, silent auction, costume contest, and other Halloween hi-jinks! Proceeds benefit preservation at James White’s Fort. Must be 21 or over to attend.

James White's Fort, 205 E. Hill Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915. Information: 865-525-6514, www.jameswhitefort.org

United Way of Greater Knoxville and Young Leaders' Society presents Blind Hallo-wine.
$30 ticket includes wine tasting, heavy hors d'oeuvres and entertainment by Beaman DJ Productions.
Friday October 30, 7:00PM, Hunter Valley Farm Pavilion, 9133 Hunter Valley Lane.

Join us for a night of spooktacular fun! Bring 2 identical bottles of your favorite wine ($12 and under), one to be sampled and reviewed and the other to be part of the winners haul. The winning bottle's owner gets to take all the unopened second bottles home.
Attendees will vote for their favorite wine, and we will award all the unopened red wine bottles to the person with the top voted red wine and all the unopened white wine bottles to the person with the top voted white wine, for a total of two winners.
Dress to impress in a Halloween costume; contests or most creative, epic couples, and group themed costumes.

blindhallowine.eventbrite.com to RSVP
uwgk.org
1301 Hannah Ave, Knoxville, TN 37921
(865) 523-9131

Halloween is fast approaching – and the CCC will once again be offering an October evening of other-worldly film fare for your viewing pleasure. On Friday, October 30, at 7:30 PM, we'll be presenting an all-fantasy bill, taking us into two different realms of the supernatural.

It’s a knockout double feature of mind-bending fables – and it begins with one of the most famous of all time: Alice in Wonderland. You're going to be dazzled by the now almost-obscure, 1933 live-action version of Alice. In this Paramount Pictures production, the Lewis Carroll classic comes to life in a way that’s at once charming and bizarre. The ingenious screenplay for this walk through the looking glass was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and William Cameron Menzies. Menzies was also the film’s art director and, together with Alice’s set decorator and wardrobe designers, he created something that’s strangely fascinating and visually without equal. Young Charlotte Henry endearingly portrays Alice. Her castmates are a gaggle of early ‘30s film favorites.

Alice in Wonderland will be followed by Earthbound (1940), another unusual exercise in phantasmagoria. Earthbound was one of Twentieth Century-Fox’s rare ventures into the beyond. Its intriguing script is full of rich dialogue, sometimes bordering on the poetic. Lovely Lynn Bari has the pivotal role of sultry, high-strung Linda Reynolds. Linda had been involved in an adulterous affair with financier Nick Desborough (Warner Baxter). Their relationship had ended at Desborough’s insistence. Heartsick, Linda unsuccessfully tries to win him back. Madness takes hold – and she shoots him dead. Nick’s transparent ghost image emerges and becomes the unseen observer of his killer’s ongoing unsavory activities. The spirit then takes it upon itself to draw his erstwhile lover to her comeuppance. Stylishly executed, Earthbound is otherworldly melodrama at its finest.

Friday, October 30, 7:30PM.
Our 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!

The first ever WDVX Blackhorse Brewery Halloween Eve Hootenanny happens on Friday, October 30, at Market Square and features music from Same as it Ever Was and, Jack Rentfro and the Apocalypso Quartet. Plus a special appearance by Freddy Smith and his Zombie Chicken, prizes for best costumes plus more tricks and treats soon to be announced. Festival seating at Market Square from 5 to 10PM.
Location: Market Square in downtown Knoxville.
Time: 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
FREE EVENT
WDVX, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-544-1029, www.wdvx.com

Friends of Music and the Arts, a support society for music at Ascension, augments the calendar of liturgical feastdays with concerts and organ recitals throughout the year.

Choral concert with Matthew Guard, director. "Lieder and Love Songs". Free and open to the public.

At the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, 800 S Northshore Dr, Knoxville, TN 37919. Information: 865-588-0589, www.knoxvilleascension.org/music-at-ascension

Come join us on Halloween for some fun activities during the Last Friday Art Walk on W. Broadway in downtown Maryville. This is a new event that replaces the annual event that has been held at the Everett Rec Center. Activities will include trick or treating at downtown businesses, a pet costume contest, a pumpkin carving contest, a magic show, and much more! Bring the kids and their trick or treat bag, and stop at designated areas for great, FREE treats!

Magic Show at Palace Theater - free 30-min show for the family at 7:30 PM.

More info: 865-983-9244 or http://www.parksrec.com/special_events/halloween.aspx

by Anne Washburn; directed by Casey Sams. At the Lab Theatre

“ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! When was the last time you saw a play so smart it made your head spin?” The New York Times

It’s the end of everything in contemporary America. A future without power! What will survive? In post-apocalyptic Northern California, a group of strangers bond by recreating an episode of “The Simpsons.” From this meeting, memories of Marge and Homer become the basis for shaping a new society as the play travels decades into the future.

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