Calendar of Events

The Guild of the Knoxville Museum of Art presents the Holiday Homes Tour 2015.

Thursday, December 10, features a Candlelight Home and Cocktail Buffet from 6:30-8:30 at the home of Carlton and Arthur Long.
Friday, December 11, is the Day Tour and Luncheon at the Cherokee Country Club. Homes are open 9:00-11:30AM and 1:30-4:00PM. Luncheon is at 12:00 Noon.
Tickets for the Candlelight Home are $125 and the Day Tour and Luncheon are $85.
Please visit www.knoxart.org for tickets and information.

The hippest concert of the season. Holiday favorites in the styles of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and many others. This year, multi-award winning vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant joins the band to help make your season bright. She brings with her a number of excellent arrangements from her 2014 holiday tour with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra led by trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.

At the Tennessee Theatre, 603 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN, 37902. Knoxville Jazz Orchestra: 865-573-3226, www.knoxjazz.org

The Knoxville Square Dance is back on second Thursdays at the Laurel! No experience or partner is necessary and the atmosphere is casual. No taps, please. With live old-time music by the Hellgrammites and calling by T-Claw.

Admission: $7 ($5 for students & JCA members)

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

Union Avenue Books announces:
Thursday, December 10th at 6 pm Book signing & readings from Chantal Bizzini’s Disenchanted City, edited by Marilyn Kallet & J. Bradford Anderson

Union Ave Books, 517 Union Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-951-2180, www.unionavebooks.com

December 10, 2015, a Holiday Soiree at Sapphire to benefit Positively Living.
A 5 course seasonal dinner with holiday flair. Tickets are $80 without wine pairings and $100 with wine pairing.

Buy tickets at positively-living.org.

A new WDVX live show! The WDVX Six O’clock Swerve with host Wayne Bledsoe, live from Scruffy City Hall in Market Square on Thursdays from 6-7PM. Tickets available at the door for $5.

With Kevin Abernathy.

Info: 865-544-1029, http://www.wdvx.com/live-shows-schedule/the-wdvx-six-oclock-swerve/

At Union Avenue Books!

Thursday, December 10th at 6:00PM: A Taste of Paris: Readings from Chantal Bizzini's Disenchanted City." Edited by Marilyn Kallet and J.B. Anderson; translated by Kallet, Anderson, and Darren Jackson.

UNION AVE BOOKS
517 Union Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37902-2115
Phone: 865-951-2180
Fax: 865-851-8239
www.unionavebooks.com

You are invited to the presentation of Silver Stage Players' Christmas 1945. Enjoy a time when radio was king. Watch live as WSSP studios performs an old time radio show. SMSA Charter members Jeanette & Charlie Stevens create, direct and act in this live old time radio show that is "heartwarming enough to melt even Scrooge's heart. See you there!

At John T. O'Connor Center 611 Winona St, Knoxville.

Hosted by Slow Food Tennessee Valley. What special holiday comes between Thanksgiving and Christmas every year and celebrates eating locally and responsibly? It's Slow Food's Terra Madre Day! Join Slow Food Tennessee Valley at The Central Collective for a potluck celebrating the diversity of food traditions and production. The potluck is a great time to take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle to share a meal with friends. We look forward to sharing this special holiday with you!

Please bring a dish with at least one local ingredient to share, a place setting (don't forget your bowl and spoon since it's soup weather), and a beverage of your choice (adult libations allowed). If you're too busy to cook, a $5 donation is suggested in lieu of a dish.

At The Central Collective, 923 N Central St, Knoxville, Tennessee 37917
https://www.facebook.com/events/1689506634668885/

A pop-up shop of locally-made gifts from 30 local artisans. Christmas shopping made easy!
Wed, Thurs, Sun 11-7
Fri-Sat 10-7

854 N Central St, Knoxville, Tennessee
(865) 640-4285 or http://thehiveknox.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thehiveknox

December 9-12, 2015

Ramada Inn & Smoky Mountain Convention Center,
4010 Parkway Drive
Pigeon Forge, TN
Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with bluegrass music in Pigeon Forge, TN!
Seasonal delights, sights and sounds of Christmas come alive, December 9th-12th, 2015 in beautiful Pigeon Forge, TN. Join your host band, Lorraine Jordan and the Carolina Road Band for Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies!

Ramada Inn & Smoky Mountain Convention Center,
4010 Parkway Drive
Pigeon Forge, TN
http://bluegrasschristmasinsmokies.com/

Popcorn balls and paper chains… fruits and nuts in their stockings … carols by the fire... a cedar tree cut in the nearby woods- that’s the Christmas most rural Appalachian children knew. And it's the Christmas we recreate each year throughout the Museum village at our special.... Join us as we recreate a meaningful holiday of simpler times. Traditional trees and hand-made decorations, typical of austere pioneer days, transform the Museum’s authentic log buildings.

Wander through the village and marvel at the simple treasures of their settlement days. In the one-room, dirt-floored “Dan'l Boone” cabin, strings of popcorn and cotton bolls circle a dormant tree; Paper chains and other ornaments trim the tree in the Little Tater Valley Schoolhouse. Sweet gum and sycamore balls are strung throughout the Mark Twain Family Cabin, and a traditional silver star tops a native red cedar Christmas tree in the turn-of-the-century Peters Homestead House. Apples, nuts, homemade toys, and oranges fill stockings hung in the cabins. Pick up some stocking stuffers in the Museum Gift and Antique Shop, which features everything from hand-crafted ornaments, locally made muscadine and moonshine jellies, and beautiful pottery, along with baskets, quilts, and plenty of Appalachian specialties. Or just come and enjoy a homemade southern country lunch in front of the warm fireplace. You'll want to make Christmas in Old Appalachia part of your family's annual holiday tradition!

Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy., Clinton, TN 37716 (16 miles north of Knoxville at I-75, exit 122, then one mile east). Open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas. Information: 865-494-7680, www.museumofappalachia.org