Calendar of Events

3:30 & 5:30 pm – 2 Shows! Performance at Hiwassee College

Starring 60 local children! Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house she goes. Red Riding Hood, not so little anymore, and her pre-teen pals try to stay on the straight and narrow in the latest adventure from the Missoula Children’s Theatre, RED RIDING HOOD. The Big Bad Wolf, who is not so bad after all, and a friendly neighborhood Forest Ranger urge our heroes to stay true to the path, for in the Shadows lurk diversions and a sinister surprise or two. A pack of woefully nasty young wolves and a handsome Woodsman, too good to be true, are a must for our story. www.mctinc.org

Tickets: Adult/$10; Student/$5

Monroe Area Council for the Arts: 423-442-3210, www.monroearts.com

January 30, 2016, 9:30AM-4:30PM.
Mark your calendar and watch for more information.

With Del McCoury Band and Sierra Hull. For more than 50 years, Del McCoury’s music has defined authenticity for hardcore bluegrass fans as well as a growing number of fans among those only vaguely familiar with the genre. McCoury is something special, a living link to the days when bluegrass was made only in hillbilly honkytonks, schoolhouse shows and on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, yet also a commandingly vital presence today, from prime time and late night talk show TV to music festivals where audiences number in the hundreds of thousands. Del might be 76, but he’s singing better than ever and showing no signs of slowing down. Sierra Hull has been recognized from age 11 as a virtuoso mandolin-player, astonishing audiences and fellow-musicians alike. Now a seasoned touring musician nearing her mid-20s, Hull has delivered her most inspired, accomplished, and mature recorded work to date; no small feat. Weighted Mind (due out January 29, 2016) is a landmark achievement, not just in Sierra Hull’s career, but in the world of folk-pop, bluegrass, and acoustic music overall.

At the Clayton Center for the Arts in Maryville, TN. The show will be from 7pm - 9:30pm. Tickets are on sale now though, so don't wait...This is going to be a great show! More information about the show, the venue, and purchasing tickets can be found here. http://www.claytonartscenter.com/event/wdvxs-world-class-bluegrass-presents-the-del-mccoury-band-with-sierra-hull/?instance_id=8060

WDVX, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-544-1029, www.wdvx.com

Join us for free a free Family Fun Day featuring activities, crafts, tours, and more. We’ll explore Mayan texts in our special exhibition, Maya: Lords of Time. All materials will be provided. The program is free and open to the public. Reservations are not necessary.

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, 1327 Circle Park Dr on the UT campus, Knoxville, TN 37996. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 9AM-5PM, Sunday, 1-5PM. Information: 865-974-2144, http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu

2016 Grammy Nominee
"I grew up in a tar and paper covered shack right near Loretta Lynn's childhood home," reflects Dale Ann Bradley on her origin in east Kentucky as a preacher's daughter. In the 1980s she was performing as a solo artist at Renfro Valley then joined the New Coon Creek Girls in the 1990s. Her latest album Pocket Full of Keys is nominated for a 2016 Grammy. Along the way Dale Ann also received five IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year awards, the latest in 2012.

Tickets: $14 (discounts apply to advance purchase, JCA members, students & seniors)
At Jubilee Community Arts, 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville, TN 37916. For information/tickets: 865-522-5851, www.jubileearts.org.

(All Ages) Join us for our ever popular annual Seed Swap at the Visitor Center. Using the seeds from the plants we grow in our own gardens allows us to repeat our successes, maintain genetic diversity and be more self-reliant. Ijams’ Seed Swap is a free event to promote the sharing of vegetable, flower and other seeds among area gardeners. Everyone is welcome, with or without seeds!

More events at http://ijams.org/events/. Ijams Nature Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Grounds and trails open during daylight hours. Call for Visitor Center hours. Information: 865-577-4717, www.ijams.org

Lloyd Branson completed hundreds of paintings, but unfortunately we have no detailed original records listing his artistic production. To document the breadth of Branson's career, ETHS is conducting a survey of works associated with Knoxville's "native genius".The public is invited to bring Branson paintings, photographs, and other materials to the Est Tennessee History Center to be photographed or scanned and entered into a database of Branson's known works. At noon, Andrew Hurst, a retired professional from the University of Tennessee's McClung Museum, will conduct a program on caring for paintings and other artifacts. For information about the Branson Documentation, please call Michele MacDonald, curator of collections, at 865 215 8829.

Brown Bag Lecture at noon, Branson Documentation 10:00AM-noon and 1:00-2:00PM.
Please note that during the noon presentation there will be a 1 hour break in the documentation process.

East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay Street, www.easttnhistory.org.

Don’t Miss Our Annual Tasting Party! $10 per person in advance or at the door.

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

In this classic comedy, vulgar, egotistical “junkman” Harry Brock, along with his “dumb" but charming girlfriend, Billie Dawn, arrives in Washington to make a few “deals” with powerful political big-wigs. Increasingly embarrassed by Billie’s lack of knowledge and social graces, Harry hires an idealistic young magazine reporter to educate the former showgirl. Billie not only learns to appreciate history and politics, but along the way, discovers the depths of Harry’s crooked activities. Armed with a natural honesty and frank attitude, Billie must decide how to utilize her newfound knowledge to extricate herself from being a tool in Harry’s illegal schemes.

Oak Ridge Playhouse, 227 Broadway, Oak Ridge, TN 37830. Information and tickets: 865-482-9999, www.orplayhouse.com

The WaveTransform Festival is a series of prominent music concerts consisting of artists from Knoxville's WaveTransform Recording Studios (www.wavetransform.com). The festival features events which cover several styles of music, and which include both local artists and international musicians who have performed in North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit the festival website at www.wavetransformfestival.com. Tickets: $15.50

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

The Knoxville Museum of Art is proud to present the first-ever exhibition dedicated to the history and legacy of the groundbreaking artists who worked and exhibited together in the fifties and sixties and eventually became known as The Knoxville 7. The KMA-organized exhibition features more than 60 works culled from the museum’s extensive holdings, augmented by loans from collectors around the region.

The brash, ambitious artists who exhibited together as The Knoxville 7 shared the common visual language of Abstract Expressionism, producing what are likely the first abstract art works in East Tennessee and establishing a foothold for modern art in the region. In the early 1950s, C. Kermit “Buck” Ewing, first head of the University of Tennessee’s art department, recruited a group of young artists—initially Carl Sublett, Walter Stevens, Robert Birdwell—who exhibited actively in Knoxville and throughout the Southeast. While Sublett and Stevens shared an exclusive interest in the landscape as a point of reference for their abstractions, Birdwell and Ewing often found inspiration in urban settings and the human figure. Sometimes they exhibited as a foursome and other times as The Knoxville 7 with fellow artists Joanna Higgs Ross, Richard Clarke, and Philip Nichols. This important exhibition brings into focus a richly productive period in the art history of the region and also attests to the depth of the museum’s growing holdings of works by Knoxville 7 artists.

The opening for the exhibition is Thursday, January 28, 2016 from 6 to 8pm with a short program at 6:45pm.

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

3 BIG NIGHTS! $5 each night. Doors open at 6pm each night, show starts at 7pm. This year's beneficiary is the Knoxville Girls Rock Camp. Sweet P's BBQ and Soul House will be slinging BBQ "Sundae" Bowls and take our word for it... they are DELICIOUS!

Thursday, January 28
10 – Hellaphant
9 – Handsome and the Humbles
8 – The Jank
7 – Jonathan Sexton

Friday, January 29
12 – Senryu
11 – Psychic Baos
10 – Tim Lee 3
9 – Kevin Abernathy Music
8 – The Lonetones
7 – Pinklets

Saturday, January 30
11 – Knoxville Tells reunion
Todd Steed & the Suns of Phere with special guests
10 – Heiskell
9 – Lonesome Coyotes
8 – Jennifer Jane Niceley
7 – EmiSunshine

At Relix Theatre, 1208 N Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. Information: 865-474-1017, www.relixvariety.com. Event info: https://www.facebook.com/WayneStockFestival/