Calendar of Events

Just like at your favorite meat n’ three, the WDVX Blue Plate Special® is served up piping hot. This fresh and free daily helping of live music during the lunchtime hour that features performers from all over the world and right here in Knoxville has put WDVX on the map as East Tennessee’s Own community supported radio.

The WDVX Blue Plate Special® is a live performance radio show held at noon, with your host Red Hickey Monday through Friday and Doug Lauderdale on Saturday, at the WDVX studio inside the Knoxville Visitor Center. It’s always free to join in so please don’t be shy. Make yourself at home as part of the WDVX family. From blues to bluegrass, country to Celtic, folk to funk, rockabilly to hillbilly, local to international, it all part of the live music experience on the WDVX Blue Plate Special. You’re welcome to bring your lunch.

Previous performing artists include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Avett Brothers, Old Crowe Medicine Show, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Lauderdale, Marty Stuart, Nickel Creek, Red Stick Ramblers, Rodney Crowell, String Cheese Incident, The Del McCoury Band, Tim O’Brien, Yonder Mountain String Band, David Grisman, Claire Lynch Band, Brett Dennen, Tommy Emmanuel, Uncle Earl, The Infamous Stringdusters, the Jerry Douglas Band, Joan Osborne, John Oats, Mary Gauthier, Darrell Scott, and many many more! There’s plenty of great music to go around! http://wdvx.com/program/blue-plate-special/

Free 2-hour visitor parking located next door to the Knoxville Visitor Center. One Vision Plaza, 301 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Info: 865-544-1029, http://www.wdvx.com

Dogwood Arts Art In Public Places - Temporary Sculpture Exhibition

An exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculptures in downtown Knoxville, the McGhee Tyson Airport, Zoo Knoxville, and Oak Ridge. The annual rotating installation is one of many Dogwood Arts programs focused on providing access to the arts for everyone, promoting awareness of the strong visual arts community thriving in our region, and creating a vibrant and inspiring environment for residents and visitors to experience.

Sculpture installation will take place March 22-23, 2019.

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com

WordStream: The Weekly Writer's Voice is a reading/performance series sponsored by WDVX-FM, held Fridays at noon at Visit Knoxville on the Blue Plate Special stage.

The series, coordinated by Linda Parsons and Stellasue Lee, features poetry, fiction, spoken word, play excerpts, and sometimes music. The podcast shines a light on our literary gems near and far.

Podcast site: https://wdvx.com/program/word-stream/.

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

View the calendar of ongoing 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

Dogwood Arts is excited to showcase Knoxville’s budding musical talent at our upcoming First Friday Open Mic Night! You're invited to join us on Friday, August 2nd from 5:30-8:30PM at Dogwood Arts.

Ready to showcase your talents? Register online at http://bit.ly/2XAVytx and reserve a slot in advance (this event is focused on songwriting, so please refrain from any set-up that is more than 3-4 inputs). Each slot will be given 2 songs or 10 minutes, whichever comes first. The open mic night is open to musicians of all levels. Come out, support your friends, and enjoy the music of our great city!

First Friday Exhibition
Open Mic Night will happen alongside the opening reception for “Pieced” a collaborative exhibition of artwork by Melissa Everett and Nick DeFord in the Dogwood Gallery. The exhibition will be on display August 2-30th.

Dogwood Arts, 123 W. Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information: 865-637-4561, www.dogwoodarts.com
Gallery hours M-F 9:30-4:30