Calendar of Events

Barn Dance - June 13, 2025.
The Museum of Appalachia’s signature fundraising event features a sumptuous
Southern dinner, live & silent auctions, square dancing, and more.

Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy, Clinton, TN 37716. Information: 865-494-7680, www.museumofappalachia.org

The Museum’s signature fundraising event features a sumptuous Southern dinner, live & silent auctions, square dancing, and more.

Museum of Appalachia, 2819 Andersonville Hwy, Clinton, TN 37716. Information: 865-494-7680, www.museumofappalachia.org

Friday, June 13 - Legends Concert: Dirty Cello

All concerts are scheduled to take place in the Heritage Center's covered, open-air amphitheater. Seating is provided, although all guests are welcome to bring a cushion, pillow, blanket, etc. as needed. Doors open 90 minutes prior to showtime, and concessions are available at that time as well. No outside food or drink except for bottled water is allowed into the amphitheater. No alcohol can be brought in with you.

For more information or to order tickets by phone, please call the office at 865-448-0044.
https://gsmheritagecenter.org/events-tickets
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center | 123 Cromwell Drive | Townsend, TN 37882

1964: The Tribute, Friday, June 13, 2025, 8:00 PM at Tennessee Theatre.

Tickets at: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/1B00624CBA1359DA

Tennessee Theatre, 604 S. Gay Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. For information/tickets: 865-684-1200, www.tennesseetheatre.com

https://www.museumofappalachia.org/barn-dance/

The Museum of Appalachia’s signature fundraising event features wagon rides, a sumptuous Southern dinner, traditional bluegrass and old-time musical entertainment, Appalachian square dancing and live and silent auctions. Proceeds from the event benefit the Museum of Appalachia, a 501(c)3 organization, and are used in support of their mission to preserve Southern Appalachian history and culture.

Nief-Norf is thrilled to announce our first annual retreat-style new music convention, which will conclude the 2025 Nief-Norf Summer Festival. The gathering will be a convergence of all things education, collaboration, innovation, exploration, performance, & more! Stay tuned for more information regarding presentation, performance, and registration opportunities!

https://www.niefnorf.org/
https://airtable.com/appZRsknOUKjgAcFK/shrYFCe1HP3xGwUqV

33rd Annual Slam in Downtown Knoxville

This marks Knoxville’s fifth time hosting this incredible event—more than almost any other city—because our community continues to embrace the power of poetry and storytelling. Details TBA

https://www.southernfriedpoetryslam.com/2025-tournament-knoxville-tn/

By Greg Allen, Directed by Shelby Frye

Having opened in 1988 and still playing today as the longest-running show in Chicago history, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind is an ensemble experiment in presenting “30 Plays in 60 Minutes.” Each two-minute play is performed in random order with an interactive audience. An onstage 60-minute timer keeps everyone honest. This collection of 90 comic, tragic, political, personal, and abstract plays gives you the chance to program your own evening of 30 Neo-Futurist plays to reflect the lives and experiences of your own ensemble. Go!

Performances are Thu-Sat 7:30 PM and Sun 3 PM

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 800 S. Central Street, Knoxville, TN 37902. Information & tickets: 865-544-1999, www.theatreknoxville.com

The Nief-Norf Summer Festival is a multidisciplinary new music festival that brings together performers, composers, improvisers, scholars, and music technologists for collaboration and exploration of contemporary music within an immersive environment. Hosted in Knoxville, Tennessee, the festival provides opportunities for masterclasses, workshops, and performances with world-renowned faculty at the state-of-the-art Natalie L. Haslam Music Center. Nief-Norf fosters an incredible community of contemporary musicians who create, collaborate, experiment, and problem solve in exploration of what it means to be contemporary musicians and perform for a modern audience.

https://www.niefnorf.org/summerfestival

Electricity for All examines the complex relationship between technology, information, and power through the historical framework of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a key New Deal initiative from the 1930s that introduced electricity to the Tennessee River Valley. The featured artists provide diverse perspectives on the social implications of technological advances, questioning the histories that were lost and the new narratives that emerged. Organized by the KMA.

For additional information and updates, follow the Knoxville Museum of Art on social media:
Facebook: Knoxville Museum of Art, Instagram: @knoxvillemuseumofart, X: @knoxart

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World's Fair Park, Knoxville, TN 37916. Hours: Tu-Sa 10-5, Su 1-5. Information: 865-525-6101, www.knoxart.org. Admission and parking are free.

MAIN GALLERY
A solo show, Injury: Thirteen Studies, featuring recent work by artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi (Johannesburg, South Africa)

PROJECT SPACE
From Dark To Blue by Meg White (Milwaukee, WI)

Tri-Star Arts at Candoro Marble Building, 4450 Candora Drive, Knoxville, TN 37920. Hours: Tu-Sa 11-5. Information: https://tristararts.org/visit

Home Runs & Home Teams - A History of the National Pastime in Tennessee
Rogers-Claussen Feature Gallery

As Tennesseeans, baseball is in our DNA, and although the game is common to us, it has never remained the same during anyone’s lifetime. Who were among the first to play baseball in Tennessee? How did 31 Tennessee towns come to host a MiLB team? What makes a day at a Tennessee ballpark an iconic experience? Home Runs & Home Teams provides an overview of the national pastime as it has played out in the Volunteer State. For every story included in the exhibition, there are hundreds more–from players to pennants, from bat makers to bat boys–that could have been shared. So as you “round the bases,” think about your connections to the game, your ties to the past. What does baseball mean to you and to your community? What baseball stories should libraries and museums preserve to share with future Tennesseans? Let’s play ball!

601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN 37902
https://www.easttnhistory.org/exhibitions/home-runs-home-teams/