Alan Sherrod
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Drawing from a career background in music, motion pictures, and theatre, Alan Sherrod has been writing about Knoxville's diverse art and music scene since 2007 — first as the classical/new music writer for the alternative weekly Metro Pulse, then later in the same capacity for the Knoxville Mercury. After the closure of Metro Pulse in 2014 by its parent company, Sherrod created ARTS KNOXVILLE to provide a home for Knoxville arts journalism. In August, 2017, he expanded ARTS KNOXVILLE into the site it is today — a site dedicated to continuing the arts journalism legacy of those alternative weeklies. In addition to covering Knoxville's arts scene, he has also contributed music content to the Nashville Scene and other arts and entertainment publications around the U.S, including the website, Classical Journal. Mr. Sherrod was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts — the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and Opera — under the auspices of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2019, Sherrod was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

Review: KSO Features Flutist Devan Jaquez in Chamber Classics Series

BY ALAN SHERROD   Be careful what you wish for. Those Knoxvillians yearning for a cute little snowfall instead encountered Mother Nature in a particularly cantankerous winter mood.  The snow and extreme cold wreaked havoc on our concert plans last…

Review: Spectacle Abounds in National Tour of ‘Wicked’ at the Tennessee Theatre

In a genre that often sees a show’s gradual demise once the original stars have moved on, ‘Wicked’ has enjoyed the opposite effect.

Knoxville Museum of Art Announces Steven Matijcio as New Executive Director

The Knoxville Museum of Art has announced the appointment of Steven Matijcio as the museum’s new executive director. Currently director and chief curator at the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston since 2019,  Matijcio is succeeding David Butler,…

Review: A Poignant Beginning for ‘The Christmas Spider’ via Marble City Opera

BY ALAN SHERROD   If one were to start counting stories, plays, television, and films that relate to, or take place at, Christmas-time, one might assume that every possible twist on the subject matter has been exhausted. Not only are…

Saturday — Marble City Opera Premieres ‘The Christmas Spider’

There will be two MCO performances of The Christmas Spider on Saturday, January 6, at St John’s Cathedral in Downtown Knoxville — 2:30 PM and 5:00 PM.

Most Read ARTS KNOXVILLE Stories of 2023

If one was looking for a definite sign that the peripheral effects of the pandemic had at last faded away, 2023 was an almost perfect answer. Readership of articles on Arts Knoxville grew some 20% over 2022, paralleling the increase…

Most Memorable Classical Music Performances of 2023

BY ALAN SHERROD   We’ll probably look back on 2023 as something of a threshold year. With the pandemic restrictions and precautions fading into a dusty corner of our concert-going memory, we embraced the idea that a combination of luck…

Review: River & Rail’s ‘It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ – Fabulous Holiday Theatre

For its December offering, River and Rail Theatre Company has chosen a work that is a delightful and entertaining contradiction in such a theatrical discussion—It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play.

Wednesday Arts Miscellany: Another Busy Weekend

This week and weekend, holiday-themed theatre offerings abound at River & Rail Theatre Company, Clarence Brown Theatre, and Theatre Knoxville Downtown. While I haven’t heard of any sing-alongs, Nief-Norf is sponsoring its annual participatory “walk-along” Unsilent Night. And, of course,…

Knoxville Museum of Art Launches Re-Named Concert Series — ‘Soundscapes at the KMA’

By any other name… The Knoxville Museum of Art is launching a newly re-designed Friday evening concert series, Soundscapes at the KMA, beginning this Friday evening, December 8, and continuing monthly  through August. Formerly known as “Alive After Five,” the…

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