Links

Music Organizations

Knoxville Choral Society

Knoxville Jazz Orchestra

Knoxville Opera

Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Marble City Opera — Knoxville’s chamber opera company

Nief-Norf — a multi-tiered contemporary music organization devoted to fostering creative collaboration among musical interpreters, composers, and scholars. 

Scruffy City Orchestra

University of Tennessee School of Music

Theatre and Dance Companies

Circle Modern Dance — performances and classes

Clarence Brown Theatre, University of Tennessee campus

Flying Anvil Theatre Company, 1300 Rocky Hill Road

Go! Contemporary Dance Works1234 Rocky Hill Road, TEL: 865-539-2475

Knoxville Children’s Theatre109 E. Churchwell Avenue off Central

Knoxville Theatre Club

Theatre Knoxville Downtown, 800 S. Central Street

River and Rail Theatre Co.

Museums, Galleries, and Presentation Resources

Arts and Culture Alliance — The organization provides advocacy, services, and education to the art community. Monthly exhibitions in the Emporium Center, 100 S. Gay Street

Knox County Public Library — The downtown Lawson McGhee branch, in addition to being the obvious great local resource, also contains an extensive collection of classical music CDs and DVDs.

Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive, 865.525.6101

Raven Records & Rarities, 1200 N. Central Street

Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

Union Avenue Books — Downtown’s independent bookstore—517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN 37902

UT Downtown Gallery — Contemporary art gallery exhibiting professional work through funding and support from The University of Tennessee — 106 S. Gay Street

Cinema

The Public Cinema — The Public Cinema exists to share vital works of contemporary international and American cinema—works that might otherwise be unseen or overlooked by Knoxville audiences.

Central Cinema  — 1205 N. Central Street

Regal Riviera Stadium 8 — 510 South Gay Street

Regal Downtown West Cinema 8 — 1640 Downtown West Blvd

Venues

Tennessee Theatre — 604 S. Gay Street (at Clinch Ave.)

Bijou Theatre — 803 S. Gay Street (at Cumberland Ave.)

The Mill and Mine — 227 W. Depot Avenue, Downtown Knoxville

Sandra G. Powell Recital Hall — Natalie Haslam Music Center, UT School of Music

Media

Compass — Subscription-based site offering news, insights and analysis of Knoxville and Knox County government, politics and business. Founded by Jesse Fox Mayshark and Scott Barker and launched in September, 2018.

Inside of Knoxville — A website full of news and information on topics related to Downtown Knoxville.

The Knoxville Mercury — Knoxville’s only alt-weekly ended print operations in July, 2017. The website has occasional new articles, but it maintains the archive of published articles. Many of my classical music reviews from March 2015 to May 2017 can be found here.

Jack Neely: The Scruffy Citizen — Jack Neely is a noted author on Knoxville history topics and former editor and writer for Metro Pulse. Executive director of the Knoxville History Project

Knoxville Lost and Found — Fascinating blog that reveals the history behind Downtown Knoxville’s missing pieces

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