In addition to the First Friday gallery crawl this weekend and the events listed previously…
Arts & Culture Alliance: Arts Build Communities Grants for 2022-23
The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville has announced Arts Build Communities (ABC) grants…
GO! Contemporary Dance Works Presents ‘Unsung Heroes’
It is an ironic fact that war—for all its destructive futility—accelerates social change. When World…
Review: KSO Basks in the Romance and Drama of Ballet – With and Without the Dancers
By Alan Sherrod It was an evening of dance for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra…
Preview: Two Weekends of Appalachian Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’
This weekend and next – it’s the 47th season for Appalachian Ballet’s production of The…
Preview: Appalachian Ballet Offers Its 46th Season of Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Nutcracker’
Irony has an amusing place in music and dance performance history, for that history is full of examples of works that were unimpressive to audiences when they premiered, but later became giants of the repertoire. Tchaikovsky’s ballet ‘The Nutcracker’ certainly finds itself in this historic group.
Review: KSO’s ‘Red, Hot, & Bolero’ – A Feast for the Eyes and Ears
Every symphony concert is like a bubbling cauldron of ingredients, a mixture of music, performers,…
A Sad Day: The Knoxville Mercury Shuts Down
As if there wasn’t enough consternation in our lives, Knoxville’s journalism scene has suffered yet…
The Knoxville Mercury Launches
Knoxville’s new alt-weekly, the Knoxville Mercury, has finally arrived! You can find an issue in…
Sunday: KSO Chamber Orchestra Teases Us With Thoughts of Spring
Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring seems to miraculously capture something of hope and longing, and evokes…
