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Holiday Events and Entertainment Guide
Find your favorite holiday events in Knoxville Daily Sun's 2018 Holiday Events Guide. Along the way you'll discover new events to add to your calendar. Start off by taking a trip to an area Christmas Tree Farm and choose the perfect tree for your home - a great family event. Tree lightings, open houses at historic homes, plays, concerts, and ballets are events everyone loves. We've included holiday recipes in our guide along with events in neighboring towns.
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Big Ears final 10th anniversary lineup set for Knoxville, March 21-24, 2019
By Lauren Miller
Big Ears is thrilled to announce the final lineup for its tenth-anniversary, March 21 through March 24, 2019, in downtown Knoxville, TN. The festival will offer more than 100 performances — plus a film festival, workshops, talks, exhibitions, and a 12-hour drone concert — all taking place in an extraordinary array of venues, from historic theaters and houses of worship to beautiful converted warehouse spaces, galleries and clubs.
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Knoxville Museum of Art presents 2018 East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition
The Knoxville Museum of Art and the Tennessee Art Education Association present the East Tennessee Regional Student Art Exhibition Friday, November 23, 2018 through Sunday, January 13, 2019. The exhibition offers middle and high school students the opportunity to participate in a juried exhibition.
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Arts & Culture Alliance presents 2018 Members Show, December 7-21
“The Arts & Culture Alliance proudly presents its 2018 Members Show, the largest annual exhibition of local artists in the Greater Knoxville area. The fresh mix of two- and three-dimensional works created within the last two years encompasses a wide variety of media.
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Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority, Arts & Culture Alliance present “Arts in the Airport”
The Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority (McGhee Tyson Airport) and the Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville are pleased to present the 20th “Arts in the Airport” exhibition, a new selection of artwork from 37 artists in the East Tennessee region.
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Rare historic cookbook republished by Mabry-Hazen House, Storyhaus Media
Mabry-Hazen House and Storyhaus Media are reprinting a rare piece of regional culinary history — The Tennessee and Virginia Cookbook.
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South Arts accepting applications for Folk & Traditional Master Artist Fellowships
ATLANTA, GA – South Arts, a nonprofit regional arts organization, is now accepting applications for the inaugural Folk & Traditional Arts Master Artist Fellowships.
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Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust
Tennessee Theatre - On January 23 and 24, 2019, the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School will bring Violins of Hope: Strings of the Holocaust to Knoxville. Violins of Hope is a collection of more than 50 restored violins that were played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. The instruments survived concentration camps, ghettos, pogroms and long journeys and now provide remarkable stories of injustice, suffering, resilience and survival. The Violins of Hope will feature the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and Hallerin Hilton Hill and a once-in-a lifetime experience to prove hope can be found in the darkest of times.
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Shinedown, Papa Roach performing at Knoxville Civic Coliseum, February 23, 2019
KNOXVILLE – Multi-platinum rock band Shinedown has announced the first dates of their 2019 ATTENTION ATTENTION World Tour. The U.S. headlining shows kick off this winter on February 20th in Estero, FL and feature support from Papa Roach and Asking Alexandria.
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January Jams returns to Abingdon’s Barter Theatre for 7th year of world-class concerts
ABINGDON, VA – Abingdon Music Experience and presenting sponsor Blue Ridge Beverage announce the 2019 lineup for January Jams at Barter Theatre. Six world-class performers will take the stage at the intimate Barter Theatre.
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Kelsea Ballerini fires up 2019 by headlining the ‘Miss Me More Tour’ with Brett Young
KNOXVILLE – After completely selling out ‘The Unapologetically Tour,’ including an international stop in Australia, Black River Entertainment’s Kelsea Ballerini is dominating arenas with her headlining ‘Miss Me More Tour’ with Brett Young in 2019.
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Tennessee Theatre 90th Anniversary keepsake ornaments available for holidays
By Lauren Miller
The Tennessee Theatre has commissioned two glass holiday ornaments celebrating 90 years of grand entertainment. The ornaments are available for purchase now to decorate a tree at home or give as a gift this season, and all purchases support the Official State Theatre of Tennessee.
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Scruffy City Orchestra joins Cathedral Concert Series
The Scruffy City Orchestra is excited to announce that as of November, 2018, they are joining the prestigious Cathedral Concert Series, a program of the Diocese of Knoxville Music Commission.
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Free cultural events for students in Knox and surrounding counties
KNOXVILLE – The Arts & Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, in cooperation with the local arts and culture community, is proud to announce the ninth year of Penny4Arts, a program developed to meet the local arts community’s long-term goal of serving and educating East Tennessee's children.
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CMA Country Christmas lineup announced
NASHVILLE – Iconic entertainer Reba McEntire will return for a second year as host of the ninth annual “CMA Country Christmas,” the two-hour music celebration that airs on ABC during the holiday season. Marking her third time performing on the show, a lineup of legendary acts and Country favorites will also take the stage for a night filled with Christmas classics and festive one-of-a-kind collaborations.
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Big Ears Festival announces starting artist lineup
KNOXVILLE - Regarded as one of the most unique and eagerly anticipated cultural gatherings in the world - “a music festival with a rare vision” (The New York Times) – Big Ears Festival will return in 2019 with its 8th edition, taking place March 21 through March 24 in Historic Downtown Knoxville.
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Independent Events:
Santa Mouse Christmas House
Thursday, November 29, 10 am-6pm; Friday, November 30, 10am-6pm; Saturday, December 1, 10am-3pm.
Fairview Methodist, 2508 Old Niles Ferry, Maryville, TN
The show offers unique, handcrafted items made by over 50 well-known artisans from the area. Shop for Christmas gifts, ornaments, fine art paintings, basketry, beaded and precious metal jewelry, fiber arts, glasswork, gourd art, handmade soaps and creams, woodworking, plus much more. Free admission and parking!
www.BlountArtsAndCraftsGuild.com
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