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Zoo Knoxville to host wine safari with more than 30 wineries from around the world participating.

Zoo Knoxville and Rhizome Productions will host the inaugural Wild Vine wine sampling event on Friday, April 26, 2019, from 6:30 until 10:30 p.m. at the zoo.
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Special Events:

March 25
Writer Peter Ho Davies will read as part of the University of Tennessee Creative Writing Series 7 p.m. in Strong Hall, Room 101, UT Campus
Peter Ho Davies is the author of two novels, The Fortunes (winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award, and the Chautauqua Prize) and The Welsh Girl (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and two short story collections, The Ugliest House in the World (winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize) and Equal Love (A New York Times Notable Book).

His work has appeared in Harpers, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The Guardian and Washington Post among others, and has been widely anthologized, including selections for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. In 2003 Granta magazine named him among its Best of Young British Novelists.

Davies is also a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a winner of the PEN/Malamud Award.

Born in Britain to Welsh and Chinese parents, he now makes his home in the US. He has taught at the University of Oregon and Emory University, and is currently on the faculty of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

March 28
Scott H. Biram
The International

March 30
Sevier County Hamfest
Sevier County Fairgrounds
Admission: $5
seviercountyars.org/hamfest

April 5
Reverend Horton Heat
The Concourse

April 12
Buckcherry
Cotton Eyed Joe

April 12
FireSide Book Club
King Family Library, Bridgemont Meeting Room
408 High Street, Sevierville
10:00 a.m.
The club will be reading and discussing ‘Mrs.: A Novel’ by Caitlin Macy.

April 19
Moon Taxi
The Mill & Mine

May 1
Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
Tennessee Theatre

May 1
Dirty Heads
The Mill & Mine

May 4
Steep Canyon Rangers
Bijou Theatre

Clayton Center for the Arts presents first of Spring Independent Filmmakers Films

Initial lineup and late night jam announced for MerleFest 2019

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band to headline Bloomin’ BBQ & Bluegrass Festival
SEVIERVILLE, TN – The iconic and profoundly influential Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will headline Sevierville’s 15th Annual Bloomin’ BBQ & Bluegrass festival. The band is often cited as a catalyst for an entire movement in Country Rock and American Roots Music.
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