By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com Broadway Show • January 20-25 • Tennessee Theatre When MJ the Musical arrives in Knoxville on January 20th, one cast member will be performing for a hometown crowd in the truest sense. Treston Henderson, who co-stars in the national...

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present new exhibitions at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville. The public is invited to free gatherings with the exhibiting artists on November 7 from 4 to 9 pm and November 14 from 5 to 7 pm. November 7-9: Southern...

Too Late To Be Cool - But Right On Time By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com Bernie Leadon has always blended musical brilliance with quiet humility. A founding member of the Eagles, a GRAMMY winner, and a musician whose touch shaped both rock and country music, Leadon...

By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com After more than five decades of delivering Texas blues-rock with signature swagger, ZZ Top is nowhere near ready to hang up their boots - or their beards. The legendary trio is charging full throttle into their 2025 tour, and this...

By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com Classic rock icons Styx are proving the power of timeless music as they roll across North America on their latest tour. With more than 50 years of hits behind them augmented with a new, recently released album, Circling from Above,...

The Arts & Culture Alliance proudly presents a Summer 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...

Since she was a child, artist Allison Meriwether has been drawing and creating “visual stories” that pay particular attention to people and faces. Starting with figures in oils in her early 20s, Allison began a more intentional exploration of the female form with a...

Since 2014, the Open Chord has been called Knoxville’s premier listening room and music venue. They proudly host live music from top-tier, world-class musicians and singers from all over the globe along with some local talented favorites. And April is no exception!...

The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from March 7-30. Most of the works on exhibition will be for sale and may be purchased by visiting in person or the online shop at...

Emily Ann Roberts A Homecoming to Remember In Concert • Thompson-Boling Arena • February 28th By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com February is a big country music month for Knoxville with the Blake Shelton concert hitting our Thompson-Boling at Food City Center on the...

By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com If one were to name a female singer whose voice has mesmerized audiences for more than 50 years, the name Ruth Pointer of the legendary The Pointer Sisters just might come to mind. That is understandable with hits like “Automatic,”...

The Arts & Culture Alliance proudly presents its 2024 Members Show, the largest annual exhibition of local artists in the Greater Knoxville area, from December 6-21. Most of the works will be for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition by...

FILM FEST KNOX November 14-17 Downtown Regal Riviera In addition to the American Regional Cinema Competition films, the 2024 FILM FEST KNOX programming includes an exciting array of acclaimed festival highlights and revivals, the Elev8or Pitch, Made in Tennessee...

Muralist Megan Lingerfelt just opened an exhibit of her studio work at Dogwood Arts Gallery in the Old City, and she has a piece in the Knox Walls project on North Broadway. She has always been drawn to the volume and repetition of botanical elements alongside...

September 21-28 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park Plein Air Smokies will once again bring 20 nationally acclaimed artists to paint “en plein air” (outdoors) throughout the national park. For the 2024 event, artists were selected through a juror process. More than...

In Concert • Bijou Theatre • August 13th Extraordinary guitarist: Check. Multi-instrumentalist: Check. Vocalist: Check. Songwriter: Check. Austin, Texas’ Eric Johnson pretty much has it all as far as musical talent is concerned. It should come as no surprise being...

Knoxville Museum of Art Through August 4 Featuring a selection of more than 50 works from the Hechinger Collection, Work and Play celebrates the transformation of common industrial objects into extraordinary works of art. By tapping into their metaphoric potential,...

Emporium Center May 3 The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present five new exhibitions at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville from May 3-31. Most of the works on exhibition will be for sale and may be purchased by visiting in person or the online shop...

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Dion DiMucci is no stranger to Everything Knoxville magazine - he first appeared in the December 2021 edition. As we said of Dion in that article: Say the name “Dion” (as in Dion and the Belmonts), and all sorts of great songs come to...

Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd Lives On In Concert with ZZ Top • Thompson-Boling Arena • March 15th By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com If one were to look up the definition of “southern rock,” you just might see a picture of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Formed in 1964 in...

Joe Bonamassa: Keeping the Blues Alive In Concert • Civic Auditorium • March 5th By Randy Patterson, Boomerocity.com Imagine being 12 years old and having the guitar chops good enough to open for blues legend B.B. King - not once. Not twice. But approximately 20...