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Hector Qirko is one of the best guitarists--and one of the best guys--who's ever been part of Knoxville's music community. He's got chops (his main projects during the 30 or so years he's been here have been the near-legendary post-punk band Balboa with Terry Hill, the revved-up honky tonk group the Lonesome Coyotes, the long-running blues-and-more quartet the Hector Qirko band, and a spot backing R.B. Morris) and taste (particularly evident in the Latin rhythms that have crept into the HQ Band's Chicago-style blues, but also on his recent raga-influenced performance on HQ Band drummer Steve Brown's solo disc).

So his departure later this month for South Carolina is Knoxville's loss. You've got one more chance to see him when he gets a showcase in the Old City Courtyard behind Southbound Bar & Grill on Jackson Avenue. The Lonesome Coyotes are headlining, and Hector and R.B. are kicking things off with their familiar two-guitar duo set-up. Tickets are just $5, music starts at 7:30 p.m.

Here's Mike Gibson's 2005 cover story on HQ, and there's also a tribute thread at Knox Blab.

The Dogwood Arts Festival's Rhythm N' Blooms Festival is officially underway--it started with the Blue Plate Special at the Square Room this afternoon--but the real kickoff is this evening at Market Square with 18 South and 6 Mile Express, accompanied by shows at Remedy Coffee and the Crown & Goose in the Old City.

Tomorrow and Sunday are the big days, though. The Square Room, the Bijou Theatre, and Barley's Taproom have dozens of performances scheduled from early afternoon until after midnight, and there are also sets at Preservation Pub and back at Remedy. Highlights for tomorrow include Pokey LaFarge, Yarn, Samantha Crain, the Dixie Bee-Liners, the Drunk Uncles, Dawn Landes and the Hounds, Medford's Black Record Collection, Brendon James Wright and the Wrongs, Taylor Brown, Kevin Hyfantis, the Songbirds, and Cutthroat Shamrock.

Sunday's big shows are at the Knoxville Botanical Garden in East Knoxville, with headlining sets by Ben Sollee (below) and Daniel Martin Moore and Carrie Rodriguez. The Black Lillies are also among the bands performing there. You can also catch Sollee at Remedy at 3 p.m. R.B. Morris and Hector Qirko are playing at the University of Tennessee Garden off Neyland Drive at 5 p.m.



 

Weekend passes are available for $40; there are no single-event tickets. Ticket info and a full schedule are available here.

Photo by M.T. Flatley

Last year the Dogwood Arts Festival's Rhythm N' Blooms festival was a catch-all designation for a bunch of regularly scheduled concerts that took place all around downtown during the month of April. This year, the festival's grown into a real, three-day, multi-venue festival with a big-time lineup of local, regional, and national Americana acts, topped by two performances by Ben Sollee and a set by Carrie Rodriguez. More than 40 acts, including locals R.B. Morris and Hector Qirko, the Black Lillies, Medford's Black Record Collection, the Drunk Uncles, Taylor Brown, the Songbirds, the Black Cadillacs, and Kevin Hyfantis, have been announced so far, with more to come.

The festival is scheduled for April 16-18 at the Bijou Theatre, the Square Room, the University of Tennessee Gardens, Remedy Coffee, the Knoxville Botanical Garden, Barley's Taproom, Preservation Pub, the Crown & Goose, and Market Square.

Passes for the festival are $40.

Not many people missed R.B. Morris' CD release show for his new album Spies Lies and Burning Eyes at Barley's back at the end of January. But a few key people--members of Morris' band, who couldn't make it into town because of snow--didn't make it, so Morris has scheduled another show on Friday, April 2, also at Barley's, so those guys can back him up.

Back in January, Morris, his long-time musical partner Hector Qirko, and the Tim Lee 3 made up the impromptu band for the release show. This time, Morris is bringing Dave Jacques, Paul Griffith, and Eric Fritsch in.

(In Mike Gibson's recent MP profile, Morris had this to say about the music industry:

"I was listening to an interview with a guy inside the business the other day. He was saying the music is the last consideration. It's a meat market. It's McDonald's. It's a beauty pageant. Let's send somebody up the flagpole, and if they hit, we'll run 'em up a bigger pole.

"I don't live in that world. And the few chances I had I either walked away from it because I saw what was going to happen or I went ahead and looked in the door and butted heads with someone and said forget it. That's a different life, and it's not mine."

So it's worth noting that this is Morris' third CD release show for the new album, counting a soft release gig at the Laurel Theater with Qirko in December.)

After a few scheduling bumps--their Jan. 29 gig was canceled because of snow, a later rescheduled show was canceled because of illness--the Lonesome Coyotes have finally nailed down their traditional early-in-the-year concert as part of the Knoxville Museum of Art's Alive After Five series. They'll play at KMA on Friday, March 12, at 6 p.m. Admission is $10; $6 for KMA members, free for those 17 and under.

The local Western swing/honky-tonk group, featuring Maggie Longmire, Steve Horton, Hector Qirko, Brock Henderson, Doug Klein, and Stan Turner, have played a January show at KMA since 2003, and have since become the series' most popular performers. They'd reformed in 2002 after a run in the late 1970s and early '80s that included a stint as the house band for the 1982 World's Fair.