• Rossini opera returns to the Rossini Festival with Knoxville Opera's The Barber of Seville, starring Knoxville native and Metropolitan Opera veteran Kevin Burdette, on Friday and Sunday at the Tennessee Theatre.
• It's been a hard year so far for the San Francisco black metal band Ludicra--a national tour was canceled and guitarist John Cobbett had a really bad case of appendicitis. But they're back on the road in support of their majestic new album, The Tenant, and play at Pilot Light with Argentinum Astrum tonight.
• Get your BBQ on at Pork Knox Q-Fest at World's Fair Park on Friday evening and all day Saturday.
• Rossini Festival Street Fair: Knoxville's biggest street fair, with everything from funnel cakes and corn dogs to opera.
• UT Opera pitches in for the Rossini weekend with two short opera productions at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday and Sunday: Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Stephen Paulus' The Village Singer.
• The organizers of the Knoxville Jazz Festival, scheduled for Aug. 26-28, are releasing a compilation of local jazz music, Tenors and Satin, this weekend. You can pick up a copy for $15 at the release party at the S&W Grand on Sunday afternoon (it starts at 5 p.m.). You can read more about the recordings here and here.
• It's been a hard year so far for the San Francisco black metal band Ludicra--a national tour was canceled and guitarist John Cobbett had a really bad case of appendicitis. But they're back on the road in support of their majestic new album, The Tenant, and play at Pilot Light with Argentinum Astrum tonight.
• Get your BBQ on at Pork Knox Q-Fest at World's Fair Park on Friday evening and all day Saturday.
• Rossini Festival Street Fair: Knoxville's biggest street fair, with everything from funnel cakes and corn dogs to opera.
• UT Opera pitches in for the Rossini weekend with two short opera productions at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday and Sunday: Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Stephen Paulus' The Village Singer.
• The organizers of the Knoxville Jazz Festival, scheduled for Aug. 26-28, are releasing a compilation of local jazz music, Tenors and Satin, this weekend. You can pick up a copy for $15 at the release party at the S&W Grand on Sunday afternoon (it starts at 5 p.m.). You can read more about the recordings here and here.
Ludicra rocked like hell, for the record. (Argentinum Astrum were good too.) Best show I've seen this year, I think.