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7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Relix Variety Theatre. $5.
The local music scene turns out in a fund-raiser for News Sentinel writer Wayne Bledsoe and his family. Friday: Quartjar, Todd Steed, the Melungeons, Drunk Uncles, and more. Saturday: Tim Lee 3, R.B. Morris, Senryu, and others. Good music for a good cause.
Friday and Saturday, assorted locations. $10-$65.
A two-day festival celebrating the Brazilian dance/fighting discipline, featuring workshops and showcases with capoeira masters.
6 p.m. Friday, Knoxville Museum of Art. $8.
Knoxville's reigning blues king, with guest appearance by a hotshot 11-year-old from Newport.
7 p.m. Friday, the Valarium. $5.
A generous bill of local punk-pop, ska, and metal.
8 p.m. Friday, Tennessee Theatre. $142-$514.
Long outgrown her prodigy status, Midori at 39 remains one of the great violinists of her generation.
8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Side Splitters Comedy Club. $4-$6.
The "Rural Genius" comic has toured with Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy.
8 p.m. Friday, Remedy Coffee. Free.
Local freak-folk outfit, along with "bass oddity" McGregor.
8 p.m. Friday, Laurel Theater. $12.
Singer, banjoist, author, and storyteller keeps Appalachian culture alive.
8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Pellissippi State Performing Arts Center. Free-$12.
An original student production about a "young lord and his captain friend," featuring "epic battle scenes." Intriguing.
9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Preservation Pub. $5.
Friday, Sexton and his band will play the Strokes' first album in its entirety. Saturday, featured guests are Sons of Summer, the Running, and Jackson Carter.
10 p.m. Friday, Pilot Light. $5.
Metro Pulse's own Travis Gray makes melodic, fragile music that I'd say sounds like Magnetic Fields but I don't know if he likes them or not so I won't.
11 p.m. Friday, Downtown Grill & Brewery. $3.
Pretty swanky local R&B/neo-soul outfit.
7 p.m. Saturday, Bijou Theatre. $5-$10.
The "Renaissance Theatre" tour of the Christian rock opera, presented by Bethel University.
8 p.m. Saturday, Laurel Theater. $8-$15.
The Asheville-based Celtic fiddler mingles folk traditions with classical training.
8 p.m. Saturday, Broadway Academy of Performing Arts and Events. $10-$15.
A lively display of bellydancing by a local troupe.
9 p.m. Saturday, Tennessee Theatre. $25.
Neo-bluegrass outfit, popular on the festival circuit. (And beloved by me for providing the key sample in this track.)
Smith Westerns with Yuck and Coolrunnings
10 p.m. Saturday, Pilot Light. $6.
Sort-of-glammy Chicago rockers, may or may not be worth their hype but are definitely worth six bucks. Especially if you throw in the likably fuzzboxed Yuck.
2:30 p.m. Sunday, Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville. $5-$12.
31-year-old Ukrainian is the first performer in the Evelyn Miller Young Pianist Series.
3 p.m. Sunday, American Piano Gallery (Farragut). Free.
Students and faculty from Pellissippi State's music program give a public recital.
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7 p.m. Saturday, Marble Springs Historic Site. Free.
Gary Noland will lead an astronomy workshop. For reservations, call 573-5508 by Friday.
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