The Daily Fact: Spring!
WEEKEND PICKS
9 p.m. Friday, Pilot Light. $5.
If you're a traditionalist when it comes to nice tunes, good rockin', and sweet harmonies, this is as fine a local showcase as you're going to get.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Cox Auditorium, UT campus. Free.
The premier jazz ensemble of the U.S. Air Force.
James McMurtry with Grace Askew
8 p.m. Saturday, the Shed (Maryville). $25.
McMurtry's literate, hard-edged country-blues is thoughtful, restless, and irreverent.
2:30 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville). $5-$12.
Hotshot young Italian pianist Plano will perform a program heavy on Liszt.
Apocalyptica with Down From Up and ARC
9 p.m. Sunday, the Valarium. $20-$25.
Finnish symphonic-metal cellists, perfect for storming your way into the new season.
FRIDAY
WDVX Blue Plate Special: Eric Brace and Peter Cooper with Davy Jay Sparrow
Noon, Knoxville Visitor Center. Free.
Some sweet honky-tonkin', and some neo-classic country-blues.
6 p.m., Knoxville Museum of Art. $8.
Jolly held her own onstage with Sharon Jones last week. Now she's Alive After Five.
Morgan O'Kane with Ferd Moyse
Morelock Music, 8 p.m.
NY-by-way-of-VA fiddler O'Kane teams up with our own local Ferd.
8 and 10 p.m., Side Splitters Comedy Club. $23-$25.
Hey, buuuuuddy. The stoner-surfer shtick is back.
Hudson K with the Penny Dreadfuls
10 p.m., Preservation Pub. $5.
Christina Horn's avant-pop outfit will debut the video for the song "Prayer for Love."
10 p.m., Sunspot. Free.
Mountain Soul bass player in a rare solo appearance.
SATURDAY
WDVX Blue Plate Special: Big Country's Empty Bottle, James McMurtry, Kentucky Grass Project, and others
Noon-5 p.m., Knoxville Visitor Center. Free.
A special five-hour Blue Plate on what is supposed to be a gorgeous Saturday afternoon.
7:30 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville). $22-$35.
Nationally-known juggling team will perform a show called "Gravity Attacks!"
8 p.m., Palace Theater (Maryville). $13-$15.
A skilled fingerpicker "once touted as one of the strangest men in acoustic music."
8 and 10 p.m., Side Splitters Comedy Club. $23-$25.
Hey, buuuuuddy. The stoner-surfer shtick is back.
10 p.m., Barley's Taproom.
Indie singer-songwriter, a veteran of the NYC "anti-folk" scene.
10 p.m., Preservation Pub.
A "surf rock night" with a trio of fine local garage-rock acts.
10 p.m., Patrick Sullivan's.
Some heavy-rockin' locals.
SUNDAY
Triumphant with 4MV
6 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville). $7-$10.
Grammy-nominated gospel group.
10 p.m., Barley's Taproom. Free.
Local singer-songwriter, with a literary bent.
10 p.m., Preservation Pub. $3.
Post-rock two-piece from Lynchburg, Va.
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