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The Weekend Plan-It: Aug. 26-28

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WEEKEND PICKS

Friday, Market Square.
The League of Women Voters is encouraging people to lay flowers at the suffrage statue on the Square, to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment.

8 p.m. Friday, Bijou Theatre. $19.50. (Sold out!)
Local singer/songwriter will perform songs from his 2010 solo debut.

3-9 p.m. Saturday, Hindu Community Center (Lenoir City). Free.
A celebration of East Tennessee's burgeoning Indian community with music, art, jewelry and ... food!

3 p.m. Saturday, Disc Exchange. Free.
Country legend makes an in-store appearance to promote her first new album in 13 years.

8 p.m. Saturday, The Shed (Maryville). $20.
McMurtry's hard-edged country/blues-rock is sometimes novelistic, sometimes fiercely political.

7 p.m. Sunday, Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum. $20. 
Carpetbag Theatre presents a live cooking performance with Chef Mero Cocinero Karimi.

FRIDAY

6 p.m., Sequoyah Grille. Free.
Swanky hot-jazz combo.

7 p.m., Clayton Center for the Arts (Maryville). $10.
Classic swing from a local big band.

7:45 and 10:15 p.m., Side Splitters Comedy Club. $6-$10.
A double-bill of reg'lar-guy stand-up.

10 p.m., Barley's Taproom.
Neo-Southern rock, outta Nashville. 

The Natti Love Joys with the Fritz
10 p.m., Preservation Pub. $5.
Roots-reggae, from a band that has become an East Tennessee institution.

11 p.m., Downtown Grill & Brewery. $3.
Lazenby is arguably Knoxville's premier blues axe-man.

SATURDAY

9 a.m.-2 p.m., Market Square.
Maybe one of your last weekends to pick up peak summer produce.

7 p.m., Sweet P's Barbeque. Free.
Fine local honky-tonkers.

7 p.m., Preservation Pub. Free.
Indie-pop duo and folk-cabaret act, both from N.C. 

7:45 and 10:15 p.m., Side Splitters Comedy Club. $6-$10.
A double-bill of reg'lar-guy stand-up.

8 p.m., the Cider House. $5.
Local rockers are celebrating the release of their new album.

9 p.m., Niceley's Tavern.
Appalachian folk-rock, sparked by Leslie Gengozian's fiddle.

11 p.m., Downtown Grill & Brewery. $3.
Jazzy R&B combo with the redoubtable Kelle Jolly on vox.

SUNDAY

8 p.m., Barley's Taproom. Free.
Country in a classic vein, from a talented local fella.

10 p.m., Preservation Pub. 
Local piano-rocker reminiscent of Bruce Hornsby and Ben Folds.


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