6/26/2023 0 Comments Mardi growl![]() Rine Sandberg, Chalk Walk, Market Square, Knoxville, April 2018Īpril also features Knoxville’s traditional signature festival: The Dogwood Arts Festival. Featuring multiple stages and opera along with choral, jazz and other music, it also features dance performances throughout the day, great smells from all the food vendors and wine and beer sales on Gay Street, which is shut down for the event. Still, there’s plenty to be festive about in the month.Ĭelebrating music of all sorts, but also featuring music of a particular sort, the eighteenth annual Rossini Festival and International Street Fair is presented April 13 by Knoxville Opera. Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, March 31, 7:30 AMĪpril is always a big month, but one of the signature events, Rhythm n Blooms, has been moved to May (Remember how bone-chillingly cold it was last year?).Big Ears, Locations all over downtown, March 21 – March 24.Patrick’s Day Parade and Cel-O’Bragh-tion, March 15-16, Gay Street and Krutch Park, 1:00 PM Women in Jazz Jam Festival, March 15 – 16, KMA (Friday at 6:00 PM), Emporium (Saturday, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM).Mardi Growl, Parade Route and Market Square, March 2, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.Always an inspirational event, it’s nice to have a separation between it and Big Ears which overlapped last year. The Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon, which is actually an entire family of races and events spanning two days, hits on March 31. This is the festival that puts Knoxville on the international map. Some events will be free and public, some available as a stand-alone ticket and others require the festival pass. The following weekend, we go “big,” as in Big Ears Festival 2019 which runs from March 21 – March 24 and features dozens of musicians, fifteen full-length films, performance art and such unique experiences as a twelve hour drone that runs all night and this year spotlights ECM records. Bangs (Jason Moran, Mary Halvorson, Ron Miles), Big Ears, The Standard, Knoxville, March 2018 Patrick’s Day Parade and Cel-O’Bragh-tion returns that same Friday and Saturday with a parade and events on Krutch Park. This also begins the inevitable Festival-Overlap-Effect which hits any city with a million festivals and fewer weekends, as the third annual St. The festival continues at the Emporium on Saturday from 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM and features headliner Beverly “Guitar” Watkins. All of it benefits Young-Williams Animal Center, including the Mardi Growl Cajun Crawl, organized by CBID and Visit Knoxville, in which downtown restaurants are offering Mardi Gras themed dishes and drinks throughout this week.Ī couple of weeks later, the Women in Jazz Jam Festival returns for its fourth year, starting Friday night, March 15, at the Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five Series and a performance by the Women in Jazz Jam Festival Band, starting at 6:00 PM. The 12th annual parade starts at 11:00 AM on Willow and winds through the Old City before heading south on Gay Street to Market Square where festivities will continue though 3:00 PM with all things canine (60 vendors). That’s right, it’s Mardi Growl time in Tennessee! Let the festivals begin! I also tend to think of Festival Season as a spring thing, but here we are in a rainy, warm, late February and the first festival is this weekend. It’s that time of year, again, and, as usual, definitions of when festival season starts and what constitutes a festival will continue to bedevil the effort to make any kind of coherent list.
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