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Melony Dodson talks with Eric Dawson, assistant director for the McClung Collection, and keyboardists, Roger Miller and Ron Carter, who will provide live accompaniment for two of Clarence Brown's silent films being shown as part of the Clarence Brown Film Festival held in downtown Knoxville
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Jazz musician, composer and radio host Christian McBride talks Zorn, Mabern, Eric Reed, Donald Brown and all things Big Ears. He's ready to return to Knoxville, a city he wants to know better.
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The Carpetbag Theatre’s second cohort of the Homegrown Ambassadors Youth Theatre Program is about to wrap up its season. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with the theatre’s Youth Director Kisha Rockett and high-school senior and Homegrown Ambassador Jasmyne Simpkins about the play the group has written called A Child’s Place. The play questions what a child’s place is when adults tell them that they should be seen and not heard.
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Drummer and bandleader Andrew Cyrille makes talks with Todd Steed about his upcoming performance at Big Ears.
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After decades away and a pandemic postponement, Pierre Bensusan returns to Knoxville this Friday. Todd Steed talks with Pierre about his post-pandemic lifestyle, his favorite guitar and more. More information at https://knoxvilleclassicalguitar.com/events
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Knoxville Opera has taken on the challenge of producing a thrilling and seldom-performed opera: Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele. Combining the forces of a 100+…
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The play Blood at the Root opens this week at the University of Tennessee’s Clarence Brown Theatre. Dominique Morisseau’s 2013 play is inspired by and loosely based on the Jena Six case in Louisiana. WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper spoke with director Tracey Copeland Halter about the play and about how producing it now is different than it might have been only a decade ago.
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The Sackbut is an instrument with a strange-sounding name, although the instrument itself doesn't sound all that unusual. It looks and sounds quite…
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The Knoxville Choral Society will be returning to the concert stage since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Concerts will be held on November 4th at…
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