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Join us EVERY TUESDAY for this general admission, FREE show! Doors open at 7:30 and the troupe takes the stage from 8:30 to around 10. Einstein Simplified is Knoxville TN's premiere comedy improv troupe. Peforming at The Square Room on Market Square every Tuesday night they specialize in short form improv and guarantee uproarious laughter in every show. The eight members each come from different walks of life yet create an amalgam of entertainment and raillery. The show consists of about 20 different improvisational games, selected from a list of over 100, and are driven by audience suggestions and sometimes include audience members. Come for the comedy and we promise that you'll be back for more the next week.
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Join us EVERY TUESDAY for this general admission, FREE show! THIS WEEK, due to a pre-scheduled private event, doors will open ONE HOUR LATE at 8:30 and the troupe takes the stage from 9 to around 10.We apologize for the inconvenience and invite fans of Einstein Simplified to hang out in our mezzanine until doors open. Einstein Simplified is Knoxville TN's premiere comedy improv troupe. Performing at The Square Room on Market Square every Tuesday night they specialize in short form improv and guarantee uproarious laughter in every show. The eight members each come from different walks of life yet create an amalgam of entertainment and raillery. The shows consist of about 20 different improvisational games, selected from a list of over 100, and is driven by audience suggestions and sometimes include audience members. Come for the comedy and we promise that you'll be back for more the next week.
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The Square Room & Cafe 4 are proud to present the Summer Dinner
Concert Series.
Your ticket to see Brad Blackwell & Stephen Hunley on Friday, September 17 comes complete with a four-course dinner. You will be given a choice of entree, including a vegetarian option. Special dietary needs will be happily accommodated with prior notification to our staff. IMPORTANT: THE NUMBER OF TICKETS YOU PURCHASE DETERMINES THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO WILL BE SEATED AT YOUR TABLE. SO, IF YOU WOULD LIKE A TABLE FOR TWO, BUY TWO TICKETS. PRICES: Tickets are available in two price brackets specified by two different tiers of seating. Along with the dinner and intimate concert, your ticket price includes tax & gratuity. Tickets in Tier 1 are $52, tickets in Tier 2 are $42. TIME LINE: Doors open at 6:30pm, first course is served promptly at 7pm and Jodie will take the stage as the 1st course is served and Brad & Stephen will each follow.
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Join us for this all-ages, general admission, standing room only show. "It’s hard to think of a name that carries as much weight in both hip-hop and avant-rock circles as Prefuse 73, who in the past year alone has been asked to remix TV On The Radio, Pelican, BLK JKS and Cornelius, not to mention his early collaborations with School of Seven Bells and Battles. These interactions have clearly helped to shape the evolving Prefuse 73 sonic aesthetic, which has expanded to include Herren’s twisted visions of prog-rock, “machine funk” and global psychedelia. For Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian, Herren rejected the idea of straight digital recording and instead went the much more intensive route of recording to analog Ampex tape, giving the album the sound of a lost tape of exploratory studio musicians from the not-too-distant past. In addition to the recording process, Ampexian also differs in its composition, existing as a tapestry of tracks of varying lengths and moods, albeit with a remarkable linear flow and, of course, unmatched rhythmic bump. Read more: http://www.myspace.com/prefusion1973#ixzz0wPcUiLAV
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Join us EVERY TUESDAY for this general admission, FREE show! Doors open at 7:30 and the troupe takes the stage from 8:30 to around 10. Einstein Simplified is Knoxville TN's premiere comedy improv troupe. Performing at The Square Room on Market Square every Tuesday night they specialize in short form improv and guarantee uproarious laughter in every show. The eight members each come from different walks of life yet create an amalgam of entertainment and raillery. The shows consist of about 20 different improvisational games, selected from a list of over 100, and is driven by audience suggestions and sometimes include audience members. Come for the comedy and we promise that you'll be back for more the next week.
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Join us for this all-ages, general admission, partially seated show. Come early if you'd like a seat!
Benjy Davis Project was formed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 2001 as a simple folk-rock duo, but quickly grew into a popular regional band. Eventually expanding into a six-piece group, the Benjy Davis Project has recorded four albums and two EPs. They have played across the country as headliners and support act on shows with John Mayer, Better Than Ezra, Sister Hazel, North Mississippi All-Stars and others, as well as events like the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Taylor is a musician based out of Knoxville, TN with a certain guilt and grit to his songwriting. Performing for audiences in bar stools and church pews, Taylor attempts to create an image through his music that will last beyond the event. He has played throughout the city of Knoxville, through the midwest, and southeast, and has done work with conventions such as TCTC, ICYC, and CIY. Also, he has appeared on various radio stations and video broadcasts. There is an energy that is contagious to everyone present whenever Taylor takes the stage, and he hopes this will cause others to enter into the same story. Sexton has a big voice, but he never plays it for drama. The understated and largely acoustic arrangements are nonetheless silky, streamlined, and IT WORKS!!!" -Matthew Everett, Metropulse
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$10, includes free copy of Genrelicious EP!
Join us for this all-ages, general admission event. The Genrelicious Showcase is a unique combination of original Tennessee talent coming together with one common purpose, to share music with the masses. Come out together for a night of genre-bending entertainment and pure sonic delight.
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Join us EVERY TUESDAY for this general admission, FREE show! Doors open at 7:30 and the troupe takes the stage from 8:30 to around 10. Einstein Simplified is Knoxville TN's premiere comedy improv troupe. Performing at The Square Room on Market Square every Tuesday night they specialize in short form improv and guarantee uproarious laughter in every show. The eight members each come from different walks of life yet create an amalgam of entertainment and raillery. The shows consist of about 20 different improvisational games, selected from a list of over 100, and is driven by audience suggestions and sometimes include audience members. Come for the comedy and we promise that you'll be back for more the next week.
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Every last Wednesday of the month, we will go to The Square Room, a neutral space in the center of our city, to gather the scattered body of Christ; leaving every secondary issue of theology at the door and join together in praising the Creator that we all have in common. This is a "come as you are" culture that invites and welcomes all approaches to worship, for all people who simply desire to be in God's presence. Worship will be lead by local music collective United Pursuit Band, as well as other special guests.
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Join us for this seated, general admission, all-ages shows.
Few singers are better prepared than Smith to sing convincingly about such a wide range of emotions. Her pure, unaffected soprano illuminates her words and sentiments—even when it seems as if she is singing for just herself, as on the intimate “Telescope.” Each performance is rendered with exquisite care. Listen to the way she slowly rises out of world-weary dejection on the opening “What Went Wrong,” the light gradually filling her voice like dawn breaking over the horizon.
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Join us for this all-ages, general admission, limited seating show. Doors at 8, show starts at 9.
If the details seem scarce, it’s because that’s how Tobacco likes to keep them. Hailing from an unspecified burg in rural Pennsylvania, somewhere north of Pittsburgh, he has successfully made a name for himself even as he’s avoided acknowledging that name’s legal counterpart. As both the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow and the sole creative engine behind Tobacco, he’s earned the eager ears and prying eyes of doggedly loyal fans and smitten critics alike – a kindness he’s repaid by granting few interviews, obscuring his face in photos, and seeming wholly uninterested in the subject of his own identity. Such things just get in the way of the music after all, so if it’s easier, you might think of Tobacco as music – a one-man genre made of equal parts analog crunch, earthy psychedelia, fuzzed-up hip-hop, and outside pop. All the same, here’s what’s known. Tobacco has a sister. He grew up in a decent neighborhood. He was nearly strong-armed into elementary school band after an aptitude test suggested he play an instrument. He hated the idea, so he didn’t do it. He didn’t like music at all, in fact, until he discovered MTV – and hence, the Beasties’ “So What’cha Want” video – one long summer bridging the middle of middle school. The first concert he attended was Butthole Surfers, and it’s still his favorite. His favorite record of all time is Beck’s Mellow Gold. Sticking to his childhood guns, he typically doesn’t like music released earlier than the late ’80s. As for high school, Tobacco could have done without the classes. An extracurricular interest in freestyle BMX – flatland – was soon replaced by a growing zeal for music, even though his first band, called Wood, didn’t employ any instruments to its cause. (Its two main ingredients were flyers and hype.) Acquiring a guitar and a four-track opened up new doors, to the purplish noise and busted ghetto-blaster tracks that now populate The Allegheny White Fish Tapes, which Tobacco self-released in 2009. This was before the gritty analog synths, the murky vocoder-ing, and the hypnotic aural crush that came with founding Black Moth Super Rainbow. Tobacco rounded up the group’s members before graduation, and until last year’s Dave Fridmann-produced collaborative affair, Eating Us, roughly treated BMSR as a solo project, penning three albums’ and several EPs’ worth of sludgy pagan pop for his cohorts to realize live. He designed BMSR’s album art as well, which occasionally involved scratch-n-sniff elements or hair. But Tobacco would come to crave a more pure musical identity, one steeped in guttural sounds that hit harder and flashed brighter. This fixation reared its ugly head as 2008’s beat-oriented Fucked Up Friends, Tobacco’s official debut. Two years later, with BMSR effectively on hiatus, the man is back and beastlier than ever with Maniac Meat, a record designed to bully his previous works into a corner, gut them, and leave ’em for dead. This is a good time to mention that Tobacco believes he is making pop music.
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Join us for this general admission, all-ages, seated show. Come early for the best seats!
The Books started working together in 2000 while living as neighbors in Inwood, a small neighborhood at the very northern tip of Manhattan, regularly referred to as 'Upstate Manhattan' by New Yorkers. Over the next few years they moved around a lot but always kept the music going through the mail, and occasional recording sessions. Since 2002 they've settled our working studio in the Berkshire Mountains of North Adams, Massachusetts. The band does all of their own sample collecting, composing, writing, recording, mixing, and mastering in our home studios using PCs running cheap software and the ragtag equipment that they've pieced together over the years. What you hear on their records is exactly how it left our hands, with no producer, engineers, or sweetening in between.
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These shows SELL OUT! Be sure to get your tickets in advance. Doors open
at 11:30am, music begins at noon and goes until 1pm. Buffet lunch is
included in the ticket price.
Menu: Assorted boxed lunches, vegetarian options, cookies & a drink. Donald Brown is widely considered to be one of the most important pianists/composers in jazz today. His compositions have been performed and recorded by a Who's Who of modern jazz artists including Wynton Marsalis, Art Blakey, Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Ron Carter, John Scofield, Donald Byrd, Kevin Eubanks and many others. Donald has lived in Knoxville for over 20 years and performs frequently around town, but rarely performs his own compositions locally. Don't miss this rare opportunity!
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Competing Musicians in no particular order: Arpetrio Dishwater Blonde Johnny Astro and The Big Bang Pegasi 51
Soulfinger Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical career.
Come support the music community and experience what Knoxville has to offer!
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Join us for this all-ages, general admission show with very limited seating. Come early if you'd like a seat!
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Join us for this all-ages, general admission, partially seated show. Come early if you'd like a chair!
Will Hoge has made a career of writing and singing powerful songs about life’s cruel and dark turns. Not long ago, he fell victim to one such turn. As Hoge rode his scooter home from the studio, he was struck by an oncoming van that had veered into his lane. There were no skid marks. Launched off his bike, Hoge ended up bloodied, broken-boned, temporarily blinded, and near death. “[The accident] was like stopping a record as it spins,” says Hoge, who had been halfway through recording material for his new record before getting derailed. “It was like taking the needle and pushing it off the turntable.” For ten months, the accident sidelined Hoge. For ten months, it made him do something he hadn’t done in 18 years: stop the music. Larger matters dominated his life, like physical recovery and the well-being of his family. “People would say, ‘I bet you’re ready to get back to playing and writing.’ I’m thinking, ‘Playing or singing is not the issue right now. I’m ready to get back to walking.’” His previous album, Draw the Curtains, had been a unanimous high-water mark in his career, a magnificent collection of rock, country, soul, blues, and folk. With a great band, good vibes, and clear skies overhead, Hoge felt like he was building something real as a career artist. Eight months after the incident he re-entered the studio in pursuit of that mission. He now has his health, an invigorated spirit, and a renewed sense of his musical journey. “Making The Wreckage opened me up in a different way,” says Hoge. “I felt a calmness, a purpose. Right now it feels like I’m getting to the core of what I want to do and why.”
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Every last Wednesday of the month, we will go to The Square Room, a neutral space in the center of our city, to gather the scattered body of Christ; leaving every secondary issue of theology at the door and join together in praising the Creator that we all have in common. This is a "come as you are" culture that invites and welcomes all approaches to worship, for all people who simply desire to be in God's presence. Worship will be lead by local music collective United Pursuit Band, as well as other special guests.
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These shows SELL OUT! Be sure to get your tickets in advance. Doors open
at 11:30am, music begins at noon and goes until 1pm. Buffet lunch is
included in the ticket price.
Menu: Assorted boxed lunches, vegetarian options, cookies & a drink.
Trumpeter Woody Shaw is considered by many to be the last great innovator on the trumpet in jazz. He crafted a very distinct and personal musical vocabulary that has been copied by virtually every serious jazz trumpeter since him. Longtime fans of the KJO remember Thomas Heflin as a founding member of the band. He now resides in New York City, working as a freelance trumpet artist and coordinator of education outreach at the Manhattan School of Music. His concert will be followed by a master class at the University of Tennessee on Woody Shaw's improvisational style.
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Competing Musicians in no particular order: The Big Deuce Brimstone Treehouse The Great Great Pines Silver Jubilee
The Theorizt Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from
each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group
wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical
career.
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Every last Wednesday of the month, we will go to The Square Room, a neutral space in the center of our city, to gather the scattered body of Christ; leaving every secondary issue of theology at the door and join together in praising the Creator that we all have in common. This is a "come as you are" culture that invites and welcomes all approaches to worship, for all people who simply desire to be in God's presence. Worship will be lead by local music collective United Pursuit Band, as well as other special guests.
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These shows SELL OUT! Be sure to get your tickets in advance. Doors open
at 11:30am, music begins at noon and goes until 1pm. Buffet lunch is
included in the ticket price.
Menu: Assorted boxed lunches, vegetarian options, cookies & a drink. Grant Green is one of the most underrated guitarists in jazz history. His unique sound graced many Blue Note recordings during the 1960s and was once described by critic Dave Hunter as "lithe, loose, slightly bluesy and righteously groovy." Guitarist Larry Vincent is a native of Venezuela who came to Knoxville in the late 1980s to study at the UT School of Music. He has been a mainstay on the Knoxville music scene ever since. Vincent's tribute to Green will include many of the guitarists most influential works.
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Competing Musicians in no particular order: The Black Jack of Ballarat Danielle Madison Dave Dykes & The Grateful Hearts Elliot Collett
Jason Ellis Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from
each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group
wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical
career.
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Every last Wednesday of the month, we will go to The Square Room, a neutral space in the center of our city, to gather the scattered body of Christ; leaving every secondary issue of theology at the door and join together in praising the Creator that we all have in common. This is a "come as you are" culture that invites and welcomes all approaches to worship, for all people who simply desire to be in God's presence. Worship will be lead by local music collective United Pursuit Band, as well as other special guests.
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Competing Musicians in no particular order: Bone Prophet The Fontinelles Gene Priest & The Cardinal Sin The Hotshot Freight Train
Skytown Riot Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from
each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group
wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical
career.
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Competing Musicians in no particular order: Davis Mitchell The Gentleman Conspiracy Lions Madre
Rally
Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from
each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group
wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical
career.
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Musicians to be determined throughout the competition.
Every first Wednesday of the month beginning in October and concluding in March, 5 local bands/musicians take the stage at the Square Room to showcase their individual talents and make their mark on the Knoxville music scene. Each band/musician will play 2 original songs and 1 tribute song. The tribute artist for each round is announced 2 weeks before each round.
A winner is selected from
each round to advance to the finals. Of those 5 winners, one lucky group
wins a developmental package that will help launch their musical
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