Knoxville’s Music History

Name: Knoxville’s Music History
Start: 2025-09-03T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902

Schedule

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

601 S Gay St, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902 | Knoxville, TN

Join Jack Neely with the Knoxville History Project as he presents “Knoxville: A Walking Music Guide,” a new 44-page booklet on the city’s vigorous and sometimes innovative musical history. Curated by several music-history experts, and illustrated with photographs, some rare, it connects Knoxville’s early immigrant-led opera history with the later flourishing of live-radio country music, with encounters with jazz, electronica, and rock ‘n’ roll along the way. The booklet also includes a short narrative of the history of musical performance in Knoxville, a biographical guide to key players, and a geographical section to point out where things happened. Free copies of the guide will be available at the talk.
This event is free and open to the public.