![]() ![]() 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. More details about Mardi Growl are available at ’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. Bring plastic bags from home and dispose of waste properly in trash containers (not recycling carts). People are encouraged to pick up after their pets along the parade and during the festivities. Roads on the route will be closed approximately 10:30 a.m. Jackson and proceed across Broadway to World’s Fair Park Drive, continuing past Grand Avenue to the World’s Fair Park Festival Lawn for judging and the Performance Lawn for the festival. to accommodate parade registration and staging under James White Parkway. The same blocks will be closed to traffic until 12 p.m. Starting at 7:30 a.m., street parking will close on Willow Avenue between S. Some downtown roads will be temporarily closed, with street parking unavailable. Tanker the Dalmatian, accompanied by Knoxville Fire Department Assistant Chief Brent Seymour, will serve as the parade’s Grand Marshal. KNOXVILLE - Pets and their people will parade from the Old City to the World’s Fair Park this Saturday, March 4, as part of Mardi Growl, the annual event benefitting Young-Williams Animal Center. Downtown roads to close Saturday for Mardi Growl Parade ![]()
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