![]() 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. VG's Bakery, 11552 Kingston Pike, will have king cakes for sale until 4 p.m., according to its Facebook page.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. Central St., at Three Rivers Market, 1100 N. Magpies Bakery has king cakes available at its shop, 846 N. Knoxville bakeries are offering king cakes for your Mardi Gras celebrations. Cruze Farm, 445 Gay St., will have king cake ice cream.įor a full list, visit /winter/cajuncrawl.Gay St., will be serving red beans and rice, shrimp po’boys and gumbo. Drawing Room at the Tennessean Hotel, 531 Henley St., will feature a Sazerac whiskey cocktail and gumbo.Bistro at the Bijou, 807 Gay St., will have jambalaya, gumbo, vegan red beans and rice and jazz music.French Market Creperie, 412 Clinch Ave., will have bananas foster crepes, French beignets, French beer and Cajun cocktails.Gay St., will feature a New Orleans cocktail menu and jazz music. Sapphire Fine Foods and Fancy Drinks, 428 S.Here are some of the participating businesses. ![]() The Cajun Crawl includes downtown restaurants and bars offering Mardi Gras events and food specials. While Mardi Growl’s parade and party wrapped up on Saturday, several downtown restaurants are participating in the event’s Cajun Crawl through Tuesday, according to the event’s website. View Gallery: Dogs take over downtown for Mardi Growl 2019 ![]()
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