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Performances hosted in the facility have included circuses, plays and musicals, symphony orchestra concerts, popular music concerts, and comedians. [3] On March 18, 1982, the venue was notable to be the site of Randy Rhoads ' final show, before his death in a plane crash the very next day.
More than 130,000 tickets were sold for the shows, and Knoxville hotels were packed for the events. The Saturday concert set a tour record for the Jacksons at the time with 50,239 tickets sold.
Knoxville is a stage musical with a book by Frank Galati, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. The musical is based on the novel A Death in the Family written by James Agee , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction upon its release in 1957.
Underneath the KSO umbrella, a highly successful youth orchestra was established in 1975, known as the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra (KSYO). They are currently conducted by James Fellenbaum, who also serves as the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's Resident Conductor.
January 8, 1977 Volunteer Jam III was held at Municipal Auditorium in Nashville. Special guests included The Winters Brothers Band, Grinderswitch, Wet Willie, Sea Level, The Sanford-Townsend Band and others. Performances from this Jam were combined with performances from VolJam IV to create a live album, Volunteer Jam III and IV. Attendance was ...
May 3-4 – Knoxville Civic Auditorium Watch “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” in high-definition on a 40-foot screen while a live symphony orchestra performs every note of John Williams ...
Knoxville Community Band's Christmas Concert. Dec. 3. Join the Knoxville Community Band's Christmas Concert and food drive at the Bijou Theater. The annual Christmas concert is free to the public ...
The Bijou Theatre is a theater located in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States.Built in 1909 as an addition to the Lamar House Hotel, the theater has at various times served as performance venue for traditional theatre, vaudeville, a second-run moviehouse, a commencement stage for the city's African-American high school, and a pornographic movie theater.