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It’s Sundown in the City time
Posted By katie allison granju
Here’s the line-up from AC Entertainment:
Things kick off at 6 p.m. on Market Square, and you can park for free at the Locust Street, Market Square, and State Street garages.
Here’s the schedule.
April 17 - Galactic
April 24 - Susan Tedeschi
May 1 - Umphrey’s McGee
May 8 - Josh Ritter and The Hackensaw Boys (double bill)
May 15 - North Mississippi All Stars
May 22 - Presidents of the United States of America
May 29 - Robert Earl Keen
June 5 - TBA
June 12 - Citizen Cope
June 19 - Marc Broussard
June 26 - The Everybodyfields
July 3 - Wild Magnolias
Opening acts will be announced soon.
More info at the Sundown in the City Web site.
Over at Here ItFrom.Us, they offer some explanation of Sundown for those who aren’t familiar with it:
If you aren’t local to Knoxville, you probably haven’t heard of Sundown in the City. If you are local to Knoxville and haven’t heard of Sundown in the City, I’d make the case that you aren’t really local. The quick skinny is this–it’s a series of outdoor concerts held downtown that features acts that are longer on talent than they are on notariaty. There is no fee for entry–cost is covered by sponsors and the the City.
The music is great, but many of the acts continue to be underappreciated by the KTown crowd. That’s because the social component of SITC is just as big, if not bigger, than the music. The sell beer, so you inevitably end up with pockets of people who all know each other standing around gossiping about their mutual friends who didn’t make it to Sundown that week. The loud music in the background is borderline distracting to them. It also offers the “pretend-we-live-in-Greenwich-Connecticut” crowd from West Knoxville and Farragut the chance to come see how the “pretend-we-live-in-Greenwich-Village” downtown crowd rolls.
Mar 27th, 2008
