September - October 2016
At the Laurel Theater
1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville,Tennessee
www.jubileearts.org (tickets & info) • 800-838-3006 ext 1 (tickets) • 865-522-5851 (info) • info@jubileearts.org • Laurel Theater on Facebook
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Tickets are available at the Laurel Theater
and Brown Paper Tickets.
Online ticket sales link at www.jubileearts.com
Telephone sales at Brown Paper Tickets:
800 838-3006, ext. 1
WEDNESDAY
Unless otherwise noted
all events are at the
Laurel Theater, 1538 Laurel Ave
(16th St & Laurel Ave in Fort Sanders)
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Appalachian State
at UT
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Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Spring Lizards
Cari Huffman calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
JCA presents
Knoxville
Square Dance
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
Contra Dancers
5-11 pm on WDVX
Epworth Old Harp - 5:30 Groove Contraption
English Dance - 8 pm Donna Calhoun calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
Kerstin Palm &
Bengt Jonsson
7:30 pm
Ohio at UT
JCA hosts
Sound Workshop
6:30 pm each evening
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
English Dance - 8 pm
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Urban Pioneers
Tim Klein calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Rothfield & Nau
Donna Calhoun calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
Florida at UT
JCA presents
Armstrong
Legacy Trio
8 pm
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
JCA presents
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
Tennessee
Stifflegs
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
English Dance - 8 pm
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Joyful Noise
Tim Klein calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Columbus Day
Yom Kippur Begins
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
JCA presents
Jack Herranen
&the Little
Red Band
8 pm
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
Epworth Old Harp - 6:30
English Dance - 8 pm
Knoxville
Country Dancers
Riverdale
Cari Huffman calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
Alabama at UT
JCA presents
Knoxville
Square Dance
8 pm
Mountain Jubilee
9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
English Dance - 8 pm
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Mumbillies
Cari Huffman calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Owl on a Train
Tim Klein calling
8 pm
Scandinavian
Couple Dancing
7:30 pm
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
JCA presents
Bill Mize
8 pm
Mountain Jubilee
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
English Dance - 8 pm
Knoxville
Swing Dance Assoc.
Lessons at 7 pm
Open Dance at 8 pm
JCA presents
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9 pm on WUOT
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Sunday Jubilee
5-11 pm on WDVX
English Dance - 8 pm
Knoxville
Contra Dancers
Hellgramites
Donna Calhoun calling
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You can rent the Laurel for private events –
all income supports our programming
JCA receives financial support from
The Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville,The Arts and
Heritage Fund, Ball Banjo Company,The City of Knoxville,
Knox County,The National Endowment for the Arts,
The Tennessee Arts Commission, & Ullrich Printing.
JCA is a member agency of Community Shares.
Knoxville Square Dance
Tennessee Stifflegs
Thursday, September 8, 8 p.m.
Friday, September 30 8 p.m.
with the Hellgramites
Our performance series starts
with a new season of traditional
regional square dance, again
featuring fine old-time music
by the Hellgramites. Be part of
Appalachian square dancing at
the Laurel. No special training or equipment required — all square
dances will be taught and called. Live old-time music. No taps.
$5 JCA Members & Students • $7 General Admission
Workshop on Concert Sound Engineering
Lou Gross, Laurel Theater Sound Engineer
Wednesday-Thursday, September 14-15, 6:30 to 8:30 pm
As part of its community service and
education programs, Jubilee Community
Arts is offering a two-session workshop
which will provide an introduction to audio
setup, equipment, and mixing for those
interested in a basic introduction to live
sound mixing. This workshop will present
the basics of microphone usage, gain
settings, monitor and house mixing, house
and channel EQ, and use of mixing boards.
There is no charge for the workshop, but
all participants are requested to volunteer
6 hours of time over the next year to aid
production of Jubilee Community Arts
activities. The workshop will be presented by Dr. Lou Gross,Volunteer
Sound Engineer for the Laurel Theater. To register call Jubilee
Community Arts at 522-5851 or email concerts@jubileearts.org.
Free, but requires advance registration
Armstrong Legacy Trio
A Tribute to Howard Armstong
Thursday, September 22, 8 p.m.
Ralphe Armstrong began
performing with his father,
Howard, by age 5. By age
13 he played with Smokey
Robinson and the Miracles;
by 16 he worked with JeanLuc Ponty and Frank Zappa.
The original bassist in the
Mahavishnu Orchestra with
John MacLaughlin, Ralphe still plays with Aretha Franklin and James
Carter. Ray Kamalay covers the rhythm on guitar. He is a long-time
professional musician who has shared the stage with many great
performers, including Doc Watson and Jethro Burns. Fiddler and
mandolinist John Reynolds performed with Howard Armstrong
for decades. The Louie Bluie Festival is our partner in producing this
concert in the venue where Ralphe’s father Howard performed in
2000, an event featured in the documentary Sweet Old Song.
$20 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $21 General Advance
25 General Day of Show
Old-Time String Band
The Tennessee Stifflegs
play old-time and western
swing with a keen sense of
showmanship and musical
integrity. They are a high
energy old-time string band
featuring Frank Bronson on fiddle and vocals, Thomas McNair on
guitar and vocals, Nathan Black on banjo and lap steel, and Tom Cook
on upright bass. Steeped in the tradition of Appalachian string band
music, the Stifflegs have played square dances and fiddler’s conventions
throughout the region.
$10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Advance
$13 General Day of Show • $7 Children 12 & under
Jack Herranen
and the Little Red Band
Friday, October 7, 8 p.m.
Just back from Bolivia and Argentina, Jack
will be highlighting songs written in south
Knoxville, in particular tunes penned
in his home base of Vestal—songs that
draw upon workers’ history and agrarian
folkways, and current struggles for
dignity and justice. Primarily performing
original material that has been shaped
by working class struggles for justice
and land-based hill culture, Jack and
his comrades carry forth the legacy of Woody Guthrie and Sarah
Ogun Gunning, Leadbelly and Don West, Hazel Dickens and Dorsey
Dixon. Jack is joined by Shannon Williams (piano), Knoxvillian/guitarist
Samuel Harding, and Morgan County native Tres Daugherte (organ,
accordion).
$10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Advance
$13 General Day of Show • $7 Children 12 & under
Knoxville Square Dance
with Old-Time music by the Hellgramites
Thursday, October 13, 8 p.m.
We’re continuing our square
dance series with old-time
music by the Hellgramites
featuring core musicians Ken
Bronson on fiddle, Larry Holt
on fiddle, John Mahaffy on
guitar, Morgan Simmons on
banjo, and Tom Cook on bass;
and callers Leo Collins, Stan
Sharp and Ruth Simmons. Be
part of Appalachian square
dancing at the Laurel. No
special training or equipment
required — all square dances will be taught and called. Live old-time
music. No taps.
$5 JCA Members & Students • $7 General Admission
Bill Mize
Fingerstyle Guitar
Friday, October 21, 8 p.m.
Tenneessee native Bill Mize is
a past winner of the National
Fingerstyle Guitar Competition
at The Walnut Valley Festival in
Winfield, Kansas. Guitar Player
Magazine has labeled this event the
“U.S. Open of guitar competitions.”
Bill received a GRAMMY Award for his collaboration with musician
and storyteller David Holt on the recording Stellaluna, and has been
featured on the popular guitar compilations “Windham Hill Guitar
Sampler” by Windham Hill Records and “Masters of the Acoustic
Guitar” by Narada Records. In 2009, Bill’s music appeared in the Ken
Burns documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Mel Bay
Productions transcribed Mize’s second CD, Tender Explorations, into
a songbook, and his original compositions have been transcribed for
Fingerstyle Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines.
$12 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $13 General Advance
$15 General Day of Show • $8 Children 12 & under
Roux du Bayou
Cajun Dance Music
Friday, October 28, 8 P.M.
Accordionist Paul Gregoire from the town of
Dulac in South Louisiana leads this Nashville
based band, always a treat for Cajun dance
enthusiasts. On guitar and vocals is South
Louisiana native Wade Bernard; Jerry Prevost
on drums and rounding out the group, Stephan
Dudash on fiddle and guitar.
$10 JCA Members, Students, Seniors • $11 General Advance
$13 General Day of Show • $7 Children 12 & under
Tennessee Folklore Society
Now Based at the Laurel
Jubilee Community Arts is proud to be the new publisher of the
semiannual Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin. The Bulletin is the oldest
regional folklore journal in the United States, founded in 1934. Its
previous editors include the late Dr. Charles Wolfe, Professor of
English at Middle Tennessee State University, whose popular and
academic works on Tennessee and Southern folk culture and popular
music made him one of the most recognizable figures in Tennessee
Folklore. While not specifically an academic journal, leading scholars
of folklore have published in the Bulletin including Archer Taylor,
Henry Glassie, Stith Thompson, Archie Green, Wayland Hand, D.K.
Wilgus, Herbert Halpert, and Alan Dundes. Articles from the Bulletin
have frequently been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks, and are
required reading in many folklore classes.
Jubilee Records
Crossville Criminal - songs and stories of the late
Fentress County ballad singer Johnny Ray Hicks,
the last publically performing singer in the family
tradition that became known to the world
through the recordings of his cousins Dee and
Delta Hicks.
The Pine Breeze Recordings - a two-CD
compilation documenting the music of Eldia
and Oscar Barbee, Homer and Calvin Chastain,
Bob Douglas and Ray Brown, Russ Vandergriff,
Ella Hughes, Blaine Smith and Florrie Stewart,
J.R. “Peanut” Cantrell, Lee Trentham and J.D.
Perkinson, Clay Turner, and the Bice Family.
May Justus, the Carawan Recordings - Children’s
author May Justus performs ballads and folk
songs, stories, children’s songs and games
remembered from her childhood in Cocke
County. From fields recordings made by Guy
Carawan in 1953 and 1961.
See Price List on Back Page
Ongoing Events at the Laurel Theater
Schedule Subject to Change
Epworth Old Harp Singers - 2nd Sundays as announced. Call 673-5822.
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate in this East Tenn singing tradition.
Knoxville Cajun Dance Association - Fees for Cajun and zydeco dance lessons support Cajun bands at the Laurel Theater. Call 573-9142.
Knoxville Contra Dancers - Mondays at 8 p.m. Call 599-9621.
Contra dancing to live acoustic music. No experience or partner required. $7.
Knoxville Swing Dance Association - Wednesdays. Call 224-6830. Dedicated
to the purpose of promoting swing dance.
Lark in the Morn English Country Dancers - Sundays at 8 p.m. Call 546-8442.
17th-18th Century Social Dancing with live music. Beginners welcome, no partner
is required. Also Rapper Sword dance group meets most Sundays at 7:00. Free.
Trollkretsen Scandinavian Dancers - Tuesdays at 7:30. Call 522-0515.
No partner necessary. Dances include polskor, schottische, waltzes and more.
Jubilee Community Arts receives support from:
Ball Banjo Company
The Laurel Theater is the new address of record for the Society and
houses the organization’s archive. JCA Executive Director Brent
Cantrell, a longtime member and former president of the Society,
takes over as editor. JCA Concert Manager Toby Koosman is coeditor and treasurer of the organization. The Bulletin is published with
support from the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Contact us for more information at 522-5851
and from our members
Have your private event at
the Laurel Theater
A great place for your wedding,
office party or birthday party
Jubilee Community Arts
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Knoxville, TN 37916-2016
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Armstrong Legacy Trio
Tennessee Stifflegs
Jack Herranen & Little Red Bd
Bill Mize
Roux du Bayou
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The Mission of Jubilee Community Arts is to promote, preserve and present the traditional performing arts of the Southern Appalachian region and to nurture the cultural
milieu responsible for the birth and evolution of these and related art forms.
The Sunday Jubilee on WDVX – 89.9 & 102.9 fm
5:00 pm - Tennessee Country Classics with host Joe Bussard
Stringbands, blues, and early bluegrass from the 20’s to the 50’s. With
financial support from Ball Banjo Company and Ullrich Printing.
6:00 pm - Mountain Jubilee with host Paul Campbell
A rebroadcast, produced with the assistance of WUOT.
7:00 pm - Live at Laurel with host Brent Cantrell
Concerts from our weekly series at the Laurel Theater and from our
annual Jubilee Festival.
8:00 pm - Wild Hog in the Woods with host Brent Cantrell
Ballads, blues, and old-time music with a focus on pre-war recordings
and field recordings.
8:30 pm - Music of the Cumberland Trail with host Bobby Fulcher
Produced by the Friends of the Cumberland Trail and featuring all
things musical associated with the Cumberland Trail.
9:00 pm - The Vinyl Frontier with host Jim Childs
Home-recorded acetate discs, old-time country, jazz, blues, and radio
transcriptions, with an emphasis on locally produced recordings.
WDVX 89.9 & 102.9 fm – WUOT 91.9 fm