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Mountain View Bluegrass Event at Market Sunday 11/2

This coming Sunday, enjoy the cool Autumn day under the First Tennessee Pavilion for our Mtn. View Bluegrass Day. The music will be fantastic and you’ll find all of your favorite vendors (some new ones too) selling handrcrafted treasures – great for early holiday shopping! It’s not too late in the season to [...]

On Stage 11/2 – Steel String Session

Referred to as “Neo-Classical-Grass” and the “Rhythm Section of the River,” Steel String Session is a dynamic group of acoustic multi-instrumentalists from the Ocoee River region of the Blue Ridge Mountains where three state lines and varied musical genres intersect. They make the most out of what they refer to as regional “schyzo-graphy.”

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On Stage 11/2 – New Binkley Brothers

“Upon first listen to the New Binkley Brothers, my immediate thought was ‘There is indeed still hope for country music’. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about that canned crap coming out of Nashville nowadays (pop stars in cowboy hats). I’m talking about honest to goodness southern music which incorporates the [...]

On Stage 11/2 – Linda McRae

Linda McRae first gained notoriety during her stint as bassist, accordionist and vocalist with platinum recording artists, roots rockers Spirit of the West, with whom she spent eight years touring, recording and performing internationally.

Since leaving SOTW to resume her solo career, Linda has released three recordings. “FlyingJenny” (Stony Plain 1997) was produced by Colin Linden, and featured a high powered roster of Canadian talent, including members of The Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Willie P. Bennett, as well as Richard Bell of The Band, Gurf Morlix and Syd Straw. “Cryin’ Out Loud” (Black Hen 2002) was produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Mary Gauthier) and featured her veteran Vancouver band Cheerful Lonesome.

These two widely acclaimed recordings featured Linda’s tuneful Country-Folk. She is now working with Manager James Whitmire of Nashville’s 42 Artist Management and her third recording, “Carve It To The Heart” was released in 2007. This is Linda’s sophomore Black Hen release co-produced by Linda and Marc L’Esperance (Po’ Girl, Ray Condo) and showcases the new sound she continues to develop through her love of clawhammer banjo and her associations and collaborations with fellow songwriters.

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On Stage 10/26 – Wurstbrats Oompah Band

The Wurstbrats Oompah Band is a 20-member ensemble that has played in the Chattanooga area since 1994. They play a variety of listening, dance, and ballroom dance music that includes classic and modern big band, swing, Latin, and waltz tunes.

In the Chattanooga area, the Wurstbrats Oompah Band has earned the respect of [...]

Oktoberfest This Saturday and Sunday!!

10/19 McKamey Day at Chattanooga Market

This week our friends from McKamey will come to share information about their new facility. We would like to support the fabulous work that they do for our community SO, we’re inviting market goers to bring their pets to market this Sunday!

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On Stage 10/19 – Volatile Baby

Volatile Baby is a group of three talented female musicians known for their exquisite harmonies and incredible songs. They are brand new traditional country, sometimes taking on a neo-classical string influence and always delivering an unforgettable performance.

Producer Don Dixon (REM) says, “Volatile Baby sounds like The Carter Family & The Roches decided [...]

On Stage 10/19 – Hudson K

Perhaps it was the definitiveness of genre with which she started her musical endeavor which lead Christina Horn, a.k.a. Hudson K, to her current style of genre-dissolving anti-pop piano rock. Listening to her music, you can’t help but guess that the classical masters trained her technical eyes and ears. But when she first heard the early sounds of Tori Amos, it occurred to her that she had options beyond teaching piano lessons and accompanying the church choir. Certainly she has been compared to Amos by music journalists in her native Knoxville, and she won’t deny the strength of Amos’s influence on her ambition. Still, she has poured her own earthiness into her style and created a sound that is uniquely hers. This sound found a home first behind the vocals of fellow Knoxville native Matt Urmy in the short lived but loved local indie outfit Teleskope.

The dissolution of Teleskope in 2005 left Horn wondering if it were possible for her to front a band, rather than just support one. It didn’t hurt that her life, at the time of the Teleskope’s parting, was whirling in the heartache and despair of the increasingly common quarter life crisis: the kind of tragedies of which beautiful music is so often made. She wrote what she knew and brought it where she could, usually to the once smoky bars in downtown Knoxville, or any other corner where she could fit her keyboard. It was during this time that she ran into old friend Laura Bost in a dark garage at a party; the two had become acquainted years earlier, in music school, while both were learning to perfect and perform the classical music they were, years later, eagerly leaving behind. Unlike Horn, Bost was a vocalist by training, and was working as a sound engineer. Like Horn, Bost was feeling the compulsion to write and sing something different than what her classical training as a vocalist had been.

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On Stage 10/19 – Brandon Pruitt

Twenty-five year old Brandon Pruitt hails from Lexington, Oklahoma. He is an accomplished singer, songwriter, and musician. His mentors include such legends as Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Keith Whitley, and Hank Williams Sr. After forming a relationship with Sony Publishing’s Mike Whelan late in 2005, Brandon immediately began work on his freshman album [...]