Menopause the Musical

Tuesday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday, September 10, 2 & 7:30 p.m.

Discover why over 10 million fans worldwide are laughing! Menopause The Musical is a 90-minute laughter-filled celebration that is inspirational for all who attend. The ensemble production features four women at a department store’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, and more. The joyful musical parody is comprised of re-lyricized classic baby boomer hits, including "I Heard It Thru the Grapevine You No Longer See 39," "Puff, My God I’m Draggin’," and the disco favorite "Stayin’ Awake! Stayin’ Awake!"

FISHStock ’08

featuring Brandy Robinson, Grandpa’s Stash, The Dirty Guv’nahs, The Retroholics and Sellers Wray

Friday, September 12, 7 p.m.

FISH Hospitality Pantries is proud to present its first music festival, FISHStock ’08! Enjoy great music in a wonderful venue while supporting FISH Hospitality Pantries. FISH operates four pantries in East, South, Northwest and West Knoxville, providing food to more than 10,000 families every month. Each $5 ticket allows FISH to feed a family of four for three days. Bring canned goods for the donation barrels! Tickets are $5 for students and $12 for general admission, available at the Tennessee Theatre box office or by phone at 865-684-1200.

The Yard Dogs Road Show

with The Indigo Belly Dance featuring Rachel Brice, Zoe Jakes and Mardi Love

Sunday, September 14, 8 p.m.

Unless you lived 100-plus years ago in a rowdy frontier town on a far distant planet, you’ve never seen anything like the bawdy cabaret that is the Yard Dogs Road Show. This musical troupe of burlesque dancers, fire-eaters, sword-swallowers, wild-eyed hobo poets, and other sideshow oddities captures the spirit of the Wild, Wild West as it still permeates the fringes of pop culture today. Sexy, saucy, delightfully uninhibited, the Yard Dogs Road Show is a wonderful wicked band of players that titillates and tantalizes.

Los Lonely Boys

with Dave Barnes

Wednesday, September 17, 8 p.m.

The Tex-Mex rock group Los Lonely Boys consist of three brothers, guitarist Henry Garza, bassist JoJo Garza, and drummer Ringo Garza Jr. Their father, Ringo Garza Sr., also was a member of a band made up of his brothers, the Falcones, who played conjunto music around Texas in the ’70s and ’80s. After that group broke up, Garza went solo, backed by his three sons before they reached their teens. The family relocated to Nashville in the 1990s, and gradually the sons emerged as a group separate from their father. They moved back to Texas and, in 2003, recorded their debut album, Los Lonely Boys, at Willie Nelson's Pedernales studio in Austin with Nelson sitting in; the album earned national attention for the disc and its hit single, “Heaven.” Epic Records distributed the record in March 2004, resulting in a Grammy award for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal the following year. The Los Lonely Boys released their fifth album and their third studio set, Forgiven, this month. The album sticks to their fuller sound, which was showcased in their previous album, Sacred, and is primarily blues based.

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band

with special guest Jenny Lewis

Monday, September 22, 8 p.m.

After releasing cultishly praised records under the moniker of Bright Eyes in the past decade, Conor Oberst will release his first solo album in 13 years on August 5. The disc was made with support from The Mystic Valley Band (Taylor Hollingsworth, Nik Freitas, Macey Taylor, Nate Walcott and Jason Boesel) in Mexico during January and February 2008. Supporting Oberst for a few dates on the fall tour is Jenny Lewis, firebrand singer of the rock quartet Rilo Kiley and her solo project Rabbit Fur Coat.

Knoxville Jazz Orchestra presents

Ray Charles Birthday Celebration starring Maceo Parker

Tuesday, September 23, 8 p.m.

R&B legend Maceo Parker plays and sings Ray Charles’ biggest hits in this soulful tribute. The evening’s music is from Parker’s recent CD, Roots & Grooves, with Germany’s WDR big band. This concert will be his first live performance of the material in the United States! Tickets available at the Tennessee Theatre box office or by calling 865-684-1200. Visit www.knoxjazz.org for information about upcoming concerts in the KJO’s 2008-2009 season.

WDVX presents

Tennessee Shines

Wednesday, September 24, 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Tennessee Shines is a live radio show held on the last Wednesday of every month at the historic Bijou Theatre and broadcast live on WDVX and WDVX.com. The multi-artist program, hosted by Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale, showcases music from the Appalachian foothills to the Mississippi delta and beyond, by nationally recognized artists and up-and-coming artists who represent our region's varied artistic culture. This month’s show features the Jerry Douglas Band, The Red Stick Ramblers, The Biscuit Burners and The Belleville Outfit. The first 200 audience members in the door get a free Goo Goo Cluster!

Ralph’s World

This show has been moved to December 13

These days, plenty of rockers make kid-friendly records. But there’s only one Ralph Covert, an irrepressibly enthusiastic performer who, in Ralph’s World, rocks just as hard for kids as he does for grown-ups. Formerly of the Chicago rock group The Bad Examples, Covert began writing songs for children shortly after the birth of his daughter. Around that time, he was also teaching young children in a music class that spanned traditional kids’ music and rock, ranging from “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” to “Ziggy Stardust.” Musically, Ralph’s World is similarly diverse, embracing high-energy folk, country, pop, and rock. Albums such as Peggy's Pie Parlor, Holly Jolly Ralph’s World and Green Gorilla, Monster & Me ensure a growing audience of the young and young at heart.