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Sarah Pirkle, Naughty Knots, Jay Clark and more help out a good cause
There are few ladies in music these days more gracious, kind and equally talented as Blount County fiddler Sarah Pirkle. A member of The Naughty Knots, the Maid Rite String Band and a frequent collaborator with her husband, singer-songwriter Jeff Barbra of The Drunk Uncles, she’s the real deal — big-hearted, super-cool and amazing to hear sing and play.
So when she throws her weight behind a benefit show that’s close to her heart, I can’t help but urge you to attend, help out and do what you can.
Here are the details:
Hearts For Hunter Benefit Concert and Chili Supper
6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 20
Deane Hill Community Center, 7400 Deane Hill Drive, Knoxville
Pirkle writes that Hunter Graham, her cousin, “is a precious 17-month-old baby boy, who has a potentially life threatening disease, Menkes disease. On Feb 20, 2010 there will be a benefit concert at Dean Hill Community Center to help raise funds to send him and his mom and dad to the Family Hope Center in Philadelphia for treatment. Performers will be Andy & Sarah Pirkle, Jeff Barbra, Jay Clark, Van Eaton and the Naughty Knots. Suggested donation for adults $10.”
2009 in words: Weekend interviews of local bands!
As the year winds down to a close, it’s only appropriate, we think, to look back on all of the ink we’ve spilled over the past 12 months. Over the next several days, we’ll be rounding up all of the interviews that have graced the pages of The Daily Times Weekend entertainment section … starting with all of the East Tennessee bands and musicians of all genres to whom we’ve devoted space this year. Presenting … the local interviews of 2009!
Southbound (cover story)
The Drunk Uncles: (cover story)
Jonathan Sexton and The Big Love Choir (cover story)
Whitechapel 2 (front page story)
Dirty Guv’nahs 1 (cover story)
Royal Bangs (cover story)
R.B. Morris (cover story)
Maryville Metal Fest (cover story)
Brandy Robinson (cover story)
Scott Miller (cover story)
The Black Lillies (cover story)
Teenage Love13 (cover story)
Wilco World: Disc Exchange to get a visit from alt-country kings on Saturday!
I was already planning on hitting up the Wilco show at The Tennessee Theatre on Saturday night. Got kind of nervous at first because of the sell-out, but PR girl Deb Bernardini came through with a couple of tickets.
For those of you without the luxury of such hook-ups, there’s good news — Wilco won’t be performing there, but according to Pitchfork, the guys will put in an appearance at The Disc Exchange, Knoxville’s most excellent music store, located on Chapman Highway. It’s part of National Record Store Day (which you can read about here), which will feature live music and appearances by all sorts of local and regional acts, all day long. Here’s the lineup:
Van Eaton and Friends at noon (read a recent interview here)
Greg Koons at 1 p.m
The Rockwells at 3:30 p.m.
Wild Sweet Orange at 4:30 p.m.
Tenderhooks at 5:30 p.m. (read last fall’s story on the band here)
John Paul Keith and the One Four Fives at 6:30 p.m. (read today’s interview with JPK here)
Cutthroat Shamrock at 7:30 p.m. (read a recent story here)
For more information about Wilco — including a new album due in late June and featuring guest vocals by Feist — click here.
Read the new Weekend interview with A Hawk and a Hacksaw, opening for Wilco on Saturday night at The Tennessee Theatre, by clicking here.