"Run, Katie, Run" concert
The secret is out! JR Showtime kicks off a summer of great musical concerts at the Grove Theater with “Run, Katie, Run!” Tickets are $20 and available for pre-sale at eventbrite.com.
The Grove Theater in Oak Ridge holds a rich history of memories for many in the East Tennessee area. Constructed during the Manhattan Project & recently rennovated, the theater is home to numerous Arts & Sciences organizations. It is currently owned and operated by High Places Community Church.
The secret is out! JR Showtime kicks off a summer of great musical concerts at the Grove Theater with “Run, Katie, Run!” Tickets are $20 and available for pre-sale at eventbrite.com.
JR Showtime brings another musical hit to the Grove Theater stage - this time featuring Knoxville-based adult rock band, “Second Wind.” You won’t want to miss it! Tickets are $20 and available for pre-sale at eventbrite.com.
The Historic Grove Theater welcomes back the dance crew from Creative Edge Studio for their 2024 Spring Recitals, on the evening of Saturday, May 18th and the afternoon of Sunday, May 19th.
Saturday, May 18th @ 2:00 pm "Alice in Wonderland" (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Featuring Advanced Ballet, Ballet D/E, Pre-Pointe, Pointe 1
Ages 13 and up $15
Ages 5 -12 $5
Please note one ticket per guest covers you for the entire weekend.
Dancers that would like to attend any performance they are not in do not require a ticket.
You may submit payment to us by Paypal or Venmo, using the ID information below:
Paypal: @creativeedgedance297
Venmo: @creativeedgedancestudio
(Please note with your payment how many of each tickets you are purchasing.)
You may also purchase tickets in person at the studio or from Wendie during rehearsals the week of the show.
The Historic Grove Theater welcomes back the dance crew from Creative Edge Studio for their 2024 Spring Recitals, on the evening of Saturday, May 18th and the afternoon of Sunday, May 19th.
Sunday, May 19th, 1:00 pm:
"Rockin Robin"
Preschoolers, Ballet/Tap A, B, Beginning Jazz,
Hip Hop 1, Tap C, Jazz C, Lyrical 1, Minis Competition Team, Junior/Senior Competition Solos/Duets/Trios
Sunday, May 19th, 6:00 pm
"Dance the Night Away"
Adult Tap, Advanced Hip Hop, Advanced Jazz,
Advanced Tap, Hip Hop 2, Hip Hop 3, Intermediate Tap, Jazz D, Junior/Senior Competition Team, Lyrical 2, Lyrical 3, Musical Theater, Senior Solos, Tap D
Ages 13 and up $15
Ages 5 -12 $5
Please note one ticket per guest covers you for the entire weekend.
Dancers that would like to attend any performance they are not in do not require a ticket.
You may submit payment to us by Paypal or Venmo, using the ID information below:
Paypal: @creativeedgedance297
Venmo: @creativeedgedancestudio
(Please note with your payment how many of each tickets you are purchasing.)
You may also purchase tickets in person at the studio or from Wendie during rehearsals the week of the show.
The Pursuit School of Dance presents the ballet performance of “Peter Pan"!
Tickets available for sale soon - see www.facebook.com/pursuitschoolofdance
The Pursuit School of Dance presents the ballet performance of “Peter Pan"!
Tickets available for sale soon - see www.facebook.com/pursuitschoolofdance
Free performance by the Oak Ridge Philharmonia
To learn more, check out their website www.oakridgephilharmonia.org
The Historic Grove Theater welcomes back Oak Ridge’s very own Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival! The festival, inspired by the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tenn., will bring three nationally known storytellers to Oak Ridge June 7 and 8 with performances at the Historic Grove Theater, the Oak Ridge Public Library and the Oak Ridge Senior Center.
The storytellers are Charlotte Blake Alston, Josh Goforth and Bil Lepp. Each uses the power of storytelling to entertain and educate audiences, with hilarious, exaggerated tales or with true stories that shed light on cultures and historic events.
All three storytellers will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7, and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the Grove. Lovers of storytelling can attend all three shows and hear different tales at each one.
$15 for adults
$5 for children ages 5 to 17.
Tickets may be purchased at the Flatwater Tales website, https://flatwatertales.com. Tickets for these three shows may be purchased with cash or check at Calamity’s Coffee, 219 Jackson Square, Oak Ridge.
The storytellers will also offer free, 35-minute shows the mornings of June 7 and 8 at the Oak Ridge Senior Center and Oak Ridge Public Library. Those interested in attending must register for free tickets on the festival’s website because of limited seating.
June 7 @ 7pm - Featured presenter, Charlotte Blake Alston, will tell the inspiring story of the Six-Triple-Eight, the first all-Black Women’s Army Corps battalion assigned to military duty in Europe during World War II. She received a standing ovation when she presented the story at the 2022 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough. Alston brings traditional and contemporary stories from African and African American oral and cultural tradition to her national and international audiences. She often brings traditional instruments such as djembe and the 21-stringed kora into her performances. Also a librettist and singer, she is the host of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s preschool concert series. Among her honors are a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Zora Neale Hurston Award, the highest award given by the National Association of Black Storytellers.
June 8 @ 2pm - Featured storyteller and musician, Josh Goforth, entertains with foot-stomping music and stories that come from his Appalachian roots. Goforth plays nearly 20 instruments, inspired in middle school by a Sheila Kay Adams performance to focus on the musical heritage and stories of his native Madison County, NC. He started his musical career at age 4 playing piano in church. Goforth has performed in all 50 states, as well as internationally, and he has toured with David Holt, the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Band, and the Steep Canyon Rangers. He played fiddle for the movie and soundtrack of “Songcatcher” in 2000, and in 2009 he was nominated for a Grammy for his album with Holt, “Cutting Loose.” He’s on the faculty at the Academy for the Arts in Asheville, NC.
June 8 @ 7pm - Bil Lepp presents stories of adventure and mayhem involving his friend “Skeeter.” He’ll again tell his story, “John Hendrix, Prophet of Oak Ridge,” but with a new twist to the story’s end. A six-time veteran of the festival, he has been described as “a side-splittingly funny man.” Though a five-time champion of the West Virginia Liar’s Contest, he tells stories that often contain morsels of truth, presenting universal themes in clever and witty ways. A storyteller, author and recording artist, Lepp is the star of the History Channel’s “Man vs. History” and an occasional host of NPR’s “Mountain Stage.” Growing up in a family “where the truth was fluid,” he said, he began spinning tales at a young age. His 28 books and audio collections have won numerous awards, including the PEN Steven Kroll Award for Children’s Book Writing, Parents’ Gold Awards, and from the Public Library Association.
The Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival is led by volunteers and sponsored by CNS-Y-12, Pinnacle Financial Partners, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the three Rotary Clubs in Oak Ridge. For more information, see the festival website at www.flatwatertales.com
The Historic Grove Theater welcomes back Oak Ridge’s very own Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival! The festival, inspired by the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tenn., will bring three nationally known storytellers to Oak Ridge June 7 and 8 with performances at the Historic Grove Theater, the Oak Ridge Public Library and the Oak Ridge Senior Center.
The storytellers are Charlotte Blake Alston, Josh Goforth and Bil Lepp. Each uses the power of storytelling to entertain and educate audiences, with hilarious, exaggerated tales or with true stories that shed light on cultures and historic events.
All three storytellers will perform at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7, and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the Grove. Lovers of storytelling can attend all three shows and hear different tales at each one.
$15 for adults
$5 for children ages 5 to 17.
Tickets may be purchased at the Flatwater Tales website, https://flatwatertales.com. Tickets for these three shows may be purchased with cash or check at Calamity’s Coffee, 219 Jackson Square, Oak Ridge.
The storytellers will also offer free, 35-minute shows the mornings of June 7 and 8 at the Oak Ridge Senior Center and Oak Ridge Public Library. Those interested in attending must register for free tickets on the festival’s website because of limited seating.
June 7 @ 7pm - Featured presenter, Charlotte Blake Alston, will tell the inspiring story of the Six-Triple-Eight, the first all-Black Women’s Army Corps battalion assigned to military duty in Europe during World War II. She received a standing ovation when she presented the story at the 2022 National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough. Alston brings traditional and contemporary stories from African and African American oral and cultural tradition to her national and international audiences. She often brings traditional instruments such as djembe and the 21-stringed kora into her performances. Also a librettist and singer, she is the host of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s preschool concert series. Among her honors are a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Zora Neale Hurston Award, the highest award given by the National Association of Black Storytellers.
June 8 @ 2pm - Featured storyteller and musician, Josh Goforth, entertains with foot-stomping music and stories that come from his Appalachian roots. Goforth plays nearly 20 instruments, inspired in middle school by a Sheila Kay Adams performance to focus on the musical heritage and stories of his native Madison County, NC. He started his musical career at age 4 playing piano in church. Goforth has performed in all 50 states, as well as internationally, and he has toured with David Holt, the East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Band, and the Steep Canyon Rangers. He played fiddle for the movie and soundtrack of “Songcatcher” in 2000, and in 2009 he was nominated for a Grammy for his album with Holt, “Cutting Loose.” He’s on the faculty at the Academy for the Arts in Asheville, NC.
June 8 @ 7pm - Bil Lepp presents stories of adventure and mayhem involving his friend “Skeeter.” He’ll again tell his story, “John Hendrix, Prophet of Oak Ridge,” but with a new twist to the story’s end. A six-time veteran of the festival, he has been described as “a side-splittingly funny man.” Though a five-time champion of the West Virginia Liar’s Contest, he tells stories that often contain morsels of truth, presenting universal themes in clever and witty ways. A storyteller, author and recording artist, Lepp is the star of the History Channel’s “Man vs. History” and an occasional host of NPR’s “Mountain Stage.” Growing up in a family “where the truth was fluid,” he said, he began spinning tales at a young age. His 28 books and audio collections have won numerous awards, including the PEN Steven Kroll Award for Children’s Book Writing, Parents’ Gold Awards, and from the Public Library Association.
The Flatwater Tales Storytelling Festival is led by volunteers and sponsored by CNS-Y-12, Pinnacle Financial Partners, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the three Rotary Clubs in Oak Ridge. For more information, see the festival website at www.flatwatertales.com
“What Dwells Beneath” is a crowd-funded indie horror film from East Tennessee writer/director Kris Bell.
To learn more, follow them on www.facebook.com
Three performances!
Thursday, 6/27 @ 6:30pm
Friday, 6/28 @ 6:30pm
Saturday, 6/29 @ 1pm
Keep up to date with performance info at www.facebook.com
Admin note: Previous performances have had a suggested donation of $5 per person with ticket sales at the door; please verify with event coordinator!
Don’t miss out on a wonderful night of great classic hits with Grammy Award nominee, Dre Hilton!
You can follow Dre on social media (Facebook, Instagram) or check out his music on YouTube.
Tickets will be available at the door!
In honor of National Conversation Week, Periodic Tables is sponsoring a (free!) film festival at the Grove!
The second film to be shown is, “Black, White and the Greys,” a 2023 drama written, directed and starring Casey Nelson and Marchelle Thurman. “Black, White and the Greys” tells the story about an interracial couple whose marriage is put to the test while in quarantine together through the Covid pandemic and 'Black Lives Matter' movement. [NOTE: Due to a heavy use of profanity, this film is recommended for mature audiences only.]
The event is free - but RSVP’s are always appreciated! To do so, go to oakridgeperiodictables.com
In honor of National Conversation Week, Periodic Tables is sponsoring a free film festival at the Grove Theater! Friday night’s award-winning feature is “List(e)n,” a powerful documentary that explores what happens when people with opposing viewpoints on some of our most divisive issues – guns, abortion and immigration — actually listen to each other.
More information about the film can be found at https://listencourageously.com/thefilm/
The event is free, but RSVP-ing is always appreciated! To do so, head over to oakridgeperiodictables.com.
Join us at the Historic Grove Theater for a night of incredible music for a great cause. Buford Watson and his band, the Southern Scars, will be rocking the stage to raise funds for our beloved theater. Don't miss out on this special event filled with soulful tunes and good vibes. Grab your friends and family for a memorable night of music and community support.
Tickets ($10 suggested donation) are available at Eventbrite:
Every dollar raised on April 12 will be matched by an anonymous donor up to $75,000!!
The Graysin Slade Band returns to the Grove Theater for another night of underground Rock n’ Roll!
Doors open at 6pm; tickets are available at the door or online for presale at https://graysin-slade.ticketleap.com/
For more information, check out their website at: http://www.graysinslade.com/
East Tennessee’s Own WDVX and Oak Ridge Periodic Tables present the Secret City Radio Show with host Chad Beauchaine. This show features special musical guests Dom Flemons and Kelle Jolly. The Secret City radio show is uniquely Oak Ridge featuring science, history and music.
Tickets are available for presale through Eventbrite at:
The Fisk Jubilee Singers are a world-renowned a cappella ensemble comprised of vocal artists and students from Fisk University in Nashville, TN. The group has an illustrious history, singing Negro spirituals and introducing them to the world for over 150 years.
Ticket sales from this event will go towards the coming Scarboro 85 Monument.
Tickets are $25 (plus tax) and can be purchased online at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/779962668337?aff=oddtdtcreator
John Aistrop presents, “A Salute to Elvis!”
Tickets are available for purchase on Eventbrite at:
Thursday, March 14 - 7pm
Friday, March 15 - 7pm
Saturday, March 16 - 1pm and 6pm
Tickets are $15 and available for purchase online at:
Join Michael Combs for an inspirational night of gospel music!
Tickets will be available at the door for a suggested $10 donation.
To learn more about the music of Michael Combs, visit his website:
East TN Heart Fest is returning in 2024! After quite a hiatus, after the pandemic, we're finally back at it in 2024 at The Historic Grove Theater with BIG GUN, the #1 AC/DC Tribute, ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine, headlining a day-long event, full of amazing East TN music to spread awareness about children's heart disease - Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) - and raise funds for research and helping families struggling with this disease!
Knoxville Noise Pollution will be putting together the amazing set of bands performing all day such as: James Lane | Zack Miles | Eric Caldwell and the Cruise Control | The Half That Matters | Weeping Cosmonaut | For Thee Birds | Red Vinyl Gypsies | Dr. Pink | Whiskey Icarus | Civil Strife | & last, but not least, BIG GUN!
We are still finalizing our sponsorship, as well as the charity the funds will go to this year! All of this will be announced very soon!
Visit us at www.civilstrifeofficial.com/east-tn-heart-fest for more information about the charity and how you can help! Also visit us at www.knoxvillenoisepollution.com to learn more about our organization that is getting involved in making music help the world for the better!
Ticket prices are $10, available at the door or online at
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/east-tn-heart-fest-2024-tickets-830422876177?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Doors open at 12pm.
The Oak Ridge Community Band presents their 2024 Winter Concert - as always, a free event that is open to all! (Donations appreciated!)
Myths, legends and folktales! Personal stories! Tall tales and historic stories! This FREE, family-friendly storytelling concert will be hosted by Mistress of Ceremonies, Aisha Brown and feature the talents of:
Obayana Ajanaku
Ubunibi-Afia (Mama Afia) Short
Felecia Outsey (Sister Felecity LUV) & DynamicRay
Ronnie Pepper
Black Atticus
Admission is FREE, but donations are gladly accepted at the door.
Tune Junkie Weekend is an annual celebration of traditional Irish Music, including workshops, master classes and a showcase concert. To find out more details, register for classes, or buy tickets to the concert, visit their website at https://www.tradknox.com/ or facebook page (www.facebook.com/TuneJunkies).
Three Shows:
Thurs., Jan. 4 @ 6pm
Friday, Jan. 5 @ 6pm
Sat., Jan 6 @ 11:30am
$5/person or $15/family at the door
Three showtimes with tickets available for purchase at the door.
Friday, Dec. 29 @ 5:30pm
Saturday, Dec. 30 @ 5:30pm
Sunday, Dec. 31 @ 1:30pm
For ticket information, see https://www.pursuitschoolofdance.com/.
Don’t suffer with poor gut health this holiday season! Contact Sandy Wells for more information at livewell37830@gmail.com.
Maker’s Ekklesia Dance Studio presents a Christmas Carousel Dance show!
Find out more at www.makersdance.com.
High Places Community Church welcomes you to their FREE annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner from 11am-1pm. No RSVP’s required!
If you’d like to help by donating or volunteering, email Trina at oakridgecommunitythanksgiving@gmail.com.
The captivating Sage Bohacek goes into the woods (to grandmother's house!) with her exceptional portrayal of Little Red Riding Hood in Lighthouse Youth Theatre's upcoming production of Into The Woods. Playing at the Historic Grove Theatre on November 16-18th.
Showtimes:
Thursday, Nov. 16 - 7pm
Friday, Nov. 17 - 7pm
Saturday, Nov. 18 - 1pm and 6pm
Tickets are $15 - available at the door and online at https://my.cheddarup.com/c/lyt-intothewoods-tickets?cart=e05dcf48-7b0d-4e64-bebd-96fcf162a771%21%2166446210
ORCB’s Fall Concert will feature a variety of musical favorites from Disney’s “Lion King” and “Frozen” and a number of other popular music including “Tribute to Irving Berlin” and “Tennessee Salute.”
As always, admission is free!
Jason Herrera and Friends of the Grove Theater proudly present: "The Polaris Project"
The Polaris Project is the brainchild of American violinist/fiddler and North Carolina Arts Fellow, Andrew Finn Magill. Blending Irish, Brazilian, Malawian, and jazz influences, Magill’s quartet tackles ambitious original music played by some of the best jazz musicians in the Columbus area. Grammy-winning jazz violinist Zach Brock (Snarky Puppy) says, “Magill displays effortless virtuosity,” and Berklee College of Music’s Matt Glaser calls Magill “an extraordinary violin virtuoso.”
Tickets: $20 before event
(available online: https://checkout.square.site/merchant/ML4H0YJPD34E7/checkout/FJ67MWYEK5VK372BGA4W6KVC?src=fb )
$25 on day of event - Box office opens at 5:30
High Places Community Church presents “Monsterfest 2023” - a free seasonal event for kids and families. Come “Meet the Monsters” and enjoy games, a bouncy house, snacks and trick-or-treat at participating Grove Theater businesses.
In conjunction with the Secret City Improv Festival, dinner will be served while learning how to tell your personal story.