January - April 2021 Broadcast & Streaming from the Laurel Theater 1538 Laurel Ave, Knoxville,

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JAN SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY New Year’s Day JCA radio Unless otherwise noted The Mission of Jubilee Community Arts is to promote, preserve and present concerts will stream on Facebook the traditional performing arts of the Southern Appalachian region and to Mountain see jubileearts.org for updates nurture the cultural milieu responsible for the birth and evolution of these Jubilee and more information and related art forms. 9 pm on WUOT q Jan 1 q 2 Old Christmas 8th of January JCA radio JCA radio Sunday Mountain Jubilee Jubilee 5 to10 pm on WDVX 9 pm on WUOT r 3 r 4 s 5 7 s 6 t 7 t 8 u 9

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JCA radio Tennessee Folklore Society -- JCA maintains the offices of the Society and publishes of the Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin. The Bulletin is the oldest regional folklore journal in the United States, founded Sunday in 1934.The Laurel Theater is the new address of record for the Society and houses the organization’s Jubilee archive. JCA Executive Director Brent Cantrell, a longtime member and former president of the Society 5 to10 pm on WDVX serves as editor. JCA Concert Manager Toby Koosman is co-editor and treasurer of the organization. The r 28 Bulletin is published with support from the Tennessee Arts Commission. COVID-19 and the Laurel Theater On March. 12, 2020, as the first cases appeared in the Knoxville area, the In late December 2020 as the pandemic grew, and in consultation with JCA staff and executive committee met and suspended all public events artists who had been tentatively scheduled for performance in January and at the Laurel. The full board later ratified that suspension. All upcoming February, we decided to cancel those events and begin a truncated spring concerts, dances and other public events were suspended until a solution streaming schedule with our 52nd Jubilee Festival in March 2021. These to the pandemic emerges. Our radio programming on WDVX and WUOT events are free of charge but we encourage you to tip the artists if you continues as do our Laurel Theater social media channels on Facebook and can, and in addition, Jubilee Community Arts welcomes new and renewed YouTube. memberships and donations. MAR SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

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APR SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY April Fool’s Day Good Friday JCA receives financial support from JCA radio The Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, Bluebird Christmas Tree Farm, The City of Knoxville, Knox County, Mountain The East Tennessee Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Jubilee The Tennessee Arts Commission, & Ullrich Printing. 9 pm on WUOT JCA is a member agency of Community Shares. t Apr 1 t 2 u 3 Easter JCA radio JCA radio Sunday Mountain Jubilee Jubilee 5 to10 pm on WDVX 9 pm on WUOT 7 u 4 w 5 w 6 w 7 x 8 x 9 m 10 Ramadan Begins JCA radio JCA streaming JCA radio Sunday Jay Clark Mountain ubilee Jubilee 8 pm on Facebook J 5 to10 pm on WDVX 9 pm on WUOT 8 m 11 n 12 n 13 n 14 o 15 o 16 o 17 Earth Day JCA radio JCA radio Sunday Mountain Jubilee Jubilee 5 to10 pm on WDVX 9 pm on WUOT p 18 p 19 9 q 20 q 21 r 22 r 23 s 24

JCA radio JCA radio Sunday Mountain Jubilee Jubilee 5 to10 pm on WDVX 9 pm on WUOT s 25 6 t 26 t 27 u 28 u 29 v 30 v May 1 Beavers, along with a few 52nd Jubilee Festival special guests, will present A celebration of traditional music a musical documentary Friday-Saturday, March 19-20 that tells the story of the coal ash spill at TVA’s For over a half century we have Kingston Fossil Plant and showcased old-time music, ballads, , the heroic efforts of the shape-note singing and other area music workers that cleaned up in this annual event. The 52nd Jubilee the toxic mess. Many of Festival, like last year’s 51st festival will the Kingston coal ash take place online. workers have died. Many more are sick and dying. Jay dedicates this Planning for our first festival started in show to them and their families. the fall of 1969 with the implementation Streaming on Facebook • free of an Appalachian Craft Festival in the spring of 1970 that included a music stage. In the next few years the traditional music component grew and the event came to be known as Jubilee Festival which Jubilee Affiliate Events at the Laurel Theater are Suspended Here is contact information for our Affiliates Community Arts has continued to produce each year. Our 50th Jubilee Epworth Old Harp Singers - Call 673-5822, www.oldharp.org. Singing from the New Harp of Columbia. Festival was held during a historic flood, Knoxville Contra Dancers - Call 599-9621, www.knoxvillecontra.org. Contra but still filled the Laurel for three days dancing to live acoustic music. with old and new friends. Though the Knoxville Swing Dance Association - Call 224-6830, www.knoxswingdance. current pandemic forces us to cancel org. Dedicated to promoting swing dance. live events, we cannot let a year go by Lark in the Morn English Country Dancers - Call 546-8442. 17th-18th Cen- without the Jubilee Festival. tury Social Dancing with live music and Rapper Sword dance group. Join us on Facebook (Laurel Theater) for two nights of music: Trollkretsen Scandinavian Dancers - Call 522-0515, www.facebook.com/ Trollkretsen. Dances include polskor, schottische, waltzes and more. Friday, March 19 6:30 - Epworth Old Harp, singing from the New Harp of Columbia (from our archive) 7:00 - John Alvis and friends, old-time string band 7:30 - Dew Fisher and April Hamilton, country blues 8:00 - Kelle Jolly, Knoxville jazz singer 8:30 - Greg Horne, song writing and old-time music 9:00 - Joseph Decosimo, old-time fiddle and banjo 9:30 - Dan Gammon, traditional song 9:45 - Y’uns, traditional and popular song Saturday, March 20 7:00 - Leah Gardner & Peggy Hambright, traditional song 7:30 - Don Cassell with Nancy Strange and Don Wood, jazz and swing Support Jubilee Community Arts and the Laurel Theater 8:00 - Darrell and Nancy Acuff, old-time music with an Arts Plate. Specialty Plate fees directly support 8:15 - Lone Mountain Drifters, old-time string band Tennessee Arts Commission grant funding. 8:45 - Herb Willliams and Kathleen McGregor Williams, old-time music 9:15 - Matt Morelock, old-time banjo Jubilee Community Arts receives support from: 9:45 - Mumbillies, old-time string band (from our archive) This schedule is subject to change. Details and updates will be available on jubileearts.org. Visit www.jubileearts.org for updates Streaming on Facebook • free Jay Clark and the Tennessee Tree Beavers Friday, April 16, 8 p.m. Blount County songwriter Jay Clark and his band, the Tennessee Tree Beavers (Greg Horne, Daniel Kimbro, & Cory Kimbro). Jay will Bluebird Christmas be debuting “Kingston,” a song co-written by Jay and Daniel along Tree Farm with a Kingston coal ash worker that is fighting for his life as a result of cleaning up the largest industrial spill in U.S. history. Jay and the and from our members Broadcast and Streaming Jubilee Community Arts Nonprofit Org. During the Pandemic 1538 Laurel Avenue U.S. POSTAGE Knoxville, TN 37916-2016 PAID In addition to our regular WDVX and WUOT radio Knoxville, TN broadcasts we are adding internet streaming on Face- Permit No. 187 book. We chose Facebook because many of our regular RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED local artists are currently using it for home internet broadcasts. We may consider additional methods of presenting our programs, at least until we can get back to live events.

Become a member _____ $25 Individual _____ $100 Sponsor JCA Radio _____ $40 Household _____ $500 Patron Saturday Night on WUOT – 91.9 fm _____ $60 Supporter _____ $1000 Benefactor 9:00 pm - Mountain Jubilee with host Paul Campbell Latest releases of regional music with historic recordings and Memberships are for one year beginning on September 1, 2020 and expiring highlights of Laurel Theater concerts. on August 31, 2021. The Sunday Jubilee on WDVX – 89.9 & 102.9 fm Name______5:00 pm - Tennessee Country Classics with host Joe Bussard Address______String bands, blues, and early bluegrass from the 20’s to the 50’s. With financial support from Bluebird Christmas Tree Farm. City/St./Zip______6:00 pm - Mountain Jubilee with host Paul Campbell Phone______email______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 Recordings Member General Total annual Jubilee Festival. May Justus (CD) ______$15.50 ______$17.50 ______$ Johnny Ray Hicks (CD) ______$15.50 ______$17.50 ______$ 8:00 pm - Wild Hog in the Woods with host Brent Cantrell Pine Breeze Recordings (CD) ______$17.50 ______$19.50 ______$ New Harp of Columbia (CD) ______$10.50 ______$12.50 ______$ Ballads, blues, and old-time music with a focus on pre-war recordings Recording prices include $2.50 shipping and field recordings.

Checks and Money Orders ONLY. Make payable to JUBILEE COMMUNITY ARTS 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. A big thank you to our members for their continuing support! 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.

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