Category: Arts & Entertainment

“Penelope and the Geese,” an opera in progress that gives a different perspective on “The Odyssey,” will be performed at the University of the South at 5 p.m., Friday, July 12. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Sewanee Union Theatre. It will include a concert reading […]

The Sewanee Summer Music Festival continues with the following performances and events. Go to <www.ssmf.sewanee.edu> for ticket purchases and more information. Thursday, July 4, 2 p.m., July 4th Parade Band. Thursday, July 4, 7 p.m., July 4th Patriotic Celebration Band Concert, University Quad. Friday, July 5, 7 p.m., Guerry Auditorium, St. Luke’s Chapel and Convocation […]

The Sewanee Church Music Conference will host its 69th annual meeting July 8 through the 14. Under the direction of an exceptional faculty, attendees will spend one week living, praying and making beautiful music together here on the Mountain. Find out more at http://www.sewaneeconf.com! The public is invited to thee following events, held at All […]

“Penelope and the Geese,” an opera in progress that gives a different perspective on “The Odyssey,” will be performed at the University of the South at 5 p.m., Friday, July 12. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Sewanee Union Theatre. It will include a concert reading […]

Friday Nights in the Park (FNIP), sponsored by the Sewanee Business Alliance, continues today (Friday), June 28, with VOLK. The event is free and open to the public. University Avenue will be closed at 6 p.m., with food and drink available for purchase. VOLK takes the Angel Park stage at 7:30 p.m. The rain location […]

Folks at Home is putting on their second annual benefit concert  2–10 p.m., Saturday, July 6, at the Angel Park in Sewanee. Featurinng  good food and music, there will also be giveaways, and a raffle of prizes including the grand prize of two tickets to any non-sold out show at The Caverns. Raffle tickets are […]

The Tennessee State Museum, in partnership with Nashville Opera, will present a free performance for voice and piano of American composer Samuel Barber’s 1947 classic, “Knoxville: Summer of 1915,” in the Grand Hall of the Museum on Sunday, July 7, at 2 p.m.  The composition, based on James Agee’s 1938 prose poem of the same […]

Students and instructors from the Sewanee Summer Music Festival will demonstrate various instruments and sounds at a special concert in Cowan at 7:30 p.m., Thursday. June 27, at Cowan Center for the Arts. The Sewanee Summer Music Festival is one of the nation’s oldest and most honored music institutes. There is no cost for admission […]

The School of Letters lecture series continues with  a poetry reading from faculty member Tiana Clark at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 19, in Gailor Auditorium. A reception will follow.  Tiana is the author of the poetry collection “I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 […]

The Old Farmer’s Ball, a square dance, will take place from 7–9 p.m. on Friday, June 21, at the pavilion behind city hall in Monteagle, at Hannah Pickett Park. Admission is $5 per person, free for veterans, and children ages 0–12. The dance caller will be Chris Ryan Casbarro from Rising Fawn, Ga., and old-time […]