Back to listings   The Big Ticket Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Civic Coliseum The Greatest Show on Earth, duh. Thursday-Sunday, March 6-8, 7 p.m., March 8, matinees at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., March 9, shows at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tickets are $14, $18, $24, $30. Call 656-4444. Knoxville Opera Guild Annual Martini Party. Thursday, March 6, 6-8:30 p.m. Bennett Galleries. $50, call 584-0795 for information. Eileen Ivers w/ KSO Pops Orchestra Riverdance's fiery fiddler with her band Immigrant Soul. Friday- Saturday , March 7-8, 8 p.m. Civic Auditorium. $19-$65. (291-3310) Stinking Lizaveta w/ Pilot to Gunner Instrumental trio with a great big sound. Thursday, March 6, At: 10pm. Pilot Light. $5. Hookah Brown Featuring Rich Robinson & Will Hoge Black Crowes tunes. Friday, March 7, 9 p.m. Blue Cats. $10 adv., $12 door. 18+. Tim O'Brien Bluegrass and Celtic original tunes. Saturday, March 8, 8 p.m. Laurel Theater. $7 advance, $8 door. Circle Modern Dance Improvisational dance concert/fund raiser. Saturday, March 8, 8 p.m. Candy Factory, 7th Floor. $10. (523-4825) Readings from Lysistrata By the Actors Co-op Beehive. Saturday, March 8, 7 p.m. Preservation Pub. Free to all. Call 522-2955 for info. Disband, Kudzu Wish & Huffstetler Presented by the Friends of Music and the Arts. Sunday, March 9, Old City Java. All ages. Marcel Marceau Legendary master mime struts his stuff for us. Monday, March 10, 8 p.m. Tennessee Theatre. Call 656-444 for tix. Trailer Bride w/ Jennifer Nicely Southern gothic balladeers with winsome singer/songwriter opening act. Tuesday, March 11, 10 p.m. Pilot Light. $7. Jodie Manross Band Powerful vocals to get your dreads bobbin'. Thursday, March 13, 10 p.m. Barley's. $3. 18+. Ghost Mountain Blues Band Straight-ahead blues. Thursday, March 13, 10 p.m. Preservation Pub. Free. 18+. 34th Annual Jubilee Festival Performances by Charlie Acuff and the Lantana Drifters, Sean McCullough, Roy Harper, and many others. Friday-Sunday, March 14-16, 6:30 p.m. Laurel Theater. $7 adv., $8 door. (522-5851) Yo Kimura Trio Japanese jazz group, back from last year. Friday, March 14, 5:30 p.m. Alive After Five, Knoxville Museum of Art. Tim Boot Revival Hip-Hop featuring Lyrikal Buddah, Dan Johns, and the Beat Junction Project. Saturday, March 15, Pilot Light. $7.

Edwin McCain with David Ryan Harris On the road to support a new CD, The Austin Sessions, and his first DVD, Mile Marker: Stories and Songs from The Acoustic Highway�, Edwin McCain is returning to his roots after a four-album stint with a major label. ATC Records, which counts McCain as its only artist so far, put out both the CD and DVD. Small though it may be, ATC appears suited to McCain's introspective style. One of his favorite statements about his new company is "I'm so relieved that I don't have 15 committee members to decide whether or not I'm going to wear black pants on television." Expect to hear stripped-down versions of his hits like "I'll Be" and "I Could Not Ask for More" as well as old favorites, new tunes, and covers. (Scott McNutt) EDWIN MCCAIN WITH DAVID RYAN HARRIS * THURSDAY, MARCH 6 * 8 P.M. BLUE CATS * $15 ADVANCE, $18 DOOR King Kong with Skeleton Key Their latest record, The Big Bang, is something of a modern rock opera, in which lead singer and songwriter, Ethan Buckler lives out his childhood fantasy of blasting off into space. The reasons are ones any average misfit could relate to, as Buckler sings, "It's the humanity crawling over the place/ It's the humanity taking up so much space/ Kissing each others' asses you've got such bad taste/ I piss on you and the whole human race." A consummate oddball, Buckler has of course found less anti-social means of escape through this music, and it's intoxicatingly droning, groovy in a white boy sort of way. Imagine Man or Astroman? heavily influenced by George Clinton and you get a little bit of an idea what they might sound like. Quirkiness abounds and although it might not lead anywhere in particular, it's fun listening to them piddle around. (Joe Tarr) KING KONG WITH SKELETON KEY * FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 10 P.M. * THE PILOT LIGHT * $7 Aespyre Iron Pour with Sideshow Bennie You'd never suspect this place, or this event, existed unless you saw it. The venue, known variously as the Spaghetti Bowl and the Underbelly, is a section of town down under the highways, in the post-industrial ruins by the banks of Second Creek between downtown and Mechanicsville. Preston Farabow and Darren Roberts, partners in the maverick metalworking group, Aespyre, toil down there every day; it can be a lonesome spot, but on the first Friday of each month they throw a big party for all their friends, and welcome all crashers. Sometimes they entertain their guests with an Iron Pour; sometimes with live entertainment; sometimes with mounds of gourmet food. This Friday, March 7, they'll have all three. Farabow, Roberts, and their assistants will pour molten iron to cast new sculpture; American Plague will perform as the iron cools; and in honor of Mardi Gras, Farabow and Roberts, excellent cooks both, will serve Louisiana specialties. Finally, in honor of the circus, which conveniently parks its train right next to the Spaghetti Bowl, performance artist Sideshow Bennie will perform his astonishing and sometimes deeply troubling "Carnival of Wonders" for the crowd. (We're told it's not necessarily for kids.) (Jack Neely) AESPYRE IRON POUR, WITH PERFORMANCES BY AMERICAN PLAQUE AND SIDESHOW BENNIE * FRIDAY, MAR. 7 * 6 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT * SPAGHETTI BOWL (FROM 5TH AVE., TURN SOUTH ON BLACKSTOCK, THEN LEFT ON MCGHEE; CROSS THE CREEK, TURN RIGHT ON THE GRAVEL ROAD, AND PARK ANYWHERE YOU SAFELY CAN) * CALL 588-6835 IF YOU'RE CONFUSED * FREE