Back to listings   The Big Ticket Natti Love Joys Marley's music, local band. Thursday, March 20, 8 p.m. Preservation Pub. Free. Poetry Slam Last chance to qualify for the Knoxville Poetry Slam Team. Thursday, March 20, 8 p.m. Fairbanks. Laura Walker Former singer and bassist for the Dismembered Tennesseans supporting her solo CD, Piney Rose. Friday, March 21, 8 p.m. Laurel Theater. $7 adv., $8 door. (522-5911) Interdimensional w/ Box of Souls & The American Plague Loud rock 'n' roll. Friday, March 21, 9 p.m. Blue Cats. $5. 18+. Fat Daddy Fat singer, phat music. Friday & Saturday, March 21 & 22, 9:30 p.m. Sassy Ann's. $5. 21+. New Brutalism w/ Character & Lone Official Thunderous rock, a wall of noise. Saturday, March 22, 10 p.m. Pilot Light. $5. 18+. Mem Shannon & the Membership Funky N'awlins blues from ex-cab driver & band. Saturday, March 22, 8 p.m. The Palace Theater. $12 advance, $15 door. Ginny Hawker & Tracy Schwarz Traditional singer with fiddler from the New Lost City Ramblers. Saturday, March 22, 8 p.m. Laurel Theater. $11 adv, $12 door. (522-5911) Lizzie West w/ Jodie Manross & Chase Pattison Guitar-slingin' poet and local faves. Monday, March 24, 8 p.m. Blue Cats. $5. Babydriver w/ Westside Daredevils Beer-drinkin' garage rock & local melodic rockers. Wednesday, March 26, 10 p.m. Pilot Light. $5. 18+. Copper, Eclectic, & Spector 12 Hard-edged modern rockers and others do Goodwill benefit concert. Thursday, March 27, 9 p.m. Blue Cats. $12. The American Plague One-cent beer night and rock 'n' damn roll. Thursday, March 27, 9 p.m. Ivey's. $5. 18+. Matthew Kahler w/ Jonathan Sexton "Georgia music at its best." Thursday, March 27, 9 p.m. Manhattan's. The Used, Coheed and Cambria, STUN, Vaux Alternative rock from blazing guitars to acoustic ballads. Friday, March 28, 9 p.m. Blue Cats. $11 adv., $13 door. Larry Sparks Bluegrass vet, founder of the Lonesome Ramblers. Friday, March 28, 8 p.m. Laurel Theater, 8pm. $12 adv., $13 door. Red Headed Stepchild Deeply rooted music, unique with a capital "U." Saturday, March 29, 10 p.m. Barley's. Free. 18+.

Dominic Gaudious Mixing classical, jazz, rock, flamenco, folk, Celtic, Indian, and world beat genres on a 6 & 12-string double-neck guitar, instrumental wizard Dominic Gaudious is sometimes compared to Leo Kottke and Michael Hedges. Versatile, innovative, melodic, and intense are terms applied to his compositions. Sounds like the perfect accompaniment to an Alive After Five evening at the Knoxville Museum of Art, where you can also view exhibits from the museum's permanent collection, the Richard Jolley glassworks exhibit, and the show of 20th century paintings from Tennessee. Or, if the KMA isn't your style, you can catch Gaudious and his didj player later at the Preservation Pub. (Scott McNutt) DOMINIC GAUDIOUS * FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 5:30 P.M. * KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART * 1050 WORLD'S FAIR PARK DR. * $6, $3 FOR MEMBERS & UT STUDENTS WITH VALID IDS * CALL THE PRESERVATION PUB AT 524-2224 FOR INFO ON GAUDIOUS' PERFORMANCE THERE Antiques and Garden It's (almost) Dogwood time in Tennessee, which means that local non-for-profits are shaking off their winter slumber and raising funds for the coming year. Ah, spring. One of the more fun fund-raisers has always been the KMA's Antiques and Tablescapes show. This year, there are a few changes, however. Don't worry—Tablescapes (the display that includes local gift galleries like Andrew Morton, Nouveau Classics, and Impromptu) will still be in the offing. New this year are lunch lectures by Ron Morgan, well-known floral designer, and Peter Hatch, Monticello's Grounds and Gardens Director. For the pack-rats in the bunch, Charlie Miller will look at your elegant junque and tell you if it has any great worth. And you had better hope that your items do, because with the prices at this year's show—$45 for Morgan, $30 for Hatch, and $5 per item appraised—it would help to have an undiscovered Ming vase lurking in your attic. (Adrienne Martini) ANTIQUES AND GARDEN SHOW * MARCH 21-23 * CONVENTION CENTER * $8 ADMISSION, WHICH INCLUDES ADMISSION TO THE KMA BUT NOT ALIVE AFTER FIVE * CALL 671-2118 Low Skies Their label calls them post-apocalyptic. If that's correct we must all be dead. The sound of this five-piece Chicago band certainly is ominous and reflects the mood of our times, which from where I'm sitting seems like a mixture of dread, uncertainty and hope. Low Skies makes essentially a more somber, plodding version of the bluesy rock the Stones created (and perfected) in the early '70s. And even Low Skies' take on it isn't that new—the Grifters were making similar sounds a decade ago. But Low Skies put its own twist on it that sound entirely vital for our day. The group is set to release its debut, The Bed, in May, and this show will be a nice preview. Labelmate Judah Johnson—who makes "the kind of music that makes a bad situation worse, in the most excruciatingly beautiful way"—joins in. (Joe Tarr) LOW SKIES WITH JUDAH JOHNSON AND HOLLY * THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 9 P.M. * THE PILOT LIGHT * $5