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SubUrban Thursday
Martinis and Thursdays—together again. Thursday, Jan. 15, 7-10 p.m. Knoxville Museum of Art. $3.

E.C. Scott
Gospel-influenced R&B soul singer from San Francisco. Thursday, Jan. 15, 8 p.m. Brackins. $6.

Drops of Brandy
Knoxville's premier interpreters of Scottish tunes. Friday, Jan. 16, 8 p.m. Laurel Theater. $8 JCA members, students & seniors; $9 general advance; $10 day of show; $5 children 6-12.

Thoroughbred w/ Filthy Crime and The Booze Hounds
Get in touch with your hard rock side. Saturday, Jan. 17, 9 p.m. Pilot Light. $5.

Solace
Matt and Erick by any name would sound as sweet. Monday, Jan. 19, 10 p.m. Preservation Pub. Free.

Certificate of Ingenuity
Works by printmaker Bryan Baker. On exhibit thru Feb. 7. Tomato Head.

Knoxville Ice Bears: Legends' Night
The Knoxville Ice Bears, your professional ice hockey team, will be on home ice this weekend. Sure, there will be plenty of fast-paced action, body checking/fights, and beverage consumption. But the really cool thing is that the Friday night game is "Legends' Night," honoring players from the Knoxville Knights, Cherokees, Speed, and Ice Bears. And the Ice Bears will be wearing Knoxville Knight "flashback" jerseys, replicas of the ones worn by the Knights back in the day. So grab some friends and get pucked up! (Benny Smith)
KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS VS. WINSTON-SALEM T-BIRDS * FRIDAY & SATURDAY, JAN. 16 & 17, 7:30 P.M * KNOXVILLE CIVIC COLISEUM * CALL 525-PUCK FOR TICKET INFO.

Five Guys Named Moe
Increasingly, the Bijou Theater is out to advance your knowledge of music history. When they produced Ain't Misbehavin' last year, audiences learned a lot about Fats Waller and the many tunes he wrote—tunes that sound familiar but whose origins you might know nothing about. And now, their first show of 2004 is another entertaining lesson in the roots of R&B.
Five Guys Named Moe features the songs and spirit of saxophonist Louis Jordan. Jordan, best known for "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)," "Saturday Night Fish Fry," and "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens," was one of the first black musicians to find success with white audiences. His numerous hits for Decca Records in the '40s include duets with labelmates Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong. What made him particularly popular were his live concerts, enlivened by his sense of humor and shuffling beat that laid the groundwork for R&B and rock 'n' roll.
Nathan Best, a former member of both the O'Jays and the Fairfield Four, headlines a cast consisting of Marquez Rhyne, Mikael Merchant, David Penn, Richie Cook and Charles Lattimore.
Musically, Five Guys Named Moe is a best-of collection of tunes by one of the most important progenitors of rock 'n' roll; as theater, it's sure to be an entertaining night on the town. (Paige M. Travis)
FIVE GUYS NAMED MOE * JAN. 16 THRU FEB. 14, 7:30 P.M. * BIJOU THEATER * CALL FOR 522-0832 FOR TICKET INFO.

Chanticleer
Chanticleer has no difficulty finding ways to keep 400-year-old music sounding fresh. That's because the music often has its own life, and it tells the singers something about itself with each performance.
Formed in 1978 in San Francisco, Chanticleer has become world-renowned for its performance of a wide range of musical styles, ranging from Medieval and Renaissance polyphonic music to English madrigals to contemporary popular and serious music. Chanticleer is the only American-based performing group of its kind. Like a string quartet, which plays its music without a director, Chanticleer performs without a director or conductor, "so there is no default back to one person's interpretation," says Matthew Oltman, assistant music director and a tenor in the group. The singers will perform without any instrumental accompaniment, not even a pitch pipe to get started.
For its Knoxville performance, Chanticleer will present some of the Japanese and Taiwanese folks songs it performed overseas in the fall, as well as Medieval and modern French songs, English madrigals, old and new Italian songs and some American selections. The selections reflect the tour's international theme, "Passport to Song."
The group sang in Knoxville a few years ago, "and we always like to come back to places where we are asked to return and where there is a good venue," Oltman says. "This is important. We love to experience a warm response in the audience." (Steve Row)
CHANTICLEER * SUNDAY, JAN. 18, 7:30 P.M. * EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, 800 NORTHSHORE DR. * $30 * CALL 588-0589 FOR ADVANCE TICKETS.

Whild Peach
This funk, rock, metal outfit formed in Dallas in the late '80s and moved to Atlanta in 1993, where the band has provided backing for an impressive number of hip-hop artists. Most notably, they're the touring band for OutKast. They've also worked with Goodie Mob, Khujo Goodie, Joi, Cool Breeze, and Lil' Will. The group is fronted by husband-and-wife team of guitarist David Whild and vocalist Peach. Altanta's Creative Loafing described them this way: "The music of Whild Peach is consistently unexpected, shifting wildly from greasy, in-the-pocket funk to aggressive jet-hangar metal—all fronted by the wailing, Janis-Joplin-meets-Tina-Turner vocal style of Peach." No, Big Boi and Andre won't be there, but you can bet that inventive, experimental spirit will be on display. (Joe Tarr)
WHILD PEACH WITH DJ ALFRED * WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21, 9 P.M. * BLUE CATS * $7; $5 WITH COLLEGE ID