First Night Knoxville - Ring in New Year’s Downtown

Date: 12/28/2009

First Night Knoxville is the New Year’s Eve Celebration of the Arts in Downtown Knoxville. The event is family friendly and alcohol-free, ringing in the New Year with theatre companies, circus performers, bands from all over the Southeast, visual artists and more.

The First Night Admission Button is your ticket to 13 locations with 15 venues of entertainment with more than 200 artists throughout downtown. Starting at about 7 p.m., each venue will feature a schedule of performances that will continue up until 11:30 p.m. Then, it is back to Market Square for the countdown, ball drop and fireworks to ring in the New Year.

Buttons can be purchased for $10 until December 30, 2009, at all Pilot Convenience Store locations, Market Square District shops, or online at http://www.firstnightknoxville.com through PayPal. Buttons will be available the day of the event for $15 each. Children ages 6 and under are admitted free and do not require a button.

First Night Knoxville Entertainment Schedule

For more information and a complete schedule, visit http://www.firstnightknoxville.com.

CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL @ Tennessee Theatre
3 p.m. Arts, crafts, circus training
4:15 p.m. Bonilla Family Puppets
5:30 p.m. Mighty Wurlitzer with Dr. Bill Snyder
6 p.m. Sean McCullough
6:45 p.m. Processional to Market Square for 7 p.m. First Night kickoff
7:30 p.m. Mighty Wurlitzer at Tennessee Theatre
8-9 p.m. Farmer Jason, kid’s countdown

PARTY @ Market Square Stage
9 p.m. Aftah Party
10:45 p.m. Phil Pollard & the Band of Humans
Midnight New Year’s countdown/ball drop

SWING @ The Square Room, 4 Market Square
7 p.m. Sara Schwabe & Her Yankee Jass Band
8:15 p.m. Blair Crimmins & the Hookers

RUMPUS @ Tennessee Theatre
10 p.m. Holy Ghost Tent Revival

PICK @ Knoxville Visitors Center, 301 S. Gay St.
7:15 p.m. Julie Lee
8:45 p.m. The Lonetones
10:15 p.m. Jason Ringenberg

PASSPORT @ YWCA Gym, 420 W. Clinch Ave.
7 p.m. SalsaKnox
8 p.m. Quincy Yeates
9 p.m. Lucia’s Arte Y Pasiõn Flamenca
9:45 p.m. Capoeira Fundo da Mata
10:30 p.m. Matias-Rocha y Nueva Trova

ECHO @ Miller’s Atrium, 445 S. Gay St.
7 p.m. First Presbyterian Handbell Choir
8:15 p.m. Cellist Kathleen Bowman
9:15 p.m. Akashic Mysteries
10:30 p.m. Knoxville Opera Studio Artists

CREATE @ Farragut Building, 530 S. Gay St.
7-11:15 pm. Visual Art & Ambient Music

BAZAAR @ Arnstein Building, 505 Market St.
7:15 & 10:30 p.m. Shadhavar Bellydance
7:45 p.m. One World Circus
8:15 & 10 p.m. Aerial Arts
8:45 & 11 p.m. Runaway Circus

LAUGH @ TVA Auditorium, 400 W. Summit Hill Drive
7 & 8 p.m. Ventriloquist Gene Cordova
9 &10:15 p.m. Einstein Simplified

ACT @ TVA Room 2
7:30 p.m. Children’s Theatre of Knoxville
8:30 & 10:30 p.m. The Water Series
9:30 p.m. Carpetbag Theatre

Y-NOT @ YWCA Lounge, 420 W. Clinch Ave.
7:15 & 8:15 p.m. The Naughty Knots
9:15 p.m. Rachel Pearl
10:15 p.m. Sara Schwabe

HODGE PODGE @ East Tennessee History Center, 601 S. Gay St.
8 p.m. Old City Buskers

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