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August 2021
The WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live from Visit Knoxville – 8/4 – Nate Fredrick
Nate Fredrick is a native Missourian, Nate learned to play guitar after his dad brought one home—that he never learned to play—when Nate was 12. But he didn’t start writing songs until a decade later. “A friend and I were running from the police one night, and I accidentally fell off a cliff,” Nate says. “During the two-year recovery process, I started actually making music instead of just playing music. The first show I ever had, I played with my…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special – Live from Visit Knoxville – 8/5 – Steve Erwin / Rosemary Minasian
Steve Erwin has just recently moved to Knoxville. Also joinning us is Rosemary Minasian. Let's welcome them by coming to his Blue Plate Special! https://youtu.be/979153tlnC4 Rosemary Minasian (pronounced "min-ASS-ee-an") is a singer-songwriter who is currently involved in a multitude of musical projects in New Orleans, LA. They have participated in an "adventure choir," Murmurations, and Serpentine. Through these opportunities, Rosemary met musical collaborators including Toren Hardee and Peter J Bowling. They formed the experimental trio, Wavering, which released I'm Not…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 8/11 – The Lucky Losers
The Lucky Losers have been described as “the finest light-skinned female blues vocalist in the U.S” , fiery Dallas-born entertainer Cathy Lemons has a velvet voice with a gritty edge and the rebel conviction of a woman risen from the ashes. New Jersey native Phil Berkowitz "has earned renown as one of the West Coast’s most distinctive harp players, as well as for his sharp, resonant tenor" . The stark contrast between incandescent Lemons and elegant Berkowitz makes for a…
Find out more »The WDVX Blue Plate Special live from Visit Knoxville – 8/12 – Amy Speace
Amy Speace grew up in Baltimore as the oldest child of four, Speace discovered music, words and a love of language early on. Her grandmother taught her to read at 3 years old by reading street signs. By 5 she was writing poetry, and by 8 she’d learned to play piano. Over the next decade, the family moved often, then Speace enrolled in Amherst College in Massachusetts. Not knowing what where to go after graduation, she took her professors’ advice…
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