Here’s a list of what to do this weekend, and it’s a big one—Beauford Delaney, the return of Camperfest, Brian Wilson, The Death of Louis XIV, Hudson K, the Mill and Mine’s Food and Wine Yard Party, and much more. Visit the Knoxville Mercury online calendar or pick up the latest issue for a full list of the weekend’s offerings.
FRIDAY, MAY 5
Gathering Light: Works by Beauford Delaney From the KMA Collection
Knoxville Museum of Art • 10 a.m.-5 p.m. • Free

Detail from “Scattered Light” (1964) by Beauford Delaney
Beauford Delaney is the best-known 20th-century artist to come from Knoxville, but until recently, his career has been overlooked in his hometown. In the 1940s and ’50s, Delaney created vibrant, expressionistic portraits of friends and acquaintances like James Baldwin, Charlie Parker, and Marian Anderson; later, after he moved to Paris, he explored a colorful avenue of abstract expressionism. He died in 1979.
Knoxville Museum of Art curator Stephen Wicks has made Delaney’s legacy a priority for the museum in the last several years; KMA has worked with the painter’s estate and the Beck Cultural Exchange Center to purchase several notable Delaney paintings, 40 of which are on display in this exhibit. The show also includes pieces on loan from the Delaney estate. On display May 5-July 23. Read more about Delaney here, here, and here.
WDVX Camperfest Reunion
Dumplin Valley Farm (Kodak) • 4-11 p.m. • $22.50-$50
Between 1998 and 2007, the roots-music public radio station WDVX held an annual music fest near the camper that served as its broadcast studio, corporate headquarters, and transmitter station. Camperfest has been on hold since the station moved to downtown Knoxville, but they’re hosting a 10th anniversary reunion near the Great Smoky Mountains this weekend, with music by Darrell Scott, Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, Jill Andrews, Robinella, and many more. Camperfest starts tonight and runs all day on Saturday.
City People Downtown Home Tour
Downtown Knoxville • 5:30-9 p.m. • $25-$35
Ever wonder what it’s like to live downtown? City People has been guiding the curious through some of the neighborhood’s showcase living spaces for 25 years. This year, more than a dozen lofts, apartments, and condos will be on display, including spots in the Tennessean and Marble Alley Lofts. If you can’t make it Friday night, the tour continues on Saturday from noon until 4 p.m.
Knoxville Children’s Theatre: The Island of Dr. Libris
Knoxville Children’s Theatre • 7 p.m. • $12
KCT and the Ritchie Company are staging the world-premiere production of this adaptation of Chris Grabenstein’s best-selling YA adventure novel. (University of Tennessee grads Grabenstein and Ronny Venable, who wrote the adaptation together, will attend the May 13 performance and participate in a Q&A session after the show.) The Island of Dr. Libris runs through May 21.
Martina McBride
Tennessee Theatre • 8 p.m. • $59.50-$250

Country superstar Martina McBride—she’s sold 18 million albums, topped the country chart six times, and won seven combined annual awards for best female vocalist from the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association—headlines the Tennessee Theatre’s Stars on Stage Gala fundraiser. It’s an evening of classy country music to benefit the official state entertainment emporium.
Goatwhore with Summoner’s Circle, Cemetery Filth, and WarClown
The Concourse • 9 p.m. • $10-$15 • 18 and up

New Orleans scuzzbags Goatwhore deliver Southern blackened death metal, swampy occult overtures spawned by Satan and honed to pummeling, state-of-the-art precision. Guaranteed to get heads banging and pits moshing. Hosted by Night Owl Music.
The Dexateens
Barley’s Taproom and Pizzeria • 10 p.m. • $5
The Dexateens have been Alabama’s heavyweight champs of strapping Southern country-punk for nearly 20 years. Last year, the band rebounded from a lengthy hiatus with Teenage Hallelujah, a rollicking return full of twangy guitar licks, rockabilly rhythms, and vivid images from the Southern Gothic imagination. Presented by WUTK’s Funhouse.
SATURDAY, MAY 6
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
Bijou Theatre • 8 p.m. • $35

Marty Stuart has one heck of a resume—besides a long solo recording career that includes a handful of top 10 country hits, he’s played in the backing bands of Johnny Cash and Lester Flatt, produced records by Connie Smith and Porter Wagoner, and had a successful partnership with Travis Tritt. In the last decade or so, Stuart’s become best known as an advocate for traditional American music, recording albums dedicated to classic Nashville songs, classic Southern gospel, and Native American music.
Brian Wilson Presents Pet Sounds: The Final Performances
Tennessee Theatre • 8 p.m. • $60-$120
There’s no use trying to condense the scope and impact of the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds into a couple of sentences—suffice to say, it’s one of the most acclaimed records of the boomer generation, it’s influenced three or four generations of pop songwriters, and it revolutionized the way producers and musicians thought about the possibilities of the recording studio. Brian Wilson seems to have been traumatized by the experience of making it.
This might be your last chance to hear Wilson perform the music from the album live, and he’s got former Beach Boys bandmates Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin with him.
Hudson K
Pilot Light • 8 p.m. • $5 • 18 and up

In July, local experimental synth-pop duo Hudson K will release its third album, a nine-track concept album about nature, technology, and humanity. Singer-songwriter-keytar virtuoso Christina Horn and drummer Nate Barrett kick off the PledgeMusic pre-order campaign for the new disc and premiere the video for the first single, “Mother Nature,” at this show. With Br’er and Teach Me Equals.
K Camp
The International • 10 p.m. • $20-$60 • 18 and up

Atlanta rapper K Camp was a member of XXL’s 2015 freshman class, alongside Fetty Wap and Vince Staples. He hasn’t come up with breakthrough success yet, but he’s been a reliable voice of emerging Southern hip-hop with minor hits like “Money Baby,” “Cut Her Off,” and “Comfortable.” With Trop Blanco, Skewb, and Alexx Stone.
SUNDAY, MAY 7
Knoxville Food and Wine Yard Party
The Mill and Mine • noon-7 p.m. • $60 • 21 and up
An A-list of Knoxville chefs, bakers, brewers, and other experts on digestible goods will talk about their work—and then serve some of it up, so you can taste the evidence of the city’s thriving food and drink scene.
Public Cinema: The Death of Louis XIV
Knoxville Museum of Art • 2 p.m. • Free

Over the course of two hours, you watch Louis XIV of France, the resplendent, long-reigning Sun King, slip from mild physical distress to the autopsy table. Spanish writer/director Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV derives its considerable power from the performance of French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, from Serra’s masterful direction, and from its resonances with the body politic, and with the body each of us is peering out of right now. Serra will attend the screening for a discussion of the film.
Senior Editor Matthew Everett manages the Knoxville Mercury's arts & entertainment section, including the comprehensive calendar section—Knoxville’s go-to guide for everything worth doing in the area. You can reach Matthew at matthew@knoxmercury.com.
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