Barry CourterFor those curious about what the entertainment landscape might look like in the coming year, you need only look to tonight for a possible clue.
This is not to say that every night of the week will be as busy all over town as it is on a New Year’s Eve, but who knows? In addition to the champagne and party favors being offered at many of your favorite local watering holes, there are parties at venues all over the Southside.
The Choo Choo alone has four events tonight. Five if you count the pregame festivities planned in the Victorian Gardens starting today around 4 p.m. Tonight, Julie Scoggins is at The Comedy Catch, The Beaters will be in the Imperial Ballroom, the Velcro Pygmies are at Revelry Room and Here Come the Mummies bring their thousands-year-old funk to Track 29.
Around the corner, Clyde’s On Main has the Power Players and the Preston Parris Band. Southside Social has a party planned, and if we wanted to stretch the boundaries a bit, the Public House/The Social and The Chattanoogan have events tonight. That’s a lot of partying in areas that didn’t see much activity – the legal variety anyway – a few years ago.
Work on the city’s music scene continues in offices at places like the Convention & Visitors Bureau, the Chattanooga Choo Choo, the Tivoli Foundation, SoundCorps and other official auspices, as well as in some private homes, foundations and bars and restaurants where people are trying to make Chattanooga the place that people from all over the world come to have a good time. We even have folks in Knoxville focused on making the Tivoli Theatre and Memorial Auditorium again the go-to places for great entertainment.