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The traditional Irish band Taeda is on a two-week tour of the United States and stopped by the WUOT studios before their performance at Oak Ridge's Grove Theatre. This tour features Patsy O'Brien on guitar, Oisin Mac Diarmada on fiddle, Damien Stenson on flute and Tristan Rosenstock on bohdran. WUOT's Ann Lloyd asked if they could demonstrate the difference between a "jig" and a "reel"...
The Checkered Flag Sports Bar is on an almost lonely stretch of Clinton Highway in Powell. At another time, it might have been described as a speakeasy, or a workingman's tavern. But on Monday night, the Checkered Flag became a hangout for Knoxville's literary elite and the scene for the tenth anniversary "Agee Crash Bash." A capacity crowd of about 30 writers, musicians, professors and local historians gathered there. Ninety-three years ago, James Agee's father died in a single-car accident. It was the event that spawned Agee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, "A Death in the Family". Knoxville historian Jack Neely lead the group in a memorial to the elder Agee and WUOT's Ann Lloyd was there....
Millions of people have lost their jobs since the recession began a year and a half ago. Now, the unemployed are filling up adult literacy programs. As Matt Shafer Powell of WUOT reports, it is a particularly desperate time for people with only basic language and math skills...
Dolly Parton is a Sevier County native and entertainment icon around the world. Parton is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has been honored for her public service by the Smithsonian Institution, received seven Grammy Awards, been nominated for two Academy Awards and just last week her new Broadway show "Nine to Five" was nominated for four Tony awards. Today, she received an honorary doctorate of Humane and Musical Letters from the University of Tennessee. It's only the second such honorary degree bestowed by UT in its long history. Parton tells WUOT's Ann Lloyd she's very grateful...
On December 22nd, Roane County residents awoke to an environmental disaster... overnight, more than a billion gallons of coal fly ash had spilled from the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, covering hundreds of acres of land and fouling the Emory River. The effects of the spill on Roane County are still being assessed. Chrissy Keuper hosts May's Dialogue with Greg Button, an Anthropologist at the University of Tennessee. His research focuses on environmental disasters and the impact of those events on people and communities...