Vol. 1 — No. 6Weekend Episode · Thu–Sun, Jul 23–26, 2026 · South Knoxville, TN★ soknoear.com
Vol. 1 — No. 6 · Jul 23–26★ soknoear.com
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Kern's trades the World Cup big screen for a hoedown

With the tournament over, the food hall fills the weekend the old-fashioned way: a Friday-night Ho'Down Social and live music straight through Sunday.

The screen comes down, the band plugs in

For a month, the big outdoor screen at Kern's was the neighborhood's World Cup living room. The tournament wrapped Sunday, and rather than go quiet, the food hall leaned into what it does the rest of the year — a weekend of live music with a barn dance bolted on.

Fri Jul 24
Corey Clifton Band 5 PM · Ho'Down: country dancing 8–11 PM
Sat Jul 25
Candle-making 1 PM · Rossdafareye 6 PM
Sun Jul 26
Kaylee Brooks & Levi Ouimet 1–4 PM
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Kern's, 2201 Kern's Rising Way

Friday's the anchor. The Corey Clifton Band plays a rock set from five to a quarter of eight, timed to hand the night straight off to the main event — the Kern's Ho'Down Social, eight to eleven, moved indoors right inside the hall. This is the one to clear your Friday for: honest-to-goodness country dancing, two-steps and line dances, boots encouraged and no partner required. Never done it? That's the whole point — dust off your boots and come find out.

The rest of the weekend keeps the music going. Saturday afternoon brings a candle-making class, then Rossdafareye's loopy "Appalachian space funk" at six. And Sunday winds down easy with the Chattanooga duo Kaylee Brooks and Levi Ouimet, country covers and originals, one to four.

And it's not all music: Friday still brings half-price bottles of wine at Eggspectation, the sit-down spot inside the hall, from three o'clock on. Call it proof the party didn't stop when the World Cup trophy got handed out — Kern's just swapped the big screen for a band and a bottle.

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