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On any day of the week, cosmopolitan, downtown Knoxville working professionals, plus tourists dropping into the Knoxville Visitor Center, and loyal WDVX listeners (plus the worldwide audience listening via webcast) flock into the Visitor Center to enjoy their daily dose of the Blue Plate.
Since many of the working professionals use the noon to 1 p.m. time slot as their lunch break, they can enjoy a good Southern lunch served to them from the Visitor Center's Café Gourmet.
Artists have included: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver, Fragment, Guitar Shorty, Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Lauderdale, Marty Stuart, Nickel Creek, Red Stick Ramblers, Robinella and the CC Stringband, Rodney Crowell, String Cheese Incident, The Del McCoury Band, Tim O'Brien, Yonder Mountain Stringband, the Jerry Douglas Band and many more.
The WDVX Blue Plate Special began in 1997, the same year WDVX started broadcasting from a 14-foot camper studio in Norris, Tenn.
The noontime show from the camper included themed shows or occasional live performances from visiting artists.
In the late summer of 2004, WDVX brought the rich tradition of downtown Knoxville midday live radio shows by producing the WDVX Blue Plate Special in front of a live studio audience from the radio station's new home in the Knoxville Visitor's Center in downtown Knoxville.
WDVX is a listener-supported, nonprofit, independent community radio station located in the heart of downtown Knoxville broadcasting all over East Tennessee and webcasting to the world.
Incorporated in 1991, WDVX sustains the efforts of regional musicians, writers, storytellers and other artists through broadcast activities and provides cultural and educational opportunities through regionally focused, diverse programming. |
