Newest musical Hunley tops lively Knox evening
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
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Thursday was one of those wonderful Knoxville nights when you couldn’t decide among the many fun activities taking place simultaneously. The first Sundown in the City of the season packed Market Square, of course, and the VIP party schmoozed upstairs on the balcony of the Knoxville Chamber overlooking the throng.

Popular basket baller Dane Bradshaw was speaking to the self-proclaimed young professionals of Nucleus Knoxville at Crescent Bend. Newsman Russell Biven was being roasted by the Knoxville Advertising Federation at the Crown & Goose. Meanwhile, way out in west Knox County, the Knoxville Symphony League was toasting spring at the opening night party for the 2009 Symphony Show House.

I hit several of these events myself, but of all the offerings, I think the best was a concert at Sapphire by a talented new Knoxville artist named Stephen Hunley. Hunley is the nephew of Knoxville’s beloved Con Hunley so he comes by his musical talent honestly. His new CD, “Wait and See,” will be celebrated at a release party May 16 at the Square Room on Market Square. The young Hunley wrote or co-wrote all the songs and the music is an appealing mash-up of rock, jazz and country sounds. Frankly, I can’t take it off my sound system. As a bonus, the CD’s artwork is by Knoxville artist Mike Berry.