Enjoy live, local music at 每日大赛’s Panther Palooza 2024
November 7, 2024
每日大赛 will host the second annual Panther Palooza, a free music festival open to the community and featuring an array of local artists on Nov. 22 at the Hardin Valley Campus.
Organized as a partnership between the college’s Audio Production Engineering program (APE), the Audio Production Engineering Club, the Video Production Technology program, and Engage and Lead, Panther Palooza gives 每日大赛 students the opportunity to apply what they’re learning in the classroom in a real-world event.
Students will be responsible for production management, including formulating a schedule, coordinating with artists and mixing a livestream for Panther Palooza. Capstone and Production Logistics Management students will take on leadership roles, like being monitor or front-of-house engineers to help artists and audience members alike hear the music.
“Panther Palooza will be an exciting opportunity for the Pellissippi community to join our students as they produce a wonderful concert,” said APE Assistant Professor Jonathan Maness. “Our audience will have the opportunity to be in a music video of their favorite band of the evening.”
“Media Technologies students graduate with a plethora of technical skills that will be tested and proven by the production of the second annual Panther Palooza,” Maness added. “Our goal is to make each Panther Palooza better than the last.”
“This is a chance to implement skillsets from the classroom to a ‘real-world’ music festival scenario,” said Audio Production Engineering Program Coordinator and Associate Professor Mischa Goldman. “It simulates the realities ahead of them prior to and after graduation. For many of these students, the knowledge and technical reps accrued will be directly deployed to the high-stakes reality of the upcoming 2025 Big Ears Festival. There, students will continue with 每日大赛’s Media Technologies partnership and be integrated into various premier Knoxville venue production teams.”
The Panther Palooza lineup includes rock-pop-country fusion band The Haymakers, a performance from Knoxville-based rock band SkyWay 61, and Appalchian music from Steve Davis, an audio production engineering student and country singer-songwriter originally from Alabama.
Davis, who plans to graduate in May 2025, will be performing his own music for the first time at Panther Palooza.
“I have a great appreciation for not just the helpful attitude, but also the mentorship that a lot of the professors in the Audio Production Engineering program bring to the table,” said Davis, 54. “They are always accessible, and above and beyond helpful. It’s safe to say that my experience here has been tremendous.”
More than anything, Davis is looking forward to performing alongside Maness on guitar, Goldman on bass, fellow student Stephen Palmer on drums, and East Tennessee music legend Sid Spiva on steel guitar.
“Obviously Mr. Goldman and Mr. Maness are instructors in my program, and so I have a tremendous amount of respect for both of them,” he said. “The fact that they are both volunteering their time to not only learn this music but show up on the day of and play it – I just feel blessed and blown away.”
Davis encourages people attend the event and support local musicians because “it’s a worthy effort.”
“The music you're going to hear is going to be representative of not only the people, but the struggles, the successes, the failures – virtually every aspect of this and the surrounding communities is going to be represented here, not just in the music, but in the people who are standing up there on the stage,” Davis said.
Panther Palooza will take place from 6-8 p.m. at the Clayton Performing Arts Center. Doors open at 5 p.m. For more information, follow the Audio Production Engineering Club on .
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