We are now listing all events held at Barking Legs in chronological order. Our in-house productions are listed as either CoPAC or Flying Fingers, sometimes with co-sponsors, who will be noted. We encourage, but do not curate or endorse, outside producers who present shows at Barking Legs.

Shows are all ages unless otherwise noted. Doors open 1 hour before show. Tickets to shows are often available in advance through PayPal. Check the listings.
And remember, tickets are almost always available at the door, though cash and personal check only.

Barking Legs Theater is available to outside producers on a rental basis, and they are invited to contribute postings for this website. Please contact the producers directly for ticket purchases and other information. Interested in promoting or learning more about renting our space?
Please call 423-624-5347 or email info@barkinglegs.org with your inquiry.

MES presents

REWIND THIS!
FRI, May 17 @ 8:30 pm
$5 at the door

Home video changed the way the world consumed films. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. REWIND THIS! is a documentary that traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of art, technology, and societal perceptions that were altered by the creation of videotape.

REWIND THIS! is just off its March premier at SXSW, and Chattanooga will be one of its first screenings .

REWIND THIS! website

MES link for Official Trailer

Flying Fingers Productions
presents

Transplanted from NYC to Nashville, tenor saxophonist Evan Cobb is one of the forces pushing jazz forward in Music City. Last year, his quintet did a beautiful job highlighting the music of Art Blakey. We invited him back to interpret the music of pianist and composer Horace Silver. The Steinway will be in the more than able hands of Bruce Dudley, and the rest of Evan's superb working and recording band will be on hand as well. Top shelf classic jazz!

Evan's website

Chattanooga Local Climate Action Team (LCAT)/TN Healthy Energy Campaign as sponsored by the TN Chapter of the Sierra Club presents

Concert for the Climate:
A Gathering of Sounds
SUN, May 19 @ 4 pm
FREE!

A serenade for a healthy climate J-and--a tribute to climate protection….ACTIVISM at its FINEST!

Michael Gray, storyteller and radio-host of the River City Sessions on WUTC will join musicians from the Folk School, including instructor Matthew Evans.

We will be writing personal letters to Mr. Harold De Priest, President/CEO of EPB asking for his help in moving TVA to deliver more energy efficiency and integrated renewable energy sources.  Our goal is to send 100 letters handwritten letters in the month of May!

All ages/participants welcome. OPEN-MIKE STYLE Musicians: Please RSVP early for a place on the roster! Sign-Up NOW!: Megan Spooner, LCAT Organizer

Email sign-up

Flying Fingers Productions
presents

Missy Raines & the New Hip plus
Slim Pickins
Nathan Bell
SAT, June 1 @ 8 pm
$12 adv/$15 door

A beloved figure in bluegrass and a pioneering force in acoustic music, Missy Raines' adventurous musical spirit has always been her compass. Launching her career with experimental bluegrass outfit Cloud Valley, Raines next toured the country with Eddie and Martha Adcock. Soon she was lending her bass skills to the Masters (Adcock, Kenny Baker, Josh Graves and Jesse McReynolds). Raines joined Claire Lynch's popular Front Porch Band, and developed a successful duo with band mate Jim Hurst. Their CDs and live performances pushed the envelope on how much music two people with acoustic instruments could make. A stint with the Brother Boys opened Raines' eyes to the value of spontaneity and immediacy in her musical approach.

Missy Raines is now stepping out to make a longtime dream come true; creating a fusing of bluegrass virtuosity, jazz-tinged groove and a song-driven sensibility with a hot band.

"Missy Raines…probably tops the very short list of superstar bluegrass bassists. She is a seven-time International Bluegrass Music Association Bass Player of the Year, and is one of the few players to have developed a following for her skill on the bass fiddle. Like fellow virtuosos Chris Thile, Mark O'Connor and Alison Brown, Raines decided to allow her skills some genre-blurring freedom." -Free Lance Star

"The New Hip is making some of the greatest music you will ever hear - very innovative and bursting with talent. Although grounded in bluegrass, the New Hip and its players move into a new sphere all their own." -San Diego Troubadour

"The music? Think a jazzier Nickel Creek or a (slightly) feistier Alison Brown." -San Jose Mercury News

Hailing from Chattanooga Tennessee, Slim Pickins is a 5-piece bluegrass band that has been opening eyes and ears across the southeast. Their fast paced, lively shows are reminiscent of the diverse musical influences that the band shares. They combine the talent, instrumentation, and song selection of a New Grass Revival, Doc Watson, or David Grisman with an energy level not seen since the Ramones. It is this combination that pushed the band into recent nominations and subsequent awards from FYI for Best Bluegrass Band and Best Live Band. The band features John Boulware, 2006 Tennessee State Fiddle Champion, leading a group of up and coming hot shots. Slim Pickins music is upbeat, unapologetic, and most importantly fun.

The only problem with having Nathan Bell open your show is the distinct possibility of him stealing the evening.

Missy Raines website

Slim Pickins website

Nathan Bell website

CoPAC, Flying Fingers and New Dischord present

An Evening with
Malcolm Goldstein
THURS, June 6 @ 7:30 pm
$17 adv/$20 door
$10 students

As part of the 3rd Annual New Dischord Festival, the acclaimed violinist Malcolm Goldstein will make his first Chattanooga appearance in over a decade! A major figure in 20th century music-- as a composer, instrumentalist and interpreter of the major composers-- Malcolm's appearances in the southeast are exceedingly rare. Malcolm's solo violin performances are exquisite and transformative, and his work with other artists-- musicians, dancers, and visual artists-- is invariably fascinating. Stay tuned for details on this and other festival events, which runs June 6-9.

Advance Tickets

General $17.00 USD Students (ID @ door) $10.00 USD

CoPAC, Flying Fingers and New Dischord present

Malcolm Goldstein Directs the New Dischord Players
SAT, June 8 @ 8 pm
$12 adv/$15 door
$10 students

Contemporary music legend Malcolm Goldstein will direct some of Chattanooga's finest musician as the culmination of a collaborative process that will help define his residency here as a distinguished visiting artist. Expect new work as well as interpretations of brilliant contemporary work rarely (if ever) performed for Chattanooga audiences.

Advance Tickets

General $12.00 USD Students (ID @ door) $10.00 USD

CoPAC presents

Wide Open Floor
FRI, June 7 @ 8 pm
$5 at the door

Each first Friday, an amazing array of raw talent will be presented at Barking Legs. We have dancers, poets, musicians, professionals, students, seasoned performers, and those stepping out relatively unaccustomed to the stage. Expect surprises. Expect to be challenged. Expect to see acts that you love, as well as those that may uncomfortably stretch your perspective. Expect a nurturing and supportive environment of sharing ideas and expressions. We are Wide Open to it all. The cost is a mere $5 at the door (cash preferred, please). Thank you!

Chattanooga Improvisors Collective presents

OPEN IMPROVISATIONAL JAM for Dancers, Musicians, Spoken Word

Second Sunday of each month

Sunday, JUNE 9
2-4 pm, Free!
NOTE NEW TIME!

Participants are free to propose structures for non-idiomatic improvised dance/music/spoken word. All are invited. Bring your chops but leave your preconceptions at the door! Look for this to become twice monthly soon.

AC Faux and FFP present

Faun Fables with Joshua Songs
SUN, June 9 @ 8 pm
$8 at the door

After fifteen years of collaboration, twelve years of touring and six full-length albums, Oakland's FAUN FABLES (Dawn McCarthy and Nils Frykdahl of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum) are known for exquisite, visceral adventures in song & theater and riveting live erformances to eclectic and devoted audiences throughout the world. Faun Fables vocals ride through solid, elemental structures of guitars and percussion like Valkyries. All manner of flutes dance through the arrangements. Characters and narration arise at times, occasionally in the form of a full theater show.
Dawn gets singing inspiration from the likes of Catherine Ribeiro, Mariana Sadowska, Lole Montoya, Demis Roussos, Roky Erickson, and now draws much inspiration as a mama witch; tending her two girl children Edda and Ura. Hearth & home life remains an obsession but with Nils and the girls, the gypsy family life has been hers to savor. Dawn is also currently touring with Bonnie Prince Billy in support of their new album.