The Knoxville Museum of Art’s Alive After Five series of live music performances presents a costume party and the Carolina beach music of Boys’ Night Out on Friday, October 30, from 5:30-8:00 pm.
Boys’ Night Out is one of the most popular bands to perform at Alive After Five, and their show has become an October tradition, usually held on the weekend of UT football home games with Alabama or South Carolina. With this year’s show falling on the day before Halloween, there will be special decorations plus a Best Costume Contest and a Thriller dance presentation during the intermission. F.A.T.S. BBQ will be serving food.
East Tennessee’s own Boys' Night Out, featuring vocalist C. Vaughn Leslie, was organized in 1983 with the goal of recreating the authentic performances of the rhythm and blues (R&B) and Carolina beach music that had been extremely popular with teenagers in the South during the late 1960s. That music still remains popular with young and old to this day. This 12-member band packs a wallop on stage with their big horn section and the dynamic vocals of C. Vaughn Leslie, and they know how to fill up the dance floor.
The first public performance of Boys’ Night Out (BNO) was at the Oak Ridge Azalea Festival in 1984, and they have played a busy schedule ever since. BNO has provided musical back-up for R&B greats Percy Sledge (When a Man Loves a Woman), Archie Bell (Do the Tighten-Up), and Clifford Curry (She Shot a Hole in My Soul); and has opened shows for The Judds, The Oak Ridge Boys, Jan and Dean, The Platters, The Impressions, Eddie Rabbitt, Marcia Ball, B.J. Thomas, and The Tams.
For more information about Boys’ Night Out, visit www.boysnightoutband.com.
Admission to the October 30 performance of Alive After Five is $10 for non-members, and $6 for museum members and students with ID. Children age 17 and under are admitted free. The summer series of Alive After Five is sponsored by Cherokee Distributing Company, Metro Pulse, WDVX-FM, and WVLT-TV8. For more information about the Alive After Five series, call (865) 525-6101 or visit www.knoxart.org.

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