09/10/2026
PHILLIPS presents 9/11 Tributes & Tunes, this Friday at World's Fair Park. Twenty-five years on, Knoxville remembers.
Friday, September 11 - 7PM
World's Fair Park Performance Lawn - Knoxville, TN
$25 - All first responders get in free
Benefiting the Knoxville Public Safety Foundation
Tickets at concertsforourown.org
A quarter century is long enough that a whole generation has no memory of that morning, and short enough that the people who lived it still feel it. This is how Knoxville marks it: not with a moment of silence, but with a whole evening of music on the Performance Lawn.
Cruz Contreras & The Black Lillies headline, with Jill Andrews, Hannah Marie Kelley, Con Hunley, Erick Baker, and Jeanine Fuller & The True Funk Souldiers. Hosted by Sterl the Pearl.
The evening is intentionally designed as a sequence of shared moments, guiding attendees from reflection to recognition to celebration. Guests will move through:
• A Memorial Zone featuring the Survivor Tree Tribute and the 343 Remembrance Wall — an interactive tribute honoring every firefighter and policeman lost at Ground Zero
• An Honor Guard Presentation and Chaplain Invocation
• A formal First Responder Recognition Ceremony
• A Community Moment of Remembrance
• A live concert closing the evening on a note of unity and hope
