About Barking Legs

 
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Barking Legs’ mission is to enhance the community by cultivating and mentoring diverse artists, presenters, and audiences in an accessible and creative environment.

 

We are a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of contemporary performing artists in the Southeast and beyond.

We are committed to supporting and presenting work that challenges the barriers that inhibit new growth and exploration and that push outside the prescribed boundaries of the performing arts. We seek to serve the community through outreach programs, arts projects, and classes.

Barking Legs an intimate concert hall and performance venue that has established a reputation as a great place for musicians and listeners alike. We are known throughout the Southeast as a venue with great acoustics and remarkable intimacy. Barking Legs is a listener’s dream, where each note and word rings clearly, promoting the sort of rapt attention impossible in the typical club or barroom setting. Performers love it! Our 76 fixed seats all have great sight lines and we can accommodate overflow crowds up to 150.

And if you’re curious about the name, its origin stems from the “bark leggins” that were worn by scouts and woodsmen of the Appalachian region in the last century.

2019 Annual Report

 
 
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We’re located at: 1307 Dodds Ave.
Chattanooga, TN

 
 

Parking:

You can park in our half of the lot next to the theater, but please no parking on the Elk’s Lodge half. If our lot fills up, you may park in any of the locations marked with a red car on the map - with the field being the very last option. The overflow parking locations are at Revive Dental, behind the buildings at 1320 and 1322 Dodds Ave. and in the field at the south end of our block.