Tennessee announces dates, locations for 2025 Big Orange Caravan
Tennessee on Tuesday morning announced dates for the 2025 Big Orange Caravan, set for April 29 in Memphis, April 30 in Nashville and May 1 in the Tri-Cities.
The Vols also announced that a Big Orange Caravan appearance in Knoxville is also being planned for the fall, with additional information to be released in the future.
Memphis and Chattanooga will begin alternating years with Big Orange Caravan stops, with Chattanooga getting a caravan stop in 2026.
Josh Heupel, Rick Barnes, Kim Caldwell to headline Big Orange Caravan
The 2025 Big Orange Caravan will include Tennessee athletic director Danny White, men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes, women’s basketball coach Kim Caldwell, football coach Josh Heupel and will be hosted by Mike Keith, the new Voice of the Vols.
Tickets for each event are $30 and include “light food options,” according to Tennessee’s press release. From the $30 ticket price, $5 from every ticket will go to the scholarship endowment fund of the local UT Alumni chapter and $10 will go toward Tennessee’s ‘My All Campaign’.
The Memphis caravan stop will take place at Botanic Garden, inside Hardin Hall. The Nashville stop will be held at Geodis Park in the Transcend Premier Club and the Tri-Cities stop will take place at the Meadowview Convention Center.
Doors will open for each event at 5 p.m. local time. A meet and greet with Tennessee’s headliners will be held from 5:30 to 6:15 p.m. A cash bar will be available with the light food options. The program begins at 6:15 p.m.
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Mike Keith takes over as host of Tennessee’s caravan stops
Keith will host the program, which will include question-and-answer sessions with the Tennessee guests.
Bob Kesling previously hosted Big Orange Caravan stops. Kesling announced in November that he would be retiring following the end of the Tennessee Basketball season.
It was announced in January that Keith would replace Kesling as the Voice of the Vols. Keith spent the last 27 years as the voice of the Tennessee Titans in Nashville but will now be Keith the lead play-by-play announcer for Tennessee football and men’s basketball games.
Keith began his broadcasting career in Knoxville as a student at the University of Tennessee. After graduation, he would become the voice of Tennessee Baseball and the host of Sportstalk, a daily afternoon sports talk show in Knoxville. He also hosted a television talk show at night for a period of time and also had a role in The Vol Network’s football and basketball broadcasts.
In 1998, Keith left Knoxville to join the Tennessee Titans, who were the Tennessee Oilers at the time. Keith would lead the creation of Titans Radio and over the last 27 years expanded it onto a successful multimedia network with television programming, podcasting, streaming content as well as game broadcasts.
