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Big Ears Festival

Big Ears 2025 Wadada Leo Smith's Radio Light and Orange Wave Electric -- Photo by Andy Feliu

Big Ears Festival 2025 Reminds Us to Open Ourselves to Wild and Wonderful Sounds

During the weekend of Big Ears, music is everywhere in Knoxville, Tennessee. Market Square, a centra...
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Vanessa Ague
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Pushing the Boundaries

Unlike the programming in years previous, the Big Ears 2018 lineup was particularly jazz- and Appala...
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Tracy Monaghan
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Big Ears Festival 2018: Experiential Trademarks

From March 22 to March 25, 2018, Knoxville, Tennessee hosted another iteration of the Big Ears Festi...
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Tracy Monaghan
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Lost in Sound: My Top 5 Moments From the 2017 Big Ears Festival

Despite an almost impossibly diverse lineup of musical artists and styles, there was one constant th...
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Daniel Kushner
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Big Ears Festival 2017: Vocal Mysticism and Pop Music Flair

The 2017 Big Ears Festival continued its eclectic programming on March 25-26 with performances by Me...
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Daniel Kushner
Shara Nova

Big Ears Festival 2017 Presents Remarkable Solo Sets

Since 2009, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN has presented complex and challenging programs th...
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Daniel Kushner
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Big Ears Festival: eighth blackbird and Bonnie “Prince” Billy

The composer David Rakowski recently tweeted, “The problem with having genres is that people claim t...
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Zoë Madonna
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Big Ears Festival: Steven Schick and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra

Knoxville’s 2016 Big Ears Festival, a three-day marathon of the experimental sides of pop, jazz, and...
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Zoë Madonna
Wu Man

5 Questions to Wu Man (pipa virtuoso, cultural ambassador)

Pipa virtuoso and cultural ambassador of music from China Wu Man has an active career as a soloist,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn

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