The first festival featured Philip Glass, Negativland, Michael Gira, Matmos and the Necks. The Big Ears festival debuted in 2009 as an event that embraced the experimental, a philosophy it ...

Julien Baker & TORRES, among others, will not perform at Big Ears as originally scheduled. Baker and Torres were set to ...

Welcome to our live updates blog! 2 p.m. Saturday: It was barely past noon, but EMEL’s hypnotic performance elicited late-night North African club vibes that made it hard to leave. The ...

Enjoy shows from jazz to bluegrass to electronic to gospel – all for free at Big Ears in 2025. There are moving exhibitions ...

Tucked in between large auditoriums and intimate stages are a few downtown Knoxville churches that turn their sacred spaces into concert venues for the Big Ears Festival. Festival organizers and ...

Music echoes through the English Department halls, where a University of Tennessee at Knoxville class fully focused on Big Ears challenges students to deeply explore the 2025 lineup before attending ...

Big Ears Festival 2025 article by Mark Sullivan, published on April 8, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles ...

As the Big Ears Festival has grown from around 25 artists in 2009 to nearly 200 sets in 2025, the vision of founder Ashley ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. “The ethos of Big Ears as a festival is serendipity, and it's a tricky balance because you want to feel like you know something going in ...