Big Ears Festival Releases Daily Artist Lineup

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Posted By: snobb
Subject: Big Ears Festival Releases Daily Artist Lineup
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025 at 12:38pm

Big Ears Festival Releases Daily Artist Lineup

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By https://downbeat.com/site/author/downbeat" rel="nofollow - DownBeat I Jan. 9, 2025

Knoxville, Tennessee’s Big Ears Festival has announced the daily schedule for its 12th edition, which runs March 27–30 in downtown Knoxville. Featuring nearly 200 concerts spread across 14 venues, plus films, conversations, exhibitions, workshops and interactive experiences, the genre-defying festival remains an iconic gathering of many of the world’s most influential and visionary musical creators.

Alongside the day-by-day schedule announcement, Big Ears has announced the additions of the improvising electronica outfit Darkside, Charles Lloyd’s Sangam (featuring Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland) and the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, who will perform a special program that includes Rhapsody in Blue Reimagined featuring pianist Lara Downes along with Tyshawn Sorey’s 2024 Pulitzer Prize-winning work Adagio (for Wadada Leo Smith) with special guests to be announced.

In addition, a limited allotment of single-day passes — both general admission and premier — are available alongside remaining four-day weekend passes.

To view the full festival lineup by day and to purchase passes, https://bigearsfestival.org/" rel="nofollow - CLICK HERE . DB

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Posted By: Moshkiae
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025 at 10:55am

Hi,

It has a far out line up and I wish I could get to this ... a LOT!

Special attention should be given to Michael Rother, a giant in the early krautrock thing, and you can see it in the tribute to Jaki Liebezeit, the late drummer with CAN. In one piece with Damo Suzuki and Rebop, he shows how it is done ... and it is fantastic. Like no one ever missed a beat with Damo Suzuki at all.

Other interesting folks would be (for me) Edmar Castaneda who did a fantastic video with Hiromi that is out of this world; Les Claypool's Bastard Jazz, that will turn your heads inside out; Steve Roach and his synths; The Sun Ra Arkestra & Yo La Tiengo;

That's an amazing list all around ... and weirdest of all is that it is in Knoxville, a C&W location for all intents and purposes, which suggests that there is a side of things in Tennessee that is very different, and exciting.

ANOHNI and the Johnsons

Anoushka Shankar

Arooj Aftab

Asha Puthli

Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez Trio

Beth Gibbons

Bill Frisell: In My Dreams

Charles Lloyd: Homage to Zakir Hussain

DakhaBrakha

DARKSIDE

Esperanza Spalding

Explosions In The Sky

Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey)

Jessica Pratt

Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet with Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano, and Will Calhoun

Julien Baker & TORRES

Lankum

Les Claypool’s Bastard Jazz

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water – The Gospel of James Baldwin

múm

The Nels Cline Singers

Rufus Wainwright

Steve Roach

Sun Ra Arkestra & Yo La Tengo

Taj Mahal

Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman, and Edgar Meyer

Tindersticks

Tortoise

Tyshawn Sorey, King Britt & Friends featuring Melz & Meshell Ndegeocello

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith

Waxahatchee

Michael Rother

Posted By: js
Date Posted: 11 Jan 2025 at 12:12pm

^ Knoxville is a college town and has always been somewhat progressive. They even had a Worlds Fair there in the 1980s.