Pianist Lara Downes is asking Knoxville residents to reflect on founding U.S. principles ahead of a performance at Lincoln ...

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 ...

Three big acts will not be taking the stage at the Big Ears Festival. Julien Baker & TORRES, among others, will not perform at Big Ears as originally scheduled. Baker and Torres were set to ...

Urmila Seshagiri, who teaches the course, uses the Big Ears Festival as part of a unique cultural studies course.

Every year at Big Ears, genre-blurring giants perform across a dozen-odd venues. Unlike most festivals, here one can find these artists darting excitedly between shows alongside the dedicated fans ...

They are riveting, mesmerizing, disarming, and beautiful. They have been performing for almost 10 years, but at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, they are about to arrive at a level of notice ...