Big Ears
2022 Lineup

NEW ORLEANS / HAITI AND BEYOND
FEATURING BIG EARS’ FIRST-EVER KREWE DU KANAVAL
CURATED BY PRESERVATION HALL’S BEN JAFFE
KREWE DU CATTYWAMPUS PARADE & STREET PARTY
WRITERS & POETS
BIG EARS AT THE PILOT LIGHT
BIG EARS AT BOYD’S JIG & REEL

About Big ears
Big Ears collaborates with artists, audiences, and communities to create joyful, meaningful, and transcendent cultural experiences that defy boundaries, fuel curiosity, ignite the spirit, and nourish the soul.
About UsWhat they’re Saying
Our PressContained within a walkable radius of historic downtown Knoxville…[Big Ears] creates its own atmospheric climate, along with a center of gravity.
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Instead of sales metrics or star power, Big Ears contemplates the perceptual properties of music …
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At the silo-destroying Big Ears Festival, music liberated from the confines of category and overt commercialism.
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The Big Ears Festival, which unfolds each spring in Knoxville, Tennessee, might be the most open-minded music gathering in the country.
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There’s no other festival quite like Big Ears.
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One of the most quietly earth-shattering, subtly luminous festivals the world over.
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