GRAMMY NODS GALORE / SCHOLARSHIP REMINDER!
2025 Grammy Nominations
Congratulations to these artists for their 2025 Grammy nominations! We’re thrilled to have them joining us for next year’s festival.
Taj Mahal (Best Traditional Blues Album), Waxahatchee (Best Americana Album), Béla Fleck (Best Contemporary Instrumental Album / Best Jazz Instrumental Album), Esperanza Spalding (Best Jazz Vocal Album), Ambrose Akinmusire (Best Jazz Instrumental Album), Anoushka Shankar (Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album), Arooj Aftab (Best Global Music Performance / Best Alternative Jazz Album), Meshell Ndegeocello (Best Alternative Jazz Performance), Mark Guiliana (Best Contemporary Instrumental Album), Bill Frisell (Best Contemporary Instrumental Album), and Carlos Niño (Best Instrumental Composition)
And From Last Year’s Big Ears’ Festival
Congratulations to these artists as well who joined us at Big Ears 2024: André 3000 (Album of the Year / Best Alternative Jazz Album / Best Instrumental Composition), Rhiannon Giddens (Best American Roots Performance), Adrianne Lenker (Best Folk Album), Aoife O’Donovan (Best American Roots Song), and Cedric Burnside (Best Traditional Blues Album).
Festival Scholarship Program Reminder!
Big Ears is a place of creative discovery, community, and dialogue, and we strive to bring as many artists into the conversation as possible. To that end, we are pleased to offer a scholarship program to provide emerging and professional artists admission to the 2025 festival at no cost. We encourage applicants who represent the full range of artistic styles, at any stage of their careers. We will accept applications until this Sunday, November 17, 2024.
This program is made possible with generous support from Patti and John Haslett.
More Info and an the application can be found, here.
