BE 2026

Happy International Women’s Day from Big Ears

Happy International Women’s Day from Big Ears. From Pauline Oliveros and Joanna Newsom in our earliest years to Wu Fei and Matana Roberts in more recent years, we’re proud to have welcomed so many groundbreaking women artists to Knoxville in the last decade. And in less than two weeks, we’ll have so many more—Meredith Monk and Joan La Barbara, Jlin and Kara-Lis Coverdale, Uncle Earl and Mountain Man, Clarice Jensen and Mary Halvorson, Rhiannon Giddens and Rachel Grimes. And that’s just a sample! 

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