BIG EARS FESTIVAL

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أحمد [Ahmed]

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

133 Years of Reverb

Composed by Jonny Greenwood
Performed by James McVinnie & Eliza McCarthy

Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey Duet

Adam Rudolph: Hu Vibrational

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Adam Rudolph: Sunrise Quartet

Alabaster DePlume

Alan Sparhawk

Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves

AMARO FREITAS Trio

Ambrose Akinmusire (solo)

Ambrose Akinmusire: Honey from a Winter’s Stone

ANOHNI and the Johnsons

Anoushka Shankar

Antipop Consortium

Arooj Aftab

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Asha Puthli

Astrid Sonne

Axiom 5

Barry Altschul’s 3 Dom Factor

Beak>

Béla Fleck, Edmar Castañeda, Antonio Sánchez Trio

Bia Ferreira

Bill Frisell: In My Dreams

Brìghde Chaimbeul

Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino

Carlos Niño & Friends

Cassandra Jenkins

Chanel Beads

Chuck Johnson

Claire Chase

Clarice Jensen

clipping.

Cowboy Sadness

CREATE curated by Wadada Leo Smith

RedKoral Quartet • Wadada Leo Smith Quartet • Orange Wave Electric • Revolutionary Love & More

DakhaBrakha

Dan Weiss Even Odds Trio

David Grubbs

Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn

Dedicated Men of Zion

EMEL

esperanza spalding

eucademix (Yuka Honda)

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Explosions In The Sky

Fay Victor: Herbie Nichols SUNG

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Fieldwork (Vijay Iyer / Steve Lehman / Tyshawn Sorey)

Flore Laurentienne

Free Form Funky Freqs

Featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, and G. Calvin Weston

Helado Negro

Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly

Immanuel Wilkins’ Blues Blood

Jeff Parker ETA IVtet

Jenny Scheinman

All Species Parade

Jessica Pratt

Joan As Police Woman

Joe Lovano’s Paramount Quartet

Featuring Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano & Will Calhoun

Joel Harrison’s Free Country

Joseph Keckler

Josh Johnson

Joy Guidry: AMEN

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Jules Reidy

Julia Holter

June McDoom

Kahil El’Zabar Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Kalia Vandever

Kate Soper’s Ipsa Dixit

Performed by Wet Ink Ensemble

Kelly Moran

Kokayi

Kris Davis Trio

Featuring Robert Hurst & Jonathan Blake

Lankum

Lara Somogyi

Les Claypool’s Bastard Jazz

Luke Stewart Silt Trio

Mabe Fratti

Macie Stewart

Magic Tuber Stringband

Maria Chàvez + Victoria Shen + Mariam Rezaei

Marisa Anderson

Marissa Nadler

Mark Guiliana

Maruja

Mary Lattimore

Meshell Ndegeocello

No More Water - The Gospel of James Baldwin

Michael Hurley

Michael Rother: The Music of Neu! and Harmonia

Mike Reed’s Separatist Party

Featuring Ben LaMar Gay, Bitchin Bajas & Marvin Tate

ML Buch

Modney

múm

Nanocluster (Immersion | SUSS)

Nels Cline: Consentrik Quartet

Peni Candra Rini

Phantom Orchard

Phil Cook

Philip Glass Ensemble

Music in Twelve Parts

Rich Ruth

Rufus Wainwright

Sam Bush Band

Shelley Hirsch

SML

Squanderers

Steve Coleman and Five Elements

Steve Roach

Steven Schick

Still House Plants

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Sun Ra Arkestra

Sun Ra Arkestra & Yo La Tengo

Sunny War

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Susan Alcorn

SUSS

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Sylvie Courvoisier: Chimaera

featuring Wadada Leo Smith, Ikue Mori, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress, Kenny Wollesen & Nasheet Waits

Taj Mahal

Tara Clerkin Trio

Tarta Relena

Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman & Edgar Meyer

The Mockingbird by R.B. Morris & William Wright

The Nels Cline Singers

The Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner

The Music of Anthony Braxton

Tigran Hamasyan

The Bird of A Thousand Voices

Tilt

Tindersticks

Tortoise

Tyshawn Sorey Trio

Tyshawn Sorey, King Britt & Friends

Featuring Melz & Meshell Ndegeocello

Tyshawn Sorey: Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith

Water Damage

Waxahatchee

William Basinski

William Tyler

Yaya Bey

28 Mar Fri 12 AM / EST

Yo La Tengo

Zakir Hussain and Masters of Percussion

Zeena Parkins

BIG EARS
03.27_03.30.25
Knoxville, TN · USA

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