BIG EARS FESTIVAL

NEW ARTIST ADDITIONS: PRE-HALLOWEEN TREATS

Expansion and Evolution

The Big Ears 2025 program continues to expand and evolve and we’re thrilled to announce these fantastic artists who will also join us at the festival in March.

We have even more new additions to share next week…and, soon, more details about unannounced collaborations, expanded artist programs, a couple of very special art exhibitions, our outstanding film program, conversations, workshops, food events, behind-the-scenes workshops, and other surprises.

Tucker Zimmerman

Across Tucker Zimmerman’s over 50-year career, the octogenarian folk singer-songwriter has maintained a level of obscurity, earning a reputation as one of American folk music’s most underrated talents. Now, with Big Thief as his producers and backing band, he’s released his 11th record, Dance of Love, secured a deal with 4AD, and is earning his long overdue flowers.

Read: “Tucker Zimmerman: A Life, A Song, and A Dance”

Arushi Jain

Modular synthesizer in hand, Arushi Jain creates compositions inspired by Hindustani classical ragas, re-imagined with the tools and technologies she learned as a synthesist and technologist in the Bay Area. Her latest album, Delights, is a testament to her contemporary and current aesthetic.

Read: “Arushi Jain’s Studies in Delight”

Merce Lemon

Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, Merce Lemon’s latest album, “inhabits the nexus between the spellbinding folk-rock of Big Thief and the rip-roaring country-rock of Crazy Horse” (Pittsburg City Paper).

Read: “Artist to Watch: Merce Lemon”

ganavya

Hailed as “among modern music’s most compelling vocalists” (Wall Street Journal), ganavya melds spiritual jazz and South Asian classical music with ambient textures. Her new album, Daughter of a Temple, arrives on November 15. It features well-recognized faces like esperanza spalding, Vijay Iyer, Shabaka Hutchings, Immanuel Wilkins, and Peter Sellars. 

Read: “One to Watch: ganavya”

BIG EARS
03.27_03.30.25
Knoxville, TN · USA

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