Downtown Knoxville pulsed with energy as Big Ears Festival 2025 welcomed over 7,500 passionate music lovers for a long ...

Welcome to our live updates blog! 2 p.m. Saturday: It was barely past noon, but EMEL’s hypnotic performance ...

Whether you were there or just curious what this critically acclaimed Knoxville festival is about, we have you covered with ...

Enjoy shows from jazz to bluegrass to electronic to gospel – all for free at Big Ears in 2025. There are moving exhibitions ...

As the Big Ears Festival has grown from around 25 artists in 2009 to nearly 200 sets in 2025, the vision of founder Ashley ...

Tindersticks' lush, frayed elegance was on full display at the first shows of their first two in a decade and a half ...

Big Ears Festival is taking over downtown Knoxville this weekend, with people coming from all over the world to visit. Here's ...

The Big Ears Music Festival brings a mix of conventional and experimental to Downtown Knoxville for their annual festival ...

Urmila Seshagiri, who teaches the course, uses the Big Ears Festival as part of a unique cultural studies course.

My last Big Ears experience, in the long, long ago Diamanda Galás year of 2018, mostly involved their film section, due to a ...

Big Ears Festival returns to downtown Knoxville, featuring unique cross-cultural collaborations and drawing a global audience ...

“Our merchants are excited, our restaurants are staffed and ready to go. They really try and engage thinking about some of ...