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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Big Ears Day 2 also featured sets from Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Yo La Tengo & Sun Ra Arkestra, ...

So much about music has to do with time. But just as musicians booked March 27-30 across Big Ears Festival 2025 have set themselves apart by innovating outside the agreed-upon standards ...